Grit
Grit, or the ability to persevere when things are difficult, not working, or complicated is a great skill to…
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Can’t Don’t Won’t
We often hear the words can’t, don’t, won’t from many in education. Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators. Don’t do that.…
Exploration, Comprehension, and Creation/Communication
Engaging with the continuous interplay between exploration, comprehension and creation/communication is the foundation of nearly all, if not every…
Learner Agency
What happens when we switch our classrooms from being centered around our wants and needs to centering them around…
May Your Starts Never End
Beginning can be so hard. It can be so overwhelming. It can even be frightening. It’s not hard to…
Giving Up
What do you do when you finally want to give up? When you have exhausted all possibilities? When no…
Help Them Matter More
Whether engaging with books, or movies or paintings, or plays or music or musicals, the arts foster joy and…
PDIY
Are you still sitting through staff meetings that are irrelevant to what you do? Are you still forced to…
Learning to Draw
In art education and beyond, the idea of learning to draw is associated with, and in many cases defined as,…
100 CCs of Obecalp
I was recently listening to the Tim Ferriss podcast in which he interviewed Scott Belsky. Scott’s father was a…