2022-2024
Art Ed Matters: Voices From Art Educators Regarding Cross-Cutting Issues,
Tracey Hunter-Doniger, Jennifer Bise Fox, Jennifer Bergmark & Cappie Dobyns, NAEA Convention, April 2024
This session provided art educators, museum coordinators, and community artists with a platform to address their concerns and explore solutions to the current turbulent educational climate. By taking a role of "citizen researcher," participants explored strategies to address resolutions impacting the field.
Harnessing Psychosocial Skill Training to Manage Self-Doubt, Anxiety & Frustration,
Iowa Fine Art Summit, June 2023 (also @ ACSD LCTA, August 2023)
In this adapted presentation highlighting the book Teaching Tenacity, Resilience and a Drive for Excellence by Emily Mofield & Megan Parker Peters, participants learned to reinforce psychosocial skills and affective development within the context of content curriculum.
Leveraging Psychosocial Skill Training to Manage Self-Doubt, Anxiety & Frustration,
Megan Parker Peters & Cappie Dobyns, NAEA Research Pre-Conference, March 2023
What can teachers do to support artists’ tenacity, resilience, and pursuit of long-term goals? Participants learned to reinforce psychosocial skills and affective development within the context of content curriculum. (This visual arts focused presentation was adapted from the original offered by Emily Mofield & Megan Parker Peters.)
Guest Editor, THP Special Issue, National Association of Gifted Children, November 2022
In this Arts focused special issue of NAGC's THP (Teaching for High Potential), we attempt to assist the field of gifted and talented in "Reframing FOR the Arts" its identification and service by illustrating exemplary practice within a Talent Development perspective. Issue Link
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