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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Write 20 things you notice in this photograph”
Learning From Baldwin and Embracing the Journey
And so my first blog offering begins… Wednesday was the end of a two day intensive workshop for Pages. For […]
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& […]
Transformation Starts With Being Transformed
“Having a creative classroom means that the teacher takes risks on a daily basis and encourages his/her students to do […]