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Meeting Individual Needs

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Meeting Individual Needs | Advocating for Artists with Disabilities

Megan Bye demonstrates how students of all abilities can fully engage in art when provided accessible tools and supportive spaces.

1 April 2026Meeting Individual Needs
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Meeting Individual Needs: Buddy Crafts: Making Inclusion the Focus

An art educator designs an inclusive curriculum where students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers collaborate as equals.

1 March 2026Meeting Individual Needs
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Managing the Art Room: How Badges Inspire Student Choice

An art teacher develops a successful badging system that empowers students to track their progress, reflect on their learning, and set personal goals.

1 November 2025High School
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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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Draw the Breath

Elementary students draw a visual representation of their breathing and then transform their line drawings into mixed-media artworks.

11 March 2025Elementary
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Collaboration: A Way to Reach All Learners

Elementary students build their problem-solving, social-emotional, and exploratory learning skills as they collaborate.

15 December 2024Elementary
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Meeting Individual Needs: The Value of Inclusive Contests

A special education transition specialist shares the importance of providing opportunities for students with disabilities to receive recognition for their work.

15 December 2024Meeting 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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Aquatic Communities in Clay

Middle-school students create mini coral sculptures and large slip-cast sculptures depicting underwater environments.

15 October 2024Middle School
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Choice-Based Art Education: Joyful Chaos

An art teacher shares the benefits of a child-centered TAB approach and how she facilitates guided play through various media centers.

15 August 2024Choice-Based
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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