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| sponge jenga. |
making connections between life inside & outside of school, questioning myself constantly & students, investigating together, research, reflection, sustaining curiosity, work spilling out of our room into hallways & the neighborhood, engaging with people outside of school through community based projects proposed by students, what do they care about in their neighborhoods? what do they want to know more about? open to experimentation & risk taking but explicit in my instructions & expectations of my students, authentic projects instead of isolated tasks, i want my students to be self-sufficient, self-directed & resourceful, valuing works in progress, idea generation, who am i in my community? fluid space, mentorships between younger & older students, contemporary artists in our classroom-visiting artists, continue to be a maker of art outside of school, field-trips, walks, movement, physical awareness of bodies in space, process as important as product, documentation, meta-cognition, self-reflective researchers, inviting personal stories into planning projects, walking maps, drawing maps, talking maps. sometimes I know. sometimes I don't, crawling around inside, noticing noticing. curveball, fastball, change-up. a trombone in the street, this way & that. what do you love? what do you fear? what do you want? -bill t. jones. i learn from watching. i learn from listening. i'm quiet. i've been walking behind the houses i normally walk in front of. how do you see yourself? how are you perceived by others? simplify. how can emotions be represented in the form of shapes? ongoing construction, an interpretive space, sometimes the city feels brand new. big & bright. attempting to give shape & form to big ideas. receptive: able or willing to receive something, full of juice; juicy. sometimes the streets look like paintings. how do people make a relationship to knowledge? how is a desire for learning engaged? where am I from? where am I going? i'm paying attention to what i am resistant to. how do i order my world? what do I want to know? how well do I know this place? is this my place? where is my place? giving myself permission to be nervous. building relationships, co-constructing knowledge, laughter.