January - 2016

Technology and Identity

Each year I include more technology in my instruction and assessment. This semester I've started a classroom art blog where students take...

Culture as Commons

“Lewis Hyde describes it as “that vast store of un-owned ideas, inventions and works of art that we have inherited from the past and that...

Critical Pedagogy

What is critical pedagogy? For my own clarification, I looked up the difference between critical pedagogy and critical thinking. I found...

About Molly

I'm the visual arts teacher at Metro High School in Cedar Rapids, the largest alternative high school in Iowa. I am also one of four teachers pioneering the STEAM Academy at Metro which has launched this year. We are co-teaching in an interdisciplinary project based learning environment using standards referenced grading.

My goal as a teacher is to make learning fun and relevant for my students while helping them find their way in a post secondary world. I want more than anything for students to find something they believe in.

Education

1998 - 2002 University of Iowa

BFA in Sculpture

2008-2009 University of Iowa

Teaching License

2015-Now UNI Masters Art Education

Employment

Before I became a teacher my resume sported about 40 jobs ranging from welder to farm hand to vegan chef.

2009-2010 McKinley Middle School, Cedar Rapids, IA

2010-2011 Washington High Scool, Cedar Rapids, IA

2011-present Metro Alternative High School, Cedar Rapids, IA