 This program, because it was really focusing on teachers, from a professional development perspective, but also focusing on them as artists, drew my attention. The kind of structure of each session is built on the idea that we need to respect ourselves as artists, and then by doing that be able to bring a fresher energy to our students. We were really looking for people who were very interested in being part of a community and in developing a community, but also coming at it from a lot of different perspectives. I am a first-year art teacher. I don't have a bag of tricks and all these lessons and things that I know. It was great to be in a room with other art teachers from different places that were at different levels of experience. We spent the bulk of the first session together planning for what we would do for the entire duration of the program, and then from that first session we then developed a structure for the rest of the sessions for the rest of the year. We got to make art. There's something really great about learning how to teach through doing, and then we talk about how can we use this in our classrooms. And by being open to developing the program together, I think it's been a much more fruitful and exciting program. We're artists coming into the program to have a set amount of time that's not dedicated to lesson planning or taking out the garbage. This is for talking about art, making art. It's invaluable. If I knew another art teacher that was coming on, and it was their first year, and they were like, hey, what are some programs that I could get involved with? I'd be like, art exchange with the Brooklyn Museum.