Category: Art

Get your classroom set up for the first day.

7 Art Teacher Tips for Back to School

Never has back to school arrived so quickly. Thanks to the pandemic, after a summer that essentially lasted from April to August last year, May to August just doesn’t feel long enough. Even though it doesn’t seem fair, back to school is on the horizon, it’s time to gear up and get back to it…

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New Middle School Art Projects & More

Check out my latest art resources, including a number of middle school art projects. Get tested, drop-in ready art lessons.

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Dear First Year Teachers Watercolor

Dear First-Year Teacher in a Pandemic

I remember going through college as an art education major and relentlessly hearing how challenging it is for a first-year teacher. After a while I internally rolled my eyes, silently repeating “I know, I know.” I heard it so many times the warnings fell on deaf ears. I graduated, got a job, set up my…

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The Halfway Restart, Art Teacher Style

A 12 year art teacher and this year has been one of the hardest. Read how I picked myself up and got motivated for second semester.

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Teaching Tips for Hybrid and Virtual

THREE WEEKS IN HYBRID I have to start this post with a disclaimer: my first two and a half weeks of school has been a lot of putting out fires, just barely hanging on, and feeling a bit like a failure. But, as I rounded the corner into week three of teaching in hybrid, I…

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Wash your hands, then make art.

BACK TO SCHOOL, PANDEMIC, HYBRID & DISTANCE LEARNING STYLE

Back to school this year is like no other year. I have opted for smiling and nodding with every plan proposal, knowing that nothing is definite until that plan is in action in real time. Fully back to school, hybrid, distance learning, or other, there are endless possibilities for back to school. What works today…

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