132 research outputs found
Poetry to Promote Inclusion and Improve Writing
No full textPoetry is a powerful tool for students to express their diverse perspectives, honor the perspectives of others, and improve writing skills. This session by best-selling and award-winning author Jo Watson Hackl, will provide data on the value of creating and studying poetry, especially for students from historically marginalized communities. She will then present practical techniques that participants can use with students to help them use poetic techniques to become more critical readers and to make their own poetry and prose writing stronger
Using Fiction to Teach Writing and Revision Techniques
No full textWould you like to take your writing and that of your students to the next level? This interactive session, led by award-winning and best-selling author Jo Watson Hackl, will equip you with tools and techniques to use with your students to help make their writing more powerful, more persuasive and more fun. Handouts include writing prompts, brainstorming tools, tips to keep inspiration close at hand, and an author-created bookmark revision tool that can be used for both creative writing and academic essays
A Mississippi Ghost Town, A Reclusive Artist, and a Poetry-Loving Dog: Drawing Inspiration from Real Life
No full textSometimes the best ideas for fiction come from real life. This interactive session by award-winning and best-selling author Jo Watson Hackl presents techniques and tools that participants can use to help their students draw upon their own experiences to create characters who come alive, settings that feel lived-in, and plots that keep the reader engaged from the first page to the last word. Handouts include: worksheets for mining personal experiences for character, setting and plot ideas; and tools and techniques to translate those ideas into stories that connect with readers
Taking a Whole-School Read to the Next Level to Help Students Create Cross-Curricular Connections, Build Empathy, Grit and Resilience, and Strengthen the Overall School Community
No full textTeaching STEAM through Fiction and Exploring Student\u27s Diverse Perspectives
No full textWould you like to use fiction to help your learners master STEAM content while they learn from diverse perspectives? Attendees will explore activities, resources and recommended readings to use fiction to help learners pursue topics of personal interest, activate prior knowledge, ask questions rooted in prior knowledge and curiosity, explore STEAM content, make personal connections by engaging in an iterative inquiry process, reflect upon their learning, and learn with and from others by contributing to discussions and making meaning together. Handouts include activities to engage students’ natural curiosity to help spark interest in STEAM subjects and to help students make cross-curricular connections and extend their reading experience into their own environment
Study of Nature-Based Interventions Designed to Improve Student Performance on their Standardized Testing
No full textDistance learning has increased stressors upon educators, students, and families alikeand has increased academic inequities. Study after study has shown that exploring the naturalworld can reduce stress, increase focus, boost creativity and performance, and improve well-being.For example, the book The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and MoreCreative by Florence Williams documents many of the physical and mental health benefits ofexposure to the natural world. How can this knowledge be used to help students increaseperformance and reduce stress associated with standardized testing
American Indian painters of Oklahoma : artistic negotiation in the twentieth century.
No full textThis work discusses the emergence of easel painting as an art form in Oklahoma American Indian communities and the commoditization of American Indian art during the twentieth century. The lives and art of five Muscogee Creek painters working during the twentieth century, Acee Blue Eagle, Solomon McCombs, Fred Beaver, Joan Hill and Enoch Kelly Haney, are documented and discussed. By examining each artist’s works, their personal biographies and changes in their artistic style, the author demonstrates the multiple ways in which artists respond to fluctuations within the market for American Indian art
Review of \u3ci\u3eEarth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women\u3c/i\u3e By Patricia Janis Broder
No full textWith the first book devoted exclusively to women\u27s painting, Patricia Janis Broder addresses a deficiency in Native American art history. Women\u27s arts-painting, or any of their myriad art forms-became an area of serious inquiry after 1960 that has yet to be sufficiently served by scholars.
Broder\u27s introduction explains the importance of the role of women, their arts, styles, and subjects. Mentioned are individuals and schools that form the context and modes of contemporary women\u27s art. The author has selected artists\u27 paintings that she determined have cultural, historical, and aesthetic merit. There are ninety featured artists representing fifty-seven communities. Each artist\u27s biography offers useful background material, including information about her images, as well as illustrations of her work. Most biographies are clearly written, although a few lack dates and current data.
Several painters from the Northern and Southern Plains are featured in this seminal work. Historic Plains women painted stylized geometric patterns on hide containers and robes. This non-figurative traditional style was dropped by Plains women early in the twentieth century. Among the artists who helped establish the new trend was Anne Little Warrior, whose dance scene is created in the Plains pictographic style. Southern Plains artist Lois Smoky, who attended art classes under Oscar Jacobson and was one of the original Kiowa artists in the 1920s, is featured as a symbol of a new era in women\u27s painting. Sharron Ahtone Harjo paints today in a style reminiscent of the Kiowa Ledger artists.
One of the Northern Plains women included is Crow artist Connie Red Star. Her painting Crow Parfleche creates a sense of irony by recalling the geometric style of earlier women. Other Plains women include Roberta A. Whiteshield, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Rosebud Tahcawin De Cinq Mars, and Nadema Agard. Themes involve ceremonials, the spiritual world, and traditional and everyday life activities. Broder suggests that further scholarship is needed and that her book, which is neither an encyclopedia nor a directory, has some limitations. For example, work by Linda Haukaas and Jean LaMarr is not included. Broder compensates by a regional approach with artists from a broad geographical range. With color plates of excellent quality illustrating a wide variety of painting, this book helps fill the void of serious studies of Native women\u27s art history
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