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The purpose of the blog is to provide additional support to educators as well as parents and community members who wish to create schools which will provide children with the experiences needed to flourish!

​Anne Shaw, Director, 21st Century Schools

Chocolate Day is October 28

10/8/2016

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Celebrating Chocolate Day at your school is an excellent opportunity for integrating many content standards, from language arts to math to science and to many important social issues.  

The study of the chocolate industry, past and present, has connections to economics, environmental studies, history, geography, cultural studies, anthropology and more.

Multiple literacies taught/developed through a Chocolate Project include the arts and creativity, ecoliteracy, financial literacy, media literacy, information literacy,  social/emotional literacies, global competencies and physical fitness and health.

Visit our Chocolate page on the 21st Century Schools' Curriculum Resources site.  There you will find suggestions for curricular connections that not only meet the content standards but are meaningful and motivational for your students.
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Taco Day is October 4

9/29/2016

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Celebrate Taco Day with one or more of the projects listed on our Taco Day page in Curriculum Resources from 21st Century Schools!  There is literally no discipline that cannot be integrated.  

This page has ideas for relevant, real world curriculum from preschool to the university level!  It also includes resources such as books, cookbooks, research articles, videos and children's literature.

Most, if not all, of the Common Core State Standards can be taught through these projects - and you do not have limit your project to one day!

Get the parents and community involved.  Invite some mariachi players, too, or just get some mariachi music.  Learn some dances, paint, make a video - but definitely cook and eat!
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National Arts in Education Week, Sep. 11-17, 2016

8/25/2016

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National Arts in Education Week is a national celebration recognizing the tranformative power of the arts in education. Designated by Congress in 2010 through House Resolution 275, the celebration is designated to bring attention to this cause for elected officials and educational decision makers across the country and to support equitable access to the arts for all students.
National Arts in Education Week takes place annually during the week beginning with the second Sunday of September. This year it falls on September 11 – 17, 2016. Save the date for future celebrations:
  • September 17 – 23, 2017
  • September 16 – 22, 2018
  • September 8 – 14, 2019
  • September 13 – 19, 2020
For inspiration and resources click the Read More link!

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Global Competencies through the Arts and Creativity

1/23/2015

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1.  Investigating the world beyond their immediate environment.
2.  Using the arts to recognize their own and other's perspectives.
3.  Communicating their ideas effectively with diverse audiences using the arts.
4.  Using the arts to translate their ideas into appropriate actions to improve conditions.

Click on Read More to access Resources and Curriculum Ideas.

Students develop global competence through the arts by:

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The image above is one taken at the Navratri Festival at The Galaxy Education System (TGES) in Rajkot, Gujarat, India in 2011.  Enjoy the audio file which is also from that festival.  Click the image to enjoy a brief glimpse of this fabulous celebration, 9 nights of dancing, to honor their favorite goddess, Durga.  a Hindu deity.  She is the goddess of the Victory of Good over Evil.  The dances are performed by the students at TGES, from the very little ones (PK) through high school,  and the festival is broadcast live, online to the world.  The arts and creativity are abundant, from the music, singing and dancing to the costumes, which are spectacular.

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