It’s Planting Time Once Again at PAGES.
There are an infinite amount of great reasons to be involved with the PAGES program. But one of the best reasons to be involved and stay involved is that the […]
Designing Better Rubrics
Rubrics are useful for giving students straight feedback that reflects their performance and for showing them where they need to stretch their skills. They can be task specific or general. […]
Know Thy Student
How much, a young mentee educator asked me, must I know about students in order to be most helpful to them? This was my response: I need to see what […]
Educating for the Good Life
Once, a colleague happened to be looking at a sample question from the latest Science standardized test Ohio students are mandated to take and for which school districts and educators […]
Breaking Out of Routine
Want to solve a murder mystery?Т Nab an art museum bandit?Т Escape zombies and prevent global destruction?Т Now you can! Escape rooms are the newest trend in entertainment.Т Couples, families […]
Tension and Revision: Experimenting with Sound
Several days after Michael Torres visited Big Walnut, students approached me to ask if it was true: Did a man play his saxophone, making it sound like a blender? Yes, […]
Capturing Literature and Seizing Sound
Last summer, I took my children on a family vacation to Utah.Т At the zoo we fed rhinos and watched elephants paint masterpieces, and we drove to the top of […]
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. Usually, though, I’m the one organizing the gigs and dealing […]
Poems from a Jar
Т Т Т Raoul Peck, in the introduction of the companion text to his documentary I Am Not Your Negro, said that receiving James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript was like accepting “…a […]
Sharing Fear and Creative Writing
Т Т Т Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein–each year my students experience a love-hate relationship with this classic text, which translates to my own love-hate relationship when teaching it. The text is long, […]
Connecting Music, Writing, and Visual Art
Too often, time for creative writing is pushed aside in the English classroom. With the expectation to prepare for state tests, our need as teachers to adhere to standards and […]
Living in the Music
Through the PAGES program at the Wexner Center for the Arts, students analyze art as a text, a form of communication. Painting, sculpture, photography, words- those are all fixedТ forms.Today, […]
PAGES! Was The Holiday Gift That Kept On Giving
Tis the season to be creative, inspired, and to face a new year with a renewed sense of freedom!Т I didn’t know what to expect from the PAGES experience and while […]
Teaching for Justice
This fall I was on a panel at my district’s fall professional development day called “Teaching Controversial Issues.” I was not sure why I was on this panel. Teaching […]
On Possibility and Pauses
I’d like to consider the pause. It’s not a full stop. It’s not a hold. It’s a moment when you can feel the engine still running, a moment of stillness […]
The Pages Program (Wexner Center for the Arts) 