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ABOUT ME:
Hi! My name is Robin Serr and I am an art educator living in Southern California. I received my bachelor's degree in Art Education from Cal State Long Beach where I was trained in a wide variety of art mediums. My favorites include drawing, watercolor painting, acrylic painting and ceramics. I completed my student teaching internship at California High School under master teacher Julie Tonkovich (2014 CA Art Educator of the Year: California Art Education Association). Under her mentorship I was able to teach high school level Art 1 with such excitement and passion that I was nominated and awarded a scholarship for 2013 Outstanding Student Teacher from the International Society of Key Women Educators. I then went on to La Canada High School, where I taught a variety of visual arts courses. I also cleared my CA Credential in Single Subject Art. My time at La Canada HS refined my teaching skills during my early teaching years, much in thanks to mentor teacher and fine arts chair Mike Kauffman. My prior students attest (in anonymous school-administered surveys) that my best attribute is how much I care for my students as individuals. My prior colleagues express how generous I am in my collaboration, and my new-teacher assessments given by my LCHS site administrators show my excellent classroom management, frequent self-reflection, and thoughtfully sequential lessons. Teaching at the California School of the Arts-SGV, a sister school to the renowned Orange County School of the Arts, was an immensely valuable experience. My time teaching there deeply refined my skills in teaching advanced-level art students, and provided me new opportunity to learn from and empathize with LGBTQ students. Most recently, I joined the community of Crescenta Valley High School. It is an honor to teach at a school where faculty is so dedicated to students, and where so many students are reaching so purposefully towards their best self! |