Start with schools that want arts education — start with those with a stable staff. Would get results more quickly. Some starts-up schools are so enthusiastic. Our principal has systemic problems from the community he has no control over — gangs, 20 liquor stores within a 3-block radius. Drug use. Impoverished area. Kids have to walk through unsafe areas to get to school. A lot of kids get dropped off.
Backward planning is really effective. Look at the whole year and plan backwards for what you want kids to achieve by end of year (e.g., submitting a portfolio). I do that and did summer workshop on that, had various learning tools to get kids to talk abt art.
Because my classroom is so physically big it needs to be team taught or done in double periods (like at the CAPE program). Like a college studio class — not an exploratory freshman thing but could do advanced students having a double class and then observational drawing, a 2D double period and 3D double period — lecture, product, evaluation in that time.
