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October 28, 2020
Nora Ballantyne encourages creating a few minutes of space in your day to consider how viewing artwork can help bridge the gap between time, distance, and privilege. This blog features global artists and the materials they use in mindful ways to reflect their environment, culture, and life experience.
Nora Ballantyne
October 20, 2020
Teresa Love, a drama education expert, shares strategic warm-ups to prepare students voice, body and mind (the actor's tools) for drama work in the classroom.
Teresa Love
October 13, 2020
What is the impact of arts in the classroom? Laura Giles shares how the Arts for Life Utah Initiative began, and how the Utah Partnership for Arts Education advocate for arts education in Utah schools.
Laura Giles
October 12, 2020
How can you honor the land on which you reside? How can you be a good steward of the beautiful state in which you live? What can you give back to the land that has so freely offered its blessings to you? Heather Sundahl encourages us to be part of a conversation that does not deny the lived experience of millions of Native people.
Heather Sundahl
October 5, 2020
Rituals are an important part of building a physically and emotionally safe classroom environment. Cally Flox and Heather Francis share arts activities that can be used as rituals to help students and teachers feel connected as a classroom community.
Cally Flox, Heather Francis
September 22, 2020
Ariel Hortin, a dance educator and mom of three from Vineyard, Utah, shares the goals, benefits, and misconceptions about dance movement therapy.
Ariel Horton, BYU ARTS Partnership
September 15, 2020
Ariel Hortin, a movement and dance therapist, shares how using movement and body awareness can help students use and notice physical cues to express their feelings and notice those cues in others.
Ariel Horton
September 11, 2020
Nora Ballantyne spotlights a variety of artworks spanning different art disciplines, describing the unique ways the arts helped communities across the country unite, connect, and rejuvenate after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001.
Nora Ballantyne
September 9, 2020
Laura Giles highlights the different POPS programs (Professional Outreach Programs in the Schools ). Invaluable for teachers, these programs bring arts education and professional artists across multiple disciplines to students and schools for free or at a subsidized cost.
Laura Giles
September 1, 2020
Engaging in visual art can support trauma-informed classroom practice. Nora Ballantyne shares grounding visual arts activities designed to integrate neurophysiology, support hand-eye coordination, encourage mindful awareness, and facilitate a safe space for breathing and calm.
Nora Ballantyne
August 25, 2020
Mindfulness activities and playlists that help you become aware of your thoughts and feelings and create a healthy space for big emotions are some key methods that Jennifer Purdy emphasizes in her article about practicing mindfulness through music.
Jennifer Purdy
August 20, 2020
Melissa Deletant, President of the Utah Arts Education Association, recaps the Utah arts professional organizations that joined to create the Utah Arts Education Coalition and the Arts for Life Utah Initiative.
Melissa Deletante
August 18, 2020
Heather Francis introduces four mindful movement practices (with videos) designed for children but also benefit teachers. These activities include the Brain Dance, movement for young learners, yoga, and a mirroring activity.
Heather Francis
August 11, 2020
Cally Flox shares how the wisdom of the body is accessed by interpreting not only what your senses tell you but also what you feel when your body is moving through space. She explains the principles of balance, proprioception, kinesthesia, and how to achieve greater balance and coordination physically and metaphorically in our lives.
Cally Flox
August 5, 2020
Nora Ballantyne highlights the work of Susan Kaiser Greenland, the co-creator of Inner Kids, and shares different and simple ways to incorporate mindfulness in the classroom. These easy and fun activities can teach impulse control, awareness, and calm.
Nora Ballantyne
June 9, 2020
Laura Giles shares exciting and fun resources from the Professional Outreach Programs in the Schools (POPS) to integrate the arts into your summer plans.
Laura Giles
June 8, 2020
Find resources from the Professional Outreach Programs in the Schools (POPS) that make it easy to integrate the arts into your summer plans.
Laura Giles
June 5, 2020
Cindy Clark, an experienced visual artist, outlines a list of activities that engage both sides of the brain and relieve stress. These activities can be used personally as well as in the classroom. Read the whole post to discover ways to boost your creativity!
Cindy Clark
June 5, 2020

Arts Integration Endorsement

Last week, sixty-six elementary school teachers completed the BYU ARTS Partnership’s Arts Integration Endorsement Course.

BYU ARTS Partnership
June 3, 2020
Teresa Love shares drama activities to balance the large doses of screentime during the pandemic. These activities help family groups to deepen their relationships during the pandemic with activities that provide much-needed centering.
Teresa Love
June 3, 2020
"Music educators Jennifer Purdy and Emily Soderborg list at-home arts-integrated activities that enrich and enliven learning at home. While some focus solely on music, many are integrated with literacy, dance, and other art forms and curricular topics. These fun activities apply to classroom and home environments and enable participants to engage more fully in cognitive activities."
Jennifer Purdy, Emily Soderborg
May 18, 2020
Read about ways that teachers integrated the arts with other curricular areas to keep students engaged, spark student creativity, and deepen student learning during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Laura Giles
April 7, 2020
Chris Roberts, Heather Francis, and Rachel Marie Kimball offer unique, fun, and meaningful methods that encourage movement in the classroom and at home.
Chris Roberts, Heather Francis, Rachel Marie Kimball
March 6, 2020
The McKay School Children's Art showcases "A Tasty Art Show, " featuring student art from Lakeview Elementary in Provo, Utah.
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