Arts Can Teach

We’re wishing you a wonderful start to your week, filled with creativity and imagination!✨

💫Artist educator: Lou Paquette
📍A.V. Graham

Our artist educator Linda is always helping students reach for the stars!✨
🏫Dougall Public School

However family shows up in your lives, we’re wishing you a Family Day filled with love, support, and connection - from our family to yours!✨

If our artist educator Mbonisi Zikhali Zomkhonto has graced your class recently, you likely learned about these three Black women who altered the course of history. While this post just scratches the surface of each person’s accomplishments, we encourage you to keep learning about these - and so many other - Black women who fought against colonial oppression, racism, misogyny, and more to defend their communities. ✊🏿
Did you learn anything new from this post? Comment below!

References:
➡️UNESCO Digital Library: Njinga Mbandi: Queen of Ndongo and Matamba
➡️HISTORY: After the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman led a Brazen Civil War Raid
➡️Lemelson-MIT Program: Marie van Brittan Brown

Our artist educator Mbonisi Zikhali Zomkhonto recently celebrated Black women in history with students at F.W. Begley Public School. Look at that joy! Pure magic! ✨

Coincidence? We think not!✨

Read the full article here:
https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-arts-education

Meet an artist educator who you may have seen bringing joy both in classrooms and out in the world: Matthew Romain, Laughtertainer! Learn more about Matthew below:

ACT programs: Arts Can Teach Core, Pathway to Literacy for Kids 🍎
Artistry: Puppetry, Music🎶
Teaching values: Joy, Imagination, Exploration, Laughter✨

Welcome back everyone! We hope your year has gotten off to a strong start - but if not, that’s okay too!✨

We’re starting this year off with a fun fact! Did you know that youth who are regularly involved in the arts are several times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, according to Americans for the Arts? We’re grateful to witness the many creations and milestones that our students achieve!💫

Happy holidays from all of us at Arts Can Teach! We wish you all of the connection, warmth, and restoration that you’re looking for this season. See you all in 2023 for more creative classes!🎉

🗞Extra, extra! Read all about it!
Thanks to AM800 CKLW for writing this piece about Adventures in Culture and Character. We are so excited to share that we’ve reached 6,300+ students through this program that encourages empathy and connection through cultural exploration. Learn more below!

https://www.iheartradio.ca/am800/news/multicultural-arts-programming-having-positive-impact-in-elementary-learning-1.18865969?fbclid=PAAab4Gprfjm71xhz5rN1f6K8EoqJ1QJg9Cq86wu5_Wr38vDVHZkhOZdAK6MM

We cannot thank the Ontario Trillium Foundation enough for supporting this program and the Canadian Network for Arts & Learning for collaborating with us!

Meet another one of our shining artist educators: Lou Paquette! Here’s a summary of what Lou brings to Arts Can Teach:

ACT programs: Arts Can Teach Core, Pathway to Literacy for Kids 🍎
Artistry: Dance/Creative movement💫
Teaching values: Care, Support, Exploration, Innovation💡✨

School spotlight💫
Grade 7 & 8 students at Dougall Public School got to learn about printmaking with our artist educator Ains Lee Winter. Scroll to see some of the designs they made for their social justice curriculum!