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Fall in Love With These Valentine’s Day Art Lessons

Helping Your Students Cope with Perfectionism

A Dozen Strategies for Coping with Art Teacher Burnout

Everything an art teacher needs to know about scratchboard

Teaching Typography: Great online resources and games

Art lessons inspired by type

Practical and quick ways to respond to “I can’t draw”

One teacher’s Halloween tradition

Strategies for combating “I can’t draw”

10 Art lesson ideas inspired by fall

25 Activities for your art room early finishers

Narrowing the divide: The art room’s early finishers & laggards

Figure it out: Inspiration for figure drawing

How do art teachers experience and manage imposter syndrome?

To loan a pencil or not to loan a pencil? That is the question

Back-to-school art teacher hacks

Collaborative projects to start the year

What’s in a name? Name designs to start the year!

Moving levels? What you need to know about transitioning

12 Books to Inspire and Entertain the Art Teacher

How art teachers can be allies to LGBT+ students

Saying goodbye? Thank you? Gifts for the Art Teacher

Keeping Students Creative in Summer

End of the Year Hacks to Make Your Life Easier

Ten End of the Year “Lifesavers”

Ways to Recognize your Art Students: Awards, Honors, and Senior Send-offs

Part II: The Nitty-gritty of School Art Shows

Part I: Planning for a Successful Art Show

Ideas and Advice: Acing the Interview Demo Lesson

Making a school gallery

Tips and tricks for linoleum printmaking

Twenty five NEW ideas for your art club!

Staying in art education: How to navigate these stressful times without abandoning ship

How does an art educator make a career change?

Do you need an exit plan from being an art teacher?

Cell Phones: Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them

How can you use a Cricut in the art room?

Art Teacher Organizational Hacks for the New Year!

Combating “The Great Holiday Art Room Supply Heist”

Animated Shorts for the Holidays

Love Etsy? Love Art Teachers? Look no further for your holiday shopping!

Gratitude fillers for Thanksgiving week

Art Teaching On the Cheap

Tips to prepare your students for a portfolio review

Interview with Artist James DeRosso

My advice for taking over an art class successfully

Parent’s night: A survival guide for new art teachers (and anyone who ever gets nervous)

Art Teacher’s professional goals: More than just busywork

Should you consider a National Art Honor Society Chapter?

Five Ideas for Substitute Days

Ten tricks to remember student names

What to wear? The art teacher’s dilemma

Classroom Expectations

Everything you ever wanted to know about sketchbooks

Ice breakers you won’t hate

Hacks to make life easier come school start

Summer Reading: Books about Artists

Summer Reading: The Professional Books

Transition to summer mode

Movies, documentaries, and shows with art and art history themes

More Art Teacher Hacks

Things to consider before you accept the job!

Real life Art Teacher interview questions

Interview with Artist James DeRosso

Reverse Image Search 101 PLUS some pro tricks and tips

How to be a good administrator to the arts

Who appreciates Teachers ? (Where the deals are for teachers)

Parent misconceptions of art (and how to respond professionally)

36 Days of Type

Five artists working on environmental issues

So You Want to Be An Art Teacher?

One Teacher’s Drawing-a-Day Challenge During School Shutdown

Diagnostik

One year with Covid: Artistic responses in art lessons and student artwork

Practical Matters: Paint Distribution

Black Artists to Get to Know

50 fabulous Art Club ideas

Everything you want to know to launch and run a successful Art Club

Creating a community in your online art classes

Food as a Muse, Wayne Thiebaud turns 100 years old

Ted Talks that are a must for the art room

Art Teacher Hacks during Covid Times

Portfolio Advice for Students

How to add a “National Arts in Education Week” Facebook frame

Shall We Play A Game?

Creativity Killers

How to Manage School in Stressful Times

Ten FUN Ideas for First Day of Art Activities (for Virtual Learning or In Person)

How to add a “Keep Schools Safe” Facebook frame

Resume Advice for Art Teachers | Part II: Design

Resume Advice for Art Teachers | Part I: Content

How to add a “Art belongs in schools” Facebook frame

The Art Teacher’s Guide to Surviving a Layoff

Interview Questions for the Art Teacher

Art History Inspired Face Masks

Confessions of an Art Teacher in Wake of George Floyd Protests

One Teacher’s Drawing-a-Day Challenge During School Shutdown

Is Remote Learning Taking A Physical Toll?

Moral Development and Art Plagiarism: An Art Teacher’s Viewpoint

The Remote Interview for Art Educators

Pondering an Online Digital Art Show? A Review of Options

Free Resources for Art Teachers

If you’re facing a school shut down

The Art Teacher’s Guide to Letters of Recommendation

The Interview Outfit

Art Teacher Memes

Black History Month Inspiration

Art Room Hacks!

Lessons and the Art Education Portfolio

Perspectives on Perspective

Halloween Meets Art History

Lessons that Fail: What You Have to Learn, Part I

From Projects to Portfolios

Using Arts Education to Help Other Lessons Stick

Downloads

Romare Bearden Poster

Lace Drawing Presentation

Pen and Ink Composite Drawings Presentation

Rubric for Wildlife Conservation Pen and Ink Composite Drawings

Artist investigation: Sonny Behan

Thanksgiving: Fact or Fiction with famous pieces of art

Presentation for Patterns from Text

Chuck Close Poster

Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month posters

Monster Sandwich Handout

Visual Puns for Graphic Design Students/ Sub Plan

Ceramic Rattle Handout/ Substitute Plan

Art Remix Sub Plan

Drawing Cylinders Substitute Plan

Proportions of the human figure

Posters of fun inspirational quotes for your art room

Triptych Lesson Presentation

Elements of art visuals

LGBT+ poster series

Giuseppe Arcimboldo Inspired Fruit & Veggie Portraits Presentation

Kumihimo Braid Weavings (aka Kumi Looms)

Hexaflexagon Presentation

Steampunk Sculpture Presentation

Atmospheric Perspective Presentation

Collage Self-portrait Presentation

Resources for Self-portrait Collage lesson

Lesson Instruction Presentation: Radial Print

Think Series: Coco Dávez

Presentation: Faceless Vector Portraits

Think Series: Maria Prymachenko

Paper Cut Biome Environment Lesson Resource

Presentation for “What the Meme!”

Presentation for Personal Polynesian Inspired Coil Sculpture

Black History Month Posters

Art with Heart

Think Series: Artists we lost in 2021

Woven Star Ornament Instruction Sheet

About Landscape Painting Handout

Mixed Media Nature Drawing slide show by Ursina Amsler

Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month posters

About alebrijes

My Sample NAHS Application

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) slideshow

Paintbrush care and cleaning posters

NAHS Handbook, Ceremony Template, Steps to Starting a NAHS, etc

Substitute Lesson on Abstract Art

Covid safety PSA (art history style)

Class Evaluation Form

Certificate of Recognition

Women’s History Month Posters

Women’s History Month Think Series

Paint Palette

Think Series for Black History Month

Think: That Little Girl was Me by Bria Goeller

Flextangle

Wellness check, art education style!

Gelatin Plate Instructions

Pie and Cake Shape Templates

Think Series: Wayne Thiebaud

Improvise a ruler

Bell Ringers and Think Series for the Holidays

Student Portfolio Guide

Bell Ringer: Art Materials and Techniques

Bell Ringers: Elements of Art

Bell Ringers: Art History and Issues in Art

Bell Ringers: Problem Solving Skills

Type Face Challenge

We all need a laugh! Memes for Art Teachers

Ceramic Tools

Drawing Idioms

Photography Challenge: Found Alphabet Words

Homemade Clay Tools

Student Guide to Photographing Artwork

Think Series: Artists as Activists Series

How to Make a Simple Sketchbook

Ergonomics for Teachers

Art Plagiarism Digital Handout

Color theory Spinners

Think: Gee’s Bend Artist Mary Lee Bendolph

Mola Handout

Perspective and Life Drawing

Origami Nesting Box

Gift Bag

Ceramic Vessel Anatomy

Firing a Kiln Handout and Crossword Puzzle

Fold Out Book Instructions

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