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Feb 26, 20193 min read

Literary Savages Get Real

As soon as I walked into my classroom with my mentors at New Directions Secondary School, I was bombarded with whoops and hollers as if I...

Feb 5, 20193 min read

Great Expectations

Reacclimating to a classroom setting can be challenging, especially if you haven’t been in a classroom in a while. As a new Teaching...

May 18, 20182 min read

Abbie Hebein, Visual Artist

Abbie Hebein is a visual artist, creative organizer and exhibition maker. She studied Art History at Lewis and Clark College in Portland,...

Mar 26, 20183 min read

Classroom Curve Balls (Or the Proper Care and Feeding of Lesson Plans)

Adapt or perish. H.G. Wells was talking about evolution when he coined that, but it can as easily be applied to teaching artistry. It’s...

Mar 20, 20183 min read

We're All Just Winging It!

As part of the Teaching Artist Project (TAP) training, I have been assigned to an internship at PS 171 in Astoria, Queens, assisting two...

Mar 13, 20183 min read

Capturing New York City in an Astoria Classroom

When you think of New York City, what visual comes to mind? Towering buildings lined along a coast flanked by long, winding bridges,...

Mar 5, 20183 min read

What is Third Grade?

When I first signed up for the residency in Ms. Ferandino’s third grade class, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I’d had some limited...

Feb 26, 20182 min read

Zooming In & Acts of Kindness

Located on a quiet corner in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, P.S. 84 Jose De Diego School’s facade displayed a handsome mural as...

Jan 22, 20182 min read

Poe-etry, Goosebumps & Silence as Thick as a Heartbeat

It may take a village to raise a child. To get a classroom into poetry, it takes artists. P.S 279 is named for Captain Manuel Rivera,...

Dec 20, 20174 min read

Internships, Secret Ingredients & Pigs Who Save the City

I recently started the Teaching Artist Project (TAP) at Community-Word Project. In addition to immersive seminars with other...