On October 1, UVU hosted a Conference on the Arts. It was so worth the drive and the guest teacher and the extra lesson planning to get to go!
Keynote speaker Mary Helen Immordino-Yang presented brain research that changed my world forever. You can find her research at her website, http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~immordin/. Basically, her research validates the idea that learning with affect, that is, learning that reaches our emotions, changes not only our brains but our physiology--for the rest of our lives! This far-reaching research has implications for arts instruction but also for new thinking about high-stakes testing.
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