Art On Centre

What Are Your Thoughts as Parents, Teachers and Artists on the new Teacher Performance Evaluation Process?    As a specialist,  I agree with the article in the Times. I personally feel as if I have less time to discover new ideas for lessons, no time to see what other artists are doing both locally and through media and I feel that I need three more hours in the day on top of the three I already do outside of the school day to do evaluation work.  I found out the hard way that doing what I love most, developing new lessons and experimenting with the ideas in my studio first then connecting them to the Common Core, ELA, and new standards is a long time consuming process that can keep me up until the wee hours of the night thus getting far less sleep than I used to.   For me, I spend much more time trying to connect what I am doing to the state mandated teacher rubric so that I can prove I am teaching and prove the stude...

THE CURLEY K-8 COMMUNITY WISHES MAYOR MENINO GOODBYE! Our new Principal Ms. Katie Grassa, was invited to an Educator's Goodbye  Meeting for Mayor Menino and asked if the Curley art students could make a goodbye card. We had an outpouring of artwork so the students put together a book of pictures as our card for her to bring to the meeting. Here is a sampling of just some the artwork that was included in the card. We all wish the mayor well!

After our trying days in the heat let us not forget the students that come in because school is the place where they want to be, would rather be, feel safe, secure and downright happy to come in and help us clean the closet of help clean up our rooms. I for one am thankful for the company and the help no matter how hot it is. I will be posting some of the projects we have done in recent weeks. Some may be lessons or just beautiful pictures of the students last days with me this year. Next year some will move up to 6th and walk by us without that hello or hug you are used to getting from them.  They are growing up and "too old for that now ".  That is what I tell myself anyway. Some will leave and go to new schools and we will not see them or maybe we will bump into them a few years later working their first job and they remember you and they are excited to see you again.  It is a great feeling to hear them say " I remember your class !". Are you still teachi...