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    23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer
    23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer
    23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer
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    23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer

    By Linda Burnham and Steven Durland

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    This collection of articles is for teachers who would like to explore working with artists in their school classrooms. It begins with "23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer," which addresses intriguing problems teachers are grappling with and matches them with the special skills and innovative problem-solving that artists use in their work every day.

    "23 Questions" is followed by three gripping stories about artists working in schools, conducting programs that integrate beautifully with existing curriculum and meet state education standards.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Burnham and Steven Durland
    Release dateJul 25, 2011
    ISBN9781466176812
    23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer
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    Linda Burnham and Steven Durland

    Writer Linda Frye Burnham and artist Steven Durland edited and published High Performance magazine for its entire 20 years (1978-1998); co-founded and directed (1988-1993) the 18th Street Arts Complex in California; and co-founded Art in the Public Interest in North Carolina (1995-present) and the Community Arts Network on the World Wide Web (1999-2010). They wrote and edited "The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena," an anthology from High Performance (New York: Critical Press, 1998). Durland's art studio is Bourbon, Dogs and Art .

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      23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer - Linda Burnham and Steven Durland

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      23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer

      and Other Essays

      Edited By Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland

      Smashwords Edition

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      Published by Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland

      on Smashwords

      © Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland 2011

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

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      23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer

      and Other Essays

      Contents

      Introduction

      23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer

      By Linda Frye Burnham

      Artists are working with teachers to tackle the tough-nut questions they are facing. Here are some of those questions, based on needs of teachers in education-reform projects.

      They Won't Dance, Don't Ask Them

      By Linda Frye Burnham

      Choreographer Celeste Miller engages problem students by using dance in a Natural History class.

      Catching Magic in the Los Padillas Water Catchment Project

      By Chrissie Orr

      Visual artist Chrissie Orr inspires elementary-school students to design a water catchment systm in the arid Rio Grand Valley.

      Exploring Cultural Understanding along the Silk Road

      By Carol Ng-He

      As a creative response to the attacks of 9/11, two theater artists of Syrian and Pakistani ancestry take Chicago Public Schools students on a cultural journey across Asia.

      Writer Bios

      Resources

      Afterword

      Brief Tips for Teachers, acknowledgements, comments, contact

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      Introduction

      This collection of articles is for teachers who would like to explore working with artists in their school classrooms. It begins with "23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer," which addresses intriguing problems teachers are grappling with and matching them with the special skills and innovative problem-solving that artists use in their work every day.

      23 Questions is followed by three gripping stories about artists working in schools, conducting programs that integrate beautifully with existing curriculum and meet state education standards.

      "They Won't Dance, Don't Ask Them is a short article I wrote about choreographer Celeste Miller’s approach to engaging problem students by using dance. It happened in a Natural History class at a regional high school in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. The class teacher warned her that his seven 11th Grade male students were notorious troublemakers, they were unlikely to graduate and they certainly wouldn't dance. Let me at 'em,"

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