by KP | Sep 2, 2012 | Education
Craft, Creativity, Content, Composition I use a similar “four-Cs” model when developing rubrics. Â But I substitute ‘Completion’ for ‘Composition.’ Â At the secondary level, I’ve found it necessary to assess whether the project...
by KP | Aug 29, 2012 | Education
To start off the year, my colleagues and I found ourselves watching this video yesterday: …a clip that I’ve seen before, and has almost achieved meme status among the sorts of folks with whom I hang in the digital. An excerpt from Sir Ken Robinson’s...
by KP | Aug 28, 2012 | Ceramics, Education
My thoughts on this — if being PSU’s Laureate means that the world will be blessed with more of Staley’s wisdom – in video, writing, whatever — then 2012-2013 is going to be a very good...
by KP | Aug 27, 2012 | Education
Life should not be only about seeking success; art and music reveal that to us. And culture should not be about parading around fund raising galas pretending to understand art one secretly finds meaningless just to appear intellectual or accomplished. One of the worst...
by KP | Aug 11, 2012 | Education
via Richard Dare: The Scandalous Failure of Art and Music. Human existence is real and art needs to address that: 47 million Americans currently live in poverty. That means 22% of all children in this country will go to bed hungry tonight. 2.2 million family homes are...
by KP | Jul 31, 2012 | Education
It’s been over a week now since, while driving to camp in the early morning hours, I first heard the news about the movie theatre shooting in Aurora, Colorado. NPR related the known facts in sad and serious tones, and then moved on to other stories. Horrified,...
