Outside
the Lines
A high-quality elementary-aged art curriculum that honors student choice, values diversity, connects to core content areas, and can flex between live, virtual, and tech-free teaching.
About:
Outside the Lines is a new publication, released 7x per year at 6 week intervals.
Diverse Artists
Projects with a focus on student choice
Connected to other subject areas
Flexibility in materials and delivery
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Is this out of your budget?
Generous donations to the Nancy Nelson Memorial Fund allow us to provide a limited number of free subscriptions. We invite you to email us (info@doodles-academy.org) and tell us a bit about your teaching situation.
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Regardless of whether you find yourself teaching without tech, managing a virtual classroom, or teaching in person, your students deserve access to high-quality content, and you deserve access to a supportive, flexible, and adaptable curriculum.
Preview Issue 1:
Each issue of Outside the Lines includes:
Interesting, choice-based content:
- A relevent and timely essential question
- Four key ideas which break the essential question down through:
- An introduction/background information
- Diverse artworks and artist biographies
- An art prompt with flexible material choices
- An introduction/background information
Teacher Support, Including:
- Discussion prompts and assessment strategies based on the National Core Art Standards
- Suggestions for linking to core content areas, including rich ELA texts
- Ideas for adapting the content for in-person, virtual, or distance learning
- Outline of the progression of skills or understanding
- Linking to the Teaching Tolerance standards where applicable
- A seperate file linking to artworks on musuem/gallery sites and optional, supplemental videos
Plus:
- Self-assessment rubric for students based on Studio Habits of Mind
- Artist statement worksheet
- A seperate file with Spanish translations of the student-led pages.