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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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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
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Voiceover by Tara Platt
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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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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
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Voiceover by Tara Platt
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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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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
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Voiceover by Tara Platt
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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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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
Audio hosting provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing and IndyPlanet Digital
Voiceover by Tara Platt
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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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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
Audio hosting provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing and IndyPlanet Digital
Voiceover by Tara Platt
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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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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
Audio hosting provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing and IndyPlanet Digital
Voiceover by Tara Platt
Jerzy on Google+
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Nerd Nite A2 #57: How to Survive Making a Graphic Novel With Your Spouse…

Navigating a relationship with your spouse or partner can be challenging enough–so why would you willingly work together on a project that can take a year or more to complete? Anne and Jerzy Drozd, authors of Science Comics: Rockets, explore how they handled the creative challenges of making a nonfiction comic about science and answer the most important question facing humanity today: WHO. DID. WHAT.

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Nightmare Pro Wrestling!

I’m drawing a comic about wrestling scarecrow monsters, werewolves, and skeletons!
Jon David Guerra has invited me to be a guest artist on his fabulous Nightmare Pro Wrestling comic and is running a kickstarter to make it happen.
Check out the video and please consider supporting this project. It promises to be a lot of fun.

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TPD 262 – It’s Not Up To Me

Today I wrap up my entries for this year’s Art Soundoff by thinking about my comfort zones in journaling and how my feelings change when I consider that the audience ultimately gets to decide whether or not TPD is useful.

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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
Audio hosting provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing and IndyPlanet Digital
Voiceover by Tara Platt
Jerzy on Google+
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