S2E10: Meet Melissa Purtee

In this episode of TAB Storytellers, Jen and Abi are joined by Melissa Purtee, HS TAB teacher and Co-Director of the TAB Summer Institute. Among the topics discussed are transitioning from elementary to high school, writing about TAB, the TAB Summer Institute (coming July 22-27, 2024), and some advice for thinking about moving more into choice

For more information about TAB, please visit the TAB website: www.teachingfor artisticbehavior.org. Also, you are invited to join us on Mighty Networks (https://teaching-for-artistic-behavior.mn.com/), an online platform dedicated to everything TAB!

For more information about: 

TAB Summer Institute: https://teachingforartisticbehavior.org/professional-development/

Melissa’s Books: The Open Art Room - https://www.davisart.com/choice-based-art-education/ and Making Artists: https://www.davisart.com/student-led-classroom/ 

Melissa’s Substacks: https://substack.com/@thoughtsonarting

Melissa’s Blog from 2013-2019:  http://www.thoughtsonarting.com/ 

Ian Sand's Apex High School Blog: https://apexhsart.blogspot.com/ 

Writing for SchoolArts Magazine: https://www.davisart.com/schoolarts/write-for-schoolarts/ 

Here is a link to the unedited transcript of this episode:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LD-mTkwAm2aDh5ILMLnvChyWl13Lbw6NVDqQ0hTRp58/edit?usp=sharing 

We recognize that there are probably errors and grammatical issues. If anyone with the time or inclination to edit this wants to do so, please email us at storytellers@teachingforartisticbehavior.org