Arts teachers communicate with students, and students communicate with each other, in respectful ways that encourage communication of origin al ideas through the arts. In this session, participants meet a dance teacher whose students draw choreographic inspiration from poetry and sign language. A visual art teacher gives her commercial art class a f anciful assignment that enables them to communicate a concrete idea th rough several visual media. A theatre teacher encourages student inter action around the dramatization and staging of fables. Finally, a voca l music teacher asks her students to use