What did you do?
Janie Snider is an elementary visual art educator at Hancock Grammar School where she teaches students in grades 6-8.
I’m guessing that some or many of you and your students celebrated Dot Day in some way. Janie celebrated in a big way that impacted the entire school community. Student learning connected to analogous colors and also to kindness and being positive. Every student and staff member painted a dot, 
about 270 of them. Afterwards they were displayed in the school’s lobby for all to see and appreciate.
Janie is a Maine Arts Leadership Initiative Teacher Leader and this is her 25th year teaching. Janie has one of nine videos on standards-based education. This school-wide project is a great example of how Janie leads in her school. She said: “The Dot is such a great book and the dot is such a building block to so many great art works!” Peter H. Reynolds is an actor and illustrator and has done a great job connecting his book to a variety of curriculum and resources. Check them out at The Dot site.
If you did something at your school for “Dot Day” please send me an email so your idea can be shared with others on this blog. Thanks!
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