Integrated Arts?

The Integrated Arts is a model designed to offer support, extension, and supplementary experiences in content areas through interdisciplinary arts activities. The Common Core Standards' emphasis on developing depth and rigor in thought and the ability to communicate relevant information with increasing skill provides the necessary impetus for this model. Content will be viewed through many lenses, allowing the entirety of relevant ideas to be processed and applied broadly and with added depth. Work with visual arts, music, drama, literature, writing, technology, and design will be incorporated and collaboration with classroom teachers will be ongoing. As Yeats wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". The Integrated Arts is an opportunity to light a very purposeful, very directed fire.

Friday, September 13, 2013

About me



We are poised at a potentially pivotal point in education history. The move towards the Common-Core Standards requires connected thinking with depth and rigor. Thoughts must be examined, justified, evaluated, and applied broadly. We must develop skills of true success: creativity, collaboration, communication, entrepreneurship, and  problem-solving. My students will develop in these capacities as they create works of art that engage with relevance to core academic instruction.


UCSD: Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, CLAD authorization, Supplemental authorization in Visual Arts, B.A. Art History/Criticism, Minor: studio art. In addition to being a dedicated educator I have been a paid artist, storyteller, writer, and musician.

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