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Saturday, March 22
 

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Pixel Perfect: Five Ways to Dive Into Digital Design
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Have no fear... digital design is here! Technology is a fantastic motivator for our students and a vital part of our art and design curriculum. In this fast-paced presentation, two middle-level design educators will share five
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Janine Campbell

Teacher, Byron Center Public Schools
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Jane Montero

I'm all about Google Draw!
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Coffee and Conversations With Art in Special Education (ASE)
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Join us over morning refreshments and learn more about the Art in Special Education Interest Group. Meet fellow educators passionate about integrating art into special education. Share best practices, learn from each other, and connect with our vibrant community. We can't wait to see you there!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Asian Art and Culture Interest Group Executive Board Meeting
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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In this meeting, the Board will discuss policies and procedures for AACIG operations and share past successes and future plans to enhance AACIG’s missions in promoting Asian art and culture. AACIG members and nonmembers are welcome.
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Borim Song

East Carolina university, College of Fine Arts and Communication, School of Art and Design
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Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Draw an Elephant With Your Eyes Closed: TASK as Creative Play AND Assessment
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Oliver Herring's TASK party is not only a form of creative play but can also be a practical and effective tool for curriculum assessment in art education. Come party with us as we explore a new framework for assessing the creative process.
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Unleashing Creativity: Visual Journals as Catalysts for Dynamic Pedagogical Practices
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Discover how visual journaling can transform your students' art education experiences by fostering creativity, cultural responsiveness, and independent thinking. Join our expert panel that spans preK-12 and higher education for practical strategies, student exemplars, and interactive discussions to enhance your teaching and ignite students' artistic voices.
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David Modler

Artist/Researcher/Educator and Associate Professor of Art Shepherd University, Journal Fodder Junkies
David R. Modler is an artist/educator born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Education in Art Education from Towson State University, and taught elementary art for fifteen years. David has since earned a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Distinguished Fellows Forum, Archives Initiative: Leaving Your Legacy, Constructing an Art Education Archive
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This session will share information about the Distinguished Fellows Archive Initiative and provide opportunities to collaborate and share best practices for creating archives. Attendees will have opportunities to contribute to the development of a template to guide and refine the construction of their own personal archives.
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Robert Sabol

Associate Head of the Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance, Purdue University
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Building Bricks for Digital Photography
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Have you ever been curious about how you can use, purchase, and fund building bricks in your art room? I was too! Let me share an engaging STEAM lesson using pixel bricks (small, round building bricks) and photography to inspire your future lessons!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Elementary Carousel of Learning: Crafting an Engaging Curriculum
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Learn from four elementary art educators from across the country on a variety of different curricula! Presenters will discuss four different styles of curricula, from TAB to preK to adaptive and everything else in between!
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Empowering Young Voices: Creating Activist Art in Elementary Classrooms
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Learn how elementary students express ideas of justice through their artwork and discover strategies for empowering student voice and choice in creating activist art. You will also learn how to navigate potential challenges within your school community and leave inspired to foster critical dialogue and creativity in your classroom.
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Establishing a Maker Mindset With Arts-Based STEAM
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Investigate the inner workings of an active K-6 STEAM program designed by an art teacher. Help students build 21st-century skills and shape mindsets with design thinking, project-based learning, and STEAM. Learn how to introduce animation, robotics, design, and engineering on a budget. Gain a variety of single-session lessons and projects.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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First-Day Collaborative Murals to Start Your Year Off Right!
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Whole-school collaborative mural projects kick off each school year with my 850 students. These projects introduce my classroom rules and procedures, tie into a yearlong message, create community buy-in, and spread happiness as we enter a new year. Most importantly, we create on our 1st day! Lesson plans included!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Lettering for Literacy: Ideas for Incorporating Typography Into Your Elementary Art Curriculum
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Gain ideas for incorporating language arts concepts into your curriculum. Discuss why and how lettering and writing have a role to play in your visual arts curriculum. This presentation includes over a dozen elementary projects that can be adapted and expanded for middle school, high school, and adult students.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Ridiculous History: Fun Facts to Draw Students Into Your Lessons
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Spark student curiosity with fun facts and strange stories to provide an entry point for deeper learning. Look beyond the arrangement of elements and see art as a reflection of real people's lived experiences. Connect the past with practice as 10 fascinating stories are paired with lesson ideas and supportive resources.
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Kyle Wood

Highlands Elementary/Naperville Dist 203
I have been teaching k-5 Art since 2007. I am always looking for new methods, projects, ideas to try in my classroom. I also like to nerd out on art history. I started some podcasts, Who ARTed and Art Smart, a few years ago and I have been happy to find some success since they were... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Do Your Homework: Preparing to Facilitate Social Justice Art Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This session highlights the critical homework educators must engage in before facilitating activist artmaking. Interwoven with interactive activities, this session will describe features of social justice art education while providing participants with opportunities to share their own strategies and questions.
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Engage Secondary Immigrant Learners in Deconstructing Racial Hierarchy and Enhancing Identity Construction
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Learn about three approaches used to guide secondary immigrant learners in finding sense of belonging through self and cultural identity explorations. Students' works will be discussed within these three pedagogical approaches: Buffington and Waldner's critical response cycle, Acuff and Kraehe's countervisual strategies, and Shin et al.'s S-R-C strategies.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Integrating Muralism: From Community to Classroom in Medellín, Colombia, and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Learn how project-based learning through muralism can bring your students together for a cause and an epic art project. The presented research investigates the intersections between Medellín and the Minneapolis mural arts movement to create a collaborative curriculum for community muralism projects for educators.
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Let the Art Do the Talking: Fostering Antiracist Discussions With Elementary School Students
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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No one has ever been too young to talk about race, only too afraid. Through examining the daily biases that permeate our lives and the impact of our own racial identities, we will explore how to go beyond Visual Thinking Strategies to lead students to talk to YOU about race.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Trauma-Informed Art Education: Ethics of Care in the Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Learn more about the impact of trauma on students' cognitive, social, and physical development, and how trauma-informed art education adopts and integrates multimodal art forms to help students feel empowered, self-actualize, heal, process, and form meaningful connections with their peers and teachers through art.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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From Cute to Creative: Documenting Infant and Toddler Explorations, Relationships, and Innate Sense of Wonder
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Young children's art shifts adult perspectives from celebrating children as objects to recognizing art as transformative, enjoyable processes that enhance human development. Participants will engage with a university case study, identify benefits of embedding child-centered art in early childhood settings, and be empowered to share insights with families and caregivers.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Generating New Conversations for Educators Through Arts Research
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Authors in a newly published edited volume featuring a collection of practice-based research projects discuss their artistic explorations and research, illuminating how art education practices enrich and generate transformative approaches to art making, teaching, writing, and thinking.
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Resilience in Art Education: Embracing Vulnerability for Innovative Artistic Practices
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Discover how discussing personal challenges within a group of PhD students and a professor enhanced innovative practices in creative research and teaching of arts. We center the question: How does sharing personal experiences in narrative storytelling inspire new ideas and methods?
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Championing Art Learning for All Students Through the Arts Education Data Project
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Experience what the Arts Education Data Project can do for you! Explore state-level data dashboards and data reporting systems. Learn more about the need for access to art education and how to interpret trends and gaps to become empowered with the knowledge for driving passionate advocacy for influencing policy and celebrating the documented value of art education.
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O David Deitz

Fine Arts Education Consultant, Pennsylvania Department of Education
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Cody Talarico

Arts Education Specialist, NDE
Cody Talarico, is a musician and supporter of arts education. Cody taught music in the Bellevue (NE) Public Schools and is currently serving Nebraska as the Arts Education Specialist at the Nebraska Department of Education where he leads and supports visual arts, media arts, dance... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Artificially Inspired: Unleashing Creativity With AI for Art Teachers
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Unlock the creative power of AI in art education! Join us and discover how AI intersects with art, explore innovative tools and strategies, and ignite student engagement. Let's transform your classroom into a hub of creativity and innovation together!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Bad@$$ Projects and Ideas for AP Success (Photo/Graphic Design Focus)
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This presentation gives AP 2D Design teachers (especially those focused on photo/graphic design) ideas for how to best prepare students for the AP exam. Projects that have had the greatest impact on Sustained Investigation, including summer projects and tips for writing and pacing for the exam, will be shared.
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Deanna Sortino

Teacher, Niles Township High School District 240
Fine Arts
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Collaborative Interaction Without Anxiety: Supporting SEL Through Structured Cooperative Team Learning and Guided-Inquiry Activities
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Immerse yourself in a process-oriented guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) environment. Experience how formal team structures and intentional teacher facilitation enhance student sense making, communication, and community building. Explore guided-inquiry activities that support students struggling with anxiety. Assess how this pedagogy can improve your students' feelings of safety in sharing their ideas.
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Mare Sullivan

STEM teaching internship supervisor, Seattle Pacific University
- Named the 2013 Washington State Secondary Science Teacher of the Year - Current Steering Committee Member of The POGIL Project, Lancaster PA, focusing on process-oriented guided-inquiry learning for secondary and post secondary instructors - Over the past 15 years, has facilitated... Read More →
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Tammy Ashworth

Teacher, CVUSD
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Incorporating Student Choice in K-12 Museum Programs
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Two educators from museums of varying sizes and collections will share how they both incorporated student choice in K-12 programming. Participants will learn simple, practical ways to use student choice and have the opportunity to brainstorm with colleagues on ways to embed or create choice-based programming for students.
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Jeremiah Myers

Cleveland Museum of art
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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A Comparative Study of Traditional and Digital Painting for Preservice Artist-Educators
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This presentation explores how traditional and digital painting methods influence preservice artist-educators' creative experiences, artistic development, and pedagogical philosophies. Through a comparative analysis of their hands-on artmaking, technological challenges, and teaching perspectives, the session provides insights for holistic art teacher training balancing digital integration with preserving core artistic practices.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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TikTok Artist to Art Teacher: Using Social Media in the 21st-Century Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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An artist-influencer turned art educator with more than 2 million followers will outline how she uses her experiences to better understand and connect with her audiences online and in the classroom. She explains ways social media can effectively be incorporated into one's teaching practice.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Using Multimedia Learning Journals to Help Foster Student Engagement and Depth of Learning
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Do you want the most authentic, engaging learning tool that builds student engagement; increases student learning in content areas as well as the development of critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and creativity; while helping students become self-driven, effective learners and self-assessors in the future? Come learn about multimedia learning journals.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Do ADHD Coping Strategies From Art Class Benefit Overall Education Practices?
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This research dissertation describes the strategies students with ADHD acquire in art class that are applicable to overall educational success. We present data to help inform collaboration, advocacy, and equity for future presentations and professional development.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Creating Curriculum: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching and Learning
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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What are you teaching? Developing a thoughtful, well-developed curriculum is an essential part of strong teaching, but it's no easy task. Participants will explore the benefits to teaching with contemporary art and begin developing a semester's curriculum.
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Amanda Price

Art Teacher, Clarke Central High School
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Faux Real: Taking Polymer Clay to the Next Level
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Do you want to get students interested in jewelry, but do not have access to metals, tools, or torches? Join us for a new school approach on how to turn polymer clay into precious stones.
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Matt Young

OAEA President, Ohio Art Education Association
Carrie Barnett lives in Cincinnati with her husband, two college-aged children, and pup. She has 27 years of teaching experience, ranging from public school to private school and 1st grade to college level, with the last 19 years in secondary education. Barnett’s passion for art... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: Black Male Art Educators Speaking Identity and Culture
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This workshop equips art educators with tools to integrate diversity, multicultural practices, and inclusion into their curriculum. Participants gain insights from Black male art educators and learn strategies for reflective, competent leadership. The goal is to foster an inclusive learning environment that celebrates diverse cultural experiences and perspectives.
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Robots as Agents of Student Creativity and Sculptural Designs
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Discover how diverse high school students employed transdisciplinary methods to study NASA innovations and utilize user-friendly Edison robots as agents to foster their creativity and produce original sculptural artworks. Leave with guidance and resources to get started.
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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The Ugly Doll Project: Student Social Engagement Through the Four Loves Framework
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Through the framework of The Four Loves, the Ugly Doll Project illustrates how teen learners become agents of change for young children in shelters for intimate partner abuse (or any shelter) by designing, making, and donating hand-sewn felt dolls. Learn how to complete the project in your community.
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Unlocking Potential: Exploring Literacy in Arts Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Explore the transformative power of art education in fostering literacy skills. Discover practical strategies to integrate reading, writing, and critical thinking into the curriculum. Ideal for educators seeking innovative approaches to enhance student learning and academic achievement through the arts.
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Veronica Martin

Teacher, Hall County Schools
I have enjoyed teaching art for 20 years, 18 at the high school level. I enjoy mentoring up-and-coming art educators and developing programs and new events. In my free time, you can find me in the garden updating the landscaping with transplants or new arrivals I've acquired from... Read More →
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Jennifer Griner

Teacher, Hall County Schools
I love art advocacy! I love rescue animals! Teaching art is my passion!!GAEA District 2 Co-President (since 2019), GAEA Scholarship Chair (2023-2024), GAEA Business Rep (2017-2022), GAEA Conference Committee (2019, 2022, 2025)I will be presenting at the 2024 GAEA Conference:
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Utilizing Altered Book Lessons to Discover and Enrich Art Basics
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Explore how altered books can be used to introduce each element and principle of design and create mini-lessons to jumpstart larger units in beginning high school art classes.
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Julie Denison

Art Teacher, Cobb County School District
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) and Choice-Based Art Education Through a Supervisor/Administrator Lens
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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TAB and choice-based art education are popular best-practice approaches in our field. As an administrator/supervisor, it is important to understand these pedagogies as they relate to supervision, professional development, curricula, and evaluation. Participants will leave this presentation with effective tools for supporting their teachers and programs.
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Jennifer Ferrari

Visual Art Teacher, Lt. Job Lane Elementary School
Jennifer Ferrari, M.Ed, MA, is the visual art teacher at Lane Elementary School in Bedford, Massachusetts. She believes wholeheartedly in the significance of student voice and power of choice in the art room, working alongside her young artists as they together develop a learner-directed... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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14th Annual NAEF Fundraising Benefit Event - Modern Glyphics in Communities: The Transformative Power of Collaborative Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
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Help the National Art Education Foundation (NAEF) celebrate 40 years of providing grants to NAEA members! Join colleagues for this special fundraising event featuring guest speaker Artist, Andee Rudloff. Light refreshments will be served. This ticketed session is open to all NAEA25 attendees. All proceeds will support the National Art Education Foundation.  
 
About the Speaker: Andee Rudloff explores how murals and shared creative expression foster connection, cultural identity, and inclusivity. Learn how collective creativity revitalizes public spaces, inspires dialogue, and empowers individuals to leave a lasting visual legacy. Discover the transformative impact of collaborative art in shaping communities through the lens of “modern glyphics.”  
 
NAEF Annual Benefit Ticket Price: $60 ($50 is a tax-deductible contribution to NAEF) 
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Saturday March 22, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
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The Art of Social Theory: CSTAE Digital Curriculum Portfolio
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
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Explore the CSTAE Curriculum Portfolio with engaging projects on pressing issues through a range of material practices and educational spaces with a new call for submissions.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
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Artsonia: Online Portfolios, Fund-Raising, and More: Hear Firsthand Experiences With the Platform
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Artsonia was created specifically for art educators. It enables teachers to digitally showcase and archive student art, manage the art room, organize and plan art lessons, connect with families, and raise funds for your program. Explore all Artsonia has to offer and hear firsthand experiences from a panel of elementary, middle, and high school Artsonia art teachers.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practices on Teaching Asian/Asian American and Pacific Islander Arts and Culture
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Hear discussion on culturally responsive practices, strategies, and lesson ideas for teaching Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander arts and culture within preK-12, higher education, museums, and community art settings. After the presentations, participants will engage in open discussions.
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Meera Ramanathan

Project Resource Teacher - Visual Art, San Diego Unified School District
My name is Meera Ramanathan and I am the Project Resource teacher for visual art at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy in San Diego and teach students UTK to 5th grade. I have a Master's degree in History of Fine Arts, drawing and painting from India and a Single Subject Teaching Credential... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Between Campus and Community: Exploring Spatial Politics in Preservice Teacher Education and Youth Arts Programs
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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This presentation explores the spatiopolitical complexities faced by two art educators facilitating youth art programs at a contemporary art gallery at the edge of a university campus and downtown. Drawing on theories of space, the presenters map how location and the politics of the site impacted preservice teacher education and youth engagement.
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Christina Hanawalt

Assistant Prof. of Art Education, UGA
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Creative Tracking: Portfolios and Challenge Badges in Elementary TAB Studios
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Two TAB educators explore and share how they integrated portfolios and challenge badges as powerful tools for enhancing student learning, skill development, and motivation. These strategies work well within a TAB classroom as a tool to measure growth over time and as a way to keep track of learned skills.
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Amy Sery

Visual & Media Arts Teacher, Briarlake Elementary School
I am the Visual & Media Arts teacher at a Pk-5 elementary school in Dekalb County. My classroom is a choice-based art studio where the student is the artist and (Teaching for Artistic Behavior and Studio Habits of Mind). I am also an adjunct professor at The Art of Education University... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Reorienting Orientalism: Resistance and Response in Contemporary Art and Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn more about research exploring the new concerns of an Orientalist gaze. Specific examples of art, teaching, and curatorial practice will be provided along with suggested strategies for resistance to this gaze and by using a diversified theoretical framework of "hospitality and strangeness" and world café methodology as a relevant pedagogical and research approach.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Bridging Generations: Revitalizing Community Culture Through Socially Engaged Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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In response to the waning influence of community culture and youth apathy toward local heritage after the pandemic, this presentation shows a socially engaged art curation project that bridges intergenerational dialogues to revitalize community culture. The curriculum includes conceptualizing and executing community exhibitions and expanding learner-directed exploration abilities of local history and environment.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Stand-Up: Facing My Own Disability While Teaching a Class on Inclusive Practices to Art Educators
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Hear this presenter’s brave, firsthand account of coming to terms with a lifelong disability and late-in-life neurodivergent diagnosis while teaching a preservice class on differentiation and inclusion. As a launchpad for greater discussion on faculty with disability, this story is a call for further work to be done in the field.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Elementary Carousel of Learning: Managing the Mess
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Tired of the "organized chaos" in your art room? Join four experienced elementary art educators as they share their battle-tested strategies for creating a calm and productive learning environment.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Keys to Success With Kindergarten
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Are you feeling at a loss with your kindergarten classes? Do you need some practical ideas to bring back and use with your young artists? This session will provide ideas and inspiration, and you will return to your kindergarten students with a renewed hope of less chaos and greater success.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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What Equity Pedagogy Looks Like in Practice: Essential Equity Beliefs and Resulting Actions
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Are you wondering what equity pedagogy looks like in practice? Learn four powerful beliefs essential to equity, as well as specific practices stemming directly from these beliefs. When teachers value equity and understand why certain actions promote equity, they are more likely to routinely adopt these practices. Discover how to enact equity pedagogy.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Contemporary Conversations
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Interactive! Through participation, learn four assessable strategies for exploring, responding to, and connecting with contemporary art. Appropriate for K through adult. Easily accessible strategies to engage with art from a diverse group of artists. Nonthreatening methods provide opportunities for students' participation at their level while learning new perspectives and knowledge from others.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Writing for Studies in Art Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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An advisory session about Studies in Art Education, facilitated by the editors and editorial board members. This session is for prospective authors interested in submitting manuscripts for review.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Advocacy: Collaboration Is Key
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Join us for a discussion of how, through local and state level collaborations of arts educators and other stakeholders, advocacy and policy influencing can make a difference in student access to quality arts education. Participants will be encouraged to discuss their own experiences and needs.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Service or Servitude? Preservice Teachers Practice Cultures of Care Through Service Learning in Community Settings
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn to compare and contrast alternative placements in community settings by addressing the top-down, in-and-out, make-and-take experiences often associated with community service learning. The presenters will share relevant examples of promoting service-learning opportunities that are inclusive to community participants' input for elevating artmaking and honoring preservice teacher decision making.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Class Culture Eats Lesson Plans for Breakfast
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn how a 6-year-old high school photography program earned 400 Scholastic awards with mostly cell phone cameras, some ED&I training, and big dreams. Art and media arts teachers, museum educators, STEAM teachers: Want to add a unit of photography? Or start a program? This session is for you!
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Amanda Tutor

Instruction, Bartlett City Schools
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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How to Measure Social-Emotional Learning in Art Museum/School Partnership Programs
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn how to capture and analyze data to reflect the complex, rich social-emotional learning happening in your classroom or museum. Try instruments from a recent impact study investigating a partnership between an art museum and a public school. Takeaways include concrete tools and creative inspiration!
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Sara Egan

School Partnership Manager, Isabella Stewart Gardner
For the past five years as the School Partnership Manager at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, I have connected Boston students and teachers with Museum through Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). I teach preK-12th grade students in the Museum and the classroom, train and coach teachers... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Classroom Critique Methods and Strategies
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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We've all been a part of critiques and know that some are more effective than others. This fast-paced session provides a myriad of real-world examples: both tried-and-true critique methods and some more experimental ones to add to your arsenal.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Creative Professional Mentorship in High School
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Join a conversation around how mentorship experiences in high school art and design programs impact perceptions and possibilities around careers in the arts. I will share how I have utilized community partnerships to build opportunities for students while situating the work in research regarding mentorship, work-based learning, and arts-based careers.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Curating as Making
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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By making mini-exhibits in small groups during this session, participants consider galleries as learning spaces beyond the studio. Through curatorial skills, explore ways students can extend making and message, amplify voices, promote collaboration, expand empathy, and develop leadership. Discussion incorporates contemporary artists, institutional and cultural practices, and authentic project-based learning.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Foolproof Fabulousness: Cultivating an Attitude of Excellence in the Art Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn strategies for establishing a community of engaged learners from Day 1. Free, simple, and easy to implement, we'll show you how to bring your students together under one umbrella of success for everyone. We will provide daily processes and consistent procedures that support a common mission and mindset toward excellence. These classroom management strategies will have you looking forward to Monday every single week!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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SRAE Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research in Art Education Dissertation Award
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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This session features the Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research in Art Education Award winner. The award, sponsored by SRAE and Visual Arts Research, fosters continued support and recognition of doctoral research in art education. This is a standing, permanent session of SRAE.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Annual Meeting of the Review Board for the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Join us as we provide an update on new jCRAE initiatives and activities. Review board members will discuss journal themes for the coming year, ways to diversify scholarly voices, and enhancing the visibility and identity of the journal.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Community Arts Caucus Annual Town Hall Meeting
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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During our annual Town Hall meeting, the Community Arts Caucus will share updates, review goals for the upcoming year, and conduct a brainstorming session on strategies for refining the scope of CAC and identifying needs in order to support scholars and practitioners dedicated to social engagement and community arts. This meeting is open to new and existing members and all NAEA Convention attendees. All are welcome to join in creative discussions, CAC news, and community collaboration.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Teaching Art in Troubled Times: A Fellows Forum
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Art educators face unprecedented social and pedagogical challenges. Recognizing the impact of climate crises; political unrest; and rapidly shifting attitudes toward race, gender, and education itself on the conduct of art education, this panel describes circumstances that surround contemporary art educators, considers the impact of these challenges on recruitment and retention of art teachers, and offers strategies for surviving and thriving in increasingly complex contexts.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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NAEA Affinity Group: 2SLGBTQIA+
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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This space is for people who identify within the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community. If you are not a part of that group, please locate a different space that accommodates your identity(ies). Participants will network and build relationships with each other and plan future engagements.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Mentorship Through Research: Exciting Collaborative Faculty and Student Projects and Analyses
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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This panel is composed of several teams of faculty and undergraduate or graduate university preservice art education students. A variety of research will be presented, ranging from the preservice experience to specific ontological and epistemological studies in which the faculty and students worked together for the betterment of art education.
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Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Research Commission Leadership Forum
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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This session brings together members of the Research Commission, NAEA leaders, and invites all interested in shaping art education research to continue fostering, building, and sustaining the NAEA research community.
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Amy Pfeiler-Wunder

Chair, Kutztown University
I serve as the chair and graduate coordinator in the Art Education Department at Kutztown University!I am in my second semester as chair and also serve as the Higher Education Division Director for the National Art Education Association.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Reaching Diverse Students: Create Tools and Resources That Enhance Access and Authenticity for ALL Learners
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Do you know that your students would benefit from adaptive tools and culturally inclusive resources, but you don't have the experience or time to make them? Join us in this workshop where we will learn about and create them together! You will leave with tools and resources to use right away!
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Releasing and Redirecting Using Art and Our Hands
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Learn to create a piece of art using your hands as the focus for moving energy through art materials to assist in letting go of that which no longer serves us and replacing it with a visualization of that which we desire.
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Raine Valentine

Art Educator and Green Leader, Baltimore County Public Schools
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Outlaws Versus Conformists: A Mixed-Media Abstract Collaboration Workshop
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Dive into a dynamic mixed-media abstract collaboration workshop themed around the clash between Outlaws and Conformists. Discover innovative approaches to ignite student creativity, utilizing mixed media like charcoal, watercolors, blindfolds, and music to evoke the senses. Embrace your rebel spirit or conformist flair and create unique artworks in fun, collaborative groups.
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David Modler

Artist/Researcher/Educator and Associate Professor of Art Shepherd University, Journal Fodder Junkies
David R. Modler is an artist/educator born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Education in Art Education from Towson State University, and taught elementary art for fifteen years. David has since earned a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Modern Fabric Linoprints: Not Your Grandmother's Textile Workshop!
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Learn how to create linoprints on fabric. We introduce you to traditional printmaking tools and techniques for carving linocut blocks and will use these challenge-based skills to transfer their inked designs onto fabric. Come away with materials, linocut blocks, and strategies for integrating linoprint lessons into the K-12 art curriculum.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Wonder and Curiosity of Place: Honorable Explorations of Nature Through Collecting, Eco-Printing, and Botanical Pigments
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Discuss ways to explore and better connect to the natural world through a wonder-filled approach to collecting informed by Indigenous pedagogy, place studies, and eco-based philosophies. Participants will make eco-prints, botanical pigments, and a box or book that houses their eco-explorations.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Studio State of Mind
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Discover Kentucky's history and culture while creating a variety of projects that incorporate state resources, themes, and history. Explore the richness of Kentucky using a variety of media and come away with many projects that can also lead to connections to your own home state.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Roll the dice: Play Your Way Into Higher Education (Art) Teaching
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Come play! This game will help you transform your courses into semester-long narrative games that place students at the center of adventures adaptable to any type of course. Consider ungrading strategies and game-design principles as you set up a transformative higher education course.
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Marta Cabral

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University Teachers College
I'm a curator of artistic experiences, play, and artworks. I work with people of all ages exploring art materials and ideas in settings such as studios, classrooms, galleries, universities, conference rooms, and beyond. I am Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Artfully Suited for Spacewalking: Sewable Electronics "Suited" for Mars!
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Let's go to Mars with sewable electronics! Design and fabricate an e-textile with an integrated sensor that can be beautiful and functional... maybe even for Mars! You will gain access to lesson plans and resources to bring these hands-on, "hard-fun" activities into your own visual arts or media arts classroom.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Character Development and Storytelling in Art: A Complete Unit of Study
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Explore character development and storytelling through this engaging unit of study that students love! Design your own 2D character, transform it into a 3D sewn artwork, and bring it to life with a comic. We will discuss planning, creation, collaboration, and display in a way you can easily implement.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Games People Play
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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With a past rooted in trade and value, and a future increasingly based in AI, board games offer a wide range of interpretations for student content while encompassing a wealth of media! Explore, design, play, and bring ideas home for your classroom!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Storytelling to Connect to Self: Oral History and Bookmaking Workshop
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Discover a simple hardcover bookmaking technique, as well as how to guide students in conducting their own oral history projects as part of a unit on storytelling. Attendees will make their own hardcover book and leave with a detailed step-by-step unit plan on the topic.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Cultivating Creativity With Simple and Effective Challenges
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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How do you get your students to open themselves to create imaginative, meaningful art? Learn engaging exercises that do just that in this hands-on studio workshop using simple materials, and leave with fresh ideas to implement immediately in the classroom, and perhaps in your own artmaking.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Trash to Treasure: Creating Sculptures With Dynamic Form and Texture Using Cardboard
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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This workshop will introduce how material limitations encourage students to explore capabilities of simple materials to create dynamic 3D artworks. We will focus on manipulating cardboard to create different textures and forms, and how to make armatures in a cross-contour format to support surface details.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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CFAE Business Meeting II: Amplifying Emerging Feminist Research in Visual Arts and Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
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This presentation, open to all, provides platforms for existing and potential members to engage with emerging feminist scholars from diverse cultural, economic, and gender backgrounds whose ideas and interests in sex and gender equality are shaping the future of art education. Opportunities for mentorship will be provided for emerging scholars.
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
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1:00pm EDT

Toward a Nature-Based Pedagogy: Inspirations for Learning, Well-Being, and Reflection
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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How can we see a design pedagogy through the prism of nature? This presentation presents a fractal framework for curriculum development. Attendees will leave with a novel strategy that is easy to implement and customize to reimagine their pedagogy through concepts based on nature's fractal patterns.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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DSAE Awards Ceremony
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Award Ceremony for Master's Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Advocating Artfully
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Advocating for visual arts education is often a necessary yet unfortunate aspect of the work we do. This session will offer a variety of ways you can advocate artfully to improve the field of visual arts education and prepare you for when advocating becomes a must.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Research is Elementary 3.0
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Have you ever been dinged for "use of data" on your evaluations or tortured by tedious "data meetings"? Come put a new spin on that four-letter word as we explore how data and research live in the elementary art classroom in this session designed for elementary art teachers by elementary art teachers!
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Unique Fiber Arts Projects for Your K-5 Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Explore four dynamic fiber arts projects designed for new and seasoned educators! Learn fresh ways to integrate SEL, STEAM, diverse artists, and mixed media through fiber arts, and receive practical tips and classroom-ready ideas in sewing, weaving, and needle felting to enrich your teaching toolkit.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Walking the Walk: One PLC's Journey to Build Curriculum that Embraces Artistic SEL Skills
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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When our elementary art department identified students' emotional fragility as a primary obstacle to artistic success, we felt compelled to explore artistic confidence. Months of research and data collection led to a curriculum overhaul, and this session offers our story as a model for how local-level inquiry can lead to systemic change.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Cocreating Community: Antioppressive Alternatives to "Classroom Management"
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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How can art educators maintain harmony and focus in our busy classrooms, without resorting to the authoritative and carceral systems embedded in traditional "classroom management?" Discover culturally responsive, antioppressive tools for cocreating respectful, supportive classroom learning communities where every student can thrive.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Cultivating Synesthesia and Balancing Personal Traits Through Arts Education in the AI Era: Developing Generative AI to Support Aphantasia
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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This research implies how video-based media arts can foster distinctive conceptual formation, such as visually triggered ideated somatic knowledge, through near-infrared spectroscopy. Learn how deep engagement with visual images enhances synesthetic cognition, and how the aphantasia spectrum (a lifelong mental imagery impairment) reveals a need for generative AI support and tailored methodologies.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Murals as Media: Fostering Community Engagement and Voice Through Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Explore the power of murals to transform communities and promote cultural dialogue. This session delves into effective strategies for involving diverse community voices in mural projects, demonstrates the impact of these artworks on local culture, and discusses the preservation of cultural heritage.
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Robyn MacNair

Coord of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual and Performing Arts
Robyn MacNair Robyn MacNair is the arts administrator for Santa Ana Unified School district and has been an arts educator for 24 years. She is an ardent local, state, and national arts education advocate and champion.
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Sofia Cuevas

Teacher, Santa Ana High School
I am a hybrid English-Film teacher that uses academics, arts, and industry access through career technical education to make learning relevant and applicable.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Blooming Together: Female Art Educators' Collective Renewal of Researcher Identities
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Learn how female art educators in higher education individually and collaboratively explore and renew their research identities through weekly writing group sessions. Highlighting the collaborative autoethnographic study, presenters will share their live stories with lessons and suggestions, detailing how the renewal process empowered them in academia.
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Borim Song

East Carolina university, College of Fine Arts and Communication, School of Art and Design
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Invited Studies in Art Education Lecture
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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The annual Invited Studies in Art Education Lecture will be presented by Bob Sweeny: The Bend Before the Break: Postdigital Art and Art Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Collaborative Research and Wayfaring of the Living Archive of Art Educator Mary Godfrey Through Conversation and Care
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Learn more about art education history and new insights on art educator Mary Godfrey, the first African American full-time faculty member hired at Penn State in 1957. This presentation discusses historical research and embodied, living archival research collaborations centered on care and conversation by an art educator and Godfrey's living relative.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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HHAE Distinguished Scholar Award
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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This session features the Distinguished Scholar Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize the value of research to the profession of art education, and in particular, to honor the outstanding scholarly contributions in the areas of history and historiography. This is HHAE's first official award.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Drawing on Your Leadership Style: Strengths-Based Approaches for Art Educators
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Increased self-awareness is vital for deepening one's leadership skills. This interactive session invites participants to take a brief assessment to provide a framework of varying leadership styles. Discussion will explore the strategic self-awareness of one's own strengths, tips for leveraging others' diverse styles, and the application to art education contexts.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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3D Printed Art in the Elementary Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Explore 3D printing as an art medium in the elementary art curriculum. Gain insights on teaching strategies and see how K-5 students express their artistic voices while learning 3D printing. Participants will receive access to lesson plans and instructional videos to use in their classrooms.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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How to Start With Stop Motion: A Scaffolded, Technical Opportunity for Project-Based Learning
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Stop motion animation is a fun, engaging, STEAMy process you should be doing in your classroom! Learn more about what stop motion is, why you should teach it, and how to implement it. Leave with hands-on experience and resources so your students can begin creating amazing and innovative videos.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Art Reboot: Reinventing, Creating, and Building a New Art Program
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Discover how a veteran educator reinvigorates her choice studio by blending traditional media with modern tools like 3D printers and laser cutters. Explore advocacy strategies, uncover funding opportunities, and learn to integrate technology smoothly into your curriculum, to enhance classroom dynamics and community involvement.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Middle Level Division Medley III: Engagement Ideas for Developing Relationships With Middle Level Students
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Join a panel of middle-level art educators discussing best practices for building relationships with students while creating a community in the classroom. The results will create less anxiety for you and your student, while helping with behavior management. Hands-on project included, along with door prizes and ML swag.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Three Keys for Building an Outstanding Teaching Artist Training Program
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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This presentation provides examples of how museums can train and foster a sense of community among their teaching artists for on-site and off-site museum programming. Presenters will demo training segments from their case study, and participants will leave with examples and templates of training sessions for building their own programs.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Untangling Museum Internships: Creating Rich, Meaningful Experiences for Future Museum Workers
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Museum administrators and educators, are you curious about what your interns think about your internship programs? Interns, are you wondering what museum staff are looking for in intern candidates and how to maximize your professional development experience? Join our session to gain insights from graduate interns, internship mentors, and professionals.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Bridging the Gap: From 2D Mastery to Powerful 3D Concepts in AP Studio Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Do you want to encourage your AP Drawing and 2D students to advance into the 3D portfolio and help them develop strong 3D conceptual works? This workshop will analyze top-quality perfect (6) 3D portfolios and guide participants through the process of enhancing art skills from drawing and 2D into AP 3D mastery.
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Stan Dodson

GAEA Past President / Awards Chair, GAEA
I currently serve as the GAEA Past President and Burke County High School Fine Arts Department chairAugusta University Adjunct professor AP Art & Design InstructorAP College Board ReaderGAEA Secondary Educator of the Year, 2015STAR teacher, 2019, 2016Blakeney Elementary School TOTY... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Understanding the AP Art and Design Rubric and Classroom Application
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Understanding the summative end-of-course rubrics is essential to teaching AP Art and Design. This presentation aims to demystify what students need to know and demonstrate in the Selected Works and Sustained Investigation components. The course rubrics will be broken down and explained using student samples to improve teaching practice learning.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Making Beautiful Music Together: What to Do When Your Administrator Doesn't Come With a Visual Arts Background
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Do you report to a leader who doesn't come from a visual arts background? This is a reality many of us face. Gain strategies for leading upward and helping upper leadership better understand, and in turn, better advocate for the visual arts classroom.
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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AI-Infused Learning Design for Preparing Productive and Ethical Artists in the AI Age
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Do you feel AI-generated art shortcuts artistic processes? Are you worried about preparing students for the realities of AI? Learn more about an AI-infused course design that immerses students in working with AI art tools on authentic tasks while conducting min-research to develop AI productivity and critical literacy.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Express Yourself: 5 Creative Advocacy Projects Incorporating Ethical Artifical Intelligence with Adobe Express
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Learn five creative projects for Adobe Express that integrate creativity, advocacy, ethical AI, and student voice. We'll explore fun methods for creating graphics, film, and web design that offer educators and students the opportunity to promote causes that range from mental health and the environment, to STEAM and education.
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Tim Needles

Technology Integration Specialist & Art/Media Teacher, Smithtown CSD
Tim Needles is an artist, educator and author of STEAM Power. He has been teaching art/media at Smithtown School District for over 20 years and his work has been featured on NPR, in the New York Times, Columbus Museum of Art, Norman Rockwell Museum, Alexandria Museum of Art, Katonah... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Promoting Civic Engagement Through Art and Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Reflecting upon the continuous assaults on democracy and its institutions, we invite dialogue and ask: What is our responsibility as art educators to sustain democracy through meaningful engagement and critical activity? How can artists and creative citizens model an ethics of care that promotes desire to contribute to society? 
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Choice-Based Art Ed: Where Are We Now?
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Engage in data collection and discourse as you share your experiences and questions regarding choice. What will the data tell us or lead us to consider? By comparing our various practices, we can come to a clearer understanding of what choice-based art education is today and what the future might bring tomorrow.
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Brooke Brei

Teacher, Ponder ISD
I'm an artist, maker, and art educator. I love blending art with technology and sharing ways to integrate that with other subjects.
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Elementary Carousel of Learning: Hands-On Studio Make and Take
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Get ready to unleash your creativity alongside six inspiring elementary art educators from across the country! This hands-on, make-and-take session will equip you with engaging projects you can easily adapt for your learners and bring back to your classroom next week!
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Inclusive Adaptive Art Practices in an Elementary Art Studio
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Explore adaptive tools and strategies that create an inclusive arts environment for all learners. Uncover how sensory elements and diverse materials ignite creative expression for students with disabilities. Acquire strategies and resources to cultivate a studio space where every student thrives and expresses themselves with confidence.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Navigating Creative Futures: Bridging the Gap to the Real World With Career Tech Ed Arts Media Entertainment Resources
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Give your high school students an edge by exploring real-world careers in creative industries. This session offers high school art teachers, administrators, and career tech educators resources and guidance to help students think about turning their creative passions into sustainable careers. Say goodbye to the notion of the starving artist.
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Gayle Nicholls-Ali

Photography & Digital Communication, La Canada Unified School District
Passionate about digital storytelling, photography, giving clarity to the voice of students, educators and organizations responsible for the health and social welfare of other.
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Pre- and Postassessment in a Multicase Study of Antiracism Toward Racial Justice Art Education Modules
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Discover how a research team developed and assessed lessons based on four guided art encounters to advance antiracist pedagogies as they aimed to cultivate the racial literacy of preservice art educators. The team will discuss the instructional approaches and strategies they implemented in addition to the outcomes of their curricula geared toward fostering racial justice.
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

From Art Teacher to EdD/PhD: The Ins and Outs of Getting a Doctorate
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Why would art educators need or want a doctorate? In this session, we will discuss PhD and EdD options along with leadership and research skills for uncovering career opportunities. Discover why art educators pursue advanced degrees and how they enhance teaching and professional growth and engage with a panel of doctorate holders for insights and advice.
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Elizabeth Stuart

Prince George's County
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Navigating the Grid: Approaching Queer Narrative Through Geometric Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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This session will explore how LGBTQ+ artists utilize grid systems to express personal narratives in their work. Focusing on geometric frameworks as a boundary for assignments, participants will learn how to facilitate a safe environment for students to navigate identity and vulnerability through artmaking.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

The Value of Community Connection in Older Adult Learning
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Explore lifelong learning opportunities and learn how the visual arts can be used in K-12, university, and museum settings to build valuable relationships with diverse older adults through community partnerships. These partners include multigenerational learners, preservice teachers and their students, and older adults in culturally diverse communities.
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Sheila McGuire

Head of School and Teacher Programs, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Mindfully Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Curricula
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Are you curious about generative AI? If you are looking for a new way of engaging your students, come to this session on generative AI to learn what it is, how it impacts us, and how to integrate it into your classroom in an ethically and morally impactful way.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Developing a Visual Journal Practice for Your Middle-Level Classroom!
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Do you need a new practice for your middle-level classroom to help bridge skill gaps between students and foster authentic, safe, creative risk-taking? If your answer is yes, then why not try visual journaling? Learn helpful tools and tips for implementing visual journaling in your classroom.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Introduction to Digital Drawing and Art With an Easy-to-Use Program
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Do you want an easy-to-use, free drawing program (Sketchpad) that can be accessed on Chromebooks, iPads, and other digital devices via the web? If so, bring your own device and learn how to experiment and teach digital drawing lessons, along with trying a drawing pad with USB connection.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Inclusive Museum Education in the Context of Parental Rights Legislation
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Explore strategies for inclusive museum education amid evolving parental rights legislation. Through a case study and open discussion, this session will address the balance between educational integrity and parental concerns to gain practical solutions for creating equitable, respectful, and engaging learning environments for diverse audiences.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Más Idiomas: Language Inclusion in Museums
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Previewing the upcoming book, Language Inclusion in Museums, authored by bilingual museum professionals, advocates for museum-wide translations and facilitation of bilingual programs, this sessions highlights the psychological benefits of multilingualism, and presents a toolkit for advocating and implementing language inclusion policies and practice.
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Distinguished Fellows Mentoring Session 3
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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The NAEA Distinguished Fellows Mentoring Session 3 brings together researchers and educators who wish to offer their ideas, interests, and topical issues, especially those related to research, in lively, open discussion with NAEA Distinguished Fellows who have decades of experience and expertise to share, advise, and mentor.
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Mary Stokrocki

Professor of Art Education, Arizona State University
I teach Digital Ethnography in Art on Second Life at NonProfit Commons and on OpenSim through University of British Columbia
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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We're in This Together: Social-Emotional Learning Implementation and Support Strategies for Preservice Students
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Learn more about the need for social-emotional learning (SEL) for preservice students during the transition from student to professional. We will discuss the design, implementation, and experiences of SEL for students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Participants will experience hands-on SEL activities and receive a take-home pdf of the curriculum.
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Dinner Is Served!: Moving Away From Traditional Tests in AP Art History
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Essays and multiple-choice questions are necessities, but are they always the most effective in assessing student understanding? Create a dinner party, build a museum wing, or weave a bag. By introducing hands-on projects that both assess and teach, your students will form lasting connections by engaging rather than memorizing.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Secondary Smash Hits: Shared Successes of Effective Practices and Student Engagement
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Learn from art leaders and educators offering varied experiences working with different populations to engage students. We will share practices that have proven effective at the secondary level. Bring your questions and successes.
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Show Your Work! Building Student Skill in Process Documentation
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Help students understand the power of showing their thinking. This session will show practical ways to teach your students how to document their process to help visualize their thinking, reduce plagiarism and AI reliance, and prepare them for portfolio exams and college or careers. Templates and assessment ideas will be shared.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Utilizing Concise Language to Navigate Complex Content in Contemporary Learning Spaces
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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In the era of banned books and content censorship, educators need support to talk authentically and truthfully about the history, culture, and practices that make up art. This session seeks to give fresh perspectives on how to say what is necessary while validating concerns and keeping spaces safe for all.
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Data Visualization Working Group: Research and Applications in Art Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 3:20pm EDT
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Explore data visualization as a tool for research within the field of art education and its applications in the K-12 classroom. This deep dive investigates ways art educators can use these interdisciplinary processes to inspire, inform, and transform scholarly and pedagogical ways of seeing, doing, and making.
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Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 3:20pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Overcoming Barriers to Access in the Art Room: Authentic Engagement for ALL Learners
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Do you have students who would benefit from adaptations or accommodations to make their art experiences more authentic and meaningful without paraeducators doing it for them? Come learn about academic, physical, and communicative barriers to access and easy ways to overcome them. Your students will thank you!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Studio Habits of Mind: Seeing Assessment
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Learn how to create and use an assessment tool that incorporates the Studio Habits of Mind as the lens through which to view the art standards and the language of the art studio. Walk away with curriculum examples, lesson ideas, and assessment tools that can be adapted to your needs.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Teacher Retention Through Artist-in-Residence Collaborations
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Learn the "how-tos" of a unique artist-in-residence program aimed at teacher retention and development. With information for classroom teachers, teaching artists, and their administrators, witness each stage of five unique residencies and how they facilitated growth in a breadth of areas including cultural responsiveness, SEL, self-confidence, environmental arts, and more!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

What is the Evolving Role of Nontraditional Community Art Praxis in Preservice and In-Service Art Education?
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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How are K-12 schools and postsecondary art education programs an integral part of the arts community? Explore community art praxis in preservice and in-service art teacher education by discussing the enriching possibilities of incorporating nontraditional spaces and organizations into curricular and evolving pedagogical practice.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

CAN Online Toolbox Content Creation
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Current CAN Teacher Leaders are invited to gather to collaborate on content and resources that will be shared publicly in the 2026 CAN Online Toolbox. Bring your current action research and unit plans to share with peers! We look forward to hearing your feedback and ideas. Open to only current CAN Teacher Leaders.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Eco-Pedagogy in Action: The Landfill Project
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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This presentation will introduce an eco-pedagogical curriculum project that connected students with their local environment, particularly through a field trip to a landfill and a nature walk guided by a contemporary artist. We will discuss the curriculum framework, relevant contemporary artists, and examples of choice-based artmaking from my students.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

From Personal Artmaking Practice to Eco-Pedagogy: Instructional Units Inspired by Making, Nature, and Our Surroundings
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Consider how personal artmaking practices tied to sense of place and engagements with the natural world can inspire the development of instructional units which help students build awareness of how we can collectively work toward sustaining our environment in an interconnected world. Come away with unit ideas and materials.
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Grace Harrison

Teacher-Art, Baltimore City Public Schools
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Cultivating an Elementary Art Show
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Learn how to develop and implement a successful elementary art show. Attendees will learn how to integrate their curriculum, collaborate with other faculty, request and receive funding, and encourage strong student and family participation. Attendees will leave with a variety of theme and project ideas.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Tips and Tricks for Teacher Sanity
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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With a combined 44 years of experience, the presenters of this session will share valuable tips and tricks to maintaining teacher sanity in the art room. These tips and tricks include planning, setup, organization, and behavior management. Run a more sane and emotionally healthy classroom for both the students and yourself.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

A Museum in Your Classroom: Exploring Contemporary Artworks and Lessons They Inspire
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Bring the museum into your classroom. Explore a work of contemporary Native art, create your own artwork, and leave with lesson ideas that connect the two directly. This session will talk through diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as discuss creating a safe, inclusive environment wherever you teach.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Dress to Express: A Cultural Framework for Using Dress and Adornment in the Arts Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Dress to Express creates an authentic context for learning through culture. From sartorial autobiography and self-portraits to inquiry-based explorations of aesthetics, visual communication strategies, and cultural coding, how we dress proves a compelling platform that enhances culturally responsive arts pedagogy. Expect engagement and creative collaboration.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

In What Ways Might "Culture" Be Introduced to Preservice Students in Art Education?
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Through sharing how a course titled "Art Education Across Cultures" unfolded in the spring 2023 semester, this session seeks to address the complexity behind the notion of "culture." The session will also highlight some insights and resources along with collaborative and independent projects created by the students.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Islamic Arts: How It Inspires The World
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Islamic arts have inspired global art with intricate patterns, calligraphy, and architecture. Design a unit featuring historical context, hands-on geometric design workshops, and calligraphy lessons to bring it to the classroom. Use lectures to highlight influences on Western artists, fostering appreciation and respect for Islamic cultural contributions.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Sharing Culture Through Art the DEI and Delicious Dishes Story
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Learn how an arts integration team used an artist-in-residency program to organize interschool field trips and artmaking activities with three culturally divergent Midwestern high schools, culminating in an ED&I-themed recipe book!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Fostering Civic Responsibility Through Art: Innovative K-12 Interdisciplinary Curriculum Project
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Join us in exploring the successful outcomes of K-12 interdisciplinary arts and civics curriculum developed over 2 years between universities and K-12 schools. Highlighting student artworks from various schools, we showcase teaching resources. We also examine interdisciplinary projects that foster civic learning and local engagement through artmaking and place-based pedagogy.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Creating Balance as a Teacher and Administrative Leader in Art Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Join graduates of the NAEA School for Art Leaders, doctoral candidates, and working professionals as we share insights on balancing leadership programs, teaching, and personal priorities, referencing our own stories to provide valuable strategies for navigating diverse professional paths.
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Lydia Atubeh

Visual Arts Early College professor, DeKalb Early College Academy
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Let's Talk About STEAM Education Across the Curriculum
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Let's talk about STEAM! Do you remember that book, STEAM Education: An Interdisciplinary Look at Art in the Curriculum, that sold out at the last NAEA Convention? The authors and editors want to talk with you about STEAM, their book, and how to implement STEAM in your classroom.
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Tracey Hunter-Doniger

The College of Charleston
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Pixels to Play: Level Up Your Art Classroom With Accessible Video Game Design Using Construct
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Discover how to incorporate various aspects of video game design, including story and plot, character, animation, and level design into your art lessons. We will explore the design program Construct, which allows for the creation of video games without the use of coding languages.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Exploring Identity Through Textile Arts
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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How is identity expressed through textiles? Our deep connection to clothing and textiles makes them an ideal conduit for individual expression and cultural heritage. Explore the sociohistorical context of textile arts, symbols used to convey various meanings, and activities that encourage students to convey their heritage and unique identity.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Getting Digital With Middle
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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This session focuses on a variety of engaging digital art experiments that connect students with work of contemporary creatives and current career paths. Apps used in these experiments are free, making them more accessible to learning communities. Attendees will come away with new ideas and experiments for their learning communities.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Home and Belonging: Affirming Students' Identities With Diverse Artists and Inclusive Language
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Learn how two educators experience belonging and engage students with contemporary artists. You will leave with ways to cultivate inclusivity and plan a culturally responsive and sustaining art lesson that prioritizes students' funds of knowledge.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Inspiring Student Art Journals
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Art journals! How can you use them in your classroom? You'll learn how art journals are used to inspire 4th through 6th graders to start their own art journaling journey. You'll walk away with ideas on how to create an art journal with kids, as well as techniques and applications.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Beyond Advisory Groups: Leveraging Professional Learning Communities in Museums as Sustainable Models of Collaboration
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Deepen your understanding of leveraging professional learning communities as cohorts for codevelopment. This approach not only influences new engagement models but also serves as an effective program model. You will gain practical tools for collaboration and leave inspired to develop innovative, impactful programs in their own institutions.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Empowering Teen Voices Through Civic Engagement: Innovative Strategies for Facilitating Teen Designed Public Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Explore a teen internship program that transforms community concerns into public art. This session shares innovative strategies for engaging youth in meaningful conversations and facilitating collaborative projects around equity and justice. Attendees will gain culturally responsive resources to implement these strategies in their own educational settings.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Touch and Tell: Enhancing Museum Experiences for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Unlock the power of touch in this hands-on session designed ti transform museum visits for blind and visually impaired guests. Explore innovative tactile interactives and compelling verbal descriptions that create engaging multisensory experiences. Discover practical strategies to ensure every visitor enjoys equitable access to art.
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Mallory Lind

The Georgia Museum of Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

R- U- AI Curious? It's All About the PROMPT!
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Discover how AI can be an accelerant for authentic learning. AI is more than a shortcut and this session will emphasize the crucial role of well-crafted PROMPTS to enhance authentic educational outcomes. Participants will also have an opportunity to develop a personalized effective prompt for their classrooms.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Supporting New and New-to-Art Teachers: Building Foundations for Success
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Lay a solid foundation for the early years of your teaching career! Discover essential tools and strategies for new or new-to-art teachers. Gain practical advice on classroom management, curriculum planning, and student engagement. Learn about unexpected challenges and how to respond to them.
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Karen Kelly

Teacher, Truesdell EC
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Arts and Health: Expanding Research and Practice and the Role of Art Education in Healing
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Examine the role of art education in the expanding field of arts and health by investigating the avenues being paved and the wide array of settings of this transformative work. Presenters provide examples of practice supported by literature reviews and a case study on destigmatizing addiction disorder with vulnerable populations.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Literature Review of Social-Emotional Learning in K-12 Art Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Social-emotional learning (SEL) in K-12 education has been evolving since the mid-1990s but has become more prevalent in art education over the past 5 years. As SEL is incorporated into arts-based curricula, we need to understand the importance and implications of integrating SEL into the arts.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Making Public Art Accessible to Young Learners
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Public art is a meaningful and impactful tool for teaching accessibility to and awareness of art in our communities. Explore the development and delivery of a theme-based unit for students in upper elementary grade levels about public art from art problem and curiosities to creation, as well as final verification and synthesis.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

AP for Process Not Product: LET'S PLAY!
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Develop your skills in practice, experimentation, revision, ideation, materials, and processes. Come play with new, innovative materials while developing written statements to connect ideas to discoveries. Help students become scientific investigators of creative thinking, initiators of sustained investigations with personal voice, and successful candidates for the AP Art and Design Exam.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Art, Work, Family: Three High School Connected Arts Network Teachers Collaborate to Create Meaningful Student Projects Focused on SEL, Career Skills, and Personal Growth
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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This is an invitation to be inspired by Connected Arts Network (CAN) Teacher Leaders who collaborated on a student project intertwining SEL, DEI, career skills, and personal growth through art. Discover how students used photography to explore the intersection of work and family and the culminating student-centered curated show.
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avatar for Gayle Nicholls-Ali

Gayle Nicholls-Ali

Photography & Digital Communication, La Canada Unified School District
Passionate about digital storytelling, photography, giving clarity to the voice of students, educators and organizations responsible for the health and social welfare of other.
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Implementing Creative Research Journals in the Art Room: A Teacher's Perspective
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Explore the implementation of creative research journals in the art room. Three art educators will share insights from lived experience. Presenters will share strategies, challenges, and successes, as well as how these journals have enhanced their student learning and creativity.
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Maggie Elsener

Teacher-Secondary, Lincoln Northeast High School
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Indigenous Youth Voices
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Explore an innovative three-part mural series that investigates complex contemporary issues through the cultural lens of federal Indian policy and tribal sovereignty. Engage in culturally responsive practices and instruction for Native students that fosters relationships. Through collaborative artmaking, students share authentic narratives, center healing, and work from their hearts.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Starting a Fiber Arts Class From Scratch
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Interested in teaching fiber arts? Don't know where to start? This session will show you where to begin and how to sequence lessons to engage students and build highly-adaptable skills. Leave with digital access to timelines, project guides, lesson plans, supply lists, and other resources.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Successful and Engaging Lesson Ideas for Every Art Teacher, AP and Beyond!
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Are you looking for successful lesson plans that emphasize creative learning strategies for your students? Look no further! We'll be sharing lessons that include AP, collaborative learning, STEAM, K-12 and more! You will leave with a better understanding of how to springboard these lessons into your teaching.
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Stan Dodson

GAEA Past President / Awards Chair, GAEA
I currently serve as the GAEA Past President and Burke County High School Fine Arts Department chairAugusta University Adjunct professor AP Art & Design InstructorAP College Board ReaderGAEA Secondary Educator of the Year, 2015STAR teacher, 2019, 2016Blakeney Elementary School TOTY... Read More →
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Ivey Coleman

Art Teacher, Lady's Island Middle School
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

NAEA Affinity Group: American Indian/Alaska Native/Indigenous
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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These sessions are for individuals who identify as being American Indian/Alaska Native/Indigenous. If you are not a part of that group, please locate a different space that accommodates your identity(ies). American Indian/Alaska Native/Indigenous is a broad, colonial construct which refers to individuals who hold citizenry in a Tribe or village. American Indian/Alaska Native/Indigenous in this case specifically relates to Tribes and villages with homelands within the settler state of the United States.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Project Your Vision: Elevating Media Arts With Projection Mapping
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Explore innovative teaching with projection mapping and enhancing student creativity. Attendees will master practical strategies, gain a dynamic toolkit, and leave empowered to integrate this cutting-edge technology into digital media arts programs, sparking imaginative projects and engaging classroom experiences.
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Justin Pierce

Visual Art & Digital Media Art Specialist, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools
Justin Pierce is a Media Arts artist and educator committed to fostering collaboration and cultivating curiosity. He began his career after receiving a BA in Painting and a BFA in Art Education from Kent State University in 2004. Justin later earned his MAAE from MICA in 2011 with... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Almost Got Arrested: My Adventure in Teaching Critical Socially Engaged Art in China
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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By sharing my experiences teaching critical socially engaged art in an authoritarian society and how these references inspire the visual culture classrooms in the United States, you will gain insights and practical strategies for overcoming challenges in diverse educational environments and fostering inclusive, reflective, and socially conscious art education programs.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Reviving the Spark: Strategies for Confident Drawing in a TAB Studio
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Unlock the potential of your young artists with choice-based drawing strategies. This session offers practical approaches, engaging prompts, technology integration, and action research data to help you maintain and boost drawing confidence in your elementary students. Osmo swag will be raffled off.
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Amy Sery

Visual & Media Arts Teacher, Briarlake Elementary School
I am the Visual & Media Arts teacher at a Pk-5 elementary school in Dekalb County. My classroom is a choice-based art studio where the student is the artist and (Teaching for Artistic Behavior and Studio Habits of Mind). I am also an adjunct professor at The Art of Education University... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Practical Approaches to Teaching Disability Studies in Art Education to University Students
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Two art educators discuss practical approaches to teaching disability studies in art education at the undergraduate level. The presenters will include examples of how they introduce concepts, how students respond to this pedagogical approach, and also discuss the role disclosure has played in building classroom community and positive relationships.
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Celebrating Leadership: Elementary Division
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Join the NAEA Elementary Art Educator of the Year for an inspiring session on creating a thriving art classroom!
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Connecting Art and Literacy Through Pictograms and Codes
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Create literacy connections for your elementary artists through use of pictogram alphabets and codes! Deeply rooted in world history and cultures, some of these are still in use today, as well as newer adaptations of icons in our contemporary culture. I will share three lessons to use in your curriculum!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Cultivating a Classroom Community of Risk-Taking
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Are your students risk takers and problem solvers? Come learn about my Fund for Teachers Fellowship in Germany and Denmark, which focuses on integrating innovations such as AI, AR/VR, and 3D printing into the classroom, as well as strategies geared toward improving problem-solving skills and maker culture with your students.
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Catie Nasser

Elementary Art Educator, Middleton Public Schools
Catie Nasser has been working with children in the arts as an educator and art therapist for over 15 years. She recently presented on developing an arts based STEAM curriculum at MassCue’s fall conference and National Art Education Association’s annual conference. This summer... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Integrating Los Angeles-Based Artists and Promoting Student Voice
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Cruise down the Los Angeles landscape of contemporary artists and promote student voice through an exercise on how to transform a gallery visit into accessible lessons for your diverse student population. Join us to discuss the work of BIPOC artists based in Los Angeles, and curate your mini-gallery.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Good Trouble: Leaving the Masters Behind to Ethically Share Diverse Works With Elementary Art Students
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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How do we approach culturally diverse works with our students and manage the difficult conversations that may follow? We jump in, using CRSE and SEL competencies to guide ourselves and other arts educators. Learn how to increase social awareness and expand students' cultural lens and cultural sensitivity with diverse works.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Murals as a Primary Vehicle for Understanding Identity and Building Agency in PreK-12
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Explore identity-based curricula across grade levels (preK and 12th grade) centering intergenerational, multilingual BIPOC woman-identified muralists and their work. The lessons were collaboratively designed within a local art museum's educator professional cohort. Participants will leave with strategies for leveraging the power of murals and identity-based storytelling for curricula building.
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William Heidenfeldt

Associate Principal, Salesian College Preparatory
Dr. Billy Heidenfeldt joined Salesian College Preparatory as the French and ESL teacher in 2015. In 2022, responding to the need to empower professional learning, growth and possibility for teaching staff, Billy became the Associate Principal supervising curriculum and instruction... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Neurodiversity in the Art Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Learn about the different types of neurodiversity (ADHD, autism, dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, autism, oppositional defiant, twice-exceptional, high ability, thrice exceptional, PDA, etc.) and explore classroom pedagogy and practices to help meet the needs of neurodiverse students, while using mock classroom scenarios to troubleshoot and prepare for potential situations involving neurodiverse students.
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Jennifer Fisher

Associate Teaching Professor of Art Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Creating a Preservice Community for Networking and Empowerment Through a Regional Preservice Art Education Conference
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Explore topics and issues that arose at a regional conference designed for and by preservice art educators, dedicated to creating community, professional development, and opportunities for networking and leadership. We'll discuss organizational structure and takeaways, providing a model for others interested in connecting and empowering preservice programs.
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Teaching Social Practice and Community Engaged Art Education With Criticality in Coursework
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Hear an overview of critically aware course activities and syllabi that engages participants in considering core concepts. Reflections and questions from lived experiences in higher education will provide examples of successful community partnerships, strategies for student-driven projects, and assessment structures for big ideas to frame your future social practice with culturally sustaining perspectives.
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Patty Bode

Associate Professor / Coordinator Art Education, Southern Connecticut State University
Dr. Patty Bode weaves a tapestry of teaching and leadership art education experiences in both PK-12 public schools, and in higher education teacher preparation programs. She has worked in public schools for over 20 years as an art teacher, curriculum leader and middle school principal... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

A Case for the Arts and STEAM: Providing Students Passion and Purpose to Prevent Absenteeism
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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All around the country, schools are dealing with chronic absenteeism post-COVID. Districts want to know: How do we get the kids to come back? Art educators have the answers and strategies. Come learn how arts integration, artistic expression, and STEAMy project-based learning can reengage our learners at all levels.
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Courtney Bryant

STEAM Project Coordinator, Drew Charter School
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Artist + Activist: Amplifying Student Voices Through Creation, Research, and Exhibition
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Have you ever wondered how to include more activism into your curriculum and amplify your student voices? This presentation will provide examples of how to create an annual Artist + Activist show for your art program. We will show several Artist + Activist complete art shows and units with student examples.
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Deanna Sortino

Teacher, Niles Township High School District 240
Fine Arts
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

STEAM Rolling Through Children's Literature
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Participants will unravel the synergy between children's literature and STEAM education. Through discussions, interactive experiences, and real-world examples, educators will uncover innovative approaches for integrating STEAM principles into their curriculum, fostering a culture of creativity, critical thinking, and curiosity in the art classroom.
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Jed Dearybury

Educator, Author, Illustrator, mrdearybury.com LLC
Jed Dearybury is 13 year veteran of the early childhood classroom from Spartanburg 6, and now the current Director of Professional Development & Communications for the Palmetto State Teachers Association (PSTA). During his classroom tenure, Jed was featured in GQ Magazine, met President... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

An Exemplary Visual Art Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Transform an empty art room into a dynamic learning environment! Explore the journey from a blank canvas to a bustling hub of creativity. Witness student-centered innovation that not only enriches learning but also elevates teacher recognition through exemplary ratings. Come, be part of the journey toward excellence in art education!
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Ignite Artistic Fire in Your Middle Schoolers
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Stuck in a middle school art rut? Four passionate art educators share creative sparks to ignite student passion! Discover fresh approaches, tech tips, and classroom management hacks to transform your art program. Learn practical advocacy tools to champion the arts!
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Theresa McGee

Art Educator, Community School District #181
Theresa is currently teaching her second year at the middle school level in Hinsdale, Illinois after many years teaching art to K-5 students.  She is a frequent presenter online and at local, regional, and national conferences.  Recent education honors include:  2014 NAEA Art Education... Read More →
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Stacy Lord

Art Teacher, Worcester East Middle School
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Creativity and Hope Amid Educational Restrictions
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Join and reflect with three museum educators who experienced challenges due to education restrictions in their states. Hear tips and strategies on how museum educators can move forward in creating safe and critical-thinking spaces for students amid restrictions and collaborate with peers to consider your own experiences.
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Cultivating Awe for Wellbeing
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Why is awe essential, and how do we encourage it? Learn about a research partnership between a museum and a psychology professor studying how slow wonder-filled looking and awe enhance well-being. Hear how awe fosters resilience and sparks creativity. Discuss strategies to cultivate awe mindsets in your teaching contexts.
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Nathalie Ryan

National Gallery of Art, Senior Educator
Nathalie Ryan is a Senior Educator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, where she has led programs for families, teens, and adults since 2002. She is mini-course instructor and study group leader at Project Zero Classroom, coaches the PZ-HGSE Visible Thinking online course... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Empowering Critical Thinking Through Art: A Collaborative Initiative
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Discover how a unique partnership between a local museum and public schools is enhancing critical thinking and creativity in Title I students. Explore the innovative use of Project Zero's Thinking Routines in classroom curriculum and guided tours, fostering cognitive and emotional growth through experiential art education.
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Sounds of Playful Learning Ahead: Cultivating Family-Friendly Museum Cultures
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Hear from presenters of several arts institutions as they share successful strategies for cultivating family-friendly museum environments. Learn low-resource, high-impact approaches to supporting frontline staff, communicating with families, and meeting developmental and sensory needs in complex museum spaces.
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Centering Art and Social Studies: Elementary Art Curriculum
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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The purpose of this presentation is to share lessons that center social studies as a unifying theme for Grades K-5, designed as part of the curriculum for preservice art educators, to model ways of exploring issues related to humanity, democracy, and global citizenship through artmaking and creative thinking.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Surviving Art Teaching: Stories, Tips, and Wisdom
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Teaching art can be incredibly rewarding, but it can also be overwhelming. Balancing lessons, assessing student work, managing supplies, adapting to school environments, and surviving performance evaluations can seem like a lot. Hear humorous stories, tips, and tricks from a veteran teacher to help keep the passion of teaching alive.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Crushed Dreams: Improving Teacher Longevity Through Organizational Strategies and Wisdom Mining
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Gain tools to foster positive classroom culture and improve job satisfaction. Through interactive presentations, case studies, and collaborative discussions, this session will culminate the development of personalized action plans to empower educators to apply strategies that promote long-term success and stability within their schools.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Retired Art Educators Affiliate Interest Group Annual Awards
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Share in the recognition of the 2025 RAEA Outstanding National Emeritus Art Educator and the 2025 Outstanding NAEA Student Chapter. Each will receive awards and share highlights of their accomplishments.
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Attending to Affect: Rethinking Pedagogical Practices in a High School Art Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Learning and artmaking should be a challenging, vulnerable process full of experimentation, trust, support, and connection. This session shares research exploring pedagogy centering process, contentment, and connection as it considers affect. Participants will explore how pedagogy can center process and attend to affect through alternative ways of being.
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Amanda Price

Art Teacher, Clarke Central High School
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Play and Joy in the Democratic Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Where do art educators make space for play and joy and as a byproduct, curiosity, and transgression? This presentation examines how democratic pedagogy makes openings for students to make work that is urgently meaningful to their identity development and social imagination. Participants will leave with specific democratic classroom practice strategies.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Sneaky Assessment in the Art Room: Fostering Creativity Through Art Assessment
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Does the word "assessment" make you cringe? Rethink assessment in the art room with creative prompts, engaging mini-lessons, and sneaky scaffolding. Push students' creative thinking to inform your teaching. This presentation will reinvigorate your teaching and spice up even the most traditional art lessons with overlooked forms of assessment.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Social Justice: Empowering Passion, Voice, and Choice
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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This instructional practice workshop focuses on using the creative process and social justice to help learners find their passion and amplify their voice. We'll discuss variety of strategies, activities, and assessments. Attendees can adapt and adopt these ideas for their own purposes and implement them immediately.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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The Sketchbook Project
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Explore a collaborative sketchbook project inspired by the exquisite corpse concept, enhancing community and understanding among students. Learn practical steps to implement this innovative approach that fosterers creativity and empathy. Discover how this project promotes cultural sensitivity and respect in an art classroom. Ideal for educators seeking engaging, inclusive teaching strategies.
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Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Why Exhibitions Matter: Teaching Students to Care About Curation
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Exhibitions are a powerful teaching tool, but getting students to care about curation is challenging! How do you get past the idea that exhibitions are just "sticking stuff on the wall?" This presentation offers classroom-tested strategies, resources, and activities to engage students with exhibitions as part of artistic practice.
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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A National Study on the Identification of Artistically Gifted Students
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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How are artistically (advanced learners) gifted students identified? A year-long national study, funded by the National Art Education Foundation, provides answers and questions that can be important to any art educator who works with or has interest in artistically advanced learners.
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Tracey Hunter-Doniger

The College of Charleston
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves! Tackling Tough Problems in Supervision and Administration
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Join members from the Supervision/Administration Division to discuss issues impacting the field today. You will have a say in which topics we talk about first and to what depth. Come ready to complete a quick poll at the start of the session to help steer our time together.
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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arTED Micropresentations: Circumnavigating Art Education Research
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 5:20pm EDT
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This energetic panel of short-burst, 5-minute micropresentations about teacher preparation program advancements or art education research provides quick presentational topics and outcomes. This session is designed to give a fast-paced glimpse of the important work being done in our field across the United States and beyond.
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Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 5:20pm EDT
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