Dear 2017 Studio to School Team, Hello, from the future! It’s been a few years since our official, paperwork-documented partnership…
Collaboration. Communication. Self-Awareness. Creativity. Oaklea Middle School students are painting these words on a tiger mural they created on their…
Watch Oaklea Middle School students participate and engage in ArtCore! Students draw, measure, paint, construct and explore in a classroom…
ArtCore at Oaklea Middle School is opening up new paths for students and teachers to own and…
In December, the entire Oaklea staff met to begin a visioning process for Oaklea. Where have we been? Where do…
Due to a redesign in Oaklea Middle School’s 2015-2016 schedule, middle schoolers now get to end their day with an…
On Tuesday December 8th, veteran school change agent, Michelle Swanson, led the entire Oaklea staff through a visioning process of…
Oaklea Teacher quotations on their first year of ArtCore “I feel a lot more comfortable than I was. I was…
Student Interview Quotes Why do you like ArtCore? “Well I don’t like people like when they are teaching it….
We are at the inaugural year of the Summer Institute. Twenty-six teachers enter the institute with varying degrees of artistic…
These three questions guided an end of the year gathering of the ArtCore Oaklea team at Betsy Wolfston’s studio. What…
Are you an artist? “Before ArtCore, I probably would have said no,” states one Oaklea teacher. “Now, I am an…
From February through June, Oaklea students had the opportunity to participate in several artistic disciplines in the ArtCore After-School program…
From January to June, ArtCore “Weaver” Betsy Wolfston worked weekly with four sixth grade teachers and their 130 students to…
ArtCore in Action! What have you learned about the resources (both monetary and non-monetary) needed to be successful in implementing…
Oaklea Middle School eighth grade teacher, Ceri Burke partnered with teaching artist Maiya Becker on recycled art projects that related…
Teaching artists Tara Burke of Hoop Roots and Sirk and Peeko of Free Pile Sirkus engaged the entire Oaklea student…
