I love a good contest! The contest for the month also introduces us to reconciliACTION through the Legacy Schools program provided b the Gord Downie & Chanie Wendack fund.Take a peak at the Legacy Schools Poster contest. The link to the info deck gives more details about the free school program made available to any school in Canada. To be eligible for the contest your school must be a registered Legacy School.

To register, follow this link   https://www.downiewenjack.ca/learning/legacy-schools-registration

If you search the site, you will see that you can also apply to have an artist ambassador visit your school.

Once you’ve signed up to be a Legacy School you will:
• receive a Legacy Schools Toolkit with:
• Secret Path Book
• Legacy School poster, stickers, and t-shirt
• a USB key or link to an amazing array of vetted educational resources
• curriculum, worksheets and learning tools
• ReconciliACTION Guidebook with suggestions and examples to help engage your own school community

“We are not the country we thought
we were. History will be re-written,”
Gord Downie, Tragically Hip
In Legacy Schools, that process has begun
and is getting stronger every day with
educators like you.
#DoSomething #DWF

FAC Art Blog: How to Hang a Spring Showcase

FAC Art Blog: How to Hang a Spring Showcase: The theme this month centers around spring showcases.   As an art teacher, I begin planning my showcases in September. I hang my two ...

Hey there and thanks for your inquiry.  I use a standard corrugated cardboard trifold and thread a string through holes that I've punched through the adjoining sides.

April

Hey there fellow art teachers. I’ve added a few new pages to the blog.

Check out the Salt Spring National Art competition located on the side bar.

I’m also interested in hearing about how you hang your spring showcase. You can fin that in the right Navigation bar as well. I’d love to read your comments.

Art resource for Alberta Educators

Welcome to the FAC Art Blog

I am Laura Mulvey, your elected art representative for the Fine Arts Council with the Alberta Teachers Association.

Mission:

• connect you to one another 
• begin a lesson sharing center
• improve curriculum delivery and accessibility

Vision: 

• raise the profile of art education in Alberta
• raise awareness of how to use art education specifically with;
• English Language Learning for new English Language Learners 
• making Math, Science and Social Studies more tangible and less theoretical 
• issues around mental health

Goals:

• provide art lessons because you asked for these
• create a provincial series of adjucated art competitions and festivals for students
• connect art teachers with artists in industry.
• post upcoming professional development opportunities.

Please see the pages in the navigation bar at the right for resources.