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Todd Elkin

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Todd Elkin is an Art21 Educator alumnus and the Fine Art Department Chair at Washington High School in Fremont, California. He is also a Senior Faculty member of the Alameda County Office of Education's Integrated Learning Specialist Program.

Articles by Todd Elkin

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Scenius, Inspiration, and Invention

by Todd Elkin | Oct 25, 2017

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Scenius, Inspiration, and Invention

by Todd Elkin | Oct 25, 2017

Educator-in-Residence Todd Elkin reflects on the ways in which his classroom embodies the concept of “scenius,” in which creative inventions emerge from social contexts, as the students working near each other riff off one another’s strategies and ideas.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Assessment as Dialogue: Shifting Power Dynamics in the Classroom

by Todd Elkin | Sep 21, 2017

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Assessment as Dialogue: Shifting Power Dynamics in the Classroom

by Todd Elkin | Sep 21, 2017

Educator-in-Residence Todd Elkin explains the origins of his experimental curriculum “Assessment as Dialogue,” which upends the traditional power dynamics in a classroom and asks students and teachers to collaborate on the most effective methods of learning.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On Not Feeling Powerless: How Youth Activists and Art21 Artists Can Model Proactive Social Engagement

by Todd Elkin | Nov 25, 2016

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On Not Feeling Powerless: How Youth Activists and Art21 Artists Can Model Proactive Social Engagement

by Todd Elkin | Nov 25, 2016

Art21 Educator Todd Elkin discusses his students’ reactions to the 2016 presidential election, and how Art21 artists can serve as a model for constructive social engagement.

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