[January 23, 2025 | 7pm ET] Are you getting ready to start your student teaching experience or looking for ways to navigate it successfully? Join us for "Student Teaching 101," an NAEA Open Studio Conversation designed specifically for preservice and early career art educators. This interactive webinar will explore essential strategies for a successful student teaching journey, including classroom management, lesson planning, and building a positive relationship with your mentor. You'll hear from experienced art educators, gain practical tips, and connect with peers in this supportive online space. Whether you are just beginning your teaching practice or seeking additional guidance, this session will help boost your confidence as an art educator. Bonus! We also encourage all preservice and early career art educators to join us for our follow-up "Preservice Reflections Meeting" on February 4! Preservice Reflections is a new program for members to meet online for collaborative discussions, offering insights and applications related to topics relevant to YOU! This is a great opportunity to connect with your peers, share experiences, and learn from one another. Visit the NAEA website for more information and click here to register for this exciting opportunity!

[January 29, 2025 | 7pm ET] Do your students have Chromebooks? Are you wondering how you can leverage web-based applications to engage learners in building their art skills, confidence, and creativity? If you answered yes, this Open Studio Conversation is for you. We'll explore several free (that's a key word!) web-based tools that your students can use to express their creativity and enjoy the processes of making art digitally!

[February 12, 2025 | 7pm ET] Advance your visual arts program by developing strong relationships with your school administrators. Hear from two school principals on ways to best approach and collaborate with your administrator (as well as parents, colleagues, and stakeholders) to foster connectivity, overcome challenges, and improve communication to support your visual arts program and celebrate the depth and breadth of learning through visual arts education.

[March 5, 2025 | 7pm ET] Placing assessment in the student’s control by having them assess themselves and each other is empowering! Learn from educators about their strategies for student-centered classroom formative and summative assessments in elementary, middle-level, and secondary settings. Discover ways for students of all ages to self-assess using guided worksheets or simplified rubrics. Explore ways assessment works in choice-based classrooms and how to use rubrics to plan backward to help clearly unpack lessons for student success. We’ll also discuss ways to differentiate between on-level rubrics and advanced or AP rubrics for secondary students, as well as appropriate accommodations for all students in the classroom.

[April 9, 2025 | 7pm ET] Fan art—unofficial drawings and other renderings of famous characters—is often the bane of the middle and high school art educators’ existence. Join us as we explore the potential benefits of fan art to adolescent development, self-identity, social sharing, and artistic skill development. Presenter Marjorie Cohee Manifold shares, “A study reveals how young people from nineteen countries have begun to manipulate media conveyed narratives of popular culture in ways that may be construed as culture creation. Through intense engagements as fans of commercially produced images and stories, adolescents and young adults may craft fanart illustrations as images of self. As they learn art making within the global fandom, or Internet-connected community of like-interested fans and fanartists, these young people enact relationships to the subject and process of fanart making, fellow fanartists and the fan community that are not unlike those of the medieval European craftsman to his craft, guild workshop, and community.”