TPD 270 – You Can’t Get Too Specific

Narrowing down to one idea for a lesson plan can sound reductive (it did to me, at least), but it will help you focus and create entry points for students.

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TPD 269 – Perspective Taking & Classroom Language

This time I talk about the words I use in my workshop classrooms and how perspective taking figures into my job as a teaching artist.

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TPD 268 – Removing Ambiguity with Lesson Plans

As promised, today I check in with some thoughts on why lesson plans are an important part of your work as a teaching artist.

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TPD 267 – Evidence of Your Workshop Experience

Today I share some thoughts about how signing up for public speaking events and capturing my classroom experiences helped me get more jobs as a teaching artist.

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TPD 266 – Leveling Up at Listening

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Today I tell a story where I apologized to my students.

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TPD 265 – You Don’t Have to Show Up as a Genius Orator

Just as our earlier art is less skilled, we should allow ourselves to be less skilled when we begin as a teaching artist. Provided we begin with the intention of growing!

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TPD 264 – Ways I talked myself out of teaching

It’s Art Soundoff time again, and today I state my intentions for 2020 and share some rationale on why I shouldn’t teach.

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TPD 263 – Art Soundoff Four Million Years Later

It’s Art Soundoff time again, and today I check in with my plans for the 2019 series of Thunder Punch Daily essays.

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GoSA 19 – The Trial of Ben Hatke

The GoSA crew has been off for some time–so long, in fact, that they’ve forgotten that they never sprung friend Ben from Tax Jail! Our heroes all come together to launch a daring rescue mission. Meanwhile, Ben finally gets his day in court and is shocked to find out who is representing him! At very […]

CAG 110 – The Handwriting of Comics, with Mark Siegel

To make good comics and graphic novels, all you have to do is draw really well and write pretty well, then mix them together, right? Then why is it so challenging to make comics that connect with audiences? How do you describe that unnameable quality that makes certain art and stories arresting?

After a long hiatus the Comics Are Great podcast returns to address these questions with guest Mark Siegel, Editorial Director at First Second Books, author of the graphic novel Sailor Twain, and writer of the 5 Worlds graphic novel series. Mark helps us explore how comics storytelling is unique from other art forms, and describes what he calls the storyteller’s “handwriting.”

Mark will appear at this year’s Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival at the Ann Arbor District Library, and the A2 Inkubate unconference on the campus of the University of Michigan, June 15-17. You can get copies of his books signed and participate in some terrific free comics workshops led by him.

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