Meaning & Relevance

Meaning & Relevance

  Are you planning activities every day for students in order to complete your lesson plans? Or are you creating learning experiences for your students? Ask yourself these two simple…
Finding My Voice

Finding My Voice

  As I’ve learned to help my students explore and share their voices, what I’ve really done is found my own. This is one of the great gifts that teaching…
Feeling So Uneasy

Feeling So Uneasy

How is it you're feeling so uneasy? How is it that I feel fine? Layne Staley (Mad Season)   For some educators, they will begin the school year with something…
5 Alternatives to Homework

5 Alternatives to Homework

  Homework continues to be a hot topic to debate among educators, parents, and especially students. Try these five alternatives to homework. Let students have the time back to find…
5 Better Ways to Start Class

5 Better Ways to Start Class

  Looking for a better way to begin class each day. Look no further than infusing these ideas every day. A personal favorite is Disruptus. You and your students will…
The Different and Unfamiliar

The Different and Unfamiliar

  As an art educator, I try not to impose my sensibilities, my taste, my preferences on my students work. Sure, I share them with my students because in them,…
Welcome to the Show

Welcome to the Show

  Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the Show.   You are about to step foot into the Greatest Show on Earth! And in doing so, you need to be the…
Find Your Pace

Find Your Pace

  In my first year of high school, I started to run track. I ran the mile and two mile. In my first race, I tried to go out as…
50 Words

50 Words

  Author, Stephen King writes 2000 words per day. Author, Kate DiCamillo writes two pages per day.   Author, Neil Gaiman wrote his book Coraline over several years sometimes writing…
How Ideas Become Powerful

How Ideas Become Powerful

  It’s simple really. Ideas become powerful when they are shared. Ideas like to be shared. Ideas want to be shared. Ideas need to be shared. It’s what gives them…