When Students Cross a Threshold
When my DP2 students left on Saturday, I didn’t feel sad. I felt something closer to joy because I could see what they had become. Not what they had made. What they had become.
The Connections Study
The Connections Study is its own entity: not an update of the old Comparative Study, not a version of anything taught before. This is a live thread and will grow to cover every section of the CS. Come back at each stage: there will always be something new here.
Student-Led Inquiry
What it looks like when a student truly lives in inquiry: no fixed destination, no predetermined question, just making that knows where it’s going before the student does. Stages 4 and 5, with a full student exemplar.
Selected Resolved Artworks · Resolved Artworks
What does it mean for a resolved artwork to actually resolve something? This thread begins with what moderation revealed, and what it clarified about the heart of the new course.
Resources
A curated collection of unit plans, assessment tools, projects, vocabulary support, newsletters and teaching resources designed to support inquiry-led practice within the new IB Visual Arts course.
The Artist Project
This is a live thread, starting with the proposal. It will grow to cover every section of the AP. Come back at each stage — there will always be something new here.
The Art-Making Inquiries Portfolio
Nobody has done this before. The AIP is genuinely new, and understanding it didn’t come from reading the guide. It came from teaching, from living inside it, and from finding the pattern that makes it legible. This thread is about that pattern, and what it means for how we teach.
Teacher-Led Inquiry
At this stage, inquiry is still held quite closely by the teacher. Students are learning how to respond, how to explore, and how to stay with something rather than rush to resolution.
Before the work can begin
What if the issue isn’t what students know, but their capacity to stay in relation to what they are making? This Musing explores that question, and offers a few practices that are beginning to shift things.
Teaching from the Inside Out
On the boy who found his lost friends in a tent, the heart that sank at a flawless exhibition, and thirty years of undoing what my own art education taught me.