Here’s an email sent to me yesterday:

Hi Dawn!

My name is Jeanne, and I am a new hire at an all boys school in [city removed].

I found your site and have to say you are a HUGE help to me as I am flying blind!! I have NEVER taught before.

I am an artist who has done some freelance artwork on mickey mouse programs (MS Picture It! & Print Shop), along with some freelance illustration (pen &

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Here’s an email I received on Sunday:

Hi Dawn,

In my search for art & design teaching information, I stumbled across your website. I’m writing in hopes that I can get some advice from you.

I’ve always been interested in teaching but never gave that career path a chance while I was in college. Now after being out of college for a few years, I’m finding myself drawn towards

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Last month I started building a class website for the coming year. I’ll be teaching web design and graphic design. I didn’t spend a lot of time planning the design ahead of time. I just wanted to start getting some curriculum ideas down, growing and narrowing the scope of each class.

A week or so ago, I started really hating the original design I developed for the site. I’ve been

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Now that I have some sort of clue what I am teaching (actually, I was given little direction but pretty much free reign,) I’m building my courses for 2007-2008. I’m teaching thIee graphic design periods and two of web design. in coming years, the school hopes to offer intermediate and advanced classes. For now, I’m beginning from scratch with the students. All I can assume they

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I’m starting a new project today at both the middle school and the high school. In groups of 2 or 3, they are being asked to create posters for the high school play, “School for Nerds”.

I began today’s class by showing overheads of posters for Amadeus, Hairspray, and Grease. I led a discussion about how the design of the posters gives messages about what the plays are about.

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