Pondering Privilege
In preparation for Junk Dada, our visual arts experience at OSU Wexner Center for the Arts, students have been exploring themes of race, identity and poverty in eye-opening ways. Т I […]
Tripping Up the Clinical Escher Laboratory, or, how I survived a class field trip
Grandma Jolly’s silver spoon outlasted her— —but lived again; This time trash reservoir-erected inside the belly of Shiny Space Case, hammered down, pinned to make. Rusted tin can grooved into […]
Exploring the World from Inside of the Classroom
It has been said that Paris, France is the city of love. As my students prepared to watch Girlhood, a coming of age narrative placed within this famous city, I […]
Students Answer Life’s Messy Questions Together
We don’t always have the answers to life’s messy questions. Т Through the PAGES program, English I students had the opportunity to experienceТ Girlhood and consider how one teenage girl attempts to […]
In the Classroom: Seven Ways Into The Media Arts Experience
We will screen Girlhood, a film by Céline Sciamma, in a matter of days, and we are busy in the classroom engaging with this upcoming experience in myriad ways. When […]
Gaining Power Through Mindfulness: Thinking, Feeling and Action
“What worries you masters you.” – Beam, “Ten Mindful Quotes…” Aaron Sherman, long-term partner in theТ PagesТ program and teacher atТ ACPA,Т asked me a few months ago to visit his class, creatively themed […]
Big Messy Questions
As we prepare for the screening of the film Girlhood, a story of a teenage girl navigating the complexities of her life, exploring her perceived choices (and lack thereof), a […]
The Eddies 2015
After a PAGES experience last year, Forbidden Voices, my students decided they wanted to blog and I have learned it is a perfect way to have students write regularly, write […]
Soundtracking our Literature
My AP Lit classes read Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street this last week, and some of them had a hard time connecting with the text. They couldn’t feel […]
After Picasso: Mystery, Inquiry, Collaboration and Ownership
How to get 39 ninth-graders excited about contemplating pieces of art? Mystery, inquiry, collaboration and ownership! Our class was scheduled to visit the Wexner Center’s After Picasso exhibit and view […]
Student Practices for Finding Inner Voice
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”Т ―Т Rumi Lectio Divina, or “divine reading” is traditionally a form […]
Heart Breathing: Connecting with Gratitude, Relieving Stress
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”Т ―Т Antoine […]
Potential Project
1.) Т Collage image/images that speak to you in your journal provided to you for the PAGES program 2.) Overlay previous page, make sure it is blank 😉 Create […]
Quick and Dirty Guide: Pablo Picasso
Quick and Dirty Guide for Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso – born on October 25th, 1881 in Malaga, Spain Originally named Pablo Ruiz, later took on his mother’s name,Picasso Child […]
African Art and Picasso
Good morning, everyone! Here is just a quick video post which I found to be very interesting!Т It’s about the influence of African art and Picasso’s work. It’s rather short […]
The Pages Program (Wexner Center for the Arts) 