Observations

3/15/2017

As a teacher, I believe that teaching students to be observant and present in the moment is to give them a gift that will get them through many of life's events both big and small.

Making art has always been a part of my life. From the moment I first realized I could draw a tree that actually looked like a tree, I knew how I wanted to fill my days. When I am making art, I am in another place. I think it is the "zone" that some talk about...a place of total concentration. I always seem to be involved in the creation of something. Sometimes that is just a lesson plan or a draft of a letter or a sketch.

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I have been a public school teacher for 20 years. I graduated from the University of Colorado, received my teaching credential and MA from San Francisco State University, received Fulbright-Hays Summer Fellowships to both China (1991) and India (1999) and achieved National Board Certification in 1996 in the area of Adolescence and Young Adulthood Art.

For twenty years I taught in public schools in Menlo Park and Mountain View California as well as at San Jose State University where I was the Director of the San Jose State University California Arts Project.

In 2014, I facilitated the writing of the Visual Arts Standards for AERO, a project supported by the U.S. State Department's Office of Overseas Schools. I am now the lead trainer for School Loop [www.schoolloop.com]

Dede Tisone

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