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, […]
Art Comes to You
In my first years as an English teacher, bringing art into my classroom took a lot more effort than it […]
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. […]
Potential Project
1.) Т Collage image/images that speak to you in your journal provided to you for the PAGES program 2.) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Duck, Duck, Memory
When I was a girl, I had a tiny, yellow, glass duck—no bigger than a button or acorn. Even though […]
What the Arts Offer the English Classroom
I have been considering the benefit of the Pages program and how some of the things that I have learned […]
Haunting Documentation of a Trash Out by PBS
I just watched this five minute video of a trash out .Т I could not believe how well it went […]
Frankenstein: Accessing the Text through Stitches and Stories
Daily we wear marks on our bodies that tell some piece of our story. How often do we take ownership […]