MURALS... all created with Kjaer .... in schools with various aged students:

Professional Development Day Instruction
 Written comments that teachers wrote for the ‘GET DIRTY’ class by Kjaer Neletia Pedersen

•  Thank you Kjaer, it was a wonderful day – replenished my spirit by tapping into my creative side. I learned some great new ideas and remembered some others. Maja Malks
• It was amazing! Loved it! So much hands on and lots of ideas. Love for Kjaer to come back. Thank you so much! ! J Harj Dhesi 
• Best Pro Day EVER – hope you can come again because I will sign up again.
• Hope you can come back next year. This workshop was wonderful Rosemary Moskal

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• Thank you, Kjaer, for a wonderful day. Your clay workshop was filled with both creative and practical ideas and presented in a way that made it accessible and fun for the novice and the experienced. It was a great day and everyone who attended went home with beautiful and interesting sculptures and more importantly inspiration to continue playing with clay and sharing the medium with students. Aaron Malks
•  Loved your class!! It was so nice to be creative and build with clay Your presentation was great. Thank you for all of the great ideas.
•  Great workshop, Kjaer. Always wanted to work with clay. Very stress reducing. Hope to continue my artistic ways!! J Lynn McCaw
•  This was one of the best Pro D day activities that I have taken with MPSD. Thank you!!Romona
•  Thanks for all the ideas! Loved your workshop! Lots of great ideas that I can take to the classroom. My students will enjoy playing with clay. J
•  I would like to say that I had a great time. Learned a lot and you make it very interesting to listen to plus how you make things because you make it look so easy. Thank you for a great day!
•  Everything was great. Handouts and hands on time, along with take home samples. Will be trying this in my classroom next week. Thanks!
•  Getting the opportunity to play with the clay and get a feel for how the kids will be able to work with it. I really liked the getting to make samples of projects to be able to show my students for inspiration. Kjaer did a great job of giving us tons of information
• We had the time to be creative. I appreciated the handouts and the Facilitator’s knowledge and ideas. I will be able to use these projects with my own students.
•  The quick into to various clay art and the ability to play and explore was wonderful. Just great. Thank you.
•  I appreciated that we were able to play most of the session. Learning comes from doing rather than just watching. It was an awesome workshop that I can take and use in the classroom immediately.
•  We had time to play, the brisk paced instruction was great, and then to know that everything goes and everyone could experience success even the reluctant artists among us. I have so many wonderful ideas to keep me going and I will be doing this with students for sure.
•  We had the opportunity to actually make stuff and it was nice to do something in the arts. I appreciated the hands on workshop and all of the ideas that could be used in my classroom.
•  There were fantastic ideas and it was fabulous to watch the process of making masks, mugs, etc. It was great to have the opportunity to just play. Thanks so much!
•  The demonstrations were amazing. There was lots of time to just play with the clay and lots of ideas to take into the classroom. It was great – thank you!
•  I really appreciated the demonstrations and the variety of activities you could do with clay in a classroom. I can see even young students creating clay objects that look really nice and they would enjoy creating them. I also really liked the detailed handout.
•  I appreciated getting the new ideas for ways to work with clay. I liked how we could then all work at our own pace. Very fun. I can definitely see myself using this in my classroom.
•  It was so appreciated to see the demonstrations and the large amount of supplies available for us to use. I thought it was great! I learned a lot and I had lots of fun.
•  All the enthusiasm of the instructor.
•  Rapid but thorough explanations – like show and tell.
•  I appreciated the practical ideas and the handout. I loved being able to just play. Kjaer did a great job. I very much enjoyed the workshop. Thank you!