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Defining Art

As we get ready to see Imitation of Life next week, I wanted students to think more deeply about their own definitions of art. To facilitate this, I used a […]

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 two full days the educators and artists came together to […]

Use Student Surveys (in part) to Measure Our Teaching Effectiveness

A teacher’s stakeholders’ satisfaction with their course is an important measure of instructional effectiveness that is too often overlooked or outright ignored. Of course it’s absurd to hope to satisfy […]

Some educators develop excitement & interest about their class while others find this difficult. What makes the difference?

Being interested makes one interesting. Being energetic is contagious—so is being clearly miserable and cranky. Sixty eyeballs expect to see a leader strengthen skills that translate into university and professional […]

Socratic Oath: Do No Harm—A Teacher’s Oath

Regardless of the age, location, or demographic one teaches, the first principle of all educators should be: do no harm. So, yes, I borrowed this from the Hippocratic Oath—the oath […]

Cloning Socratic Seminar

After viewingТ Never Let Me Go as part of our PAGES experience at the Wexner Center, students were eager to learn more about human cloning. Т We read the following articles in […]

Poetry: Broadway and Black-Out

Poetry: Broadway and Black-Out Broadway: Raise your hand if you are familiar with Hamilton, the latest broadway craze sweeping the nation. If you’ve never heard of it,Т check out this website […]

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 of those stories and tell them in the way we […]

A Painting to Remember: A look at Jacob Lawrence’s The Watch Maker

Watchmaker, 1946 Tempera and graphite on paper 30 1/2 × 21 1/2 in 77.5 × 54.6 cm Collection: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn […]

Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab

Just stumbled across this fascinating, albeit terrifying,Т resource. I thought it would be an excellent follow up to the film and aid inТ continuing the conversation in the classroom.

Visions of Dystopia

Michael Kerbow Banksy: Dismal Land Yang Yongliang

Fascinating Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro:

Great interview with author Kazuo Ishiguro re: film. Illustration: Jillian Tamaki (via The New York Times)

Dystopia is Now: Viewing Never Let Me Go in Trump’s America

In an interview with MTV, Andrew Garfield, co-star of Never Let Me Go, explains what he views as the heart of the film. He states: “What is at the core […]

A Note of Thanks to James Thurber and Bryan Moss

The arrival of Bryan Moss, an amazing resident artist with the PAGES Program, in my classroom made me think of an article I read years ago about James Thurber. Thurber, […]

Students as Teachers

Aristotle once said that “Teaching is the highest form of understanding”. As a teacher, I know for a fact that having a “high understanding” of something definitely does not mean […]