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Showing posts with label power of the arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power of the arts. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Guide to posts

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Two weeks ago, my morning coffee was accompanied by some of the best news I've heard in years regarding education and the arts.  Preside...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Demise of a model arts program

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This week I am including a video of the presentation that I made in a workshop at the 2008 California Art in Education Conference in Burling...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Cyber-lessons, Skype

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As I've said before in this blog, technology offers many powerful ways to enhance education. Cyber-school, Virtual Academy, online educ...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Time to change

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In another blog , I am writing a more-or-less detailed accounting of some of the lessons and practices that have proven effective in teach...
Monday, July 18, 2011

The arts in education, What happened? What now? and What next?.

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Much  of what is said by arts teachers and arts advocates is in defense of the arts and their importance to children, students, and educatio...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

High Tech and High Touch

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In the art of teaching, the challenge is to communicate information to the student in such a way that they receive, process, interiorize, a...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Music Makes You Smarter ?????

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In another blog,  JNM-Teachers Corner , I am spending time each week going over specific portions of the RITMMAP study because of its value...
Monday, July 4, 2011

Reading Improvement through Music, Movement and Play 'RITMMAP'

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Up to this point, I've shared some principles and insights of educators, psychologists, and even neuro-biologists that have proven to be...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Notes and Neurons, Mozart & Einstein

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I get puzzled by why so many people (often  politicians  and all too often, school officials) claim that we need more of an emphasis on math...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Direct Instruction + Art = Engaged Students

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In the last blog, I talked about how one of the arts, drama,  can enliven any classroom and significantly contribute to student interest, en...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Drama In The Classroom

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One of the statements that I made in my last blog is a little difficult to understand without some background.  The statement suggested that...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

The 'System' isn't working

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Long before the educational morass that we are now experiencing  began,
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Current state; Identity

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Hello - Let me introduce myself.  My name is Ron Zell.  I am a former  California k-8, public school  music teacher.  Believe it or not, onc...