Every writer knows how terrible writer's block can feel. Use these five writer's block-busting techniques to help young writers get out of their rut and into a better state of mind.

These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math and Literacy development. This week (December 21st), we're learning how developing new artistic ideas helps us to express our thoughts and feelings.

Something for every art educator to read and consider. Bartel outlines 9 things that most teachers do in the classroom that potentially kill their student's creativity.

This informative site offers information about the duties, working conditions, skills, education, employment, and salary of an expressive arts therapist.

In this set of resources, we will use videos and a song from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood to focus on ways in which you can encourage and show children and families that creative pretend play is valued and important. Watch the videos...

Personal site of contemporary artist/illustrator Valery Milovic that also contains poetry, musings, and stories. Creative, intergrated site, developed around Milovic's thematic "Broken Toyland" universe.

This resource accepts contributions from younger children, up through age 13. This page explains the process to follow when submitting contributions. Also at this site students will find a link to a sample issue.

This lesson focuses on the intentional use of sentence fragments. It offers a YouTube video asking the viewer to spot the fragments, and a PowerPoint presentation listing 5 appropriate uses of fragments: to get the reader's attention, to...

When we prompt our students to create art based on "self," how many of us get generic pictures or simple ideas? This game is designed to stretch each student's self list so that they have a wide variety of expressive ideas to choose from.

These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week we learn that art communicates ideas and feelings.

Actor and singer Paul Robeson and playwright August Wilson are two African Americans featured in this discussion. Throughout their careers, they fought for justice for African Americans. This page has readings of their works and expert...

A peek into the dynamics of family life provides useful tools to help with sibling rivalry, divorce, family vacations, and more. Listen to kids' testimonials, role play, express digital creativity, and take real-time surveys on current...

The LTTA methodology captivates and motivates students to learn through a unique blending of the sequential approach embodied in the core curriculum with the insight, physicality, and expressive power of the arts to work on real concepts...