This is a series of lessons designed to help students identify and understand how traditional gender and sexual identity stereotypes dominate professional dance training and performance as well as how this rigid structure affects LGBTQIA+ dancers.

The goal of this project is to provide public middle school students with the tools to analyze music and lyrics through the lens of social justice, use critical listening techniques, and contribute individual points of view to a collaborative songwriting project.

This project combines music and poetry to create a protest song. Throughout these three mini lessons, students will learn about the power of their personal stories, write a poem or a song, and share their projects with the world. The final artwork will be in the form of a poem or a song.

These step-by-step Mandala Dot painting lessons were created to have meaning to those with dementia and the elderly. Research implies that artistic engagement may help to ease symptoms of dementia like stress. It may also increase mood and self-esteem and possibly help stimulate memory.

In this series of lessons, students will be invited to explore the world of poetry for performance. Each lesson can be done independently or as a series.

Food as Art centers around how food can be used as inspiration for and a medium in visual art-making. By reflecting on their own kitchens, memories, perceptions, feelings and families, young artists will explore their relationship to food and the stories that come from cooking and eating.

Students will create traditional or digital sequential art with a writing-design-illustrating method, emphasizing concept and creativity to tell a moving visual story, rooted in culture, identity, and physio-emotional challenges, and their intersection, in order to connect with the self and readers.

Students will create a series of formal and conceptual projects that work with design theory and principles. Students will brainstorm, make connections to the world, and solve visual problems for a wide audience; all the while accumulating understanding of design thinking (the design process).

A process drama uses interactive theater to immerse students in a story, problem, and often role-work. In these series of professional development videos and guides, educators will learn to brainstorm and practice process dramas for their classrooms. 

Through Word Painting, students will retell a short story in music. With rhythm & melody to express imagery, they will translate that story from one medium (ELA) to another (music). This activity is open-ended as the music created can be translated into other mediums: dance, puppetry, painting, etc.

The beauty of dance is the universality of its language and in this regard my mini-lessons provide lessons in social adaptation and negotiation. The through line is “negotiation” (build, better, together) with one subject per lesson: harmony, balance, connection, togetherness, and cooperation.