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The Secret of Creative Success
There is a secret that all successful creative people know: If you want to be a successful creative, you have to create a lot of work. Yep, it’s pretty…
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Individual Voice
When students are allowed and encouraged to bring their interests and passions, their curiosity into creative spaces it automatically makes the work relevant and meaningful to their own lives.…
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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 great creative success or major innovation known to the human…
Learner Agency
What happens when we switch our classrooms from being centered around our wants and needs to centering them around the wants and needs of students? We simply allow our…
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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 come up with a million reasons NOT to start. There…
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Help Them Matter More
Whether engaging with books, or movies or paintings, or plays or music or musicals, the arts foster joy and connection. Whether on a flowered couch in your childhood home,…
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Learning to Draw
In art education and beyond, the idea of learning to draw is associated with, and in many cases defined as, even if only subconsciously, learning to draw realistically. It's unfortunate.…
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Effective Communication: Moving Beyond Writing
Writing, for decades, has been our primary means of communication. However, as digital platforms become more readily available and easier to use, the ways that students can effectively present…
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Valuing the Bad Work
In education, in classrooms, in conversations with teachers, I see and hear a lot of thoughts about what good work is and how to help students get their work…