Art Class
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Crayola Creativity Week
Crayola Creativity Week January 23rd – 29th, 2023 is Crayola Creativity Week! We are celebrating at Ridgely Middle School by doing creativity week activities in our STAG advisory groups. I am so excited about what the students will create today. There is a list of resources available at the Crayola Creativity Week website. I am…
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Crayola Creativity Ambassador
What is a Crayola Creativity Ambassador? To celebrate the 75th anniversary, 75 NAEA members were selected for the opportunity to be early adopters of the January 2023 Crayola Creativity Week while participating in special leadership team-building experiences in preparation of the nationwide Creativity Week celebration. The National Art Education Association (NAEA) and Crayola Education partnered…
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Creativity Departments 100th Podcast Episode
For the past few months, I have had the pleasure of meeting with some brilliant and kind educators. We all sign in late, usually 9pm EST and begin our discussion about a selected topic. We share our passions and stories with one another, the perfect way to remind us we are all connected. I look…
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TAB Camp Mid-Atlantic 2022
TAB Teachers in the Mid-Atlantic area came together the first weekend in August for a retreat, to reignite the flame before school begins. Be inspired!
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VR Project
VR stands for Virtual Reality. If you follow me, you know that I was awarded Educator of The Year last year and received a $500 donation towards a project for my classroom. VR in the Art Room We were able to purchase, and did receive two Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets before the end of…
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Teaching Creative Living
I believe in teaching creativity, and creatively living in everything we do.
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Art Expo 2019
One of my favorite art lessons to do with my 8th grade is the Art Expo! Art Expo Lesson Plan For this lesson I began by talking to the students about art supply businesses and the NAEA convention! We observed videos I took during the NAEA expo hall experience, discussed what it means to be…
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Together Again
It has begun! Students and teachers are together again! I have missed my students a lot. Seeing them in the classroom, creating and smiling. Its been too long since we had this type of interaction. There is nothing like creating art together with other people. Over the past year I have taught students art virtually.…
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Teaching One Year Later
March 13th marks one year since we stopped teaching from our classrooms, and stepped into the virtual world. One year ago I was excited and eager to head to Minneapolis for the NAEA conference. My students were beginning some amazing personal projects in class. The green club had just been approved to go on a…
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