Here are a few of the ah-has, what-ifs, yes-ands, and why-nots from our reflection conversation this afternoon. Yall were thinking faster than I could type, but I tried to catch what I could.
Kids need an audience and a take-away.
It takes more than a pen to interpret.
-- Danyele
Look at all we did in 3 hours.
Think of what we could do in a school just in a morning.
--Leah
A lot of the materials are just things we have in our classrooms.
I can do this.
--Theresa
To be creative it takes a lot of quiet thinking time within yourself.
You have to imagine what your finished product will look like.
Sometimes it's not as good as it was in your head;
sometimes it turns out sometimes better than you imagined.
-- Rosa
To succeed you have to be able to fail.
-- Gary
It takes courage to give kids the time.
The question of 'how do we get kids to do this?' is a sobering reality.
-- David
I was impressed with the way the teaching artists brought everyone into the process of making art.
It wasn't a performance, it felt more like sharing our process.
-- Gretchen
I'm thinking about collaboration and all the different kinds of collaboration that happened this week. As facilitators,
as partners in art-making,
as administrators,
as organizers
--Cynthia
We all have our comfort and discomfort with certain art forms.
We have to remember that this is how our students feel
every time they're asked to do something they're challenged by.
We have to create an environment where it's ok to take risks and make mistakes.
--Mary
Thank you all for sharing these three days with us. An honor and a pleasure, all of you!
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Frames of Poetry
