Education
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CSAE 2021 Chair-Elect
CSAE stands for the Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education, and is a group of individuals that come together to support the connection between spirituality and art. The Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education (CSAE) seeks to:• Study the relationships between the spiritual, the visual arts and art education in ways that advance…
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Teaching Creative Living
I believe in teaching creativity, and creatively living in everything we do.
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Saturday Academy
Our school has been given a grant to open up on Saturdays for students who are struggling a little with virtual learning. We have had 6 Saturday sessions, and I worked the last three in May. It has been awesome being able to spend more time with kids one on one. I have had 5…
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Virtual Reality Community
After winning the Brainly Educator of the Year Special Award, I received $500 from Brainly towards a project on DonorsChoose! I decided on two virtual reality headsets for my classroom. Personally, we have two Oculus Quest 2‘s in my household… and I completely enjoy them. Using the Quest 2 for virtual art making has been…
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Music as Medicine
We are a collection of all the actions, thoughts, and experiences of those who came before us.
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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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Fierce Courage
Another thoughtful creative challenge… the word mood comes from the old English root word for MIND, or Fierce courage… perhaps when we get in a mood it is to remind us to have fierce courage. Mood… mind… I see this one as realizing that everything comes from within. Our mood is set by our mind……
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