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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Kuleshov Effect and Soviet Montage
Posted by Eric Meiring During our meeting this week, the conversation shifted to the way art can affect the perception of the viewer, and, in turn, how these perceptions […]
Community through Video Production
As I’ve started thinking about the new school year, I’m focused on developing community in my classroom – in my AP Lit, Humanities English 10 (my PAGES class), and D-Town […]
Learning with a side of grades
A week ago, a student said something so sad in my Humanities English 10 class. We were about to choose parts for that day’s reading of Hansberry’s A Raisin in […]
Making Something Out of Nothing
As we round out the year in Pages with our third and final experience, we will see Noah Purifoy’s work in the exhibition Junk Dada. Working with Bryan Moss, visual […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Space, Shapes and the Silences Between
“When he heard music, he no longer listened to the notes, but the silences between.Т When he read a book, he gave himself over to the commas and semicolons, to […]
The Pages Program (Wexner Center for the Arts) 