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While children on the Westside have been out of the class and confined to their homes for nearly a year, Santa Monica resident Jeff Goodman has been working hard on a new book that looks to help local children explore the many emotions they may be grappling with today.
Goodman’s debut children’s book, “Feel Like Eggs?” was published earlier this year and is now available online at IndieBound.org. Featuring playful rhymes and artwork by award-winning illustrator Gabriella Urbina, “Feel Like Eggs?” serves as a lighthearted introduction to the feelings that kids experience on a daily basis by linking familiar egg dishes to particular feelings, Goodman said in a recent interview.
Support Provided By How to Change is a limited series for “Southland Sessions” exploring the most critical issues facing Southern California culture makers in this pivotal historical moment. Each column will explore a question posed to a range of artists and culture workers, and include recommendations to address these concerns from a practical, action-oriented perspective.
Teaching Studio Art Online?
For the sixth installment of “How to Change,” I asked, What has the pandemic and online education changed about the way we teach and learn studio art practice? When institutions abruptly shut down in March, faculty pivoted to redesign their classes in the absence of facilities and ready access to materials. As we approach a full year of quarantine, I asked full-time faculty members at UCLA and Otis College of Art and Design to reflect on what has been working and what’s had to change about teaching studio art practice in the shift online.
Superstar teachers put heroic time and effort into distance learning
Dec. 14, 2020 at 6:00 am
“I can’t wait to get back on Zoom!” is a sentence few parents ever expected their child to say, but through hours of extra work, outside-of-the-box lesson planning, and personal sacrifice, teachers at SMMUSD have magically conjured this impossible utterance.
From teaching about animal life cycles while living on a farm, to live cooking demos, and bedtime story read alouds, teachers across the District have gone above and beyond to engage students through distance learning.
“I was brainstorming all summer, how am I going to make it so when they leave they’re going to go ‘I love second grade, I love my friends, this was the most fun, I can’t wait to wake up in the morning!’,” said Laura Meshel, a 2nd grade teacher at Grant Elementary School.