Author: Anne Thulson

Hello TLP folks! Thanks to Katie Taft’s persistence and heart, our community connected virtually during the darkest parts of the pandemic. We will be meeting in person this year, sharing our students’ work and our practice. Along with the Center

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A note from Katie: I was emailing with Aaryn at Hill about lesson planning and thought that you all might want a place where you can share the lessons that you are developing to teach online. We don’t all need

DPS teachers joined us tonight as part of their ongoing PDU sessions. Their energy and creativity was inspiring. We examined COMBINATORY THINKING. “Of all the mental processes studied by cognitive psychologists, the ones thought to be most relevant to creativity

Erica Richards led us in an ideation exercise based on the book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell Erica asked us: What do You Pay Attention To? Do a one minute presentation on what do

This Wednesday, we spent some time with the CVA’s  Collectivism Exhibit where artists use community, social justice, humor, and beauty to respond to the good, the bad, and the ugly in our world. For instance, The Tea Project represents experiences

Happy Summer! We met in Erica G.’s beautiful garden for our first Scramble Scrabble Dinner and ate our synthesis: savory, alcohol-infused popsicles, versions of tacos with coffee, ashes and flan, herbed cakes, pasta concoctions, etc. Katie read about gathering and

  Hooshing Tonight, we picked up a thread that Rachael started a while ago. Remember curating the refrigerator? Katie lead us back into the art of J. Morgan Puett, a self proclaimed Master of Entanglement. We watched videos, talked, and

Question Finding Erica Richards lead us through an ideation exercise about finding a BIG question to investigate. Here is what we did:   Draw quick sketches of art you have made in the past, things that interest you, or take

Happy New Year! We started with what inspired us over winter break and went from there. Here are some of the things we shared with each other.  Joy Harjo, poet This is Not A Book, Jean Jullien Tales from the