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Jean Fitzgerald

@jeanfitz

Artist and Teacher, Chicagoan in Italy

 Chicago, IL
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Joined February 2008
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🎉 I am now a National Board Certified Teacher! 💫 Feeling #NBCTstrong and grateful for the incredible learning community that helped me reach this goal. Thank you to everyone who supported me—let’s keep making a difference together! 🥳🌟 #IAmAnNBCT @NBPTS
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I am researching and building a database of artists that high school students really click with or get inspired by…what are your top 2 or 3 artists that gets teens hooked? Bonus if it is textile or sculptural or Latinx!😊 #contemporaryartists #arted
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This summer, @ForemanHS students in @AftrSchoolMttrs downtown painting and drawing program showed off their amazing artwork to their art teacher, Ms. Fitz! #ForemanArtists
Image from Foreman Fine & Performing Arts (@foreman_arts)
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youtu.be/edRje8uto2U #StrongerTogether Be careful where you get your information.
Please sign petition to bring technology access back to Chicago Public Schools: chng.it/88fqF952jH
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All Adobe is STILL blocked at CPS!
Incredible portraits by @ForemanHS Artists!
Image from Foreman Fine & Performing Arts (@foreman_arts)
Image from Foreman Fine & Performing Arts (@foreman_arts)
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Because of new SOPPA restrictions on @Adobe access in @ChiPubSchools , I am searching for ways to bring alternative Digital Media programming to my amazing students who deserve the best. What #adobe alternatives would you recommend? #equity
Creative exploration gets digital in the art room this week! #stopmotion #foremanarts @ForemanHS
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🏠The Historic #Vautravers Building has arrived in its new location! In about 24 hours, the 127-year-old building was moved approximately 30 feet west and 10 feet south toward N Clark Street. Check out this time-lapse video of the move below! ⌛️ #CTARPM
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So the tests measure something. But scores can be raised by test prep, and intensive tutoring, and by having money. Here's how it looks on the ACT, in 2018 (extracted this from the EIS reports):
Image from Jon Boeckenstedt (@JonBoeckenstedt)
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The Keys to Rome jeanfitz.wordpress.com/2020/…
The Keys to Rome

The Keys to Rome

Because of the pandemic, museums and so many cultural treasures have been inaccessible throughout Italy. What a tease to live in Rome this year! Yesterday, however, I was the luckiest girl in Rome …

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We made it to Rome! On foot! Days 34-40 on the Via Francigena jeanfitz.wordpress.com/2020/…
We made it to Rome! On foot! Days 34-40 on the Via Francigena

We made it to Rome! On foot! Days 34-40 on the Via Francigena

Day 34: The rain came again. It is days like this that prove that the Via Francigena was not only a physical challenge but a mental one as well. Even in a non-Covid year, there aren’t many walkers …

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Road to Rome: Days 26-33 on the Via Francigena jeanfitz.wordpress.com/2020/…
Road to Rome: Days 26-33 on the Via Francigena

Road to Rome: Days 26-33 on the Via Francigena

Yesterday morning, I did my routine check-under-the-bed before departing and found a single chestnut. What does it all mean? This is, perhaps, the melodramatic, cliché theme. We have completed over…

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Road to Rome: Tuscan Days 20-25 along the Via Francigena jeanfitz.wordpress.com/2020/…
Road to Rome: Tuscan Days 20-25 along the Via Francigena

Road to Rome: Tuscan Days 20-25 along the Via Francigena

More so than ever, our days have begun to blend. Which town had that weird house? Remember that hostel with the funny showers? How many kilometers to the next coffee again? How do you say this town…

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Road to Rome: Days 11-19 jeanfitz.wordpress.com/2020/…
Road to Rome: Days 11-19

Road to Rome: Days 11-19

These recent days updating online have escaped me. This is largely because I have spent a lot of my time when not walking taking care of my feet. They are the only ones I have and they need all my …

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The Rice-ing Resistance jeanfitz.wordpress.com/2020/…
The Rice-ing Resistance

The Rice-ing Resistance

We spent well over 100 km this past week in the scorching fields of the “rice belt” in the North of Italy. It felt a little Wisconsin and a little Vietnam. I’d sooner forget this flat monotonous, m…

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Road to Rome: Days 5-10 jeanfitz.wordpress.com/2020/…

Road to Rome: Days 5-10

The Via Francigena on foot continues. Day 5 was our final day of truly mountainous and gorgeous wrong turns through grapevines. We made the classic pilgrim faux pas of washing our clothes when we a…

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La Via Francigena Begins jeanfitz.wordpress.com/2020/…
La Via Francigena Begins

La Via Francigena Begins

I can’t fully express the joy of meeting my dear friend in a remote mountaintop. I came from Switzerland. Aisling came from Milan. We descended dramatically in the first 2 days of our 1000km journe…

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Swiss Baptism jeanfitz.wordpress.com/2020/…
Swiss Baptism

Swiss Baptism

Cully, Switzerland There is a part in my book where I talk about how the grief of my mother is like being inside a deep lake. Sometimes the water is terrifying and sometimes it is neither good nor …

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