Artful Teaching Podcast
Bringing teachers out of isolation and into conversation, the BYU ARTS Partnership presents the stories of teachers, artists, administrators, and community members working to deepen student learning and improve school culture through artful teaching.
Check out our first series of conversations focused on teaching during a pandemic. Our Native American series focused on addressing Native content in classrooms, and our series on STEM+arts integration.
Listen and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Pandora, & Stitcher.
The views expressed on this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of Brigham Young University or the BYU Education Society.
STEM + Arts Series
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Research Practice Partnership
Visual Thinking Strategies and reflective listening are easy, effective tools for teachers implementing new SEEd standards to help students practice and deepen observational skills and develop confidence in self-directing their inquiry-based learning.
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Visual Thinking Strategies for SEEd Phenomenon Observations
Visual Thinking Strategies and reflective listening are easy, effective tools for teachers implementing new SEEd standards to help students practice and deepen observational skills and develop confidence in self-directing their inquiry-based learning.
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A Conversation with Mr. Dance
Mr. Dance’s dance background began as a carpool dad for his daughter’s dance classes where he sat on the sidelines and graded papers. Eventually, he saw dance as essential for his own students to engage creatively in embodied learning. With encouragement from strong female dance teachers he took advantage of additional dance workshops until he became a requested professional development dance teacher himself.
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Visual Arts and STEM with District Arts Coach
Bob Smith, Alpine District arts coach, shares transformative stories about the arts’ impact of accelerated learning on students, including easy-to-implement, hands-on resources and tools for teachers to integrate the arts with STEM using SEEd standards and student-led, inquiry-based learning.
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Active Student Learning and Social Emotional Health Through Collaboration
Marie Mattinson shares stories of how the arts in classrooms create 100% student engagement, support struggling learners, educate the whole child, and open the door to teach students empathy and social-emotional awareness.
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Integration Energized My Students’ Interest
This final episode captures three of the teachers participating in the STEM and Arts Think Tank as they share their experience of integrating arts into science lessons to produce diverse educational experiences.
Native American Series
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Native American Series Trailer
Introducing the Native American series of the Artful Teaching Podcast. Music provided by Connor Chee, Diné/Navajo composer, and performer.
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Origins of the Native American Curriculum Initiative
Cally Flox and Brenda Beyal share how the Native American Curriculum Initiative (NACI) came to be through empathetic observation, vulnerable conversation, and important questions.
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7 Guiding Principles When Partnering with Native Tribes
Brenda Beyal and Heather Sundahl join Cally Flox and Heather Francis to discuss the seven key principles for engaging in the Native American Curriculum Initiative (NACI).
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Supporting Teachers with Cultural Sensitivity
Brenda Beyal and Chris Roberts share examples of growing and learning from mistakes. Their sensitivity to the needs of teachers and the Native people who live among us today has been the driving force behind the Native American Curriculum Initiative.
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5 Tribes and 8 Sovereign Nations
Join Brenda Beyal, Stephanie West, Heather Sundahl, and Cally Flox as they discuss questions regarding the 5 tribes and 8 sovereign nations that reside in the region of Utah and surrounding areas.
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Native American Hoop Dance
Emily Soderborg, Kelina Anderson, and Jamie Kalama Wood discuss the Hoop Dance, its background, appropriate ways of teaching about it, and ways to use lesson plans developed through the Native American Curriculum Initiative to teach the Hoop Dance while respecting its sacredness.
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Turtle Island Art Collective
Heather Francis and Brenda Beyal speak with two artists from the Turtle Island Art Collective, Crystal Begay and Alan Groves. Crystal is an artist who specializes in Plains Indian-style moccasins. Alan is a teacher and artist who works with quillwork and beadwork. The Turtle Island Art Collective’s mission is to empower Indigenous artists, showcase Indigenous artists, and inspire Indigenous youth.
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Amplify Native Voices in the Classroom Online Course
Instructional Designers, Heather Francis & Stephanie West, discuss the release of a new online course for teachers titled "Amplify Native Voices in the Classroom". There are six modules spanning the topics of cultural identity, US tribal relations, the formation of Utah's reservations, guiding principles for culturally responsive teaching and choosing accurate and authentic sources for the classroom.
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Connor Chee, Diné/Navajo Pianist and Composer
Join Jennifer Purdy as she interviews Connor Chee, an internationally renowned professional pianist and composer known for combining his classical piano training with his Diné/Navajo heritage.
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Frog's Teeth
Listen to Dovie Thomason retell the story “Frog’s Teeth.” Dovie Thomason is a Native American storyteller and author.
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Tips for Teaching Native American Art Projects Without Cultural Appropriation
Brenda Beyal and members of the Native American Curriculum Initiative team answer teachers questions about Native content in the classroom. In this episode, the question is "I want to teach Native American art projects but don’t want to appropriate. Any tips on this? Also, do you know of any Native Americans near Utah County that would be willing to come to my classroom?"
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How to Support Native Families' Connections to School
In this episode, Brenda Beyal and members of the Native American Curriculum Initiative team offer ideas for supporting Native families' connections to schools. This conversation responds to several questions submitted by a teacher who desires to help Native families find a cultural space in their school district.
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What I learned about the White Mesa Community Bear Dance
In this episode, Emily Soderborg shares her experiences attending the Bear Dance with her family on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. Emily shares what she learned about the White Mesa Community and their Bear Dance stories and traditions.
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Mathematics and the Hoop Dance: Venn Diagrams, Proportion, and more
Terry Goedel, World Champion Hoop Dancer and retired Math Educator shares how he sees mathematical patterns in the hoop dance, the importance of this Native tradition to his family, the story he performs with his hoops, and his individual journey to hoop dancing.
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Indigenous Pedagogy & the Arts
Brenda Beyal, NACI Program Coordinator, and other members of our team reflect on indigenous pedagogy and its relationship to the arts in education.
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Native Voices and Tribe-Approved Lesson Plans
Brenda Beyal, NACI Program Coordinator, describes how Native American Curriculum Initiative (NACI) is relevant to teachers, the importance of tribal approval on our educational materials, and makes distinctions among different types of Native voices.
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Viewing History from Multiple Perspectives
Brenda Beyal, NACI Project Coordinator, discusses one of the NACI guiding principles with Stephanie West and shares why multiple perspectives are essential in teaching history and understanding the lived experiences of Native Americans.
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Making Friends with Native Americans
Brenda Beyal explores ideas, strategies, and stories surrounding the question: "How do I meet, connect with, and make friends with Native Americans in my community?"
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Fourth-Grade "Utah Indians" Song
Brenda Beyal, NACI Program Coordinator, and Emily Soderborg, NACI Project Manager, discuss reasons why the popular fourth-grade song "Utah Indians" may need to be set aside. Emily shares two alternate Native-approved songs that can be sung by anyone, including a paragraph that teachers can read in their classrooms before singing each song to provide appropriate cultural context and reverence.
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Special Episode: Native Voices Framework
Heather Francis and Stephanie West share the origins and meaning of the Native Voices framework, which helps educators find congruency in the apparent disconnect between western and Indigenous pedagogies and values through awareness, reflection, and learning from Native voices.
Action Research Series
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What is Action Research?
Heather Francis, co-host, and Heidi Dimmick, a 3rd-grade teacher, discuss the value of action research for teachers improving their practice of arts integration in the classroom. This episode is for any teacher interested in systemic inquiry and reflective practice as a method of professional learning and advocacy within the field of education and arts education.
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Action Research vs Self Study Research
Heather Francis and Alyssa Escalante Dixon describe the similarities and differences between action research and self-study research. Hint: a self-study is a form of action research.
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Examples of Action Research in the Arts
Heather Francis provides three examples of action research related to arts education and arts integration in the classroom. First, an example of a teacher studying their own practice of self-care; second, a teacher testing out mind-mapping and visual art strategies in the classroom; and third, a recording of a teacher describing their self-study research conducted for their master's thesis.
Resilience for Teachers Series
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Breath
Resilience for Teachers Series episode discussing the benefits of breath with Cally Flox and Heather Francis.
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Inside, Outside, Upside Down
Resilience for Teachers Series episode on discovering new perspectives with Cally Flox and Heather Francis.
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Benefits of Touch
Resilience for Teachers Series episode exploring the benefits of touch with Cally Flox and Heather Francis.
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Humor
Resilience for Teachers Series episode highlighting the benefits of humor with Cally Flox and Heather Francis.
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Yes and No
Resilience for Teachers Series episode on discovering our unique voice with Cally Flox and Heather Francis.
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Series 2 Recap
Resilience for Teachers Series recap with co-hosts Cally Flox and Heather Francis.
Teaching in a Pandemic Series
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Interview with Christy Nielson
Teaching in a Pandemic Series interview with Christy Nielson, 2nd Grade Teacher
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Interview with Heidi Dimmick
Teaching in a Pandemic Series interview with Heidi Dimmick, 3rd Grade Teacher
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Interview with Kelleen Leslie
Teaching in a Pandemic Series interview with Kelleen Leslie, 4th Grade Teacher
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Interview with Ryan Ferre
Teaching in a Pandemic Series interview with Ryan Ferre, 5th Grade Teacher
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Interview with Tina McCulloch
Teaching in a Pandemic Series interview with Tina McCulloch, 5th Grade Teacher
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Interview with Lori Nickerson
Teaching in a Pandemic Series interview with Lori Nickerson, 2nd Grade Teacher
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Teaching in a Pandemic Series Recap
Teaching in a Pandemic Series recap with co-hosts Cally Flox & Heather Francis
