Choice Advocates

This page is devoted to books, articles, and videos that I've found inspiring or used for advocacy over the years. The people behind these publications understand the value of art and advocate for choice in classrooms or other qualities that choice can deliver.  If you're looking for some further reading, look no further. 

  • Studio thinking 2: The real benefits of visual arts education, second edition. 
  • What works in schools: Translating research into action. 
  • Engaging minds: Changing teaching in complex times. 
  • A post-modern perspective on curriculum. 
  • Creating innovators: The making of young people who will change the world. 
  • Engaging learners through artmaking: Choice-based art education in the classroom. 
  • Schools are for children; An American approach to the open classroom. 
  • First steps toward teaching the Reggio way. 
  • he hundred languages of children: The Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education 
  • Open education: A source book for parents and teachers,. 
  • Open education and the American school,. 
  • Studio thinking from the start: The K–8 art educator’s handbook. 
  • Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us. 
  • A whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future. 
  • Make just one change: Teach students to ask their own questions. 
  • Empower: What happens when students own their learning. 
  • Making artists. 
  • 21st century skills: Learning for life in our times. 
  • Lessons without limit: How free-choice learning is transforming education. 
  • The learner-directed classroom: Developing creative thinking skills through art. 
  • Learning through academic choice. United States: Northeast Foundation for Children.
  • The open art room. 
  • A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change. 
  • Mindsets in the classroom: Building a growth mindset learning community. 
  • The school and society and the child and the curriculum. 

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