Visual ART PISD

8/20 & 8/21—Curriculum PDH @ PSHS from 8 to 4 p.m. RMs: B2-103 (elem), B2-107 (elem), B2-112 (hs), B2-114 (ms)

• 8/25 First Day of School

• 8/29 Open Enrollment Deadline

• Week of 9/22 hang Staff Exhibits and take down Technology Exhibit

MONTHLY

JOURNAL for

PISD Art

Instructors PISD Visual Art

Professional Development

Google Docs for

Art Teachers

Elementary

9/18– 3:30-4:30 @Cox

Secondary

9/24-4:30-5:30 @ Cox

New Staff

Adriane Anderson– Jasper H.S.

Melissa Backus– Williams H.S.

Ashley Bruegel– Plano East S.H.S.

Mickalena Dukes– Shepton H.S.

Kerry Kirpack– Plano East S.H.S.

Sarah Mackie– Dooley Elem.

Julie Naamani– Saigling Elem.

Jill Powell– Memorial Elem.

Transfers

Sarah DePetris– Plano S.H.S.

Heather Fittz– Special Programs

Ransom White– Vines H.S.

Best Wishes for a Successful School Year

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PISD Visual Arts Issue 01 August 2014

Tweets and Texts……Tell us something good.

Birthdays

8/14– Kimberly Paser @

Shepton

8/23-Doug Darracott @ West

8/28– Mindy Dember@

Daffron

8/28– Bonnie Walton-Wade

@ Hightower

9/5– Debbra Kurtz-Gato @

Vines

9/7– Grandma Moses—1860

9/7– Jacob Lawerence-1917

9/14– Linda Aponte @

Academy

9/15- Kathi Adams@ Hunt

Upcoming Events

Throughout the month please send me highlights, kudos, thank yous, etc…..See the format below.

AP scores! A fantastic showing from all three senior highs. Great work K-12 team for preparing the students to shine. - Laura Grundler

AP student Sam Hersh– PSHS, Teacher Allison Garrison: Received the below correspondence from the

College Board…..

Dear Samuel,

We are very excited to tell you that one of the works from the Quality (Selected Works) section of

your AP Studio Art portfolio has been selected for inclusion in the 2014-2015 AP Studio Art stu

dent exhibit. About 49,000 portfolios were submitted this year; from them, 30 pieces have been c

chosen for the exhibit. After all of the scoring was complete, works for the exhibit were selected by a

group of the teachers who had participated in evaluating the portfolios. The exhibit as a whole is

intended to demonstrate not only the rigor and the highest quality of AP art but also the wide

range of ways in which art can be excellent.

Welcome Back

Every school year is new and fresh! Don’t make assumptions about the students, staff and parents. “I've come to the frightening

conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal ap-proach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joy-ous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor; hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a person humanized or dehuman-ized.” Dr. Haim Ginott

Teaching is an Art in itself. Take time to reflect on the things that work for you and the things that need to be revamped, up-dated, or thrown out. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where

his influence stops. Henry Adams

Set the Tone: High expectations and rigor, you are the professional educator and when you set the bar high, students achieve more. “O Captain, my Captain. Who knows where that comes from?

Anybody? Not a clue? It’s from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you’re slightly more daring, ‘O Captain my Captain.’” - John Keating, Dead Poets Society

Staff Profiles

Every month we will profile three art educators one

from each cluster. Our first journal highlights our

cluster leadership.

Blogs and Websites

http://www.edudemic.com

http://www.edutopia.org

http://www.arteducators.org

http://edutech4teachers.edublogs.org/

TED Talks

http://www.edudemic.com/ted-talks-

humanity/

http://www.ted.com/talks/

amit_sood_building_a_museum_of_mus

eums_on_the_web?language=en

Apps We Love

Art Project Powered by

Google

http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/

project/art-project

ArtHD

Musée du Louvre

EYE ON IT Current Art Ed Trends…….

TAB What is TAB?

Tracy Evans– West/ Elementary School—Mitchell What was your first artistic memory? My first artistic memory is from kinder-

garten. I loved that every day we had art time and my teacher would hang up

our work around the room! It was my favorite time of the day (yes, even better

than lunch and nap time!

What lead you into art ed? I was an art major but quite frankly, did not enjoy

the stress working as a free lance artist. I got back into art when I realized when I wasn't being true

to myself, (ignoring my creative self), I was unhappy. I taught during the summers at the non- prof-

it " The Classics" and that experience opened my eyes to the joy of teaching art!

What is your medium of choice? Drawing and mixed media are my favorite mediums but I've

forced myself over the last 4 summers to re-learn/re-connect with different mediums. I've blown

glass, created pottery via the wheel and raku firing, fused glass, and taken collage classes.

Who is your artistic inspiration? I'm truly inspired by my art teacher friends, not only here in Plano,

but from all over Texas and the US! I've gotten to know quite a few teachers over the years through

conferences, workshops, blogs and FB, and their lessons and stories inspire me to reach and teach

better! I LOVE being an art teacher and learning and listening from my fellow teachers get me ex-

cited and inspired.

Share a current read? Artistic, Ed, or Fun. I'm reading "Teach Like A Pirate" and it's a wonderful

way to look at teaching, no matter the subject you teach! What is your top goal for the year? My 2 goals for this year are to continue to do more writing

about art, our own art as well as others. I also want to explore and try to implement some concepts

of TAB teaching in the art room. It's more about choices once you have taught the target or objec-

tive, then allowing the students to choose the medium.

Allison Garrison– cont.

What lead you into art ed? I always thought it’d be a great job (creative, fun, rewarding) but didn’t

claim it as my major when first starting college. I had a drawing professor at Texas Tech, Terry Morrow,

that talked to me about Art Education. I was hooked immediately.

What is your medium of choice? Mixed media…drawing, painting, collage. I really love working with

textures, line and layers.

Who is your artistic inspiration? Anyone, everyone and everything. Too hard to narrow down.

Share a current read? Artistic, Ed, or Fun. A podcast by Tom Ferris on the importance of taking

time to output (such as creating art) rather than only receiving (such as receiving email, texts, facebook,

pinterest, etc.). Excellent for artists and writers!

What is your top goal for the year? Finding better balance in my life.

Ammon Talbot– East/ Middle School– Otto Middle School What was your first artistic memory? My father was an artist and I remember from a

very young age hanging out with him in his studio drawing and painting while he

worked. One day I remember spotting a scorpion in the corner so we caught it and I began

to draw it from multiple angles. Scorpy was also my first pet; I fed him a lot of spiders.

What lead you into art ed? I have a dual love of art and science, and I was determined to

be a science teacher when I finally graduated and began looking for a job. However, fate or

some higher power decided that I needed to try teaching art first, and once I started I never

wanted to teach science again. I love teaching and watching students as they display that

creative genius that so many of us learn to hide as adults, that’s what keeps me coming back.

What is your medium of choice? I am a painter and a sculptor, but my medium of choice clay. I love

the smells, the feel, and the mess of it.

Who is your artistic inspiration? My father was my first and foremost inspiration, but my school ar

teacher also played a big part in my continued growth in art as my dad became less and less cool to my bad

teenage self.….He has since regained his coolness as I have gained maturity.

Share a current read? Artistic, Ed, or Fun. Our leadership team is reading a book titled Mindset: The

New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. It is an excellent read and has given some very

concrete ideas to change my attitude towards my students and my own children.

What is your top goal for the year? My main goal this year is to be a better teacher to those students

that don’t want to take my class but are there anyway. I want to do my best to help them find that spark of

creativity that I believe we all have.

Excerpt from

http://teachingforartisticbehavior.org/what-is-tab

TEACHING FOR ARTISTIC BEHAVIOR, Inc. is a grassroots organization developed by and for teachers and supports choice-based art education. The concept emerged over 30 years ago in Massachusetts classrooms through the need for more authentic art making expe-riences. United through Massa-chusetts College of Art (MassArt), teachers working in isolation discovered others who also held belief in the child as the artist. With the support of MassArt, NAEA and The Educa-tion Alliance at Brown Universi-ty, the Teaching for Artistic Be-havior Partnership (TAB) was formed in 2001 and incorporated in 2007. TAB has become a visible presence online, at NAEA conferences, and at regional gatherings of choice-based practitioners. All choice-based art educators are welcome in the TAB organiza-tion.

TAB-CHOICE is a phrase that has emerged on various art edu-cation forums, as teachers con-nect the concept (choice) with the organization (TAB). It has become a convenient way to explain TAB’s purpose; you could even include “authentic art education” to more fully illustrate the concept, as in “TAB-Choice Authentic Art Education.”

Allison Garrison– Central/ High-Senior High

– Plano Senior High

What was your first artistic memory? My dad was an architect –

I can remember peering over the edge of his drafting table as he drew,

and I LOVED watching him. The first creation I can remember was

a painting that he and I made together. It was simple painting

very painterly. To this day I still prefer to paint with strong

brushstrokes. Great memories.