Students refine their logo drafts by applying principles of negative space and contrast, creating color and black-and-white versions for professional export.

Students combine their icon and typography choices to build an official brand logo draft, focusing on balance, alignment guides, and the 'Squint Test' for simplicity.

Students master custom shape creation using polyline and curve tools, exploring line weights and the importance of vector scalability for professional branding.

Students move from curating to creating, using Google Drawing to build complex objects with simple geometric shapes while learning the fundamentals of vector design and layering.

Students learn how font choices communicate a brand's tone of voice, distinguishing between serif, sans serif, and display fonts to select a pair that fits their business identity.

Students explore the emotional impact of color in branding, learning to use Hex codes and curated imagery to build a brand mood board that reflects their product's personality.

Students perform quality control on their business proposals through peer review, grammar tools, and text-to-speech auditing before exporting their final work as professional PDFs.

Students learn about intellectual property, source reliability, and technical citation skills like hyperlinking and footnotes to perform ethical competitor research.

Students integrate market research data and customer testimonials into their formal proposals, using evidence to validate their product concepts and finalizing the Solution section.

Students learn to distinguish between product features and customer benefits, drafting the Executive Summary and Problem sections of their business proposal using persuasive formatting.

Students learn the importance of professional document formatting and hierarchy, setting up a formal business proposal template with structured headings and standardized typography.

Students conduct a market research sprint, interviewing classmates to validate their product ideas and learning to 'pivot' based on real user feedback and data synthesis.

Students learn the difference between leading and open-ended questions, developing a research table and interview script to gather unbiased feedback from potential customers.

Students explore the concepts of target markets and customer empathy, moving from personal preferences to identifying specific user needs and mapping out a "Day in the Life" for their ideal customer.

Students explore the fundamental economic concepts of scarcity and opportunity cost, applying them to product development by making difficult trade-offs between competing features within a limited resource budget.

Students learn to identify consumer "pain points" as opportunities for innovation, moving from recognizing everyday frustrations to conceptualizing business solutions.

A series of design-focused sessions where students build the visual foundation of their clothing brand, including logos, color palettes, and initial garment sketches.

An advanced pedagogical exploration of François Delsarte's applied semiotics for undergraduate performance students. The lesson analyzes the triune nature of expression (Mental, Moral/Emotive, Vital) and its influence on modern somatic practices.

A final unit integrating all skills to create large-scale works inspired by the natural world and global art traditions.

A deep dive into the lives and styles of iconic painters, focusing on impressionism, surrealism, and pop art.

Explores tactile art-making through paper tearing, layering, and found-object assembly.

Focuses on the fundamentals of line, shape, and color through wet and dry media, inspired by landscape and portraiture.

A quick-hit replacement assignment for students who missed a documentary on high-stakes photojournalism. It explores the careers of photographers who work in extreme environments and danger zones.

A comprehensive workshop on chamber music communication, focusing on non-verbal cues, shared breathing, and collective phrasing to achieve a unified ensemble sound without a conductor.

A comprehensive substitute-friendly lesson introducing the 7 Elements of Art to students in grades K-3 through visual exploration and hands-on practice.

A foundational lesson on the precursors to opera, focusing on Renaissance vocal forms like the Chanson, Madrigal, and Lute Song that paved the way for the Baroque invention of opera.

A simple, step-by-step drawing lesson for kindergarteners to learn basic facial features. Students will follow along to draw eyes, a nose, and a mouth on a circle.

A series of hands-on spring-themed craft activities for kindergarteners that focus on fine motor skills, shape recognition, and pre-writing strokes. Students practice cutting, gluing, and drawing through structured, visual step-by-step instructions.

A guided research project where students explore the anatomy, history, and classification of a musical instrument of their choice.

An advanced exploration of microtonal music, covering the physics of pitch, tuning systems beyond 12-TET, and practical experimentation with quarter-tones and just intonation.

Students transition from raw audio to a polished production. This week focuses on Soundtrap technical skills, including multi-track editing, adding bumpers/music, and applying professional mixing and mastering techniques.

Students focus on the journalistic foundations of podcasting: selecting a topic, conducting deep research, and developing professional interviewing techniques. This week culminates in the recording of raw interview footage.

Students explore atmospheric perspective through monochromatic ink wash painting, learning to control water-to-pigment ratios to create depth and mist-filled mountain landscapes.

A primary art lesson exploring the beauty of nature and our role in keeping the Earth clean. Students observe natural wonders and create their own "Earth Treasures" using drawing and sculpting materials.

A focused introduction to the B Major scale for beginner bassoonists. This lesson covers the complex fingerings required for five sharps and provides a daily routine for developing technical fluency and tone.

A lesson focused on the power of peer feedback in the contemporary art process, teaching students how to give and receive constructive criticism to fuel growth.

A quick-reference guide to the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process, focusing on brainstorming and strategy development for educational settings.

The final premiere of the music video at the All-town Music Tech Showcase, followed by a live performance and student reflection on the collaborative process.

The technical phase involving on-location recordings at elementary and middle schools, followed by high school student-led mixing and video production.

Introduction to the 'Playing for Change' concept, exploring the themes of the chosen protest song, and laying the groundwork for the K-12 collaboration.

A theatrical exploration of Saint-Saëns' 'The Carnival of the Animals' where 2nd graders act as casting directors to match musical traits like tempo and pitch to animal characters.

A series of rhythm reading flashcards and a teacher's guide covering basic to advanced rhythmic patterns. Activities progress from quarter notes and rests to complex sixteenth notes and triplets across multiple time signatures.

A series of music center activities for first graders to connect word syllables to rhythmic notation (Ta and Ti-Ti) through a zoo animal theme. Students will sort animal names by rhythm and create their own rhythmic patterns.

Learning about art galleries and preparing a final class exhibition of the week's creations.

Connecting colors to feelings and exploring how brushstrokes can express different moods.

Using geometric shapes and stamping techniques to create structured art compositions.

Exploring painting with unconventional tools like sponges, forks, and bubble wrap to create varied textures.

Introducing the building blocks of all colors: Red, Yellow, and Blue through hands-on mixing exploration.

Students will use various tools like pipettes, sponges, and spray bottles to explore how paint moves on paper, focusing on the motor movements of squeezing, pinching, and pressing.

A creative art and science lesson where second graders explore bilateral symmetry through monotype printing. Students learn about pollinator anatomy and color mixing while creating unique butterfly or moth prints.