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TRACY NICK
After attending the School of Visual Arts in NYC, I was an art director at Woman’s Day Magazine, Morgan Stanley, and start-up ad agency Mezzina Brown. I realized being under fluorescent lights and working around the clock wasn’t the life I envisioned for myself and eventually took the path I always wanted to take; becoming an art teacher. I started my career teaching art then 5th and 6th grade in East Palo Alto and San Francisco. My work at different sites and collaboration with many teachers and students gave me insight into school systems that worked and didn’t, and it eventually led me to becoming a PBIS ( Positive Behavior and Intervention and Supports) coach and trainer. After being out of the classroom for more than a decade, I decided to move back into the classroom to work directly with students and hopefully become part of that larger community.
My philosophy is that while not every student will grow up to have a career in the arts, the skills and practices applied in class are applicable to our daily lives. Whether it be the social emotion skills of problem solving, thinking critically, being curious, making mistakes and having failures and bouncing back, or hard skills like using a ruler for making a straight line, applying color theory to decorate their room, or the simple appreciation of beauty, art can be found everywhere.
Feel free to stop in and say hello, volunteer in class, or share your knowledge of the arts with us!