Warmest thoughts and best wishes to ALL… Happy New Start. Happy New Chances. Happy New Ways to Make a Difference. Happy New Year!

Ms. Barnes 2nd Graders have fun with Ms. Calvert learning about money while using Arts Integration strategies. #cummingsstyle #timetofly #aliefproud

Extremely proud of this group of educators. They are part of our first Arts Integration cohort. They show up to learn, grow, take risks, and share. Love their enthusiasm and passion for teaching!! Integration Education Cummings Elementary Mata Intermediate Martin Elementary

You are the sweetest! Thank you 💚

What is a play you have recently seen? . We are in New York this week to present at the National Art Educators Association Conference and saw Come From Away last night! #imnotcryingyouare #comefromaway #broadway #livetheatre

We had such a great time presenting today! Thank you to everyone who came and participated in our session! If you are here and see us, say “Hi!”#NAEA22 #artsintegration #VisualArt

This week we used our investigative skills to match the organism with it's behavior/characteristics and recorded our information. But I think the most fun of all was acting out the effects that come from environmental changes. Martin Elementary Alief Science

What we’re doing isn’t about us. About this moment. It’s about what happens next. @hankwthomas NAEA #NAEA22

Midnight moment #naea22 #k12artchat

So much is GROWING on in #secondgrade ☘️ 🌺. Martin Elementary Alief Science Integration Education Alief ISD Fine Arts

Yesterday Paula Jaramillo and I had our last session of the Alief Art Integration Cohort. We had an incredible time learning new ways to incorporate art in our classrooms. Thank you so much to M.Lopez and Integration Education for the best PD ever! 🎨🖌👩🏻‍🎨

What else do we need to bring back?

Shout out a teacher that had a profound impact on you. What was it that made them special? Integration Education

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Acknowledging my racial bias is not the same as knowing how to identify & eliminate racism. Both are important. But not confusing them is also important. As a white person, at some point doing that internal work without transitioning to institutional work looks like entitlement.

For #EarthMonth & #NationalPoetryMonth we're revisiting our Art Works conversation w/ poet Camille Dungy on ecopoetry, the historical absence of Black voices in environmental literature & much more. Here's a sneak peek: bit.ly/3GJ33I0 The full episode goes live TOMORROW

We have a few, but our top two are: “Go slow… to go fast!” Or “Process over Product”

TEA’s Teacher Vacancy Task Force final report was released back in February. It focused on 3 key areas: Compensation, Training/Support, & Working Conditions. What happened to #txlege focusing on these key areas? Instead bills such as #SB8 are attempting to divert monies from

We are back in Mansfield ISD working with the amazing Mansfield ISD Fine Arts academy teachers!

These Fuentes Elem #believe in the power of the arts! #artsintegration Hays CISD Hays CISD Fine Arts