2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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1:00pm EDT

Tips and Tricks for Teacher Sanity

Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

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.

Presenters

Aletha Keogh

Miriam Cutelis

Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Playful Art Room: Supporting Play Through Art Activities and Projects

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L016

Create a fun art room atmosphere and encourage creativity through play! This session focuses on play-based art activities and projects that will support young artists' social, emotional, and artistic development! We will discuss the importance of play and create a project to inspire your students to explore, imagine, and create!

Presenters

Cristi Billue

Activities and Projects for a Playful Art Room (1) pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L016

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

5:00pm EDT

Adventures in Stop Motion Animation

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Stop motion animation, anyone? Discover approaches to developing skills and ideas while encouraging students to innovate and find creative ways to tell their own stories. We will explore this process together, so you will leave with resources, and be ready to try this with your students!

Presenters

Karen Edwards

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Unleashing Creativity: Integrating Sketchbooks Into Elementary Art Education

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L005

Explore the benefits of using sketchbooks in elementary art and learn practical strategies for fostering creativity, cultural sensitivity, and inclusivity while enhancing assessment and classroom management. Attendees will gain tools, insights, and inspiration to implement effective sketchbook routines, supporting diverse student needs and professional growth in their classrooms.

Presenters

Carole Drummond-Johnson

Elementary Art Teacher, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools

Carole Drummond-Johnson has been teaching art in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School system for about twenty years but has overall been teaching for about twenty-five. She is currently an elementary art teacher at Highland Renaissance Academy. In addition to teaching in CMS, she also... Read More →

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L005

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Crafting Connections: Balancing Tech with Hands-On Artmaking Processes

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L004

In an age when kids are increasingly interacting with screens, motivating students with hands-on art experiences can be challenging. Learn about four engaging elementary-level lessons that combine hands-on processes with tech; building and reinforcing crucial fine motor skills; and cultivating creative problem solving, design thinking, and visual and technological literacy.

Presenters

Shana Ryback

Lower School Art Teacher, Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School

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Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L004

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

4:30pm EDT

He Can HEAL: 50 Positive Male Role Models for Our Students

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

The book Yes, Boys Can! explores the lives of 50 positive male role models who are quilting, dancing, nursing, and teaching. Learn about this new book from the author (an elementary art educator himself) and how to encourage students from diverse backgrounds to consider new possibilities for their futures.

Presenters

Jonathan Juravich

2020 OAEA Virtual Conference Presenter

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

4:30pm EDT

I've Never Thought of Using That! Low-Budget, High-Impact Materials to Shake Up Your Supply Closet

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M104

Where did we get that? We would love to tell you! With small budgets, large audiences, and big imaginations, two museum educators share their favorite road-tested, impactful, and not-your-average-art-supply materials utilized in public programs for all ages.

Presenters

Rachel Hausmann-Schall

Xoe Fiss

Director of Youth and Family Programs, Milwaukee Art Museum

I've Never Thought of Using That NAEA 2025 pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M104

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

1:00pm EDT

Research is Elementary 3.0

Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

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!

Presenters

Devon Calvert

Tina Atkinson

Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Elementary Carousel of Learning: Hands-On Studio Make and Take

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L013

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!

Presenters

Devon Calvert

Leslie Grace

NAEA Elementary Sessions Survey pdf

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Hands On Beeswax Painting NAEA pptx

Explosion books 5th grade 2024 pptx

Copy of The Power of Words pptx

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Finger Painting Florals NAEA Stacey Walden pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L013

Elementary, Skills Toolbox