For the past 14 years I have been a high school classroom art teacher as well as a teacher on special assignment (TSA) for San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), providing professional development and classroom support to teachers in the areas of Performance Assessment and Project-Based Learning. I have contributed to Bay Area museums in the development and dissemination of integrated curriculum (most notably San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the deYoung). Currently I am one of two teacher-coaches leading SFUSD’s SLANT initiative (Science, Literacy and Art iNtegration the Twenty-first century), partnering with and coordinating numerous cultural and scientific organizations...