In this episode of TAB Storytellers, Jen and Abi are joined by Dyango Chavez-Cutiño, a school programs educator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (ISGM) in Boston, Massachusetts. A TAB teacher by trade, Dyango recently joined the ISGM as a museum educator to help facilitate their school programs. The trio discusses TAB in classroom and museum learning environments, the framework of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) and how it is used in art as well as other subjects, and the benefits of integrating VTS in various curricula.

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Here are resources to more information discussed in the TABcast: 

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – “Thinking Through Art” Program  https://www.gardnermuseum.org/organization/education/thinking-through-art

• New York Times – Visual Thinking Strategies Page A page dedicated to using VTS with contemporary images and real-world events, recommended for high school teachers. https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning/picture-prompt

Here is a link to a lightly edited transcript of this episode. We recognize that there are probably errors and grammatical issues. If anyone with the time or inclination to edit this wants to do so, please email us at storytellers@teachingforartisticbehavior.org