Step Precision Assessment

A comprehensive 3-week world percussion curriculum for high school general music, guiding students through foundational West African and Afro-Latin drumming traditions, instrument anatomy, polyrhythms, and culminating ensemble performance.

A two-session sixth-grade visual arts unit exploring how French Barbizon painter Théodore Rousseau harnessed earthy color palettes, dramatic lighting, textured silhouettes, and atmospheric scumbling to infuse landscape paintings with deep emotional mood.

A two-page student studio guide and reflection worksheet for a sixth-grade visual arts unit on Théodore Rousseau, featuring art analysis prompts, a mood palette planner, thumbnail sketching space, a scumbling test zone, an artist statement framework, and a peer critique tracker.

A two-lesson visual arts and natural science sequence exploring recurring patterns across the living world and translating them into original repetitive print and pattern artworks.

A fast-paced 15-20 minute interactive mystery game designed for grades 5-8. Features quickfire suspect interrogations, staged evidence reveals, and an eerie storm-swept clocktower atmosphere.

An eight-slide instructional presentation for a sixth-grade visual arts unit on Théodore Rousseau, introducing the Barbizon school, analyzing atmospheric mood, demonstrating imprimatura and scumbling techniques, and guiding students through studio sessions one and two.

A dynamic two-part dance and cultural unit for students aged 9-13 exploring Caribbean Soca music, Carnival movement aesthetics, and collaborative group choreography. Students build rhythmic literacy, physical isolation skills, and ensemble performance confidence.

A foundational culinary arts lesson covering classical stock preparation, bone extraction, aromatics, mirepoix ratios, and kitchen safety. Students examine stock classifications, cooking times, and practical culinary applications.

A comprehensive two-session instructional guide for sixth-grade art educators detailing lesson objectives, studio material setup, step-by-step facilitation for underpainting and scumbling techniques, explicit alignment with visual arts standards including VA:7.RE1.6 1. (VA:Re7.1.6a), differentiation strategies, and an assessment rubric for teaching atmospheric mood through the work of Théodore Rousseau.

A foundational K-8 visual arts curriculum sequence covering studio culture, color theory, media mastery, and creative expression.

A middle school visual arts unit exploring Surrealism, dream-based imagery, tissue paper color-bleed techniques, and negative space patterns.

An 8th-grade art rubric designed for student self-assessment and teacher evaluation, covering watercolor technique exploration and radial symmetry design with clear 4-level developmental descriptors and reflection prompts.