Classroom Management

2 Essential Things I Wish I Knew as a New Art Teacher

| February 13, 2025

Join Katie Gaff and Theresa McGee for two things they wish they knew when they first started teaching. Theresa provides helpful ways to approach parent communication as a partnership. Katie gives art teachers permission to throw things away! 

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Lindsey McGinnis

Lindsey McGinnis is AOEU’s Media Content Manager and a former high school art educator. She is passionately equipping art teachers to be successful in their classrooms and firmly believes that art is a safe place for students to explore and process the challenging topics and concepts around them.

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