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April 6, 2021
Read about the Children's Art Gallery in the McKay School of Education at BYU and how this exciting addition to the university is built on principles within the four studio structures, encouraging and enabling children to create art.
Laura Giles
April 6, 2021
What do you love about being a teacher? What motivates you and inspires you to keep going? Find out what Christy Bryant Nielsen writes about in her poem: "I am a Teacher."
Christy Bryant Nielsen
March 23, 2021
In honor of Women's History Month, get to know Mae Timbimboo Parry. A lifelong culture bearer, Mae dedicated her life to truth-telling about her people, the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation. She shares insights and perspectives that illustrate the cultural practices of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and bring its people into the present.
Heather Sundahl
March 16, 2021
Rachel Gonthier, Visual Arts Educator, shares an arts-integrated, ready-to-use lesson based on an exhibition of photographs titled “Playground” by the artist James Mollison that she saw at the BYU Museum of Art. She shares photos of playgrounds from around the world and explains how hands-on explorations of these playspaces help students understand and appreciate the variation between cultures.
Rachel Gonthier
March 9, 2021
Dance teaching artist, math educator, instructional designer, and BYU ARTS Partnership research and design lead, Heather Francis is passionate about advocating for the arts for children.
Laura Giles
March 2, 2021
Developing a cardio-focused version of the BrainDance, connecting dance movement to the core curriculum, and providing classroom teachers with extra movement resources are a few ways Courtni Giles practices giving educators and students a big bang for their buck.
Cortni Giles
February 23, 2021
Join Miriam Bowen as she shares best practices for teacher self-care: prompts for self-reflection, a list of restorative practices, and book suggestions for studying teacher resilience.
Miriam Bowen
February 16, 2021
Meet Jennifer Purdy, music educator and member of the BYU ARTS Partnership leadership team. Jen is an accomplished artist and musician who loves to share her expertise, experience, lesson plans, and ideas with other teachers.
Laura Giles
February 9, 2021
Have you ever wondered about the origins of the Native American Hoop Dance? Mary Grace Johnson highlights the Heard Museum's annual Hoop Dance contest of over 80 participants. Learn about this important aspect of Native American culture and share these amazing videos in your elementary or secondary classroom!
Mary Grace Johnson
February 2, 2021
Laura Giles introduces Cindy Clark, BYU ARTS Partnership leadership team member, visual artist, singer (in the shower), piano player, and teacher. A veteran arts educator, Cindy shares her experiences and unique encaustic visual artwork, as well as her creative process.
Laura Giles
January 26, 2021
Wendy Rex-Atzet, Ph.D., is a historian at the Utah Division of State History. Director of the National History Day contest, Dr. Atzet has learned that finding the local in the global can help students identify with content across curricula in the arts, humanities, and science.
Wendy Rex-Atzet
January 21, 2021
Heather Sundahl, a freelance writer and editor, and Brenda Beyal, a Diné/Navajo wife, mother, and teacher, contemplate how we as educators can examine our complicity in perpetuating stereotypes and in response, activate empathy, knowledge-seeking, and change.
Heather Sundahl, Brenda Beyal
January 15, 2021
M'art'ch Madness is a multidisciplinary K-12 art competition sponsored by the Arts for Life Utah initiative and the Utah Arts Education Coalition. Read about the contest and find past submissions in dance, drama, visual art, and music.
BYU ARTS Partnership
January 12, 2021
Part 2 of music educator Katie Ross's series on classroom management, this blog specifically addresses behavior management for tier 2 and 3 students in an arts-integrated classroom.
Katherine Ross
December 18, 2020
Arts Bridge Scholar Jessica Jensen Walker describes her experience integrating dance in a 6th grade classroom and how she learned the importance of building relationships and learning each student's name.
Jessica Jensen Walker
December 15, 2020
Mattie Davis, an Arts Bridge Scholar and dance education major, describes her growth as a teacher while teaching the brain dance and states of matter in upper-grade classrooms.
Mattie Davis
December 15, 2020
Deanna Nielsen, an Arts Bridge Scholar and art education major, describes her experience in a 5th-grade classroom teaching about ecosystems, food chains, and conservation through art as well as space and gravity.
Deanna Nielsen
December 15, 2020
Arts Bridge Scholar Emmalynn Pace spends a semester at Brookhaven Elementary where she discovers the importance of teaching the life cycle through dance and allowing for spontaneous instructional moments.
Emmalynn Pace
December 8, 2020
Part 1 of music educator Katie Ross's series on the basics of classroom management covers building a classroom routine, setting expectations, and creating a learning environment that expresses your personality.
Katherine Ross
December 3, 2020
Cally Flox shares what she learned about listening from a Navajo tradition and how we can work together to realize innovative teaching and learning solutions and make the world a better place, one conversation at a time.
Cally Flox
December 1, 2020
Nora Ballantyne, a nature lover and BYU ARTS Partnership editor, invites each of us on a journey into the meaning of shinrin-yoku, the Japanese practice of forest bathing. Read ways to practice soaking in the atmosphere of nature through our senses and to breathe and take note of our environment.
Nora Ballantyne
November 17, 2020
Rachel Henderson, an arts educator at Westvale Elementary uses gallery wall time to display student artwork. Learn ways to create safe and respectful environment during critique. Reflection and discussion on a gallery wall helps focus on the positive and call attention to the detail and effort of the each student's work.
Rachel Henderson
November 10, 2020
Melissa Deletant, a teacher in the Uintah School District, shares her Veteran's Day Project that simultaneously honors veterans, teaches drawing and painting skills, and shows how participating in the arts creates empathy.
Heather Sundahl
November 3, 2020
What would you like children in Utah to know about your tribe?” This seemingly simple query posed to Patty Timbimboo-Madsen, cultural specialist for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, launched our Native American Curriculum Initiative and models our guiding principle to honor the Native voice.
Heather Sundahl

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