26. The not-an-art-teacher's guide to sketchbooks in the classroom: boost engagement, content retention, and social skills through simple and transferrable art explorations

<p><strong>Summary:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s episode is FULL of simple and actionable strategies that will level up your students’ motivation, retention of content knowledge, interpersonal skills, and so much more. The key?</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sketchbooks!!</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m sharing a little about my journey with sketchbooks in the classroom, and how I use them as a tool to support student creativity and content knowledge in transferable ways.</span></p> <p><strong>Key Points:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">This episode is brought to you by</span> <strong>Sketch for Schools</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Sketch for schools is on a mission to support learning through visual arts, even sharing brain-based research on the positive impacts art has on learning and academic output.  Today they are offering listeners of this episode a discount on your sketchbook purchase using the code</span> <strong>Smile4Sketchbooks</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">on their website,</span> <a href= "https://sketchforschools.com/"><strong>sketchforschools.com</strong></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">On top of this, Sketch For Schools has generously donated</span> <strong>a $100 gift certificate that I will be raffling off to one lucky attendee of my workshop</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">on sketchbooks in the classroom. I want to invite you to join me on</span> <strong>Saturday August 7th at 10:00 a.m. PDT</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for a “sketchbooks in the classroom” live workshop! For all the details, along with the coupon code for Sketch For Schools, please visit</span> <a href= "https://www.appleblossomteachers.com/sketch"><strong>appleblossomteachers.com/sketch</strong></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">You can get started u