I'm passionate about using art, movement, and theatre to guide homeschooling families beyond the boundaries of traditional education and empower them to Think Outside the Books! #AudienceEngagement #Blog

Interest, inquiry, impact. These are the three pillars of the i3 process. I'm applying the i3 process to Artober/Inktober in this way: 1. Interest-I'm interested in drawing, painting, and inking. I'll be using the challenges to improve my skills (or at least my consistency). 2. Inquiry- Each week, I'll look into a different style of inking and apply that to each prompt that week. 3. Impact-This project has two levels of impact. The personal impact involves improvement through

"Do what you love, and do it well." This is the unofficial tagline of NEXT, the charter school at which I teach English. We strongly believe that students should pursue their passions but that they need the structure and tools to do that with excellence. Everyone LOVES the idea until they realize that excellence+pursuit+tools looks a lot like work! Many of them do amazing things with the i3 process (interest, inquiry, impact), but the purpose of reflection still mystifies and

Delight in ALL the arts! This October, I'm indulging my creative self fully: art, dance, singing, writing. The Write 31 Days challenge will chronicle these adventures. Today, I continued work on an art journaling Season Series. Through out the 31 days I'll also take the time to introduce myself, my life, and my goals. Here, though, are Fall and Winter. The cute is strong in these! (I'm also taking part in Jane Davenport's Artober). #Blog #AudienceEngagement #Write31 #Artober

Belly dance changed the way I viewed education. Before dancing, learning was a bookish affair--all words and little action. I loved it, but I felt unsatisfied and, after my MA in English, depressed and burnt out with the educational process. Then I began belly dancing. I expected it to be more on the luxurious, sensual side...and it was. But I was blessed enough to be paired with an instructor passionate about history, culture, art, music and how it all intertwines and meets