In this episode, Clyde and I talk about his retitrement from K-12 education, the upcoming TAB Institute in Boston and the underpinning ideas that make TAB so important to a childs education. 

TAB Institute https://massart.edu/profe.../teaching-for-artistic-behavior/

TABstock :https://www.eventzilla.net/e/tabstock-2025-2138659787... Password 25tabstock

Jen Rankey (she, her, hers):  Jen serves as the Director of Visual Art at Trinity Episcopal School in Charlotte, NC. This has given her the opportunity to teach kindergarten through 8th grade students while advocating for the preservation of the arts within independent schools over the past 20 years. Although choice and student voice has always been a part of her practice, Jen officially embraced TAB seven years ago with a curriculum based upon the pillars of Teacher for Artistic Behaviors: What do artists do? The child is the artist. The classroom is the child’s studio. This is accomplished with an offering of abundant choice wrapped around strong studio and artistic habits. Additionally, Jen served on the National Art Education Association's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. Creating an equitable and diverse world that includes a variety of voices has become a driving force in Jen’s work both inside and out of the art room.

Working Group Chair, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Today we have a special guest with us. Jean Barnett is an amazing High School TAB teacher in Central Texas.  She has been teaching for 17 years, at the same school, with more than 12 of those years as a TAB teacher.  She currently is teaching Art 1, Art 3, and runs her school’s ceramics program.  When Jean is not teaching her students how to think and behave like artists, she is teaching other art teachers all about TAB as the secondary cohort leader at the TAB Institute."

Here is the link to the article Clyde mentioned. 

https://tinyurl.com/3ywcmnvm

Show notes.

TAB Summer Institute at MassArt, Boston 

TABstock at Blueberry Fields

School Arts Magazine

The Tornado Drawing

Images from Clydes Artshow

Article Clyde talked about.

In this episode, Clyde and Clark talk about the healing power of art. Why do kids seek out the art room when they are anxious? Why do certain behaviors disappear when children have the opportunity to work with their minds and their hands? 

Child Art Therapy by Judith Aron Rubin

The Good Enough Studio by Nona Orbach

Through the Narrow Window:

2022 TAB Summer Institute 

Special Thanks to The Easthills for allowing us to use their awesome music.

In this episode, Clyde and I are joined by Roni Rohr to talk about the idea of "Am I TAB enough? It's a question many of us ask ourselves when beginning this journey. 

Roni Rohr (she, her, hers) teaches at El Dorado Community School K-8 in Santa Fe, NM. She serves as the Santa Fe Public Schools Visual Arts Mentor and is a faculty member of the TAB Institute at MassArt... advocating for student voice.  Roni is a designer and artist and is passionate about collaboration, social justice, and advocacy within her own work and that of her students. 

As an educational consultant, she collaborates on professional development for the New Mexico Museums, Meow Wolf, and others. Roni presents locally and nationally on topics of TAB, choice-based and play education, Design Thinking, and creating community; she was the 2020 keynote speaker for Colorado TAB. Roni is Nationally Board Certified in early and middle school art, a 2016 NM Golden Apple Fellow, the 2015 NM Middle School Art Educator of the Year, and the 2011 NM Art Educator of the Year.

Julie has been a teacher for 30 years, 20+ in Chicago Public schools and is currently teaching art at a private progressive school, pre-k-8th grade. She has been a TAB teacher and TAB mentor for the last 10 years and co-lead at the elementary level group at the TAB Summer Institute at MassArt and part of the Executive Board for TAB, INC. As a transracially adoptive mother of two children of color, She has been on a personal journey on understanding her whiteness and privilege in order to be actively anti-racist in her work and life. This has led her to participate in SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) cohorts and then to do the training to become a SEED facilitator at her school. She has co-led groups for parents and for staff. She is also part of the EQaT (equate) team at her school (Equity in Action), the parent EqAT group, and teaches an elective course for her middle schoolers called Artist as Activist. Five years ago she started a GSA (Gender Sexuality Alliance) club at her school and together they do school-wide events such as Day of Silence and Ally Week. 

Show Notes:

White Privilege

 Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Windows and Mirrors of Your Child's Bookshelf - Ted Talk

William Pinar - What is Curriculum Theory?

Johan Huizinga - Homo Ludens - A Study of the Play Element in Culture

Leading Equity Podcast

Software Mentioned in this episode

Flip Grid

Quicktime

Loom

Talkr

Other things mentioned in this episode.

Yoyoi Kusama - Read this great article about her here. If you have Hulu you can watch an awesome documentary about her life titled KUSAMA: Infinity 

Judith Scott

The Teaching for Artistic Behavior Summer Institute 

Trauma-Informed Education: Teaching for Artistic Behavior Curriculum Experience by Clyde Gaw

In this episode, Clyde and I get back to what we love: talking about our TAB studios. More specifically the phenomenon called organic collaboration and the observations we make. What happens when we work together for a common cause? What are we learning? Why is it a good idea to promote collaboration in your classroom?

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky

Lev Vygotsky

Jean Piaget

David Ausubel

Special thank you for the Easthills for allowing me to improve this podcast through the use of their music!

In this episode, Clyde and I have a fun little conversation about our experience at TAB institute in Boston. I thought it would be nice to sit down and decompress all that happened over the week. We got to meet some pretty amazing educators from all over the world. I would like to apologize if the sound isn't that great. My MacBook has been acting up, restarting at random times, so I recorded this on my iPad. When I listened to the recording it had a nasty rumble that I tried to process out. Also, I want to thank Kathy Douglas, Diane Jaquith, Ian Sands, Roni Rohr, Julie Toole, Anne Banning, Christine Phillips and Clyde for putting up with the rookie this year. 

Classic TAB T-Shirt campaign which runs through August 15th. Get yours while you can!

Classic TAB T-Shirt

If you haven't done so, please give us your thoughts on this years conference.

Post Conference Evaluation

Special Thank you to the Easthills for their generosity in allowing me to use some of their awesome music. Also Katie McDaniel for the amazing intro. Time by Pink Floyd

See George Szekely in action at CMA George Szekely

Theresa Amibile Growing Up Creative: Nurturing a Lifetime of Creativity

National Institute for Play

Here is the file we mentioned in the show. 

Katherine shares her wonderful story about the genesis of Teaching for Artistic Behavior.  We also touch a little bit about what is required in becoming a TAB teacher. 

Check out these books:

Engaging Learners Through Art Making

The Learner-Directed Classroom

The Open Art Room

Choice without Chaos

***** A little note from Clark. I am no sound engineer. However, I am in the process of learning a new editing software. Please be patient while I figure this out. Thank you for listening. 

Clyde and I discuss the changes teachers and students experience in the school setting: including the change to TAB, the effects of divorce, trauma, poverty plus the demands of testing. 

Why should we penalize a student for reasons beyond our control?

*Special Thank You to Katie McDaniel for helping out with our podcast. Your voice is amazing!

Excuse us for the late nature of this podcast. There were several things that prevented us from getting together to have our biweekly discussion. There was the Spring Fine Arts Festival that was another smash hit. Then we had Spring Break. Who wants to work over Spring Break. and finally, my incessant bout of bronchitis. You will notice that my voice is rather soft during this podcast. I apologize in advance.  Plus, I have been experimenting in the fashion of TAB with the equipment for this podcast. I saved enough pennies to purchase a mixer and two mics. This should allow me greater flexibility to host guests in the future but in the meantime. Please be patient while I am still learning. Thank you.

In this podcast, Clyde and I discuss a few difficulties new TAB teachers face and probably should do or not do. 

• a quiet classroom
• stress over materials
• stress over mess

Also mentioned in this podcast is FlipGrid. Check it out!

Michael Thompson

Glow Kids 

Killing Monsters

Radical Technologies 

The Shallows

• Build relationships through talking with students
• Give students choice
• Give students space and time 
• Look outside the typical art room materials 

TAB Midwest Teacher Networking Workshop Who: Any Midwest Art Teacher, K-12 What: Teaching for Artistic Behaviors (TAB) and Choice Based Art *Sharing experiences, lessons, classroom setups, etc. Where: Northridge High School 56779 Northridge Dr. Middlebury, IN 46540 When: Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 2-5pm, *Dinner option afterwards

Thank you for spending your time listening to this podcast. We appreciate it immensley.

*Special Episode note: I apologize for the sound quality of this episode. We had some technical difficulty during our discussion, so I had to record this on my iPad. 

LuckyTown

 PAPER SMACHE!!

In this podcast, Clyde and I catch up on what happened over Thanksgiving break before we dive headfirst to discuss creativity. We talk about what it is and where it is, as well as if schools are somewhat responsible for the decline of creative thinking. We get off track a little and get back on. All in all not a bad conversation. 

Mentioned in this Podcast

Central Indiana Land Trust

Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Diane Jaquith: When is Creativity?

Nan Hathaway: Smoke and Mirrors

Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, Michèle Root-Bernstein: Sparks of Genius 

Clips: Clips Video app

George Washington Carver: Biography

John J. Audobon: Drawn from Nature

Clark with the Three Muskateers: Kathy Douglas, Diane Jaquith and Pauline Joseph, July 2010, Boston, MA

1.Choice based art teachers encourage and accept student autonomy and initiative.

2.Because of the very nature of visual arts education, choice based art teachers use primary sources and raw, physical, manipulative interactive materials to inspire and catalyze learners.

3.Choice based art teachers encourage students to generate, utilize and create their own ideas and artistic problems when engaged in art making activities.

4.In order to facilitate ownership, choice based art teachers allow students to drive artistic activity, shift instructional strategies and alter instructional content.

5.Choice based art teachers make inquiries into student’s previous knowledge of artistic content and encourage students to express their knowledge before sharing their own understandings.

6.Choice based art teachers encourage students to engage in dialogue and artful conversation, communicating art ideas, knowledge and creative processes with one another.  

7.Choice based art teachers encourage students to research their art and ideas.

8.Choice based art teachers seek and encourage student reflective thinking expressed through ongoing dialogue, reflective writing and artist statements.  

9.Choice based art teachers engage students in experiences that contradict their initial understandings of content or hypothesis and then initiate discussion for student’s further consideration.

10.Choice based art teachers afford students time for artistic ideas to incubate.  

11.Choice based art teachers allow students time to develop understandings of art content.  

12.Choice based art teachers facilitate learning through the use of discovery, introduction of concepts and concept application. The “Learning Cycle Model” (discovery learning) is a distinctive feature of choice based art education.