Do you happen to have 63 pipe cleaners (aka chenille sticks)? Or a bottle of ketchup?  You never know what you may find yourself needing as a new teacher.  We are masters of thinking on the fly, especially when it comes to putting together a bang-up lesson, which means a lot of unexpected supplies. As […]
Aimee Cribbs
Dr. Aimee Cribbs has twenty years of elementary classroom experience in Georgia's Title One schools. She's taught in a diverse, urban setting and a small rural system. She left the elementary classroom in 2017 to pursue a career in post-secondary education. She now serves as an Assistant Professor of Education at Dalton State College in Dalton, Georgia. She is an advocate for teachers, who she believes have the single most important job in the world.
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Teaching Creativity: Simplicity and Decision-Making
By: Aimee Cribbs There was a Christmas that Santa filled my daughter’s stocking with masking tape because my little girl was not interested in the season’s hottest toys, but making things out of the boxes they came in.  As an art educator in retrospect, I realize how this unsophisticated Christmas contributed to my now-teenage daughter’s […]