“I design art projects that ensure that kids have success and feel as if they have done something extraordinary. It’s critical to be flexible and to adapt projects to the wide range of abilities of students that you find in a special education class.

In my room be we do all sorts of art and my job as a teachers is to make sure that they can do it in a successful way. Any time students gets a taste for success, they become hungry for more.

I see art as a bandaid for the soul because no matter what you create or whatever your passion is for that day, it’s coming from inside the student and there’s no wrong way to do it.”