A bit about ME
My Fav, Mr. S by the bean.
Recently I realized that this page was very, very old and needed an update. Although the name of my blog represented a time when I had 1,170 students and covered four buildings.
For nine years I worked for the Clarkston School District in Michigan and taught at North Sashabaw and Pine Knob Elementary. The most important message I can tell you is that I LOVED my job! I want our students to fall in love with art, learn the importance of having, creating, and experiencing art.
Big NEWS, BIG MOVE!
In June my husband and I relocated to the Sarasota Florida area. I was so happy to quickly get a job for Pinellas county. I have six classes a day and I'm loving getting to know a new bunch of kids. Did I mention I LOVE what I do and often tell kids when they tell me they want to be an art teacher..."You will have the best job in the building."
I graduated from MSU (GO GREEN!) with a degree in design and after my kids were older I began to work on my teaching certification in Visual Arts from University of Michigan (GO BLUE!) I'm happy to say my daughter is a Spartan! I received my Master's in 2013 from Boston University in art education with my thesis on the ceramic process.
What do I do when I'm not teaching? I have three wonderful kids, well two are on their way as they graduated from Lawrence Tech with a degree in Architecture and my daughter from MSU in broadcast journalism. I like to bake, read, walk, jog, visit and laugh with friends and spend an incredible amount of time reading other art teacher's blogs getting ideas to bring to my classroom. I am so thankful for the time other art educators invest in cyber space to connect all of the visual art folks.
What do I do when I'm not teaching? I have three wonderful kids, well two are on their way as they graduated from Lawrence Tech with a degree in Architecture and my daughter from MSU in broadcast journalism. I like to bake, read, walk, jog, visit and laugh with friends and spend an incredible amount of time reading other art teacher's blogs getting ideas to bring to my classroom. I am so thankful for the time other art educators invest in cyber space to connect all of the visual art folks.
In addition to my classroom work I am also a third generation photographer. Last week I had the pleasure of documenting a student for his senior picture and then Sunday morning was spent capturing the joy of a beautiful little girl who turned one.
If you are a parent please know my students (your child) are the highlight of my day. I work very hard to get to know each one of them. I tell them that I know their faces but forgive me if I forget a name, with over 800 students it is very hard to memorize all of them but each student is very important to me. I read this in a book last week, "...words spoken by kind people have the ability to endure in our lives." I teach art in a very kind, fun but challenging style. My hope is that what I teach will endure.
If you are a parent please know my students (your child) are the highlight of my day. I work very hard to get to know each one of them. I tell them that I know their faces but forgive me if I forget a name, with over 800 students it is very hard to memorize all of them but each student is very important to me. I read this in a book last week, "...words spoken by kind people have the ability to endure in our lives." I teach art in a very kind, fun but challenging style. My hope is that what I teach will endure.
My favs
Jack, Jeff, Jordan and Melissa 2016
