Think 360 Affiliate, Young Audiences Arts for Learning is pleased to announce the launch of its first blog, Arts for Learning

Young Audiences Arts for Learning is pleased to announce the launch of its first blog, Arts for Learning: Connecting the Arts with Literacy, Learning and Life, on Thursday, October 1st, 2009.




http://artsforlearning.wordpress.com

The idea for the Arts for Learning blog emerged during discussions with freelance education writer Susan Shafer about how to stimulate productive attention to important issues at the intersection of arts and education. Through this blog, we intend to strengthen connections among teachers, artists, administrators, policy officials, and organizations by providing a forum for sharing ideas, experiences and examples of integrating the arts with curricula, teaching and learning in classrooms across the country.

Upcoming blog topics include:
• Applause for Integrating Music into the Curriculum
• Metacognition for Effective Cognition
• Individual achievement through cooperative learning
• Embedded Assessments for Efficient and Effective Feedback
• Misconceptions about the Graphic Novel
• Dancing: Steps to Student Literacy
Feel free to pass along this email to friends and colleagues and encourage them to visit the blog. We look forward to reading your comments and suggestions.
http://artsforlearning.wordpress.com

Founded in 1952, Young Audiences Arts for Learning (YA) is the country's first and largest arts-in-education network. Through its network of 30 affiliates located in 22 states across the country, YA reaches seven million school children annually, and includes programs in music, theater, visual and design arts, dance, and the literary arts.