ilaea members – Page 4 – Illinois Art Education Association

The only thing more stressful than being sick is preparing for a substitute! Sub plans are a particular challenge for art teachers, with dozens of classes and a multitude of materials. This presentation will focus on practical advice and strategies to prepare lessons and classroom supplies for the inevitable sick day. Join Lindsey for a light-hearted look at handling the art sub experience, and walk away with some useful ideas that will provide peace of mind and help you stay home the next time you need to!

Lindsey Moss is an elementary art teacher from Yorkville, Illinois where she has held her dream job for the past sixteen years. Currently, her two favorite artists (Linden Moss, 9 and Ellison Moss, 6) are students in her art class, making work-life even sweeter. She holds an MA from Aurora University, a BS in Art Education from Northern Illinois University, and is National Board certified. In addition to her role in the public school, Lindsey also works for The Art of Education University, where she has been a writer, conference presenter, and helps to produce Art Ed Pro.

Webinar: How Creativity Will Save Schools

Check out Chris’ Podcast: Hey Teachers! Let’s Innovate Education

Important Videos to Use

Everything is a Remix:

Videos on webpage

Shots of Awe:

Curiosity

Critique:

The Story of Austin’s Butterfly

Creativity is undervalued, misunderstood, and underutilized even though it’s considered to be one of the #1 skills needed in the contemporary and future economy, which would cause you to think it should be a priority in schools, but it’s rarely taught if ever specifically and purposefully. Thanks to Sir Ken Robinson we all know how schools kill creativity, but how many people actually understand what exactly is being killed? How purposefully do you teach creativity to your students? In this session, participants will explore the nature of creativity from multiple points of view and processes for the high school classroom experience. We remove the curtain covering creativity, define it, break it down, talk about how neuroscience illuminates creativity as the main function of the human brain, how collaboration and imagination are fundamental to human intelligence, and more, while using resources such as the Everything is a Remix videos, Shots of Awe, and more.

Chris Sykora, Deerfield High School, is the Co-Creator and an Executive Board Member for the IHSAE. He holds a Masters in Educational Leadership, with a Principal Endorsement. Chris has served as the Secretary and Advocacy Taskforce Chair for the Illinois Art Education Association. All of these roles have included coordinating and leading countless meetings and presentations with key legislators and education leaders to enhance visual arts experiences for students in Illinois. With a social constructivist education philosophy and passion for the arts, Chris has led numerous project-based and interdisciplinary projects and workshops with numerous teachers and outside organizations, while advocating for STEAM, Design Thinking, and SEL curricular systems in school districts; bridging intersections across disciplines, learner communities, and democratic policy. He recently launched the podcast, Hey Teachers!with the goal of innovating education systems because it’s long overdue.

Webinar: Managing the Middle

Presentation Link

Four middle school art teachers invite you to see how evolving teaching practices are transforming our classrooms. Learn ways to organize your classroom and to engage learners through varied art curriculums. Strategies and techniques can also be applied to elementary and high school art classrooms.

These four art educators connected through a common purpose to improve art education and share ideas that work. Each teaches in different middle-level classroom settings from different regions of the U.S.

Janine Campbell: Byron Center, MI

Theresa McGee: Hinsdale, IL

Stacy Lord: Worchester, MA

Holly Bess Kincaid: Harrisonburg, VA

Webinar Registration: How Creativity will Save Schools (PD Requested)

How Creativity will Save Schools

Monday, October 21st, 7-7:30 PM

Webinar: Teaching with a Twist

Presenters: Janet Taylor and Matt Milkowski

This presentation will support teachers who appreciate the irreplaceable value of traditional art lessons, but struggle with the cliche, outdated, or disengaging qualities that sometimes accompany them. Attendees will walk away with concrete and adaptable ideas to transform conventional art projects into innovative and exciting contemporary variants. The presentation will begin with a brief discussion on the benefits, challenges, and stigmas that accompany traditional art lessons, and how their experiences have varied in urban and suburban settings. Next, the session shares big-picture strategies for infusing unexpected and inventive adaptations into stale lessons. Last, the bulk of the session will offer a dozen specific before and after lessons in a variety of media, complete with student samples and resources for implementation. The presenters noticed in their near 20 years of teaching experience that other secondary educators sometimes have divisive perspectives on what constitutes quality curricular content: skill-building vs ideation, student-driven versus teacher-driven, old versus new. This presentation aims to facilitate a dialogue on balanced practice and encourages teachers to embrace ways to find value and joy in all approaches, bridging pedagogical gaps along the way. More importantly, attendees will leave this session with a laundry list of electrifying lesson stems that can be implemented in the classroom the next day!

Resources:

Art Ed Collective https://artedcollective.weebly.com/

Triptych Photographer Mentioned in Video, Adde Adesokan

Janet Taylor is a high school art teacher at Naperville North High School (western suburbs of Chicago), teaching any and all media (drawing, painting, digital art, play production, sculpture, jewelry/metals, ceramics). Janet received a B.A. from the University of Iowa in Theatre Arts (Set Design emphasis) and a B.A. in Studio Art (Painting emphasis). After spending 10 years in NYC and Chicago working as a Scenic Artist, she returned to her passion of teaching at the college level. In 2010, Janet received an M.Ed. in Secondary Education at DePaul University, and has taught at 3 different schools including Chicago Public Schools and the suburbs. Over the past 5 years, Janet has worked to develop Choice-Based curriculum in Jewelry/Metals, Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics, and AP Art and Design (all 3 portfolios). You may have seen her presentations at NAEA and/or IAEA over the past several years, in which she discusses her journey (both successes and failures) to move her classroom structure into the Choice/TAB realm. Janet is a painter and mixed media artist, mother of two, an extroverted introvert, and loves the color orange.

Matt Milkowski has taught 10 years of Art Survey, Studio Drawing, & A.P. Drawing Portfolio at Kenwood Academy (Chicago Public Schools). While occasionally tempted to bolt and become a field ecologist of some sort, he currently embraces both the indescribable joys and stresses of being an art educator. He received a BFA in Painting & MFA in Art Education from Boston University. He has presented over 20 times at various national and state art education conventions, the Crocker Art Museum, Depaul University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s TEN conferences, and professional development sessions. Matt sponsors the world famous Kenwood board game and camping clubs. Outside of education, he is a musician, hobby game designer, and painter. He loves his amazing family, orcas, regular bears, and the Chicago Bears. Matt believes that a well-rounded and balanced art education provides essential value for all students, widening their view of the human experience, and fueling their potential as active & meaningful contributors to society at large.

Webinar: Teaching the A in STEAM with Tinkercad

Presenters: Kellyanne Mahoney & Dr. Nettrice Gaskins

How can Tinkercad, the free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding, be used in the classroom to infuse the arts with other subjects in the production of meaningful projects? Kellyanne Mahoney, Youth Program Specialist at Autodesk, and Dr. Nettrice Gaskins, artist, educator, and BUILDer in Residence at the Autodesk Technology Centers, will share real-life examples of how teachers can use Tinkercad as a creativity tool to align their lessons with both ISTE Standards and National Core Art Standards. They will also explore Nettrice’s design process as she shares how she used Tinkercad to design a giant abacus, which is part of a large-scale public art project meant to transform ordinary public places into exciting learning environments that help children get an early start in mathematics. Through this presentation, Kellyanne and Nettrice hope to engage the audience in a discussion about how design thinking, creativity, communication, and artistic skills can deepen and reinforce math and science understanding.

View Presentation Slides HERE

Dr. Nettrice Gaskins is an artist whose work explores how to generate art using algorithms in different ways, especially through coding. She also teaches, writes, “fabs” or makes, and does other things. She has taught multimedia, computational media, visual art, and even Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles with high school students who majored in the arts. She earned a BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992 and an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She received a doctorate in Digital Media from Georgia Tech in 2014. She has taught at the secondary and post-secondary levels in the Boston Public Schools and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Currently, Dr. Gaskins is a program manager at the Fab Foundation and an artist-in-residence at the Autodesk Technology Center on behalf of MathTalk, a group that creates public art that encourages adults and children to enjoy, explore, and talk about the math in their own backyards. She will publish her first full-length book in the winter through MIT Press.

Kellyanne Mahoney is a National Board Certified Teacher and experienced curriculum developer who spent 13 years working in the Boston Public Schools. She currently serves as a Youth Program Specialist for Autodesk, focusing on creating K-12 STEAM learning content, managing education campaigns and programs, facilitating professional development for educators, and building strong relationships with the New England education community and beyond. For the past several years, Kellyanne’s work has also been centered on using design thinking to bridge the problems faced in schools with the problem of creating equitable onramps into the innovation economy for students.