Professional Responsibility
Curiosity and love of learning and qualities that I value and hope to imbue in my students. I seek out ways to grow as an educator and artist. Below is a collection of experiences I participated in to hone my skill set and learn new things.
Guest Artists in the Classroom
2022-2024 Golda Meir High School
Inviting working artists into the classroom to share their processes and ideas is a valuable experience for the students and for me. Students are exposed to possibilities for themselves as artists; they could become t-shirt designers, comic artists, or printmakers. Students can see up close how to apply the creative process to real-world situations. Through collaborating with artists in the classroom I am able to broaden my craft and skill set. Artists that I have collaborated with in the classroom are:
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Sarah Gail Luther- Public Art- 2020
Miriam Shushman- Mosaics- 2023
LaNia Sproles- Collage and Printmaking- 2023
Cris Siqueira- Comics- 2024
Enrique Murguia- Screen Printing- 2024
Julia Schekel- Relief Printmaking- 2024
Top: Artist Miriam Shushman demonstrates mosaic techniques. Middle: Student's in-progress mosaics. Bottom: Finished mosaics installed in the hallway.
Innovative Educators Institute
2020-2024
The Innovative Educators Institute hosted at the Lynden Sculpture garden is a hands-on, year long professional development experience. UW-Milwaukee and the Lynden bring together pre-service, veteran teachers, and artists to develop and share interdisciplinary curriculum and strategies.
Internship at Discovery World
Summer 2020
In the summer of 2020 I interned at Discovery World. I worked with the Design It! lab to develop curriculum for summer camps. Arts integration and design thinking strategies were at the center of the projects I created.
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