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Being Visual: Understanding Kids’ Learning Styles
Being Visual: Understanding Kids’ Learning Styles

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Being Visual: Understanding Kids’ Learning Styles

Photo of GalleysI have been teaching young kids how to draw for over 20 years. The classes and teaching method were popular and effective, so I made a business out of it. But it’s never really been about the business. All I wanted was to work with kids — to do art with kids — to teach and empower — to see their sweet faces light up with every new discovery. My young students thrived when they got the “how to” information they craved. And while teaching children how to draw, they taught me — again and again — how important art is to them.

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Being Visual: A Book for Parents of Visual Learners

Photo of GalleysI just returned from my printer after picking up a couple hundred copies of my book, Being Visual. Well, it’s not the real book — but the 95% version — the galley. But it looks like a book, smells like a book and feels like the real book. The galleys are the almost, almost, so very close version of a book. It’s the last stage before the absolute final edits, the version sent to magazine editors, media and reviewers. And while I am excited about being at the 95% stage, I am a bit in awe.

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Multisensory Learning: Summer Activities for Kids with Klutz Books

Klutz BooksWhen my kids were young and it was time to plan their summer activities, I wanted to provide them plenty of multisensory opportunities. The “lazy days of summer” are not enough to keep kids happy and stimulated. They are much more engaged and satisfied when they’re busy making, doing, learning and playing. All throughout the summer we would sign up for a variety of organized activities, such as swimming lessons, sport camps, theater programs and art classes. And we stocked the house with lots of fresh new creative play options.

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The Arts and Education: Why Cuts in Art Programs for Children Hurt Your Kids

What Students are Really Missing when Tight Budgets Cut the Arts

It’s no secret that arts programs for children are the go first when budget cuts take place in our school systems. Schools must achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act – and the arts are not a priority, or even included in the assessment standards of most states. But we must pose the question, what are students REALLY missing when we drop the arts from our curriculums?

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Learning Strategies for Children: Tips for Right-Brained Students

Study Suggestions for Right-Brain, Kinesthetic Learners

We all process, store and retrieve information differently. And we all need to find the best way to study and retain new information for our own brain and learning preferences. Especially for all of us right-brainers, who struggle with lecture-dominated learning and heavy word-based testing.

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The Visual Arts and Creativity: Making The Case for Skill-based Art Training for Children

“Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” -Father Edward Catich

Too often the visual arts are considered a place for unstructured activity and exploration, freedom from discipline or constraint. There is a notion that any structure or expectation in the visual arts will stifle creativity. And yet we would not hold the same standard for any other form of the arts.

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