Happy Birthday Teaching Palette!

September 25, 2009 by admin 

birthday paletteWe made it!  One year old and we have grown in so many ways. Here’s a little history on how our blog started:

Email from Hillary to Theresa (Labor day weekend 2008): “What do you think about starting a blog where we can post all our classroom management stuff ?”

Yea, we’ve come a long way since that email. Our primary goal was to favor quality over quantity (which also coincidentally matches our teaching styles).

So, we started with classroom management, music + art integration, and product reviews. It was a great focus (and we still try and discuss these topics often), yet we expanded even further. We invited YOU to join us. (Thank you to everyone who has been a guest author!!) We added lots of web 2.0 tools, advocated for the arts, and added things just cool and creative.

We have also expanded our readership (thank you everyone!). Our email subscriptions doubled over the summer. Therefore, since many of our new readers missed our infant stages (which we still think are useful), we decided to celebrate our 1st birthday with a few of our favorites from the archives:

Theresa’s personal favorites:
The Clean-Up Map – Inspired by Dora the Explorer (yes, kids CAN follow directions!?!)

Photography as Art and History – Just love the contrast in music and imagery over this 100 year span.

Hillary’s personal favorites:
The Magic Pocket Name – Love how this simple technique can be so effective in the art room!

American Revolution Portraitist – It’s exciting to make connections between American history, art and music.

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2 Responses to “Happy Birthday Teaching Palette!”

  1. David Gran on September 30th, 2009 1:04 pm

    Congrats on another milestone! You’ve quickly become a fantastic resource for all art educators. Thank you!

  2. HE on October 5th, 2009 9:39 pm

    Congrats on another milestone! You’ve quickly become a fantastic resource for all art educators. Thank you!

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