YESSSSSSS!

 

It's officially SUMMAH TIME! Burton & I have survived our first year teaching & honestly, it went pretty damn smoothly for both of us. Burton's definitely a natural & we were both quickly welcomed into close-knit schools. Although we did great, we now each have a running list of all things we plan to do differently next year. I mean, c'mon, I've got like SIX art education boards on Pinterest ;]

 

But now that our glorious, two-month-long break is here, we've got all sorts of things we need to accomplish this summer. At least a dozen wedding DIYs (stay tuned!), building our own keezer, paintinnnnnggggg, & cruisin'!! While all this is going on, Burton will also be attending grad school! I mentioned that we had some exciting news a while back, but just now realized that I never revealed it. Silly me.

Anyway, because Burton is so amazing & everything always seems to fall into place, he was accepted into a science education program at UCF with 50 other students to get a masters degree FOR FREE! That boy will have a free masters by August 2013. So exciting :] & what's better is that "free" education degrees usually involve the student agreeing to teach X amount of years within the area afterwards, but this one doesn't! So this will not affect us with our out-of-state move in a couple of years :] Huzzah!

you wish you went to school here

The Teaching Palette is one of my many new inspirations in the online community of art educators. I had previously tried to find cool pictures of art classrooms & after a few failed attempts, I stumbled on The Teaching Palette & discovered their whole slew of flickr photos. These are a few of my favorites :]

waiting for superman

"Waiting For Superman", from the creators of "An Inconvenient Truth", is a documentary which addresses issues in the American educational system. It was an amazing overview & something that I don't only think all teachers should see, but parents & students as well. A few more clips from the movie can be seen here.

At the end of the movie, the audience is invited to text a keyword to a given number in order to receive a $15 gift card code. You can then go to a website & donate that $15 to an educational charity of your choice. How brilliant! I donated my $15 code to Ms. L's art classroom in Brooklyn :]