{"id":97492,"date":"2025-11-21T14:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97492"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:11:38","slug":"two-cool-items-involving-art-and-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/11\/21\/two-cool-items-involving-art-and-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Two cool items involving art and creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Laveuve\u2019s Scaled-Down Tableaux Reveal Post-Apocalyptic Lifestyles<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from thisiscolossal.com by Simon Laveuve and Kate Mothes<\/p>\n

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Bringing High School Students and Kindergartners Together to Make Art<\/strong> <\/a>— from edutopia.org by Cory Desmond
\nA look at how teachers can have students collaborate across grades on an art project that promotes creativity and teamwork.<\/em><\/p>\n

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What happens when high school students and kindergartners collaborate? Art. Innovation. Growth. And so much more.<\/p>\n

Inspired by illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks\u2019s collaborations with her 4-year-old daughter\u2014in which Hendricks would begin by drawing a portrait and then have her daughter add to it\u2014I formalized the concept into an inter-grade art lesson. It\u2019s a replicable, three-stage project based on vertical collaboration. This model bridges the creative and social gap between students, weaving together technical skill and imagination through methods based in social and emotional learning (SEL).<\/p>\n

It operates by passing a structured project back and forth, compelling older students to engage with empathy, relationship maintenance, and responsible decision-making. Simultaneously, it empowers younger students, giving them significant creative autonomy through their own responsible choices. By breaking down the separation between age groups, cross-grade collaborations cultivate essential skills in ways that isolated classrooms typically can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

In this article, I\u2019ll provide a flexible framework for vertical collaboration\u2014a blueprint that teachers can adapt for their own cross-grade collaborations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simon Laveuve\u2019s Scaled-Down Tableaux Reveal Post-Apocalyptic Lifestyles\u00a0— from thisiscolossal.com by Simon Laveuve and Kate Mothes Bringing High School Students and Kindergartners Together to Make Art — from edutopia.org by Cory Desmond A look at how teachers can have students collaborate across grades on an art project that promotes creativity and teamwork. What happens when high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,127,271,848,46,199,248,66,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-collaboration","category-creativity","category-emotion","category-k-12-related","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-relationships","category-student-related","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97494,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97492\/revisions\/97494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}