I continue to participate in events with other educators and observe learning in classrooms, and I draw to help me focus and interpret what I am hearing.
Below are drawings from the January 25 Community Circle for Arts Education, the January 26 SFUSD Arts Community Collaborative, and the zoom classrooms of two middle school teachers I will be working with.
Aimee and Sheba welcome us to the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area’s first Community Circle for Arts Education of the year.
PAZ and her student Bella talked about the work created in partnership with Southern Exposure and Mission Girls.
Lyz told the story of putting together a Martin Luther King Jr Day event for Living Jazz.
In a breakout group, I learned about how Cal Shakes is using this time to confront systemic racism that is inherent in being a Shakespeare company.
SFUSD Arts department director Sam Bass addresses the SFUSD Arts Community Collaborative and introduces his team.
MOSAIC is a program for the school district to create an arts learning hub around a new school of the arts in the civic center that is once again stalled.
Emily Aldama will be leading visual arts, Ron Machado is excited to lead performing arts, and Kathy Fleming brings her data and organization skills to the department.
I observed Teryn Kravitz’s 9th grade biology classes as students created a list of questions about COVID and the vaccine and organized those questions into categories.
Ms. Kravitz began class by having students talk about what makes them feel loved before moving into beginning a unit of study about the global pandemic related to population over time.
In Angela Brown’s middle school zoom classes which I observed a few months ago, her students interpred the poem “Hope is a think with Feathers” and watched Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud’s Ted talk video.
