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 […]
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 […]
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.
The Pages Program (Wexner Center for the Arts) 