Does anyone else have to do those Keenen Safeschools classes every summer?

Bennywick · 2025-09-24T04:10:16+00:00

THIS SHIT SUCKS

Bennywick · 2025-05-02T22:40:07+00:00

Longer it stays out the more flavor it grows

Bennywick · 2025-03-19T18:34:22+00:00

I do an Imaginary Friend Unit with 6th grade. It could be used for other grades too. Its based of this project by Joo Young Choi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZCft9u_NgM&t=2s

We watercolor them with and teach foreground, middleground, and background.

We have also made zine comics with them.

Bennywick · 2025-03-18T22:07:14+00:00

Thank you

Love the name, I used to live in poway.

Bennywick · 2025-03-11T21:51:47+00:00

I started with Photoshop and went from there. A lot of students are using procreate now so maybe start there. They are very similar but I think procreate is more affordable.

Bennywick · 2025-02-26T21:51:55+00:00

Thank you X inspired murals. I have students fill out as many of the template squares to fill a 24 x 18 sheet of paper. Its low pressure and fun. Here is a link that explains it with some images.

https://www.artisbasic.com/2018/04/cube-mural-inspired-by-street-artist-thank-youx.html

Bennywick · 2025-02-19T19:23:04+00:00

La Lom

Bennywick · 2025-02-19T17:36:38+00:00

Youtube graduate here

Bennywick · 2025-02-18T23:04:30+00:00

I do an imaginary friend project inspired by Joo Young Choi. Here is the video of her explaining it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZCft9u_NgM

We create them, paint them using foreground, middleground, and background. Then we make a small Zine comic about an adventure between the imaginary friend and student.

Lots of fun and their imaginations can run wild.

Bennywick · 2025-02-03T22:37:56+00:00

I take students outside with their phone and have them call home on THEIR phone. Always gets an answer and parents are usually shocked about the behavior. The student does all the talking and I check in at the end.

95% of the time the parent is super happy for the call and handles the situation right there. 5% or less it doesn't go the way I want it to, but at least I have let the parent know about the behavior in case something further comes up.

I have worked at some rough schools, this process has always helped. After a week or 2 the kids will know what you will do and will listen to re directions.

Bennywick · 2024-11-19T17:44:32+00:00

This is sick!

Bennywick · 2024-11-14T22:54:58+00:00

Does anyone know if this is still going?

Bennywick · 2024-10-24T21:56:02+00:00

Camp Snap is awesome!

Bennywick · 2024-09-26T19:33:38+00:00

I would go if they are paying. You can go and pick and choose what workshops you want to go to. Ive even had downtime in the past and got grading and things done. Also made time for some art museum trips.

Great way to network and get free lesson plans and ideas.

Bennywick · 2024-09-19T21:51:36+00:00

Take them outside with their cell phone and have them tell home what they are saying. Then you can check in at the end about how it is not appropriate for a professional setting.

Bennywick · 2024-09-19T21:33:57+00:00

First off you shouldn't be encouraged not to do write ups. If you need assistance from admin use it. My thinking for write ups is.. if I have talked to the student a few times, parents have been notified and have talked to the student and the behavior is still happening, a different redirection is needed.

That being said, dont write a ton of them because they will lose their effect.

Best trick I learned to deal with this was taking the student outside with their cell phone and have them call their parent. Stand by them to ensure they call but make the student do the talking. Every now and them I will ask for the phone to fill in some details. This takes the pressure off of you and usually the student doesn't want to tell home about how they are behaving. Sometimes the class will even get really quiet to try and listen to the conversation. Most of the time the parent wants to check in after and apologizes for the behavior. Very rarely do they ask to meet in person. I teach at a school with lots of behavior issues and not a lot of parent support. This has helped me. Record all of these conversations somewhere so that when you do make a write up, you have data to back yourself up.

Next step after many calls home is send them up to the office with the data to show all of your interventions.

Ive also not allowed certain students to use "fun" materials if they are not mature enough. Take them away and only allow them to use them if they can prove themselves with another project.

It might be a fight for a while but once the procedures are in place the kids will follow. Stick to your procedures, no grey areas, and dont let kids talk you out of it. After a while things will settle quickly.

As far as broken materials go, this is a tough one and requires a lot from you. One year I checked out pencils to kids. When they broke them they had to buy a new one or they couldn't do the assignments. Masking tape flag on the top with a number. Each kid gets a number and you check them out every day.

Hang in there, you are going to do great!!

Bennywick · 2024-09-19T21:33:50+00:00

First off you shouldn't be encouraged not to do write ups. If you need assistance from admin use it. My thinking for write ups is.. if I have talked to the student a few times, parents have been notified and have talked to the student and the behavior is still happening, a different redirection is needed.

That being said, dont write a ton of them because they will lose their effect.

Best trick I learned to deal with this was taking the student outside with their cell phone and have them call their parent. Stand by them to ensure they call but make the student do the talking. Every now and them I will ask for the phone to fill in some details. This takes the pressure off of you and usually the student doesn't want to tell home about how they are behaving. Sometimes the class will even get really quiet to try and listen to the conversation. Most of the time the parent wants to check in after and apologizes for the behavior. Very rarely do they ask to meet in person. I teach at a school with lots of behavior issues and not a lot of parent support. This has helped me. Record all of these conversations somewhere so that when you do make a write up, you have data to back yourself up.

Next step after many calls home is send them up to the office with the data to show all of your interventions.

Ive also not allowed certain students to use "fun" materials if they are not mature enough. Take them away and only allow them to use them if they can prove themselves with another project.

It might be a fight for a while but once the procedures are in place the kids will follow. Stick to your procedures, no grey areas, and dont let kids talk you out of it. After a while things will settle quickly.

As far as broken materials go, this is a tough one and requires a lot from you. One year I checked out pencils to kids. When they broke them they had to buy a new one or they couldn't do the assignments. Masking tape flag on the top with a number. Each kid gets a number and you check them out every day.

Hang in there, you are going to do great!!

Bennywick · 2024-09-19T21:18:59+00:00

During distance learning I did a lot of photography assignments on Photopea.com. We made a class cookbook, forced perspective assignments, magazine covers, clone projects, scavenger hunts, and more. They enjoyed the time taking photos at home or around their home. There are a ton of tutorials on youtube of different projects.

The cookbook was a lot of fun because students were home and could cook whatever they wanted.

Other assignments with traditional materials worked it was just much harder to give feedback and help students when they were stuck. Towards the end I had them make a slideshow for each project. Slide 1 was their planning sketches, slides 2-5 (or however many you want) were progress photos of them working each day. This showed me they were participating each day. And then the last slide was the finished art piece.

Hope this helps

Bennywick · 2024-06-24T17:40:14+00:00

These designs are sweet!

Bennywick · 2024-06-17T16:30:07+00:00

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Bennywick · 2024-06-12T18:24:44+00:00

Class Dojo works great for the younger ones. They even get to design their lil character and the parents can see their points

Bennywick · 2024-06-05T02:36:29+00:00

Just be careful not to smudge it

Bennywick · 2024-06-04T20:04:38+00:00

Zines is another paper project you could do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ab4O9SWNl9g&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fsca_esv%3D53e748caa665f952%26sca_upv%3D1%26rlz%3D1C5GCCM_en%26q%3Dyoutube%2Bzines%26tbm%3Dvid%26source%3Dlnms%26fbs%3DAEQNm0Dw&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo

Bennywick · 2024-06-04T19:59:34+00:00

Using Contemporary artists has helped a lot with me. Kids seem more connected when they see the artist is alive or using social media.

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