Partners in Education Workshop: “Comics: Visual and Verbal Literacy” with Jerzy Drozd

Back by popular demand, teaching artist Jerzy Drozd will lead teachers through modeling activities based on arts-integrated lessons developed during his eighteen years of experience. Educators will learn how students can bolster literacy skills through image-making activities, while experiencing and actively working to build a set of crucial arts-integrated skills, ones that will set their students up for deeper learning in every subject area.

(For Teachers of All Grade Levels and Subjects)

About Our Teaching Artist

Jerzy Drozd is a member of the Ohio Arts Council’s Teaching Artist Roster, and has over eighteen years of experience in classroom management and arts/curricula integration. In addition to his professional development workshops, he leads cartooning workshops for children, teens, and teachers who want to bring comics to their classroom. Jerzy wrote and drew Science Comics: Rockets with his wife, Anne Drozd, and is one of the artists of The Warren Commission Report. He is the author of the middle-grade graphic novel, The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the case of the Two-Faced Statue. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and four cats.

Jerzy began his work as a teaching artist in 2007 when he served as the lead teaching artist for the ArtServe Michigan’s Literacy Arts Comic Book Project, in which he visited 10 Detroit public schools to teach students how to make comic books. He has since led workshops and classes throughout Michigan and and across North America, as well as at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Our Sponsors

Cleveland Financial Group—Charles P. Hahn, CFPWith Support from Ohio Arts CouncilAdditional Support from Meijer, Incand a grant from the Siebert Arts Fund of the Richland County Foundation