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Engaging the Imagination: Wally’s Way

(37 min, 2025) Imaginations go on an adventure at an amazing outdoor sculpture museum with art educator Wally McGuire! He helps everyone "Make a heART connection with art" through a discovery-oriented, puzzle-like game that teaches the language of art through clues found in abstract sculptures. The goal of this technique is to introduce that primal connection that combines attention to knowledge gained from the senses, personal memories, and imagination to create new and meaningful connections to abstract art. It is a powerful method for inviting joy and wonder while developing creative viewing skills.

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Exciting news!
Engaging the Imagination: Wally's Way is now available to schools, colleges and universities, and public libraries through major educational streaming platforms, making Wallace McGuire's innovative approach to art education accessible to learners, educators, and communities internationally. The film is available through Learn360, Classroom Video on Demand, Films on Demand, and Access Video on Demand. Individual licenses and DVD copies are also available through Films Media Group. 

 

Learn more or purchase access to Engaging the Imagination: Wally's Way and the companion interview Engaging the Imagination: Wally's Why Interview.

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On Human Potential

 

According to experts in educational measurement, current and past performance remains the best single predictor of future performance. This book seeks to maximize individual and institutional efforts to support students optimal development, specifically their talents. The Talent Record introduced a common language, cataloging, and recording levels of talent achieved thus far on a Talent Profile page. Communicating accomplishments in a common language across talent fields unites the ever-changing team of individuals associated with a child’s development and advances meaningful educational practice. 

Providing a graceful, down-to-earth tri-part intertwining of research from multiple disciplines with tenets of professional educational practice with principles of positive parenting

F. Richard Olenchak, PhD, Purdue University

 

Sandra Kay offers insight into the talent development process and provides a roadmap for teachers and others to ensure

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that each student’s capabilities are recognized and developed to their fullest potential.

Linda Brody, EdD, director,  Johns Hopkins University

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