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Micro-Doc

Jaime Patterson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:57 +0000

Strategies Micro-Doc 3 Min Read • Media Arts Strategy A documentary does not need to be an hour long to say something true. Some of the most powerful documentary moments last fifteen seconds. A single image. A piece of music. No words at all. And yet something lands, [...]

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Identity Palette

Jaime Patterson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:53 +0000

Strategies Identity Palette 3 Min Read • Visual Art Strategy Most first-week introductions tell you almost nothing true about a person. This one is different. This week's strategy, Identity Palette, uses one of visual art's most powerful tools to begin answering it. Students select colors that represent different [...]

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Body Percussion Portrait

Jaime Patterson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:14 +0000

Strategies Body Percussion Portrait 3 Min Read • Music Strategy Rhythm is a language everyone already speaks. You can hear it in how a person walks, how they talk, how they laugh. Every student who walks into your classroom carries a rhythm with them, whether they know it [...]

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Name and Move

Jaime Patterson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:11 +0000

Strategies Name and Move 3 Min Read • Dance Strategy Ask any teacher what the hardest part of the first week is and they will say the same thing: learning 25 names. This week's strategy, Name and Move, solves that problem with a little kinesthetic magic. Each student [...]

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Story of My Name

Jaime Patterson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:10 +0000

Strategies Story of My Name 3 Min Read • Theatre Strategy Your name was chosen before you ever did a single thing to deserve it. Someone picked it from a list, or passed it down from a grandmother, or heard it in a song, or found it in [...]

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I Am From

Jaime Patterson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:07 +0000

Strategies I Am From 3 Min Read • Theatre Strategy The best introduction you will ever hear does not start with a name and a fun fact. It starts with an image. A specific kitchen table. A particular smell. A grandmother's hands. A street corner. A sound that [...]

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Observational Drawing as Analysis

Jaime Patterson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:05 +0000

Strategies Observational Drawing as Analysis 3 Min Read • Visual Art Strategy We look at things all day long. We rarely truly see them.We look at things all day long. We rarely truly see them.We look at things all day long. We rarely truly see them. Observational drawing [...]

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Levels

Jaime Patterson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:04 +0000

Strategies Levels 3 Min Read • Dance Strategy Stand up tall and you look confident. Shrink down and you look small. Reach overhead and you are asking for something. We already know, in our bodies, that levels carry meaning. This week's strategy, Levels, takes that instinct and turns [...]

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One-Word Story

Jaime Patterson — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:57:11 +0000

Strategies One-Word Story 3 Min Read • Theatre Strategy Put a room full of students in a circle and give them one rule: build a story together, one word at a time. No one person controls it; everyone is responsible for a part. One-Word Story is as stripped-down [...]

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Narrative Pantomime

Jaime Patterson — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:49:42 +0000

Strategies Narrative Pantomime 3 Min Read • Theatre Strategy There's a version of this where you read it and think: that seems too simple to actually work... and then you try it. Narrative Pantomime is quiet, physical, and effective at every grade level. You narrate while students inhabit [...]

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