Jewelry box making at ESSA

I have a class at ESSA this weekend, starting on Friday making jewelry boxes complete with drawers and dividers. It's a great chance to learn and end up with a gift for yourself or a friend.
https://essa-art.org/workshops/wood/build-a-classic-jewelry-box/

An advertisement that shows up on my iPad when I study languages (Norwegian, Swedish and Spanish) is for getting your bachelor's degree in education on line. I marvel that they would come up with such a thing. Can you learn what it takes to be a teacher and be worthy of a degree without all the practice required? It might be the perfect way for teacher's classroom assistants to obtain required credentials to teach, but I can assure you that teaching requires much more than what you can get from a book or from online sources. An ideal situation might be to put young aspiring teachers in the classroom under the guidance of trained teachers, and then allow them to fulfill at least a portion of their credential requirements through online classes concurrent with their time in real classrooms with read students.

A friend of mine told me yesterday that he did not know how much good teachers were worth or how much time they spent making sure their kids were brought to a level of success. Then he married one. Needless to say, he now has a more realistic view of things. Teachers wake up with their students on their minds, and go to bed at night dreaming about the same subject: How to help their students succeed.

In the meantime, American politicians attempt to score points among voters by disparaging teachers and the teaching profession. Do not let them get away with that.

The jewelry box is made of white oak and basswood that's been textured and painted with milk paints. This morning I woke up remembering to order hinges for this class and called for expedited shipping so they will arrive in time.

Make, fix and create.