Unfortunately, it was raining and cloudy today but it was still beautiful! Desafortunadamente, estaba lloviendo y nublado hoy, ¡pero todavía era precios@!

I have been busy but I’ve been good.

Slightly personal/only related to my education updates:

• I have been volunteering at the Pensacola Museum of Art.
• I’ve also been participating with Escape Community Art Center.
• I am going to be an education intern at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg this summer.
• I am taking my last two courses this summer.
• I will be a student teacher this fall in Sicily, Italy.

Soy ocupada pero estoy bien.

Actualizaciones que son un poco personal / sólo en relación con mi educación:

• Soy un voluntario en el Museo de Arte de Pensacola.
• También estoy participando con Escape Centro social de arte.
• Voy a ser un intern@ de educación en el Museo de Bellas Artes de San Petersburgo este verano.
• Estoy tomando mis dos últimos cursos este verano.
• Voy a ser un maestr@ en practica este otoño en Sicilia, Italia.

monasequeda:

My newest thing is to take pictures of our community trips (monthly ‘field trips’). When we get back to school I quickly upload them to the computer and print them low quality in black and white. Each child chooses a picture and writes about what was happening in it.

This helps so much! Before I would just have them write about the trip and they could never remember what we’d done.  With the visual they are able to write so much more.

That night I print the pictures at Walgreens and the next day we glue the picture with their writing.

monasequeda:

I absolutely love  Round is a Mooncake, and so do my kids!  I read it every year as part of our writing curriculum, but I’d read it even if no required.  The illustrations are wonderful.

A very big thank you specifically to the dedicated folks at Bellview Elementary, who were high-spirited for the children during the lockdown yesterday.

gaywrites:

A high school yearbook staff and adviser are coming under fire for publishing a feature about a gay student in the yearbook. 

The yearbook at Lenoir City High School in Tennessee ran a short piece about student Zac Mitchell’s experiences as an openly gay teen in a conservative area, under the headline “It’s OK to be gay.” After the yearbooks came out, a school board member and blogger called for a criminal investigation of the yearbook adviser for “inflicting their personal beliefs and sexual orientation decisions on impressionable students.”

According to the Associated Press, petitions are circulating for students to rip the page out of their yearbooks during graduation and even for Mitchell to be banned from going to graduation. 

This actually makes me sick. The fact that it would cross someone’s mind to ban a student from walking at their high school graduation for being openly gay is completely inexcusable and indefensible. Some individuals in this area are clearly living in a different time. 

craigroland:

A Blast From the Past: Sculpture Class, Evanston Township High School,  Evanston, IL 1957