
Partnering Possibilities
by Laura Garber, South Western City Schools Career Academy One of my favorite components of the PAGES program at OSU’s Wexner Center for the Arts is the collaboration. I am […]
by Laura Garber, South Western City Schools Career Academy One of my favorite components of the PAGES program at OSU’s Wexner Center for the Arts is the collaboration. I am […]
by Jess Haney at West Liberty-Salem When I was working on my Bachelor’s at Wright State University, I was taught by Dr. Nancy Mack for one of my English Education […]
Tonight I had the privilege of being part of the “Wednesdays with the Wex” Celebrating 15 Years of Pages anniversary discussion. Joining me on this panel was a stellar group […]
In my first years as an English teacher, bringing art into my classroom took a lot more effort than it does today. Of course there were pictures in textbooks (some […]
The end of the 2019-2020 school year was, to say the least, unconventional; to say the most, it was awful! Community building is a huge part of my classroom environment […]
It’s been an unusual school year, so along with that comes an unusual final exam. For the first time in my teaching career, there is no special schedule and no […]
transcript: “When given a completely blank canvas I feel constrained. When I am told what the boundaries are, and I have a place to focus, I feel actually free. In […]
Here we all are. All in the same sinking boat, waving but not drowning, or is that the other way around? Either way, we’re all doing the same: teaching from […]
During the Pages fall retreat, 15 educators and teaching artists gathered in a room with visual artist and scholar, Ann Hamilton, as she led us in a “choral reading” deconstructing […]
Creative writing is a must. This seems obvious enough as I finish my fourth year in the Pages Program, but if I am being completely honest, creative writing had dwindled […]
As teachers we are constantly searching for ways to challenge and motivate our students. Watching young people grow, learn valuable lessons, and master content are just a few of the […]
You know when you’ve done a lesson so many times, it’s become muscle memory? You can just walk into class, set-it-up and then just go-! Poof! Wonderful lesson, wonderful class […]
Uniting 40 people with one project is not an easy task. It requires compromise, collaboration and patience. I’m happy to report our class successfully created a group project that added […]
The bond between a teacher and her students is one that is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before. Teachers take their students, sometimes hundreds of them at a time, under […]