Q1 for this week’s slow chat! How do you build a culture where instructional rounds are about growth, not judgment? 🌻 Share your response using #EduInFocus — and stay tuned for more questions, dropping each day at noon PT.

@hellobencurrie.bsky.social has been doing some beautiful art for us at @edutopia.org and I failed to notice him DROPPING my NAME IN HERE!!! www.edutopia.org/article/midd...

Gorgeous illo by the best-- @mojowang.bsky.social!

come out to @strandbookstore.bsky.social on 8/5 for the release of my debut graphic novel! there'll be a signing, a talk with @adamtots.bsky.social and a special live reading with my family (1/2)

There’s no silver bullet to keeping students on track and disruptions at bay—a 2021 study notes that being an effective teacher “requires the adaptive application of a repertoire of different classroom management strategies.” Check out my latest on @edutopia.org: www.edutopia.org/article/smal...

Incredibly stoked for @ryanfm.bsky.social's book to be out, with illustrations from @chelseabeck.bsky.social. Epic team.

new collage by me featuring very, very sweet "smile" notes from fourth graders :,)

an excellent interview by @youkiterada.bsky.social with an accompanying collage by the amazing Valerie Chiang! Huge shout out to David Yeager for providing some excellent action shots to use for this art :)

click through to see this one move on the site! Was really wonderful to work with Nick Little on the art here. Made me want to print out this incredibly supportive teacher and keep him on my desk.

some preview shots of an upcoming illo (also featuring my very own iPhone photography!)

Check this one out with some really fun inset illos from the amaaaazing Lourenço Providencia!!

Really great post by @jamesbedford.bsky.social on @edutopia.org today about his monthlong break from AI tools. (featuring some neat hero art by the amazing guillemcasasus.com !) www.edutopia.org/article/down...

going through public domain images and hoping, praying, I will find an excuse to use This Guy in the future.... pdimagearchive.org

Great overview on scaffolding by @toddfinley.bsky.social, with loads of helpful links (and nice art by @chelseabeck.bsky.social): www.edutopia.org/article/powe...

Shira Inbar crushed this art!! Check it out on the site to see it move 👀👀👀

It was great working with @chelseabeck.bsky.social on this illustration of Spencer Russell for Edutopia! Chelsea is a super talented illustrator and and equally great art director. I wish all projects were this fun!

what my husband sees from across the house when ive run out of coffee

Teachers! I did the roundup for Edutopia for their favourite articles of the year. Big thanks to @chelseabeck.bsky.social for being a great AD #illustration #teaching #education www.edutopia.org/article/2024...

I can announce I have, for like the 10th year in a row, forgotten about all illustration annual deadlines and not submitted anything. I need someone to personally come to my house once a year and yell at me when it's time to upload!!!

I’m painting and crushing through my Buffy rewatch and lemme tell you I’ll never be ready for season 5 e16. they need to mail you a warm blanket if Hulu senses you’re on that one!!!

How many paintings do I have to do before I finally feel ready to tackle the two I *have* to do???

"Teachers grading a stack of assignments may notice that they start to feel cranky as the pile shrinks. Now researchers have evidence that working straight through the grading blues can impact students’ final scores." quick illo from July for @edutopia.bsky.social's research newsletter

Tried a fun digital collage experiment on this one B^)

Really beautiful work by Jensine Eckwall for "Using Edtech in Service of Human Connections" for @edutopia.bsky.social :^)

flcl and covered in pencil shavings

Fun one on @edutopia.bsky.social this week about fortnite (!!!) as an educational tool. Collage art featuring my partner's dirty controller.

I'm going to start doing a better job of posting my Edutopia illustrations when they run-- here's a quick, fun one from our last newsletter!

Did you know that my BOOK is ready to PREORDER?!?!! Wild NYC is part field guide, part natural history, part field trip planner for experiencing #nature in nyc illustrated by the incomparable @chelseabeck.bsky.social. out april 22, preorder now :-) 🪶🦉🧪 bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

Alright I'm back over here now! Artists, what are your favorite scanners? is large-format worth it? I'm considering an old, used epson but I'm unsure.

all i want......is for every artist to have their email address....in a location that is easy for me to find........please...................

my favorite grim reaper, botan <33

kind of finally figured out how to use gradient maps today so i will be retiring for the rest of the year

pro tip: no one really stops you from just inserting yourself into crowd scenes !

just some brothers

Me when I get a littel ice cream from the store :

"put our rock back thanks"

new law just dropped! it's now officially *illegal* to make me draw anything in perspective <3 thanks so much (book draw in progress)

Hello, everyone! Today is my birthday and to celebrate I've started a Patreon! If you love my illustration, comics, and would like to support me; this would be an incredibly thoughtful and helpful way to do so. 🧡 patreon.com/MollyMendoza

something is killing the something that's killing the children

godddd i need 2 finish this denji power drawing ...some day.....

my love language is being a little animal 5 or 6 feet away from a friend doing an unrelated task

the exorcist

me today

Hello, I just wrapped up a project and have some availability to take on some work (editorial, poster, anything you think my style fits, etc.)!

unfortunately i think i peaked in 2018 getting to spend like 2 days of my job lovingly drawing gold-plated warioware characters and pixeling this nose game for kotaku.

my only interest is drawing my ffxiv character and the characters of my friends (egg on the left belongs to @mollymendoza.bsky.social, elvis on right is Riley's)

riley is watching yu yu hakusho for the first time and I’m unable to contain my enthusiasm

quote a post with some (ancient) blue art

coffee shop by us has this *earth shatteringly good* homemade scallion cream cheese but the monkeys paw is that it only comes on *the worst bagels i've ever had.* they will not sell me any separately.