#and showcase how to write a lesson plan EVEN THOUGH NO TEACHER EVER WRITES ONE WHILE WORKING???????????

[jinkis]

i hate everything

[reachfolk]

For the writing prompt, let's go with ruin.

request: alexandria silver-blood + "ruins" (elder scrolls writing prompts — OPEN)

summary: Alexandria's teaching methods may not be conventional nor are they always pleasant, but Lucien can't deny their effectiveness.

tags: fluff, lucien flavius, canon-typical violence, alex and lucien are still pretty new as companions so he's still Baby, lexi is an arguably good teacher, not proofread bc it turned out so long lol

warnings: none

word count: 2.3k

ao3 link: [tough love]

author's notes: for those that don't know, lucien is a modded follower who starts as a wimpy little imperial scholar and you train him to get better at combat. this was SO much fun to write, i feel like it really shows some of my fav things about lexi and her dynamic with lucien! thank u so much for the request dearie <3

The door to the old nordic tomb was jammed after what must have been centuries without being opened, but with a heavy shove, Alexandria was able to force them to give. As soon as they swung open, the smell of decay and rot overwhelmed Lucien's senses, and he found himself struggling to hold down that morning's breakfast.

Alexandria, on the other hand, had no such qualms. Instead, she took a deep breath and smiled at the smell. "Ah, I love these old tombs. You can just feel Lady Namira's influence in the air. Makes the eyes water though, doesn't it? Or maybe that's just the dust." She fanned her face, letting her eyes dry out for a moment before readying her sword in one hand and a simple Firebolt spell in the other. "You ready?"

"Uhh," Lucien hesitated. "Do I have a choice?"

"Nope!" With that, she pushed him through the doors, and he nearly toppled over. "You'll be taking the lead this time, alright?"

"What?! Me?!" He sputtered. "Are you sure that's a good idea? No, don't answer that. It isn't a good idea whatsoever."

Alexandria didn't seem to share a single one of his concerns as she placed a hand on his back and pushed him deeper into the old ruins. "It's a chance to practice sneaking and to test out that Turn Undead spell. Two birds with one stone, as they say."

"I only learned that spell last night. Who's to say it'll even work? Don't you think the stakes are a little too high?"

"Of course they are," she said in her usual, all too cheery tone of voice. "You're not going to learn anything by staying firmly in your comfort zone. Besides, don't you trust me to keep you safe?"

It was certainly a good question. In spite of how she presented herself, Alexandria was a difficult person to read. While he often did appreciate her optimistic attitude (it was certainly an improvement over the glum nature of most of Skyrim's citizens), there were more than a few moments where it almost felt like she enjoyed tormenting him. This wouldn't be the first time she pushed him beyond his limits; ever since she started training him, she seemed to make a game of torturing him and justifying it with reasons such as, "You need to learn to take a hit," or "You've got to get out of your own head." And, well... he wanted to trust her methods, but she make it quite difficult.

"If you take any longer to answer, it's going to hurt my feelings, you know."

"N-no, I don't mean to imply anything bad!" Lucien sputtered. "I'm just nervous, is all. You've been a wonderful guard and I don't mean to offend you in any—"

His ramblings were interrupted by her bursting into laughter, and the sound echoed throughout the chamber. He felt a brief panic, but it seems the sound didn't reverberate far enough into the ruins to alarm any draugr. Alexi, it seems, didn't share his worries at all.

"Calm down, will you? I was joking!" She chuckled. "Believe me, no one understands anxiety better than I do. But that doesn't mean I'll allow you to let it control your life."

Lucien had a hard time believing she of all people, in all her confidence and self-assuredness, could relate, but her words were a comfort nonetheless. "Right," he replied, letting her words sink in. He took a deep breath to calm himself, then firmly regretted it as the stench of death filled his lungs.

Alexi chuckled again at him and patted his arm. "You'll get used to it."

"I really don't want to," he said, but readied his spells nonetheless.

*

The pair made their way through the old ruin, crouched low and sticking to the shadows, just as Alexandria taught him. The muffle spell she cast helped them stay quiet and made it easy to make out the sound of draugr footsteps farther into the depths of the tomb.

Lucien stopped in the middle of the hallway they were crouched in and leaned his head around the bend, leading into a larger chasm. Two draugr patrolled the area, moving in circles around the perimeter.

Alexi leaned back on her haunches and whispered, "So, what's the plan, boss?"

It was strange, the way their roles were swapped. "Uhm," Lucien thought back to what Alexandria did the last time they were in this kind of situation. "Wait until they wander to opposite sides of the room, out of each other's sight, and shoot them down one at a time."

"Okay," Alexandria said simply, but the minimal response was enough to send Lucien doubting himself.

"Is that not a good plan?" He asked, unsure.

"Huh? I never said that. I told you, you're the boss here! I'm just following your lead."

"Right," Lucien muttered. "Right. Uh, I just... need to be more sure of myself."

Alexi didn't respond beyond glancing around the corner, watching the draugr.

"Right?" Lucien asked.

This time, she simply chuckled. "Dearie, how are you not realizing the irony? You're still asking for my approval. It's a good plan. Now go ahead before you start getting in your head again."

Unfortunately, his doubts already took root and refused to budge. Even as he drew his bow and had it aimed at the target, he found himself frozen in place.

After the second opening he missed due to his own hesitation, Alexandria leaned over his shoulder and whispered, "Can I give you some advice?"

"Please do."

"Great!"

She grabbed him by the neck not unlike one would grab a housecat, dragged him up from where he was crouched, and tossed him into the open chamber with the two draugr. As he yelped in surprise, the two draugr turned at the sound and drew their weapons.

The rational response was for Lucien to be angry at her for being so cruel, but in the moment, it was all he could do to bash his bow against the draugr that rushed at him with a greatsword. The attack staggered the enemy and interrupted her mid-swing, giving Lucien enough time to switch out his longbow for a sword and spell.

Just as the zombie had regained balance, Lucien took a swing, putting all his might behind it. It wasn't enough to bring her down, but as the sword connected with her shoulder, the two-handed sword she carried fell from her grasp. He used the chance to shoot a Firebolt spell at her, which sent her flying backwards, unmoving.

Before he could celebrate his victory, an arrow whooshed past his face, just barely grazing his skin and taking a few of his hairs with it. It would've sent his heart racing if the poor muscle wasn't already working at full capacity.

He turned his head to the archer, who already had nocked another arrow and shot it in his direction. He just barely managed to dodge by side stepping behind a column. There was no way he could rush at the archer with his sword, and he was clearly outmatched with a bow. Should he just try to pelt it with Firebolts, or—

Suddenly, he remembered the new spell he'd just learned the night before. It was a risk trying it now of all times, but the adrenaline rushing in his veins made it difficult to rationalize it too much. He charged the spell, then ducked out from behind the other side of the column and cast it before the draugr could even release the arrow it had readied.

The second the spell hit, the draugr immediately pulled its arrow back and turned it's back, running in the opposite direction in the signature awkward steps that all draugr take. Now that the threat of being pelted with arrows was gone, Lucien rushed at the creature and grabbed it by the back of its thin, wiry hair. He stabbed his sword through its back with enough force that it jutted out of its chest. When the creature stopped moving, he released his grip on it and let its limp body fall to the ground.

It took him several seconds to catch his breath. When his heart rate finally returned to normal, a high-pitched squeal broke through the calmness and spiked it once again. Thankfully, he realized quickly enough, it was only Alexandria excitedly cheering for him.

"Good job, Lucien!" She applauded, rushing towards him from where she watched. "Oh, I knew you could handle it!"

"I... I did! Didn't I?" It was still hard to believe he could manage in a battle with her support, so to win two-against-one was inconceivable to him.

"Obviously," she laughed, giving him a playful shove. "See what you can do when you stop freaking out? When you don't have time to doubt yourself, your real skill shows."

He couldn't help but join her in the laughter as the reality of his accomplishment dawned on him. "Does this mean I'm now a proper adventurer? I never thought I had it in me!" He puffed out his chest proudly, beaming at his companion.

"I'm well aware of that. That's always been your biggest problem," she said. "Lucien, you've gotten so used to thinking of yourself as some weak little milk-drinker that no matter how much I trained you, you refused to recognize your own progress. I needed to do something to get it through your head."

"Not to imply that I'm not grateful, because I truly am," he replied, "but was throwing me to the draugr really the only thing you could think of?"

She gave a shrug. "It's how I was taught. Well, for me it was sabre cats. And fire. Oh, and also flowers, but that one's less exciting. And plenty of harsh lessons, really. How do you think I got these scars?" To prove her point, she lifted up both arms, showcasing a large array of scars, burns, and calluses that she'd acquired over the years. They moved down throughout her body, displayed for all to see under her Forsworn armor. The injuries had accumulated so much that it was hard to tell one from the other, let alone deduce what had caused them.

Lucien was curious about it since the day they'd met, but it felt rude to ask. But seeing as she brought up the matter herself, and she didn't seem to have any discomfort talking about it, he found himself asking, "What actually happened?"

"Oh, what didn't happen?" She chuckled. Pointing at the rough shape of a bite mark on her right arm, she explained, "I got this one when Auntie Ursula wanted me to get sabre cat teeth because I'd used up her entire supply when making potions. She wanted to teach me a lesson about recognizing alchemy as more than just mixing things together. Respecting the ingredients the land blesses us with, and honoring the Hunt as a crucial part of the life of an alchemist."

She then pointed to the burn marks along her palms and fingers. "I got these when Mother Helle was training me in Destruction magic. A lot of mages hesitate to progress their knowledge of the arcane arts, so she often pushed us to lean into the pain rather than fear it. Learning advanced fire-based spells results in plenty of injuries, but I couldn't have learned them if I didn't stop being scared of getting burned. After getting lit on fire a few times, it stops being so scary. And, more importantly, you learn to control it better."

"What about the flowers?" he asked.

She held up her fingers and wiggled them a bit. They were rough and calloused, and the state of them made him wonder how she could even comfortably hold a weapon. "These were the first scars I ever got. When I first started working as Auntie Bothela's assistant—I think it was shortly after my tenth winter, she made me dethorn every single flower that was in stock at the store until my hands bled. Then she made me use those same flowers to make a health potion to cure the cuts, and then I'd start over. I wasn't so good at it in the beginning, so my skin didn't end up healing very well. But once most of the skin was scarred, it stops hurting, and it helps when working with more advanced recipes."

"That sounds... quite harsh," Lucien observed. It was odd how she described such unpleasant experiences with a bright smile, as though they were treasured memories.

"All my teachers were Reachfolk, and usually followers of Lord Hircine," she explained. "It's part of his teachings—to suffer is to learn and all that. It's not exactly the nicest way to teach, but I always found it... kind, in its own way. They were with me through every step of the way. There was never a moment of my training that I felt alone or lost."

Then, her voice grew softer, a kind of uncertainty he hadn't seen in her before. "I hope I've been that kind of teacher to you. It may not always be easy, but I wouldn't put you in any situation that I don't trust you to handle, even if you may not always trust yourself as much. And, well... I know you're still making up your mind, but I do consider you a friend. I want the best for you."

The confession made Lucien's heart swell, and he wondered how on Nirn he ever doubted her intentions. And, after today, he couldn't doubt her results. "You have been," he said. "I'm glad to have you by my side, friend."

Her eyes lit up at his words, and the sight was reminiscent of that of an excited puppy. "Me too!" she said, her voice back to its cheery tone.

With that, Lucien drew his sword again and gestured to the path leading deeper into the ruins. "So, are you ready to press on?"

She gave a salute and followed his lead, drawing her own sword. "Sure thing, boss!"

[morkiplier]

Long-ish Unus Annus Goodbye Post Ahead:

Hi I’m Robyn, and here are some of my thoughts on Unus Annus.

This year was (and still is)... a bit rough. I haven’t been teaching for more than five years, and nothing at college could have ever prepared me for the mess that was this last school year and this current school year. One day I was working with my students and the next day I was alone at an empty school campus teaching from my classroom. This year has been super stressful for me as a teacher, and on top of that I’m also attending grad school, so I’m more stretched out than ever on time.

I’ll be honest—I actually forgot about Unus Annus a few weeks after Mark and Ethan launched the channel. The school year always gets crazy, so it wasn’t at the forefront of my mind when they started. It wasn’t until the pandemic hit that everything slowed down for a few weeks, and I remembered about the channel. Cue me holing up in my empty classroom and catching up on videos while writing lesson plans and grading lol. It was one of the things that kept my emotions at bay while transitioning through the school year, and I can’t thank Mark and Ethan enough for still continuing with vids even though it probably wasn’t the most convenient thing for them to do.

How am I going to feel when all this ends? I think I’ll be okay. I live in the LA area, and I was super fascinated by all the small businesses that Mark and Ethan were showcasing so I made some notes to check them out after quarantine ends. It’s a nice thing to look back on for sure, and I can’t wait to spend some of my weekends revisiting memories. Unus Annus has inspired me to make the most of what I have and to grow more creatively. I haven’t created a lot of things for a long amount of time and tbh I’ve really missed it. The Unus Annus community inspired me to create edits and art in my very small amount of spare time that I’ve got—simply because I want to make the most of the time I’ve got. It’s been quite the wild ride, and I honestly think that, for me, this was the perfect year for Unus Annus to happen. I’ve been thinking about the end a lot, and I’m glad and honored to have been along for the ride.

So thank you, @markiplier and @crankgameplays and you in the community who’s reading this, for an amazing year.

[mysticstudentsoul]

Final Evaluation

The title of my FMP ( Final Major Project ) is Conflict.

 When you think of conflict you automatically think of violence, so I had some ideas on that, but I didn’t want to create something based on violence. All I imagined at the time is that I would have to research on wars, and battles and see gruesome pictures, so I had to think of other ideas. To help myself I looked up the definition and images of conflict online. Once I knew the meaning of conflict, I could think of many more ideas, that I didn’t even know had anything to do with conflict. Two of my ideas I really liked, Family Conflict and Emotional Conflict. I decided to base my FMP on the sub theme family conflict. All the research, sketches and ideas I created for a month derived from that theme. When I had to scrap the family conflict idea, I moved onto my second favourite idea, emotional conflict.

 I had two limitations that I could recognise in my project, time and skill set. I did not have the time to I needed to get all my work completed on time. I also did not have the skill – set to carry out my idea exactly how I wanted it.

My artist research on ChiNoMiko was vital to my project, especially my final outcome. ChiNoMiko is an artist I have liked ever since I played her first game when I was fourteen. Looking at her illustrations for her artist study, I was going to add her art book cover images to her section of the sketchbook, when I realised I would like to try something like that. This caused me to have a lot of ideas in my head, so when I started on my backup plan I decided to turn them into posters. This led me to also look at other game genre posters for design research. ChiNoMiko’s artist research also helped support my sketches and line art for the posters. ChiNoMiko’s characters are created for love games, so her character’s line art is always dainty and fine/thin. By studying her line art I began to think and experiment with different pens, the amount of pressure I apply to the pens and the angle I hold them, to get different line widths. The purpose of this experimentation was to help me decide how the line art should be for all my posters.

For this project, I was tasked to find twelve artists to research. These artists had to either give inspiration for my project or work in the interactive media and digital arts field that I will be studying next year. Though all the artists I researched, art I like and interests me. When I originally wanted to explore and incorporate pop art into my project, a lot of the artists I started to research created art in that field, from these artists I started researching and experimenting. Though in the end I decided not to create my project in the pop art style, as I still don’t quite know enough about pop art, understand it, or even know how to intergrate it into my project. For the other artist’s I explored a website called Art Station, which is a site where games, film, media and entertainment artists across the globe can showcase their portfolios and apply for jobs. I chose artists who are illustrators because I could relate their art to my FMP, and artists who are animators, concept artists, game designers, environment artists, and 3D and 2D artists, because I will be studying these skills next year.

 My work is a mix between traditional and digital media. I used paper, tracing paper, pencil, masking tape, repro blue pencil, and one medium and fine markers, to create my sketches and line art. I used an Apple Mac computer, Wacom tablet and Photoshop to create my experimentations and some of my final outcome. Recording the process and research of my FMP in a sketchbook and on my Tumblr blog.

 My work has three functions:

 1.     To aquire me the grade I need to study the interactive media and creative arts course next year.

 2.     To show the skills, knowledge and improvements, I gained from the digital arts course.

 I hope that my audience feel they can relate to my work. That they find interest in in my work. I want for the emotions I was trying to convey in each of my outcome posters, to be recognized by an audience.

 If I had more time on the project I would have finished my family conflict animation for my outcome. I had several episode ideas, so hopefully I would have been able to create several of them. I would also have had 2 sketchbooks to record all my work on the project, since I prefer sketchbooks over blogs. This would have also allowed me to record more research and experimentation. I would also have liked to be able to make my sketchbooks more artsy. Have the writing in the sketchbooks all in different colours, and add borders of different, colourful designs.

 I am both pleased and disappointed with my final outcome. I am pleased with the idea, but disappointed with the execution. I need to take drawing lessons as I have trouble drawing the human form. This problem had caused me trouble while drawing the characters poses, that I wasn’t even able to finish one of my poster ideas. Hopefully taking drawing classes will also help me draw faster. I am happy with the background in my stress poster, and although I think the lines of the furniture in my anger poster are a bit wobbly, I am still pleased with the posters background too.

My project does not meet my proposal aims. When I wrote my project proposal I intended for my final outcome to be a short animation based on the theme family conflict. But due to complications I was unable to complete the animation and had to go with my backup plan for my final outcome. This I had mentioned in my project proposal as an idea, to digitise my character designs for the theme emotional conflict. Though I also changed this somewhat, as I took the character designs I had and turned them into game posters for the theme.

 Throughout the project my work had been evaluated by my teachers. This helped as during the disscusions they would tell me whether my ideas were achievabel or not, and input there own ideas to.

 This in a way has been both a success for me and a disaster. I am not completely happy with my work or the time it took to complete it, but this experience has taught me a lot. I need to plan better, so I can get my work done when it needs to be done, in the order it needs to be done. I would say I should also start coming up with ideas realistically on what I’m able to do, instead of what I want to do. However I know this is impossible for me, so instead I should strive to learn and master, the skills I need to be able to successfully execute my ideas.

[linoholic]

HighSchool!Momo

Requested: anon asked: hello!!! may i have twice momo x reader where they’re both dancers? i really love your writing!!

Pairing: Twice Hirai Momo x Gender Neutral Reader

Warnings: none

Thank you for requesting for our girl Momo. I recommend watching her Hit the Stage performance to Crazy in Love, because I can’t describe things for the life of me. Also, I do have a vague knowledge on the South Korean schooling system, because I knew it was really different from school in England so hopefully it’s at least a little accurate.

School really isn’t as bad as the movies make it seem

Well, at least your school isn’t

Yes, there are cliques, but there isn’t really a social hierarchy as a lot of western movies portray

And so you quite like school

You are friendly with your whole class, as well as those in others

Your best friends, Jeongyeon and Sana, are the greatest

You’re grades are the best they have been (all thanks to Jeongyeon getting on your back about homework)

And best of all, you were appointed the captain of the dance team

Out of all the other boys and girls in the club, you were picked

And that feels pretty great

So here you are, sitting in your desk, first day back after winter break, the teacher having just started the first lesson

When the door opens and in walks in the principle, and behind her a (really pretty actually) girl, shyly smiling at the class

“Students, pay attention”

Any eyes that hadn’t already turn to the front, and the principal nods before leaving, the girl standing still in her spot

“Hello, I am Hirai Momo, transferring from Japan. I hope you take care of me”

You and your peers around you warmly smile and say hellos back as she takes a seat a few rows behind you, but cease talking as the teacher starts up again

Sadly, you don’t get to speak to her that day, as she is surrounded by people constantly

However, Sana does get to speak to her, sitting next to her in class, and she is especially excited to have another Japanese girl to talk to

Apparently the two have become fast friends during that first day, and over kakaotalk that night you and Jeongyeon hear all about how nice she is

So the three of you agree to ask her to join you and your friends from other years for lunch the next day

Which Sana does

And so the first time you properly meet Momo one on one is lunchtime the next day

And she soon turns into someone you can see becoming good friends with

Especially when she mentions that she dances

You are quite to invite her to the dance team tryouts you are holding that evening after school, having been looking for some new members

And of course she agrees

And that is the next time you are able to properly speak to her

In she walks to the room, an almost demure confidence to her that suggests that she knows what she is doing

You greet her with a big smile that she is quick to return

Soon enough it is her turn to dance

And as TVXQ’s Mirotic starts playing (for some reason I really want to see her dance this)

Your eyes widen slightly

Because while you are a talented dancer

In a club full of other talented dancers

Momo just completely makes the song her own

So of course, you welcome her onto the team

After the tryouts are finished, and you have given out any information/announcements you say goodbye to everyone

As Momo picks up her bag and goes to leave, you call out for her to wait up before quickly catching up to her

“Welcome to the dance team. I can wait to see what you can do,” you say to her as you come up to walk beside her

Momo smiles proudly “Thank you. I’ve been taking lessona since I was three”

That starts of a conversation about her life in Japan that carries on, even out of the school gates as you offer to walk her home

And this becomes a tradition between the two of you

Everyday after school, or dance when you have it, you’ll say bye to Sana and Jeongyeon who live the opposite way to you and Momo, walking home together

Somedays are full of talk and laughter

Others a comfortable silence

And trips to convenience stores are not uncommon either

Over the next few weeks she really intergrates herself, her korean improving at a rapid rate and your group of three becoming four

Momo also becomes a vital part of the dance team, and a beloved member

She is just so naturally charming

Especially her adorable sneezes

And when the dance showcase comes up and you need to start practicing for it

Both you and your dance teacher decide to give one of the solos to your newest member

And so with a lot of your free time spent dancing together, feelings get caught

Yes. Momo has a crush on

How could she not come to fancy you?

You’re cute, you dance, you have been so welcoming and lovely to her

But she decides to not tell you

At least, not yet

Instead she confides in Sana

But she isn’t exactly discreet with her crush

And soon enough everyone in dance knows about it

Then your class

Then the school

And it is like something out of a drama

The pretty transfer student and the popular team captain

Dahyun, your underclassman, even comes up with a ship name for you two

And everybody feels sympathy for Momo

Because even though she is not even trying to hide it

Complimenting you constantly, shooting literal heart eyes your way, feeding you at lunchtime

You remain clueless

Or so everybody thinks

Because you actually caught on to Momo’s crush on you quite early

But you decided to keep quiet, not yet sure if you felt anything other than platonically for her

So you kept quiet, finding everybodies frustation at your ‘cluelessness’ hilarious

Sometimes you would even initiate extra skinship; back hugging Momo or wiping crumbs off of her cheek

But you weren’t playing around with her feelings

Because one day when you are saying goodbye after walking her home

You find yourself looking at her lips, thinking how nice it would be to kiss her

And that is when you realise that your feelings towards her are definitely not simply platonic

But instead of telling her, even though you know she would accept them without a doubt

You decide to give the k-drama like situation the confession that it deserves

Which of course calls for being as dramatic and unexpected as possible

And the time soon comes for you to do exactly that

It’s the night of the showcase and it is all going amazingly

The crowd, full of peers, parents and faculty alike are loving it

You do a mixture of covers, original choreographies, solo and group stages

And Momo’s dance to Crazy in love is a hit

You catch Momo’s gaze during the performance, and it is so dangerous, it gets your heart beating twice as fast (haha Twice)

She dances amazing, and you couldn’t be more proud of her

Before you know it, it is sadly the end of the show

But you are feeling more nervous than you were at the start of the show, but you make sure to hide them well

Soon you are standing on the stage with the rest of the crew, holding hands and bowing to the audience

You and Momo just happen to be center stage, which is perfect for your plan

Because as you all stand up from bowing

You pull Momo to face you

And you kiss her

On the lips

In front of everyone

As you pull away from her you are grinning at her pleasantly shocked face, cheeks blushing a pretty red

You hear the people around you and in the audience wolf whistling and cheering

And you are pretty sure you hear Dahyun shout out “the ship has sailed!”

But you couldn’t care less about all the attention you are getting, because you and Momo are too busy smiling at each other

You ask Momo out properly when most of the other people have left

And now the afterschool convenience store trips are counted as mini dates

In fact, food dates are kinda your thing, because Momo loves her food

So you introduce her to your favourite local spots, and in return she makes her Mum make you her favourite Japanese dishes

You two also dance together a lot, and you are each others own hype man, encouraging each other through all the hard choreographies

You also love to learn kpop dances together and you always own any random dances that your dance club decide to do for fun

Jeongyeon is still the one you both go for academic help though, with you often turning up on her doorstep together for study sessions

Speaking of Jeongyeon, her and Sana love you both dearly, but if you keep acting so sickeningly sweet around them they’re throwing hands

Momo loves calling you things in japanese, but always refuses to tell you what they mean

But you find out from Sana that she calls you everything from “sweetie” and “baby” to “turnip” and “frog legs”

You ‘accidentally’ buy the extra spicy ramen for her after you find out she calls you frog legs

After that first kiss in front of everyone, the most pda you do is hugging, because Momo loves to surprise you with random backhugs

Basically, you are one th cutest couples that your school has ever seen

And you treat each other so well, everybody is jealous and wants a relationship like the one you two have

Requests open!

[pixiealtaira]

I would like to learn more about...

Pairing: None. Kurt-centric slice of life. Probably not Rachel friendly, I just see it as being her but others might see it as more unfriendly.

Rachel hovered over Kurt as he filled out the class schedule for his first semester at NYADA.   He’d already been placed in the dance class and vocal class and workshop time, he now needed to flesh out the rest of the semester with classes that he could take that weren’t the second half of topics and didn’t require a class as a prerequisite.

“I’ll have to take First year Drama and script analysis over the summer.  Madame Tibideaux said if I went both summer sessions I could take those classes and the rest of first year voice and dance. I can only take a max 10 credits during summer sessions, and that is that right there.  I could get in speech and maybe the math general requirement now though.  With Modern Musical Theater and that Exploration of Dramatic arts course I would have a good start. That would probably be about max credit wise anyway.”

“You aren’t going home to Lima in the summer?”  Rachel asked quietly.

“No, I have to catch up so I can be on course by next year. My college fund is not unlimited.  And at NYADA all it is going to cover is tuition.”

“But Kurt…”

“Sorry, Rachel.  It wouldn’t hurt you to stay here.  You could find a job and see if you could get permission to audition.”

Rachel scoffed.  “I already plan to audition whenever something I might want comes up.  I told Madame Tibideaux that as well.  She can’t actually stop me.”

Kurt rolled his eyes. “Did you ever consider the recommendation for no auditioning until you are given the go ahead might be there for a reason?”  Kurt asked.

“And I know the reason. It is so that they have less competition.  Rumor has it most the teachers at NYADA do at least one professional show a year.  They just keep the students down so they don’t outshine the teachers.” Rachel said and Kurt could tell she was serious.

“Anyway,” Kurt continued, interrupting what he knew would end up a huge rant if he let Rachel get into it. ”I need to go in and test my musical theory foundation and piano skills for placement in those classes, but those are each just one credit a piece. But taking the classes will have to wait till fall.  Then in fall I can take English Comp and World History.  That is six credits and a good chunk of my generals out of the way. Hmm…so let’s see…Dance is four credits, vocal and workshop is four credits...and six more.  That is fourteen, plus musical theory and piano…so 16.   Hmm, if I add projection, which is one credit and History of Theater in America, which is three, I’ll still be under 21, which is the max without getting all sorts of permissions and such.”

“But, we won’t share any classes.” Rachel said.

“Aren’t you taking the English class?”  Kurt asked.

Rachel snorted.  “I need to focus, Kurt.  My dads came with me and helped set up my first year schedule. I have dance, vocal class and workshop, a private lesson, and first year acting with emphasis on musical theater. WE think 12 credits are enough and will allow my focus to be properly pointed to where I can show the most star power. They advised sticking as close to that as possible for the next year as well.”

“What about script analysis and your generals and oh…the rest?”

Rachel rolled her eyes. “Attention won’t be focused on me in those classes, Kurt.  And if I can’t keep the focus I won’t get the roles I deserve.  I need to be seen. I am certain I’ll be able to get them covered without having to actually take them.”

“And here I thought the purpose of NYADA was to learn all about musical theater and become better prepared for a career in the industry.” Kurt said.

“By being seen at what you shine at.” Rachel answered.

Kurt snorted and went about filling out a schedule in which what he wanted to take didn’t overlap.

Rachel grumbled and muttered under her breath about letting her set his schedule up, but he plugged along and got his classes set up like he wanted.  He briefly wondered what she was going to do when she wasn’t let into certain classes next year due to prerequisites not being taken.

Rachel forgot her complaints about his schedule by the time they started classes anyway, except when he wasn’t home to fix her food when she wanted him to.

She whined about him taking summer courses again when it was close to summer.  She had wanted him to follow her to the theater while they started putting together Fanny so he could do all her running for her, like make her coffee or feed her lines when she forgot them.

“Sorry,” Kurt told her the third time she demanded he not take the summer courses. “Not only do I have my NYADA courses but I managed to get into a class recommended at Vogue.com. I’m taking a photography course being offered by one of the photographers who does the regular magazine photos.  It is an opportunity of a lifetime.”

“Why?”

“Because I was offered the chance when I asked her why she made a choice she made while setting up one of the shoots that showcased the summer scarves we had a small write up on. Thea had a spot open in this class and told me she’d love me to fill it since I was asking questions that had substance.”

Rachel looked at him as if he were speaking a different language.  “I mean why would you take a photography class?  That has nothing to do with starring on Broadway.  What a waste of time!  If I were you, I’d use the time you spend there doing something useful…like auditioning.” Rachel said with a sneer.

“I already told you, I will wait to audition until I have something to put down on paper and have more classes under my belt.”

“You’re going to wait for permission aren’t you?”

“Probably,” Kurt replied. “Anyway, Photography is fascinating. I have such a great deal of respect for most of the photographers who I’ve met and this is simply the opportunity of a lifetime.  She even set up a photography basics course for me to take before I go to her classes.  I can’t wait. I mean, I don’t know if I’ll ever use it professionally, but if I can create with it for my own enjoyment and also learn what makes a great photo for different purposes for use with vogue.com it will be worth every moment.”

Rachel was of course fine with Kurt taking photos when they ended up being able to be used for her portfolio.

Blaine didn’t get into New York until three days before NYADA started back up again…Sam in tow, so Kurt didn’t have to hear ‘why are you taking’ whatever it was that seemed silly for him to take to whoever was complaining (as Santana joined in for Fall semester complaining) from Blaine at least.  This was good because Rachel and Santana were annoying and loud enough to keep Kurt on edge. He was already stressed because he was having to rearrange what he’d tried to put in before…but his yr. two vocals class and intermediate dance class interfered with his previous set up. Rachel had wanted him to just drop what he’d had to pull out of all together but instead he just switched courses.   He’d tested out of musical theory thankfully, because it was one that didn’t fit any longer, and he’d managed to keep projection and history of theater, but Eng. comp and world history were moved to online courses which had a full year to finish and so didn’t count into his credit count and his piano course had had to be postponed.  On Santana’s and Rachel’s list to complain about were the screenwriting class, choral for chorus, world literature and sight singing.  Rachel also tossed fits over the online courses…because they took away time from Kurt following her off to Callbacks and watching her sing and cheering her on. Or rather watching her and Blaine sing and cheering them on, since Blaine was ‘allowed’ to sing with Rachel and while he was out with Rachel, whereas Kurt was just supposed to sit and cheer for her.  Kurt loved having online homework to do as an excuse to stay home personally…a year of just sitting and waiting for her to ‘allow’ him to play as well was enough.

“Look,” Kurt finally snapped.  “After world lit, I have five more general courses to take.  I might plan on being a star someday, but sight reading music and being part of a chorus are just good skills to be able to bring to the game.  And honestly, you two…how can you scoff at screenwriting?  To make your own script? The power of writing, of being the creator of a whole show? How can you not see the appeal?”

“But Kurt, those classes will take away from your voice courses and dance and acting classes! Where is your focus and pin pointed passion!” Rachel yelled.

Kurt rolled his eyes. “The same place it has been since I got here.  NYADA is a place to learn all about the theater profession…not just singing.   The more I know, the more I have to bring to the table when I go out to audition. Those credits listed on a CV matter, Rachel.  The more I participate throughout the school, in a variety of areas, the more professionals in the school I meet and hopefully the more letters of recommendation I can bring with me.  Not everyone gets handed their dream role right off the bat like you did.  The rest of us will have to fight our way into a role.”

“I had to fight for my role, Kurt.” Rachel snarled.

“No, you really didn’t Rachel.”  Kurt said. “Talk to other people who have gone to open call auditions.  You got lucky and went to auditions on an appointment system because your casting director for the show had been suffering from migraines and decided a traditional open call wouldn’t be an option.  Did you think that was normal?  How auditions are generally held here?”

Rachel shrugged.  “I didn’t think about it.  Why would I?”

Kurt rolled his eyes.

“I have no idea why you might think about how things are generally done in the profession you are going into.”  Kurt sneered.

“Besides, I’m going to be famous now and they will always have me audition privately and first for any role I want from now on.”  Rachel added…completely seriously.

Kurt finalized his schedule and resisted the urge to slam his head against the wall…or strangle Rachel.

Unfortunately, Blaine was around to join in the complaints when Kurt signed up for his Spring Semester classes for his second year.  Blaine complained about Mime and Movement the most, although he complained about the Kurt taking such a full load to begin with.  Rachel complained about Stage Combat. Santana scoffed at Shakespeare and his Health and Wellness class.   He was also taking the next parts of his second year vocal and workshop, dance, piano fundamentals, and half his 2yr acting course. Needless to say after all the complaining he was highly surprised to see Blaine in Mime and Movement, let alone his second year vocal and workshop and acting class . In fact, the only two classes Blaine wasn’t in were Kurt’s dance class and his Health and Wellness course.  Blaine complained about Kurt’s course choices all semester long.

Kurt hid when he signed up for classes during the next summer.  Not that it mattered.  There was no one left to whine and complain at him about his choices at all.  Not even Dani and Elliot.  Not that Kurt blamed them.  Between Santana being around and being horrid to Dani after that relationship didn’t work and Rachel’s treatment of the both after she was not included in the remake of the band and Blaine screeching at Elliot and then treating him like he was garbage from then on out, Kurt couldn’t fault them for being driven away…on good days.  On bad days Kurt couldn’t fault them for staying away from his toxic being.

His gloom lasted through the first session of summer classes.  He’d taken his biology /anatomy class with a lab, getting that science credit needed for the full BA, and ethics class and his first audition techniques class, as well as adding Intro to guitar and Songwriting basics. It was a full 10 credits, but it had knocked off two more general courses and some of the single credit courses he hadn’t fit in yet.   He did a summer acting workshop as well which wasn’t counted in his credits but Madame Tibideaux counted as the other half of his 2yr acting.   It stretched through both summer sessions and Kurt figured by the end of it he’d spent more time acting than if he’d taken the class.

His second summer session was filled with dance specifics.  Three credits of Tap and three credits of Ballet, then single credit ballroom technique and Jazz ensemble dance.  He asked and got permission to stretch his session to 11 credits and added Jazz Harmonies, Dialects and Cold Readings Techniques.

Cassandra July didn’t allow moping.  Kurt was in her class and in her presence every day of the week for several hours.

Cassandra July loved pointing out your personal issues. However, oddly enough, she made Blaine out to be the idiot of the tale…the one who flunked out because he was too much a pompous ass to do things in the proper order and proper manner, the idiot who threw his money around and tossed fits and demanded special treatment to get himself put into classes he wasn’t in any manner prepared for. She drug Rachel through the wringer, and Kurt could not fault her one bit.  She just growled at Kurt for letting their desertion drag him down instead of celebrating the freedom their absence afforded him.

Cassandra July pointed everything out loudly, in public.  Within a week, guys who he’d been as friendly as he was able to be with in Stage Combat and Mime class without Blaine flipping his lid were coming up to him and talking to him.  Elliot called and asked f Kurt wanted to hang out.  Dani called and invited herself over to the loft, to help him cleanse it of lingering bad vibes. Friends he’d made in Adam’s Apples who he hadn’t been able to talk to for over a year called out of the blue.

Thea asked if he wanted to take another photography class…or rather, it turned out, follow her around to shoots on weekends and learn how to work shoots and do quick edits on site. Isabelle got back from her stint in LA and involved him more within the social circles at vogue again and colluded with Ms. July to have Kurt practice his ballroom dance with people Isabelle found several times over the course of the session.  Kurt hadn’t even been aware the two knew each other well enough to interfere with his blues.

Isabelle and Dani also somehow got together and found him a good therapist.  (A bit of an unholy pairing which also led to several articles on Roller Derby styles…much to Kurt’s dismay.)

Elliot, Chase, and Dani were with him when he was trying to figure out the schedule for his third year of NYADA.  They looked over his shoulder as he registered his courses online.

“I thought this semester was work study?” Dani said.

“It’s the year actually, half is work study and the other half is ‘from script to stage’, which means costume and design, lighting and sound basics, make-up arts, set design and stage craft, and intro to directing.  They basically split the 3rd years into two groups and tell them which semester they are supposed to do which in.  My name was drawn for first semester for work study. At NYADA, if you don’t leave the city for work study, that simply means 4 credits of dance and four credits of vocal and workshop, 3 credits of generals and if your work study isn’t calculated to be at least six credit hours, then also the three credit screen and studio class on top of work study.  I’m signing up for the class just in case so IF I have to take it my spot is there. And I’m taking full advantage of the option of registering a full year 3rd year and getting my spots in spring semester solidified.  During your script to stage semester you have to have a vocal specialty class…I’m aiming for  harmonies, a dance specialty class…Ms. July suggested Irish Dance and Clogging essentials, and an acting specialty…I’m going with the improve class. To top off the bunch you need a three credit general in there, too.  I choose the arts appreciation course…it is mostly a lot of watching and attending and write-ups, which will be nice contrast to all the doing of that semester.”

“Are they trying to kill you third year?”  Chase asked.

Kurt laughed.  “Most those courses, like costume and lighting, are available to the non-musical theater students from the start for the most part, but we are pretty much kept out until our third year.  I think they set it up this way to give us musical theater brats an ego check.  Also, this forces some people to get involved in courses other than their vocals and dance and acting. Sadly, Rachel wasn’t the only one to have basically avoided courses that didn’t spot light her.  Others seem to look forward to this year with gleeful anticipation.”

“So…”Elliot said.

“So?” Kurt asked.

“So…what are you signing up for?” Elliot prompted.

“Oh!  So, Ms. July put me into acrobatic dance…more focus on leaps and tumbling and stuff, instead of her regular advanced dance course. She said it was because I have been doing dance during summers and have been ‘suitably committed’ to doing well in class, but Jules from Stage Combat last year said that third year regular advanced dance does a lot of Ballroom style dancing so I figure she moved me because I took ballroom already and have that cheer background that she’d like to torture me with. Then I have a vocal hour with Larson and a vocal hour with Tibideaux, and the two hour Tibideaux workshop. Larson is not happy, but he said if she doesn’t use me better this year she will not get me next semester at all and he will sign off for the extra credits next semester to have me for vocals and workshops to himself.   I’m taking History of the Cinema, with focus on Musicals, for my general elective course. If I get the work study project at the Old Actor’s home…it will be 7 to 8 credit hours and I will do the studio class in summer.  If I get the Children’s theater project instead it is six credits and I’ll have to talk to Tibideaux about the studio course.”

“Which work study project do you want most?” Dani asked.

“You know, I don’t really care.” Kurt said. “I would love to work at the home again. I love spending time with everyone there. But working with kids would be fun, too.  I just want either of those projects.  My third and fourth choices weren’t as fun sounding.”

“If you work with the kids, I want to tag along sometime.” Elliot said.  “I have always wanted to learn enough about how to put together a youth drama program and have it be successful enough to last several years. It would be a great chance to maybe pick some minds.”

“Are you totally looking forward to your second semester?” Chase asked.

Kurt smiled. “You know, I am.  I’ve been looking forward to these classes since I started NYADA.  I declared a musical theater major from the very start, which I wished I hadn’t after talking with Adam after just a few weeks, but it was too late really, otherwise I would have taken some of the classes during my very first semester.  I mean, costume design?  Who wouldn’t want to take that?”

“Well, I can’t wait for you to take them…I expect you to sneak some time on the machines in there to put together some costumes for the band!  I don’t have access to the costume shop anymore.” Elliot said.

Kurt laughed.  

“You know, maybe you could see if you can add any of what you learn in your dance courses into the band dancing, as well.” Dani added.  “I mean some leaps and jumps would be bound to get the girls all hot and bothered…and that is always good for future show turnouts.”

“Not to mention the men in the audience.” Chase added.

Kurt leaned back and looked at his friends, marveling at the difference it made when people truly wanted what was best for you and not just them.  Elliot ruffled his hair and made Kurt squeak.

“You finished?” Dani asked.

Kurt nodded. “I’ll get an email confirmation in the morning.”

“Then I suggest we party! I hear a club calling our names!” Dani shouted.

Kurt smiled and stood up, heading straight for the door. “First round of whatever we are drinking tonight is on me. I am feeling quite fabulous.”

The four friends headed out, a haze of laughter following them.

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Best WordPress Education Themes

We have hand of the selected and reviewed this collection of the best WordPress education themes, perfectly built for online courses, schools and University programs, colleges and more. From primary school to post-secondary education oh, these are the absolute best education themes available today. You know that the look and feel of your education website is incredibly important to building trust with your visitors. The themes that we have selected or are all incredibly well-designed, focused on quality code and functionality. They all promise to be very simple to adapt to any purpose, so if you are looking for a high-quality education theme, you are certainly in the right place. I will look at these themes and let us know what you think.

El Colegio

El Colegio, that means ‘the college’ in Spanish. But you shouldn’t confuse this with being a theme that is only for colleges, it’s suitable for all levels of Education institutions. Universities and colleges, sure that goes without saying, but it works great for high schools, elementary schools and even kindergarten classes. If you’d like a theme that works even just as well for continuing education and online education courses, El Collegio fits the bill. This theme has compatibility with the very popular time table plug-in, though that does need to be purchased separately and is not bundled with this theme, but that allows you to schedule classes and other activities.

Just like all human beings need air, water, food and shelter to survive, not to mention human connection, we all feel a deep and burning need to continue learning.  It’s what makes us human, the ability to take on new information to help us grow and thrive in an increasingly complex world.  Education is that important and El Colegio is a theme that can help us to learn, grow and make our lives better.

Here’s what the developer says about El Colegio.

El Colegio is a premium WordPress theme suitable for educational institutions, including kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and university. You can add online courses with quizzes and tests with full LearnPress LMS integration, showcase and advertise special school events with the Events Calendar plugin. The theme is compatible with popular Timetable plugin (needs to be purchased separately), you can use it to schedule classes and other activities. El Colegio theme comes bundled with premium slider plugins: Slider Revolution and Layer Slider both included, you can use them for free. The theme has a fantastic appearance on any screen resolution and mobile devices. It comes with the demo content included – so you can launch a functional website in minutes, or build your own using our Visual Content Composer – no coding required.

So, what else can we say about this theme?

With a gorgeous and perfectly responsive layout, this theme works great on all devices and that is more important than ever these days, considering how many people will be accessing your website on their smartphones or other mobile devices.  No matter the screen size, this theme adapts to perfectly, smoothly fit the screen.  It’s a nice feature, but it’s really necessary these days, so don’t take it for granted.

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LMS

Learning Management System, or LMS for short, is a amazing theme for education portals. This theme has everything you need to set up a premium quality portal for online courses, extended education, and more. It’s an entire learning management system, it includes features for creating online courses, teacher profiles, user profiles and lesson management. There are quiz Management Systems, video hosting, ranking and ratings systems and you can track course progress with all of the handy plugins included in this theme. LMS is the number one learning management theme available on themeforest, perfectly compatible with woocommerce, WordPress 5.0 and more.

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Grand College

Grand College is a fine WordPress theme for schools, universities, colleges and businesses. This theme has a clean and modern design, it’s got a professional set of features and nearly any element that you see in this website can be changed via the themes admin panel. Managing page items is incredibly simple using the page builder tool. You can create unlimited numbers of sidebars, Select from almost 500 different Google fonts or use your own custom font, thanks to the provided font uploader feature. Any element on the page can be translated into any language, certainly a benefit to education websites that need to reach an international audience.

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Academy

Academy is a learning management system that is ideal for sharing and selling knowledge. It’s more than just a regular education theme, this is an entire learning management system that makes teaching online courses, and learning, easier for everyone involved. Academy gives you many features that are highly specific to the educational field, there are user profiles, course progress trackers, course rating systems, question and quiz systems and more. This theme has an extension for basic user profiles, that allows users to register, upload avatars and edit profile Fields, subscribe to variety of courses and track their progress, all in the front end. That gives this theme a seamless, professional design that really works.

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Eduma

Eduma is a complete education WordPress theme, just as the name might suggest. This theme is the next generation of Education WordPress themes, giving you tons of different features, over a dozen prevailed demo sites, access to your favorite drag-and-drop page builder for crafting they look for your website that fits your needs and a whole lot more. This is the same as one of the highest rated and most popular education themes out there. Recently updated to support WordPress 5.0 and the Elementor page builder, this theme is inviting and functional, attractive and an excellent way to create any education site. There are multiple premium demos included and each one is easy to install and update.

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WPMLS

WPMLS is a WordPress learning management system theme with a professional and modern design, packed with features to help make learning fun.  This isn’t just a regular education WordPress theme that is great for education training centers, course tutors, corporate training cam Academy is, universities, Colleges and Schools of all sorts. For instructors and students, the user experience is a pleasant one. This eLearning WordPress theme offers course management for instructors and student management, allow you to create and sell online courses. You can create an e-learning academy like those found on lynda.com, udemy.com or coursera.com. All of this is thanks to the WPLMS plug-in, a scalable and flexible platform that has every feature needed to craft a full-featured learning portal for WordPress.  Simply put, this is one of the best education themes around.

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iAcademy

For online learning, iAcademy is a great starting point. This theme features beautiful showcases to highlight the courses that your website has to offer. There are four different practical short codes included their user-friendly and attractive. He’s going to help shape how you present your online courses. There are single course layouts, giving all of the details of the courses that you offer. You’ll be able to create quizzes and lectures quickly and easily with the purpose-built tools that are included with iAcademy. Choose from one of the Dozen different beautiful homepage layouts, each one distinctive and suited for your needs. Bbpress is fully supported, allow you to build an online community with Advanced features. There’s the events calendar to display classes and courses with search functionality, making finding what you need easier. The iAcademy theme also supports woocommerce, letting you sell digital downloadable products or other swag. This is a premium theme built for any type of school, online lesson and education website.

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Studeon

This is Studeon, a high quality education center and training courses theme of for WordPress. This theme is a stylish and modern, fresh and responsive theme that is perfect for colleges, universities, training companies, webinar firms and any Institute of Higher Learning that wants a high-quality website that makes it easy to teach and learn. No matter what type of online courses you are offering, Studeon has the tools necessary to make teaching and learning a simple and enjoyable process. This theme offers automatic updates, a powerful admin interface, thorough documentation and support and all the styling options that you could want. In terms of Education specific features, this theme offers online course management, Advanced contact forms, events management and calendar and woocommerce support. That makes it an ideal platform for building a high-quality education website.

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Eduhub

Eduhub is a highly rated education WordPress theme, ideal for Learning Management Systems, training centers, online courses and colleges, academies and businesses that want to provide high-quality educational materials to their readers. This powerful and highly customized with name is mobile-friendly, full of support for all the most popular plugins, including woocommerce. It also supports Sensei, a fully responsive and highly adaptable, interactive and user-friendly plug-in to manage course work and instructional materials. With the Sensei plug-in, you’ll be able to create online courses, write lesson plans and add quizzes, pretty much everything that you need to create high quality education website.

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College

College is a WordPress theme targeted at schools and universities that wish to setup their own site. This theme is built by ThemeFuse running beneath the Unyson Framework. As a site theme targeting educational institutions, it’s main benefit is its easy customizability. It includes a drag and drop page builder and integrated Visual Builder. Website administrators may select between different color choices, page layouts, font styles, backgrounds, header designs, icons, blog designs, and lots of more.

Another built-in attribute would be the Layers Slider and Revolution Slider. They allow users to create and add pictures to the website’s homepage and other pages. Site owners are able to choose between three custom image sliders which may be displayed on the site based upon your needs. In addition to this, the College theme also has pre-made layouts, on-page search engine optimization capacities, and the translation-ready plugin WMPL. A WordPress theme for a college or college website isn’t complete without an integrated process which will connect students with one another. The College Theme makes this possible by means of a built-in Events page template.

College is a WordPress theme aimed at schools and universities that want to setup their own website. This theme is built by ThemeFuse running under the Unyson Framework.  As a website theme targeting educational institutions, it’s main advantage is its easy customizability. It features a drag and drop page builder and integrated Visual Builder. Website administrators may choose between different color options, page layouts, font styles, backgrounds, header styles, icons, blog layouts, and many others.

Another built-in feature are the Layers Slider and Revolution Slider. They allow users to create and add images into the site’s homepage and other pages. Site owners can choose between three custom image sliders that can be displayed on the homepage depending on your needs.  On top of that, the College theme also includes pre-made layouts, on-page SEO capabilities, and the translation-ready plugin WMPL.  A WordPress theme for a university or school website is not complete without a built-in process that will connect students with each other. The College Theme makes this possible with the use of a built-in Events page template.

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Basil

Just a bit different than some of the other themes in this collection, is the modern and functional Basil WordPress theme. This is a fully responsive theme for fresh and elegant cooking education websites. It’s got a very visual feel to it, perfect for cooking schools, cooking workshops, recipes and cookbooks, food or Chef blocks and anything else needing a fancy-looking set up that works perfectly with woocommerce and has the ability to share educational content. Basils theme developer offers great support and the documentation is there oh, this theme is a little different, but I think that a lot of people have really reacted well to it.

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Masterstudy

Master Study is an LMS WordPress theme for Education, e-learning and online courses and it’s got fantastic design that is equally matched by how many features this theme offers. Key features include an amazing looking lesson page template, the built-in messaging system, quizzes and results Pages, course announcements and on the back end, a powerful admin panel to keep everything a customized just the way you want it. For online academies or offline courses this classic learning management system theme has a lot of similarities to sites like you to me.com or lynda.com. You get different lesson types, you can lock video content behind a paywall and everything is highly SEO optimized for fast page load times this theme supports just about any plug-in you possibly imagine, making it an ideal platform to expand your educational offerings online.

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University

The University WordPress name is ideal for educational institutes, online courses and even Learning Management Systems. Not to mention business and shopping, this theme does a little bit of everything. University comes with all the features that any modern educational website requires. Of course, responsive design and Facebook or Disqus comments integration or very important, University adds these right off the bat. This education theme goes a step further, giving you seven different homepage demos to import into your homepage with just a few clicks. This theme is powerful and simple to customize, with well over 4,000 sales, it’s one of the most popular education themes out there. Compatible with bbPress, events and tickets selling plugins, course enrollment and payment plugins and more, this theme has everything it takes to build amazing Education website.

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Student Push Back Is Frustrating, but It Made Me a Better Teacher

I was driving to work listening to Dan Carlin’s political podcast “Common Sense.” Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

As a high school history teacher with 15 years of experience, this shouldn't have come as a surprise, but something about the way Carlin explained it awakened me that day. I've always used the power of personal connection to teach historical thinking skills such as critical analysis, synthesizing information and recognizing bias, but that day I realized I hadn't given students the freedom to decide what history they wanted to learn and how they wanted to learn it—and Carlin says choice is key. I was determined to create a project that would help me provide more choices for students. I called it “Big History.”

This was six years ago, when I was teaching at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School (MVPS) in Atlanta, Ga. MVPS is an independent school that serves close to 1,000 students in Pre-K through 12th grade. The mission of my school was to prepare students for an ever-changing world—bold, I know. We were given freedom to implement non-traditional practices such as design thinking, while maintaining those that are tried and true like document-based essay writing. As an educator, I felt empowered, and I wanted to create that same feeling for my students.

I was a ninth grade World History teacher at the time and since I taught every ninth grader at the school, I’d be able to implement the change I was making with my new project across the entire grade. The goal of the project was to allow students to self-select a topic they were interested in researching (E.g., fashion, warfare, sports) and share about it as if they were an educator. The project would culminate in a presentation of the information they learned using a format that allowed them to demonstrate their personal strength. I was a genius.

After sharing some basic parameters for the project, students began working. One young lady studied the history of fashion and presented her findings with a fashion show that brought the audience through the evolution of fashion from the prehistoric era to the classical time period. Another student investigated warfare and created a video game to demonstrate how the Greeks battled various city-states. While many students enjoyed the freedom to investigate their interests and share with their peers, there were, as always, some students who struggled to complete the assignment. Anya was one of them.

It surprised me that Anya was struggling. She was a top student. As an eighth grader, her sole mission was to receive the highest grades in her class so she could be recognized on Awards Day. This was a lofty goal since Anya’s class was an academically competitive group.

Anya thought outside the box at every juncture. This was a quality I admired about her, but it was causing some roadblocks for our project. Anya was not seeing the amazing revelation I had around teaching history. She pushed back constantly to gain an understanding of why we were doing this project, and she rarely accepted my responses. No matter how much I tried to explain my why, or support her in identifying what she wanted to research, we couldn’t find common ground.

I encourage students to push back and ask questions, but it was getting to a point where frustration was creeping in for both of us. Before our frustration escalated, she sent me an email about an “aha moment” she had. Her issue was not the Big History project. She was struggling to understand why we do projects the way we do in school and she said that stemmed from an even broader question she was noodling on: why is school set up the way it is? After spending a good amount of time talking about education and schools, it hit us: This was her research question for the project.

Anya's Question Tree, Image Credit: Anya

Anya studied various school models like High Tech High and the Watershed School in Boulder, CO. She conducted deep research and had so much to share, but when it came time to decide on a medium for her presentation, she had an internal struggle. Anya didn’t think it was right to give a traditional presentation to showcase her research on innovative school models that were exploring new ways of teaching and learning. She didn’t want to share information that her classmates could find if they searched on Google. Instead, she wanted to use her research to spark changes at our school.

I proposed the concept of redesigning projects at our school, which I had been thinking about this for awhile. Her constant line of questioning and all we had learned together through her research prompted us to take action together. Anya prototyped a structural change—an ideal schedule that would allow the time and flexibility for the kinds of projects that, in her view, were indicative of an optimal learning environment. She collected data and brought charts to class that displayed her findings to provide evidence for her claim that things needed to change, and she brought multiple schedule options to think through. Her ideal schedule carved out time for student collaboration, off-campus experiences and time for teachers to serve as mentors for students.

While most students presented for five minutes, Anya’s presentation was 45 minutes long with a 40-page slide deck. Teachers and students from other classes flocked in to watch her share after hearing so much about her project, and three people recorded her presentation.

Anya presenting her research, Image Credit: James Campbell

Anya’s project led to some changes in my class, impacted elements of her personal education path and created change within our school. In my history class, her project paved the way for Genius Hour, a period of time dedicated to independent project work. Anya and a few other students continued to research the transformation of education. She even went on to found a student led-magazine, Trailblazers, which focused on the education transformation movement. MVPS created an Innovation Diploma program, a school-based startup that gives students the opportunity to develop as young innovators by working with various industry leaders and creating solutions to company challenges. Anya was, of course, a founding participant.

Anya’s fierce demand to understand why school and projects are designed the way they are also led to some personal changes in my own practice. The experience allowed me to see myself as a mentor and helped me recognize that everyone in the room has something to teach. It showed me that to push the limits of education, I have to try new things, listen to my students and trust them to make smart choices.

Today, Anya is a Stamps Presidential Scholar at Georgia Tech and a member of their Grand Challenges Program, which allows her to spend time collaborating with peers and teachers to solve sustainable solutions to a problem she is passionate about. She is a business administration major, though in her studies and Grand Challenges work, she continues to look at education with a desire for radical change.

What started as push back from Anya, which I almost misconstrued as disrespect, ended up building a strong connection that has remained. I had no idea Anya would have such an impact on my teaching over the past six years. In fact, we still talk regularly and are currently co-writing a book about the impact relationships have on education.

Today, I am the STEAM Interdisciplinary Specialist at the Atlanta Girls’ School, where I’ve applied many of the lessons I learned from Anya and her Big History project. Every time I co-create a new lesson plan or design a project, I channel Anya and ask "why?" Why are we doing this work? Why does it matter? Asking myself these questions pushes me to think outside the box like Anya always does and that has made me a stronger teacher.

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Mk.gee Creates with Transparency and Intention on Sophomore EP, ‘Fool’ [Q&A]

Photo Credit: Erica Hernandez

Throwing caution to the wind, Michael Gordon better known as Mk.gee, left his East Coast home of New Jersey for the modern Land of Milk and Honey, California. Attending the USC School of Music, Mk.gee began honing his craft and allowing his new home to mold his identity as an artist. Weaving together elements of R&B, jazz, electronica, funk and pop, Mk.gee refuses to let genre stand in the way of his creative process.  

Mk.gee released his first body of work, an album titled Pronounced McGee in early May of 2018. The album is as dynamic as the artist, various elements of sound combined with dense lyrics create a sonic catacomb of emotion. Needless to say, Mk.gee’s album debut was a victorious showcase of his raw talent as a songwriter and musician.

Wasting no time, Mk.gee returns with his new EP, Fool, serving as a time-stamp of his growth, both as a musician and a person. We had the privilege to speak with Mk.gee about his passion for music, the construction of his sound, first tour, Frank Ocean and his plans for the future.

OTW: When did you first start making music?

Mk.gee: I started around 7, I started writing on the piano while I was taking lessons. It felt very natural to write music, and it was the only fun thing about playing the piano at the time to be honest. Having a voice early on in both writing and playing was really important for me. It allowed me to find some sort of identity. I started actually recording my own music when I was in middle school/ early high school though. I had a band most of my teen years. They were really talented guys, but it was a really unhealthy environment to be creative and to grow. They put down a lot of my writing and singing. For my 14th birthday, I asked for a Tascam porta studio, so I could just record my own songs and play all the parts. It wasn’t like a “Fuck youm I’ll just do everything” intention, it just happened out of absolute necessity to create without repercussions.

OTW: You’re originally from New Jersey -- did the move to California effect your sound in anyway?

Mk.gee: Of course, hundred percent. I didn’t even really take recording my music seriously until I moved. I primarily saw myself as a guitarist when I first lived on the west coast. I’ve had stuff at that time of the move that I recorded/produced by myself at home in New Jersey, but I’ve never released any of the songs, so I didn’t really have a “sound” beforehand. When I moved, I became infatuated by a lot of music and artists that I was never exposed to on the East Coast. I moved in 2015 by myself kind of abandoning all preconceptions of me and my ego/past-life/etc… with that I learned to become a sponge. Not that I let go of past tastes and identity completely, but I learned how to let everything inspire me because subconsciously I knew no one could call me out and say listening or making a certain type of music wasn’t “me.” 

I was introduced to artist’s like Blood Orange, Jai Paul, Lolawolf, New Order, just really awesome popular counter-culture stuff that I found an identity in.

Photo: Erica Hernandez

OTW: What inspired your pursuit of a music career? Did you ever think you would be getting the recognition you are?

Mk.gee: The music career thing felt like very natural just because I’ve been gigging and writing since I was pretty young. I was inspired by a lot people; I don’t think one person inspired me, but I remember my old jazz upright bass teacher taught me really important life lessons as a musician -- to preach honesty and intention. My parents are really supportive, even though they don’t necessarily love my music, which is cool. I know I would be writing and recording my music, I just didn’t know I would be a full out solo artist. I focused on guitar and jazz for most of my teen years and thought that I would be primarily a session/touring musician. 

I’m not sure if I thought about recognition or validation a lot as I grew up, but my younger self probably would be pretty proud that I’m even doing what I’m doing in the first place.  

OTW: Your lyrics feel personal, what’s your songwriting process like?

Mk.gee: It used to only be rhythm based. I’ve always been obsessed with rhythm, not just rhythm counterpoint like in guitar/drums but in the way people pronounce things and the way rhythmic words sounded specific to how they come out of people’s mouths. I slaved to this the last record, making the groove/track/beat first then finding sounds that married together really well with lyrics. For this project, I broke that a bit and found some different schools of thought for lyrics and writing. This record I wrote more with just guitar and vocals or synth and vocals just to stress the songwriting more. The process constantly changes though; I get bored easily. 

But yeah, vulnerability is adjacent to connection.

OTW: Saying your music is diverse would be an understatement, what inspires your sound? Mk.gee: A lot of stuff. I don’t really believe in like guilty pleasures. I listen to what I like and what makes me feel something. Just anything that moves me. Could be from like experimental electronic/noise music to folk or pop music. I make different music because it’s just a lot more fun Having an album with every song consistently like the last is boring to me. I just like to change and bounce around a lot; that’s just how I like to operate. For this project I listened to a lot of artists like Grouper, Phil Elverum, and George Harrison. I try to find a lot of inspiration in colors and photographs too. It brings the music to a more physical, colorful place. A lot of the writing on the project was to Lauren Greenfield and Nan Goldin photographs/magazines. 

OTW: You’re undertaking all of the writing, recording and mixing duties yourself; what spurred the crusade to do it all yourself?

Mk.gee: It doesn’t really come from a selfish point of view. Doing all of the parts just brings together the most organic piece of “me” that can possibly be curated. It makes me really happy and satisfied doing all of the work. I find out a lot about myself through every song and every record because of it. I don’t really like to talk about me doing it all because it becomes distracting to the music. 

It’s not about how I did it or where I did it, it’s just about the art.  

OTW: You worked on your new EP between tour dates this summer; was the project inspired by your time on the road?

Mk.gee: To be honest, almost all of the songs were done before I went on the road, and some of them before I released the first double EP in May. A lot of people say I’m releasing this music too soon after the album, but I want to catch people up with who I am now as a person and what I’m gravitated towards. Pronounced McGee was done about 2 years ago, which is usually the standard album cycle, but for a 21-year-old at the time, that’s 2 completely different beings, and I’m very conscious of that. 

I think it’s good to release spontaneously and freely; it should be an accurate reflection of the artist as they release it, not who you were a couple years ago. It should be a time stamp.

As for the tour, I didn’t write on the road too much. I wrote a lot when I came back being inspired by the shows and traveling. It’s too early to tell what will happen to them though.

OTW: You recently toured with Omar Apollo; what was that experience like? Are you excited to hit the road again any time soon?

Mk.gee: I really couldn’t ask for a better tour partner. Omar is a homie, and the whole crew was just a great hang, really down to earth. The tour got me really excited to hit another one soon, hopefully on the East Coast because my friends and family really haven’t seen me play and sing my stuff ever.

OTW: Do you plan on releasing visuals alongside the upcoming EP?

Mk.gee: Some things are in the work for post release, yeah.

OTW: How did you choose which singles to release first; what made you go with “Come On” and “New Year?”

Mk.gee: I chose “Come On” because it was the good bridge from the old stuff to the new project and the title of the EP, Fool, is taken the song. “New Year”’s color represents the album a bit more accurately.

OTW: Your song, “You,” was recently featured on blonded RADIO, specifically blonded Midterms pt. I -- how does it feel to know Frank Ocean is a fan of your music?

Mk.gee: It feels a bit unreal still. I screamed so much when it happened (laughs). I’m obviously a huge fan of Frank as well as the radio show. Huge shout out to Joe for throwing me on and showing me so much love. I don’t strive for validation, but it feels good when it happens. I’m extremely grateful.

OTW: Who are you listening to right now? Who are your Ones to Watch?

Mk.gee: I’ve been listening to a lot of The Microphones, Grouper, Lucy Pearl, The Stylistics, etc… My friends are ones to watch for sure. They are making really amazing/individual art right now and they inspire me a ton; Bella Porter, Big Buddy, Orkka, and Umi to name a few.

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