Happy Anniversary, Pages!
Tonight I had the privilege of being part of the “Wednesdays with the Wex” Celebrating 15 Years of Pages anniversary […]
Art Comes to You
In my first years as an English teacher, bringing art into my classroom took a lot more effort than it […]
My Hope for Students
The end of the 2019-2020 school year was, to say the least, unconventional; to say the most, it was awful! […]
Reflecting Through The Eyes of Students
It’s been an unusual school year, so along with that comes an unusual final exam. For the first time in […]
Constructing and Locating (Creative) Freedom
transcript: “When given a completely blank canvas I feel constrained. When I am told what the boundaries are, and I […]
Home is Where the Classroom Is
Here we all are. All in the same sinking boat, waving but not drowning, or is that the other way […]
“A Powerful Discourse on Love”
During the Pages fall retreat, 15 educators and teaching artists gathered in a room with visual artist and scholar, Ann […]
A Pages Lesson to Leave With
Creative writing is a must. This seems obvious enough as I finish my fourth year in the Pages Program, but […]
Walnut Ridge @Wex: Learning to Trust Our Own Eyes
As teachers we are constantly searching for ways to challenge and motivate our students. Watching young people grow, learn valuable […]
Blacking Out Robert Frost
You know when you’ve done a lesson so many times, it’s become muscle memory? You can just walk into class, […]
Group Projects
Uniting 40 people with one project is not an easy task. It requires compromise, collaboration and patience. I’m happy to […]
The Power of Trust
The bond between a teacher and her students is one that is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before. Teachers take […]
POV
The most compelling element of Anthropocene was its use of point of view. The extreme close-ups of intricate, organic designs […]
Potential Project
1.) Т Collage image/images that speak to you in your journal provided to you for the PAGES program 2.) […]
Shawnee, Ohio: From The Airport To Behind The Music Stand
On Monday morning, I boarded a plane headed to Minnesota for a gig. Seems normal enough for my life lately. […]
How to Write a (Barely) Passing Paper
I came across the blog post belowТ and thought it a curious path to writing a decent academic paper: “How to […]
Duck, Duck, Memory
When I was a girl, I had a tiny, yellow, glass duck—no bigger than a button or acorn. Even though […]
Learning Space: Room 13
Back to School at ACPA: http://artcollegeprep.org. (Might there be a more boring way to announce the reinvigoration of our learning […]
“Write 20 things you notice in this photograph”
Brazil Coverage This Week on NPR
Melissa Block, of All Things Considered, is reporting from Rio De Janeiro this week.Т Here is a link to one […]
Finding Poetry on the Page and, Later, on the Canvas
A beautiful story about how viewing art informs writing, and how writing can deepen one’s experience of art! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/arts/design/an-art-critic-is-first-inspired-by-words.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& […]
Learning Space: Think, Believe, Share
Students are beginning to work on This I Believe essays. In this image, students have paired up with a partner […]