November 29, 2016 – 5:29 am
On November 9th, the day after the election, I couldn’t think of a place I wanted to be more than Oakland International High School. I brought a couple boxes of chalk with me. I asked two of the many roaming, anxious students to hold the string as I walked around them creating the chalk circles […]
Check out a recent Agency by Design blog post I wrote “Finding Depth in Paper Circuits,” about a day-long workshop I co-taught to Santa Barbara art teachers.
Join me for an upcoming Printmaking Workshop, also a fundraiser! REGISTER HERE on Eventbrite!
January 5, 2016 – 6:13 pm
Working with the Agency by Design project has changed the way I teach traditional art projects. In the maker-centered learning environment one often starts with close looking and taking something apart. We all know that artists do a lot of close looking, but I wondered how the taking apart might become more visible. My collaborating teacher, Michelle […]
December 12, 2014 – 12:55 am
What an honor to have our Agency by Design teacher research with Project Zero be profiled on KQED! Check it out! Lots of quotes by me and my work at OIHS in the second section. Â
November 9, 2014 – 11:05 pm
Prints are now for sale at local boutiques in Oakland, including: Ruby’s Garden in Temescal Bella Vita in Rockridge
August 29, 2014 – 4:35 pm
Last week I had the opportunity to represent the Agency by Design project at ACOE’s Integrated Learning Conference, this year titled, Inventing our Future. I taught two workshops for teachers, “Observation, Elaboration, and Maker Empowerment,†and “Using Systems Thinking to Re-Design Public Education.â€Â To see my post about the former workshop click here. How can […]
August 18, 2014 – 11:56 pm
Last week I had the opportunity to represent the Agency by Design project at ACOE’s Integrated Learning Conference, this year titled, Inventing our Future. I taught two workshops for teachers, “Observation, Elaboration, and Maker Empowerment,” and “Using Systems Thinking to Re-Design Public Education.” Not being a Maker Education expert I went into the workshops feeling […]
