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TagHow to Survive Graduate School
Grad school is the best — it really is. However, it’s super hard and intense. There will be tears. There may be some blood along the..
Summer in the Windy City…oh and the burbs!
This summer, I have been busy finishing my thesis…aka the portfolio of work that I have done for the past two years in the Art Educa..
Manifest Urban Arts Festival – MAT Program Reception
During the 11th annual Manifest, the MAT Education program held a reception. The reception showcased the Art and Elementary MAT gradu..
Secondary Student Teaching: Week 5
Preparing for Tempera Still-Life Painting
When preparing the students to create a composition for a painting or drawing, it is impo..
Shadow Puppets + Science = Love
One of the major components of each of our methods courses is writing a lesson plan for the content area we’re studying. I have to adm..
Secondary Student Teaching- Week 3
I happen to be student teaching two Photo One classes that pretty much have the assignments planned in advanced. This last assignment ..
On The Graduate Version of Spring Break
I never took a real spring break in undergrad, so I suppose it makes sense that I spent this past spring break visiting friends and fa..
Elementary Education: Hunger Games (Prepping the Lesson)
Cherise and I teach our Hunger Games lesson plan this Thursday, so we spent the weekend printing worksheets, buying art supplies, and ..
Elementary Education: Pop Culture Analysis of Rookie Magazine!
As promised in last week’s post, here is my analysis of Rookie Magazine’s effect on adolescents. All of the photos on the blog are my ..
Elementary Education: On Finding Time
“I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it.” ~ Neil Gaiman
My husband recently asked me to accompany him..