In today's episode from the Art Ed Radio archives, Eric Scott joins Tim for a long discussion on visual journaling, artmaking, and creativity. In a wide-ranging conversation, they chat about Eric's art practice, how things changed for him during the pandemic, how sketchbooks can be a powerful creative outlet, and why Tim maybe needs to give glue sticks another look.

• Visit Eric's website
• Find Eric on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
• View Eric's livestreams on YouTube

This week is the start of the NAEA National Convention in San Antonio, Texas, and Tim is here with a preview of the event in today's episode. Listen as he discusses his love of learning and attending conferences, some events he is most looking forward to, and some of the happenings with the AOEU team. He also discusses some tips on how to make the most of your conference experience and how to find value in any type of professional development.

• 7 Reasons to Attend Professional Learning Events
• Why You Should Attend an Art Ed Conference
• 6 Strategies for Fast and Formative Assessments
• Take Home Assessments for the Art Room

In today's episode, Tim is sharing some ideas for assessments in the art room and how they can be used to engage your students. Listen as he discusses the significant differences between assessments and grading, the value of one-on-one discussions with your students, and some strategies to help you create successful rubrics.

• Check out the Plug and Play Rubric in AOEU's FLEX Curriculum
• 5 Tips for Better Art Assessments
• 6 Strategies for Fast and Formative Assessments
• Take Home Assessments for the Art Room

In today's episode, Tim is joined by elementary art teacher Laura Irmis to discuss if and how we can find the time to do everything that is expected of us as art teachers. Laura shares how she is making it work as a teacher, artist, mother, and graduate student. Listen as she discusses all of that with Tim and they both share thoughts on prioritizing, scheduling, and their love of ceramics.

• Listen to the Everyday Art Room episode on Creating Time for Yourself
• Take a look at the Studio: Painting-Watercolor course
• See all of AOEU's Graduate Courses
• Check out Laura's Ceramics Website

After a flood of messages coming into the inbox, Tim is answering listener questions in this mailbag episode. Listen as he talks about March Madness and Arts Madness, AP portfolios, book recommendations, and how careful teachers should be when it comes to their digital footprint.

• You can find one-day lessons in Tim's first podcast, second podcast, and in FLEX Curriculum
• Find the book Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
• Check out Kyle Wood's Arts Madness

Ishel Brimhall is back on the podcast to discuss some of her favorite management strategies for Kindergarten classes and all of her younger students. Tim wants to know how those strategies might be adaptable to work with older students. Listen as they discuss those adaptations, how we grab and hold students' attention, the best ways to organize supplies, and why just about every teacher has to deal with students eating supplies.

• Listen to Ishel's previous appearance on the podcast
• Read Ishel's article on Effectively Managing 30-Minute Kindergarten Classes
• Find more from Ishel

After an incredible response to last week's episode on what ChatGPT can do in our classrooms, Amanda Heyn joins Tim once again to continue the conversation. They share some of their own experience and ideas, as well as a number of suggestions from teachers across the country. Listen as they discuss drawing prompts, artwork descriptions, assessment ideas, and more!

• Listen to last week's episode
• Try out ChatGPT for yourself
• An interesting discussion on ChatGPT in the Classroom
• 19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere, and it is slowly making its way into our classrooms. Currently, the most popular and powerful AI chatbot is known as ChatGPT, and its escapades have been all over the internet. But what can ChatGPT do in our classrooms? Should we be excited? Should we be worried? Amanda Heyn joins Tim today to discuss all of these questions and more, including the benefits and consequences of using AI, how teachers might be able to use the tool, and some of their own experiences with the chatbot.

• Try out ChatGPT for yourself
• An interesting discussion on ChatGPT in the Classroom
• 19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom

AOEU writer Mariana VanDerMolen is on the podcast for the first time today to discuss a couple of her recent articles, including one on setting goals and one on a variety of uses for glue in the art room. Listen as she and Tim discuss some new ideas for glue, its many possibilities, and why Tim might eventually become a glue stick believer.

• Read Mariana's articles on glue and goal-setting
• See all of her articles
• Check out her Day in the Life episode on Youtube
• Follow Mariana on Instagram

Kyle Wood is back on the podcast to talk about his upcoming 'Arts Madness' tournament, and he and Tim share some of their favorite ideas on how to get students engaged with art history. Listen as they discuss the importance of engagement, some of their favorite strategies to help kids make connections, and how to help students think critically about the art they are seeing and creating.

• Find everything you need to know about this year's Arts Madness tournament
• Follow Kyle on Twitter
• Listen to a previous episode with Kyle on gamification
• Find Tim's podcast on 17 Black Artists to Know