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Adaptive Art

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Transforming Ideas into Animated Stories

Middle-school students become stop-motion animators and storytellers while exploring CTE and audio-visual concepts.

1 November 2025Middle School
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Meeting Individual Needs: Art, Accessibility, and Visual Impairments

Adaptive art consultant Bette Naughton outlines classroom strategies for ensuring that students with visual impairments can successfully participate in the art room.

1 September 2025Adaptive Art
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Meeting Individual Needs: Die-Cutting Machine Adaptions

An art teacher uses a die-cutting machine to enhance her lessons and create adaptations for students.

1 June 2025Meeting Individual Needs
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Meeting Individual Needs: Managing Sensory Processing Disorder in the Art Room

Art teacher, adaptive art consultant, and author Bette Naughton discusses strategies for making the classroom more accessible for students with sensory processing disorders.

15 April 2025Meeting Individual Needs
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Meeting Individual Needs: The Magic of Movement

An art teacher kicks off the school year with a collaborative project in which students splatter paint with various materials.

14 November 2024Meeting Individual Needs
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Adaptive Art: Teaching Suggestion

Advanced Preparation: Planning for adaptations to your lessons prior to instruction will enable students to more fully participate. Students will need customized adaptations.

15 August 2024Adaptive Art
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Contemporary Art in Context: Dan Welden

Printmaker, painter, and educator Dan Welden presents an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional etching in this month’s feature.

15 November 2023Contemporary Art
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Meeting Individual Needs: One Hundred Languages of Children

Knowing that there are a hundred or more languages that children use for expression and learning has guided my teaching, whether I am working with preschoolers or college students.

1 October 2023Meeting Individual Needs
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Froebel's Gifts

Explore how Froebel's gifts can transform early childhood art lessons by fostering creativity, motor skills, and visual literacy. Engage students with interactive play and structured learning.

1 January 2023Early Childhood
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Museum Musings: New Ideas for Museum Outreach

Discover new strategies for art museum outreach, focusing on community partnerships and creative solutions like the Carpenter Art Garden initiative.

1 December 2022K-12
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Meeting Individual Needs: Helping Hands

Art educator and author Bette Naughton shares a variety of ways to incorporate fine motor skill development into your art lessons.

1 September 2022Adaptive Art