A dream. smashed.. A Dream

As a child I dreamed of being a teacher and spent a lot of time pretending that I was one. The desire to teach grew along with me and at the age of 22 I landed what I thought was my dream job.

However, the dream would slowly but surely be shattered, and over six years I realized that I didn’t believe in or agree with the public school system.  This  was hard to stomach. I spent my life dreaming about it, 4 years in college, and a lot of money. After receiving a letter from the administration reminding me that art was an elective and they could cut it anytime , I knew that I needed to either leave right away or find a way to be true to myself while working for a very broken system.  A system that believes that what I teach is a joke.

I am currently still working for the public school system, but taking steps to leave, and that’s what inspired me to create The Creative Class. I’ve been dreaming of this class for awhile, but fear was keeping me from launching. The fear that no one would sign up , the fear that I would need to finally take the leap and leave my teaching job, and even the fear of what my current employer would think.  My desire for every one to live a creative life overpowered the fear, and well, here we are.

Please don’t misunderstand me, there are many great people working within the public school system, but the system isn’t working. Students are dropping out and we’re teaching creativity right out of our children.

I started this site as a way to respond and address the current crisis that we are facing. And yes, I believe that losing divergent thinkers is a crisis. The emphasis must change from standardized test to creating curious passionate students. I hope that you’ll join me and be a part of making a change to living unstandardized lives.