by Robin Brooks | Dec 18, 2024 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning
The challenge of children and collage In my years of teaching, I’ve noticed that children often choose to draw or paint rather than make a collage. On choice-based art teaching forums I’ve often heard art teachers talk about the challenge of inspiring...
by Robin Brooks | Nov 11, 2024 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
My Reggio Study Group Convenes On Tuesday evening, October 12, 2010, my Reggio Study Group gathered in Portland to start another year together. We had been calling ourselves the Portland Area Reggio Collaborative, or PARC for a couple of years already. A collection...
by Robin Brooks | Mar 22, 2020 | Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
Trouble At Sea by Dylan I was reading a friend’s Poem of the Day blog on Blogger and rediscovered a blog I began during my time at Lincoln School. Now that we are all working from home, children and teachers alike, we need to figure out ways to stay connected....
by Robin Brooks | Jun 8, 2015 | Teaching and Learning
To become painters, children need many opportunities to explore imagery, color mixing, how paintbrushes make marks. Easel painting allows children to carve out their own space in the hub hub of the art room. The physicality of standing at the easel and wielding a...
