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Imagination in Education: Our Blog



Empowering Students through Heroism
The Heroic Imagination Project (HIP) is a nonprofit with the mission to promote heroic action through the combination of psychological...


“The Circle Project”
Students appreciate how belonging to groups and communities enriches their personal identity and illuminate how they fit into these...


Changing the Focus, Making Thinking Visible
How can art help students better understand how they think and process information? Art is not a set of skills. Art is a process-oriented...


Trauma-Informed Practices in Arts Education
Paint Love is an organization that has developed a model of five trauma-informed practices to empower youth and strengthen communities....


The Intersection of Art Education and Art Therapy
Learn about the ways in which art education and art therapy overlap, and the notable distinctions between these two fields. Anyone who...


Art as Text
What does it look like when students can engage on a choose your own adventure approach when learning about content topics? Text sets...


Art & Allyship
Art helps students to transform the abstract ideas of acceptance and allyship into concrete objects. Image: Marsha P. Johnson (Left) and...


A Visual Arts Teacher’s Experience with Project-Based Learning
Viewing art education not as a stand-alone program, but as an integral part of the curriculum. I strongly believe that art is a subject...


Women’s Art History is Art History
Teach about women artists by integrating them into their historical context, rather than siloing them as ‘women artists’. When I think...


Introducing the 2021 ‘Create from the HeART’ contest winners.
Three exceptional student artists share a bit about their life and work. Meet 8th grade Skanda, from India. Where do you live, and what...


Using Artwork to Teach Reading Comprehension Skills:Why It Works, How It Works
Did you know that viewing artwork is a wonderful and efficient way to teach numerous reading comprehension skills? Well if not, it is....


Seeing Myself, Seeing the World: Reflections on Art, Relevance, and Curriculum
Capturing a Moment in Time My ten-year-old daughter is a reader, sensitive, and a rule follower. She’s recently fallen in love with...
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