This collection of video segments is produced by KET for educators. The videos provide examples of how to integrate the arts in the classroom.

In the Dancing a Story video segment, Dr. Marianne McAdam, director of the dance minor program at Eastern Kentucky University, shows an example of integrating creative dance with literature. She guides a group of fourth grade students from EKU’s Model Lab School in creating a dance based on the book The Loon Spirit, a Native American story.

The Subtext Teaching Strategy video segment shows a third-grade class at Byck Elementary in Louisville, Ky. Teacher Laura Rasz uses the painting Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia as a dramatic prop to inspire students to think more deeply about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Rasz discusses why this approach, “the subtext strategy,” is an effective way to get students to assume a perspective different from their own.