How can you develop a classroom that inspires students to be confident, compassionate, and creative? Special Day Classroom teachers from across the county spent the day with Youth in Arts exploring adaptive painting tools, learning to make accordion books from recycled file folders, practicing the Brain Dance in countless ways, looking at learning styles through the lens of strength, and Making Learning Visible and more.
Of course we moved, as we explored the brain dance, embodying vocabulary words, strategies for engaging reluctant participants, and even engaging the brain through doodling.
Making Learning Visible (from Harvard’s Project Zero) is a great way to visualize learning, understanding, and next steps.
Gallery Walks (on any subject or body of work) encourage thoughtfulness, deeper thinking, reflection, and patience.
Through the California Department of Education’s Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) grant that the Marin County Office of Education received, Youth in Arts was in multiple Special Day Classes this spring. 
