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While student teaching, I had the opportunity to teach grades K-12 in a public, urban school district. My first full-time teaching position is at a high school in the Washington, D.C. area. I currently teach Foundations of Art and Digital Art classes, each of which includes students in grades 9-12.
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Preview of Digital Art Mini-Lessons and Activities

Digital Art Mini-Lessons and Activities

This Google Slides presentation includes over a dozen mini-lessons for virtual learners to build their digital art skills. Activities range from introductions to digital painting, to making pixel art, to molding virtual clay! Perfect for teaching online, hosting an art club, or practicing the skills on your own! Guided tutorial videos are embedded throughout the presentation Skills covered include: Flat Landscapes, Double Exposure, Drawing prompts, Photo Editing, Virtual Pictionary, and more!
Preview of Surrealism: Light & Shadows in Digital Photography

Surrealism: Light & Shadows in Digital Photography

This Digital Photography unit explores 3 techniques that create the concept of Surrealism: Double Exposure, Light & Shadows, and Positive & Negative Space. This 71-slide presentation can easily be clipped into smaller sections in order to post on individual canvas modules. The final slide includes a rubric with requirements for this project.
Preview of Kaleidoscope Fractals | Digital Photography Project (Photoshop)

Kaleidoscope Fractals | Digital Photography Project (Photoshop)

This resource makes a great one-week project for digital photography students. They will begin by taking photos of silhouetted subjects. Then, following the provided videos, students will create kaleidoscopic abstractions out of their images. What's Included: A 26-slide presentation with student examples, embedded instructional videos, and instructions for silhouette photographyLinks to external documents: Slides to use as projection backgrounds, and How to make a digital contact sheet in Photo
Preview of Cinematic Photography

Cinematic Photography

This Google Slide deck walks students through creative ways to capture cinematic-style photographs using various rules of composition and color grading edits. Instructions on adding details like time stamp and VHS effects are also linked. The examples in this resource are photos taken on student cell phones with editing done in Adobe Photoshop. Extensions can be added to this lesson to include recording photoshop actions for editing. There are videos embedded in the last 3 slides to show studen
Preview of Photoshop | Digital Risography

Photoshop | Digital Risography

This Photoshop lesson outlines a digital process to simulate a Risography process. Students will be introduced to what Risography is, and then given step-by-step instructions to create their own. Students can take their own photographs to keep work completely original, or Envato Elements can be used to render 3D objects for practice (linked in slides). This lesson makes a great experimental mini-project, perfect for sub plans or end of semester work!
Preview of Photography | Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

Photography | Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

This slide show guides students through an alphabet scavenger hunt, which requires finding letters out in the wild. Can you spot architecture that looks like the letter "S"? Can you spell your name with objects? This low-prep lesson makes a great end-of-term mini project to keep students engaged and having fun! The slides use Photoshop to edit letters together, but can easily be adapted to a different digital editing program based on your available classroom resources.
Preview of Typography | Practice & Project Guidelines

Typography | Practice & Project Guidelines

This presentation gives an overview of elements of typography, including defining examples of font, baseline shift, serif, and many more. Images used in this presentation were found on Canva. At the conclusion of the typography overview, practice videos are embedded for students to follow along with in Adobe Illustrator. Finally, a project is introduced with guidelines and more visual examples.
Preview of Layer Masking Practice: Am I Talking To Myself?

Layer Masking Practice: Am I Talking To Myself?

This resource is a Layer Masking Project called Am I Talking To Myself? Students take multiple photos of themselves from the same vantage point and merge them together into one scene using layer masks. This low-prep lesson shows examples of this project, introduces Digital Contact Sheets and how to make them, and includes a recorded video of the editing process. Perfect as an introductory lesson to begin a Digital Photography Course. This lesson uses editing in Adobe Photoshop and basic digitia
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Experience

While student teaching, I had the opportunity to teach grades K-12 in a public, urban school district. My first full-time teaching position is at a high school in the Washington, D.C. area. I currently teach Foundations of Art and Digital Art classes, each of which includes students in grades 9-12.

Teaching style

My teaching style emphasizes the importance of students having a choice in the content and style of their work. I believe in providing broad guidelines to allow students to create personal meaning through their projects.