by KP | Jul 11, 2022 | Education, Journalism
After 27 months as a pandemic-era high school teacher, and 27 months COVID-free, I finally tested positive for the virus on the weekend before finals and two weeks before our final yearbook deadline. I’d done most things right over the last two years. Learned to teach...
by KP | Dec 28, 2020 | Education, Flex, Pandemic
In the shifts of this year, I wonder if my students are still having the sort of meaningful conversations with teachers and peers that are helping them to figure out who they are now, and who they want to be. At a local art supply store recently, after I raided the...
by KP | Dec 23, 2020 | Ceramics, Education, Pandemic
Recently, I’ve admitted to myself that most of the ceramic cups I’ve made over the years are too big. The ten-ounce setting on a Keurig only reaches halfway on mugs that line my parents’ cupboards. I always make some forgettable jokes about this when I visit. Not only...
by KP | Apr 30, 2020 | Education, Flex, Instagram, Pandemic
Since the pandemic started, I’ve been spending at least three days a week wearing my gray hooded sweatshirt with the grungy Interlochen Center for the Arts logo. It’s six years old now, and it’s been in my constant wardrobe rotation since I bought it at the campus...
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by KP | Mar 26, 2020 | Education, Flex, Instagram, Pandemic
“Wait… what’s that word again? For the note that repeats?” “Ostinato.” “Um… can you text that to me after we’re off the phone?” George Burton laughs. It’s the same deep, hitching giggle that healed my spirit for the first time more than twenty years ago. Thankfully,...
by KP | Mar 17, 2020 | Design, Education, Flex, Pandemic
NOTE: During the shifts in education due to coronavirus precautions, I’m largely targeting this blog to daily reflections on these shifts. as accompaniment to prompts I’m sharing with my students. It feels as though the world is upside-down right...
