Katherine M. Douglas

Retired after 36 years of teaching elementary art in Montgomery County, Maryland and East Bridgewater Massachusetts, she also taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. A co- founder of Teaching for Artistic Behavior, Inc., which supports teachers practicing choice-based art education, Douglas has collaborated in international online educational mentoring projects using technology to connect teachers and students. She is co-author, with Diane Jaquith, of Engaging Learners through Artmaking: Choice-Based Art Education in the Classroom. (Teachers College Press) She is a content provider for http://knowledgeloom.org/tab and co-moderates an art education listserv. Douglas was named Massachusetts Distinguished Art Teacher in 2005.

Douglas is a contributing writer to The Learner-Directed Classroom: Developing Creative Thinking Skills Through Art edited by

Diane B. Jaquith and Nan E. Hathaway (Teachers College Press)

She co moderates an active art education forum

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TAB-ChoiceArtEd/

and a Facebook group page

http://tinyurl.com/2extz79

For more information about Teaching for Artistic Behavior visit

http://teachingforartisticbehavior.org

and

http://www.slideshare.net/katherinedouglas/teaching-for-artistic-behavior-tab

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