And there she was... in person...

Jessica Balsley of the Art of Educaiton and myself

Great start to a new quarter!

When to the Minnesota Art Education conference on Friday and got that VERY needed boost for my next quarter.  I took away some amazing snippets of energy from the sessions I attended.  A couple of hightlights were from a presentation from Minneapolis Textile Center.  I will have more to share from the session in the near future.  I learned a lot of things to do with my mini's at home.

An unexpected highlight was running into Jessica Balsley of The Art of Education Blog.  Jessica presented a session that I attended about assessment and got the whole room excited for assessment... not an easy task.  I looked, and then double looked at her because this was the first personal encounter of another blogger out there.  I have made 'friends' with many other bloggers but the relationships stay online.  Here she was, Jessica from Iowa... What a treat.  To top it off, she has wonderful things to offer to us as art teacher.  She is now offering professional development.  I will be taking some of her course in the NEAR future.  You should check it out... maybe we can take the classes together!