Whew! I'm tired

The Texas Art Education Association conference in Galveston this past weekend was a wholelotta fun, but I'm beat! Daniela and I presented twice on Everybody Wins! Teaching Life Skills Students in the Inclusion Classroom. Both times went really well and I think we met a need, or at least got the ball rolling for the need to be met for the people who attended. I attended several very enlightening workshops on advocacy, visual literacy and visual culture, teaching special needs students, technology in education, and one especially interesting one about teaching students from working class homes. The time I wasn't presenting or attending workshops I was hangin' with the homies from Alvin laughing and eating. That was a joy.

I slipped away from the conference to attend Cliff's play on Saturday night. I'm very proud to report that he and his cast and crew raised nearly $3000 for scholarships! Bravo! And I must say that the production was very well done, funny as hell and poignant, but if I do say so myself, Cliff's performance stole the show. The students in the audience cheered when he came on stage. I'm real proud of him.

But the world still turns and I presented tonight in my History of Art Education class on Art Education from 1960-1980, the years I was in school. I think it went well. It was especially interesting to study that time from an outside perspective and to match it to my experience.

And now I am on to writing a profile on Oliva Gude, exemplary art educator. I have a phone interview with her set for tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to that.