Klara Lapp                        

klapp@telluride.k12.co.us

 

Education

• Woodstock Union High School, Woodstock "WUHS", VT,15 A.P. class credits transferred to CSU 1990-1993

• Colorado State University "CSU", Fort Collins, CO- awarded merit based scholarship, full-ride for B.S. degree- B.S. Wildlife Biology (120 credits, 3.6 GPA) 1993-1996

• Post Bachelor Teaching Licensure in Art Education K-12 with a concentration in printmaking and drawing (77 credits, 4.0 GPA) 1998-2001

• Adams State College "ASC", Alamosa, graduate courses 2002-2013

• Western State Colorado University "WSCU", teacher summer institute graduate courses 2012-2013, 2018

• Masters in Educator Effectiveness Sept. 2015-Dec. 2017, 4.0 GPA (see the "Masters in Ed" tab under Mrs. Lapp on the menu above or the black button to the right for more details)

Contractual Teaching

• Art Teacher K-12, certified in the state of Colorado CO CDE Endorsements in Elementary Education + Art Ed K, 12.2001-present

• Telluride  School District "TSD" Art PreK-3rd teacher 2008-present, member of Fine Arts Committee, Professional Learning Community specialist leader, Annual Art Shows, annual large scale mural Legacy Projects, and annual Art Dept. Fund Raisers, TES First Grade (general education) Teacher Job Share 2014-2015

• Delta County School District 50J, Hotchkiss High School "HHS" 2002-2007 Position: tenured Art Teacher 9-12th, five years of full time contractual teaching drawing, painting, pottery, sculpture, art history, and art criticism. Also taught various high school math classes, full time teaching.

• Colorado Mesa University "CMU", Grand Junction, CO 2003-2007 Position: taught Art History, Renaissance to Post Modernism college class, allowing Hotchkiss High School students to received college credit through Mesa State, considered correspondence course faculty

• Moffat Consolidated School District #2 "MSD", Moffat, CO 2001-2002 Position: Art Teacher K-12, Geometry teacher, Literacy Teacher-Linda Mood Bell, full time teaching

Student Teaching

• Eagle Rock School "ERS", Park School District, Estes Park, CO, experiential and interdisciplinary residential schoolfully funded by the Honda Corporation Position: Student Art Teacher January 2001- April 2001

• Soda Creek Elementary School "SCE", Steamboat Springs School District RE-2, Steamboat Springs, CO Position: Student Art Teacher K-5th April 2001 – June 2001

Related Experience/In-service/ Professional Development

• WSCU: Literacy Through Art, STEAM, ESL Strategies, and Introductory Spanish graduate courses Summer 2018

• TTA Behavior Mangament, ADD/ADHD  Strategies, and Teaching Kindness courses Spring/ Summer 2018

• TTA CDE courses Raising Thinking Skills of GT Learners + Addressing Social/Emotional Needs of GT learners Spring 2018

• TTA Tauma Workshop Spring 2018

• TTA Daily 5/CAFÉ literacy training Fall 2014

• TTA (Telluride Teaching Academy) 1st Grade Social Studies Change Unit Curricular Development Fall 2014

• Janice Heigl Common Core Math In-service TSD Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015

• Student Art Show at Rustico, Telluride Spring 2014

• Designed Miner Bee Logo for TES Fall 2013

• ART 510 Silk Dyeing & Encaustic Paint 2 credits WSCU Summer 2013

• Mentor to high school student Spring 2013

• Mentor to/ observed by Ridgway Elementary Art TeacherFall2012

• SCI 510 Natural History Field Study2 credits WSCU Summer 2012

• Collage Tradition/K Schwitters Ah Haa School of Art 6 hrs Fall 2011

• Raku Workshop Ah Haa School of the Arts 12 hrs Summer 2011

• Website Design Prof Devel UCSM 12 hrs Fall 2009

• Hungry Coyote, wrote and illustrated a children’s book 2009

• As the Crow Flies Art Show, 1 of 4 artist chosen by AHAA, Telluride, CO

• 2008 “Who’s Moly, Whose Moly?” wrote front page article in Rico Bugle,Vol.III, Issue XII about Bolero mine in Rico, CO 2008

• ED 589 Best Practices/ Literacy Instr ASC 1 credit Summer 2008

• Lustre Gallery sales associate, Telluride, CO 2007

• GOVT 291 American Government ASC 3 credits Summer 2007

• ED 582 Creative Workshop ASC 3 creditsSummer 2006

• ED 589 Common Sense Teaching ASC 1 credit Spring 2003

• National Core Knowledge Conference,Nashville, TN 2002

• National Art Education Association Conference, Breckenridge 2001

• Practicum Student, Rocky Mountain High School, Fort Collins 2000

• Substitute Teacher, Poudre R-1 School District, Fort Collins, CO2000

• After-school Art Instructor, Garfield Elementary, Loveland, CO2000

• Art Therapist Intern, Liz Warson, Turning Point, Fort Collins2000

• Program Director, Basecamp After-school Program, Ft Collins ’97-‘00

• Art Teacher Aid, Lesher Junior High, Fort Collins, CO 1999

• Art Teacher and Director and Outdoor Leader/Instructor, Poulter Colorado Camps, Steamboat Springs, CO Summer 1999

• Teacher Aid, Academic Achievement Academy, Broomfield, CO1998

• Ecology Teacher, Pouder River Clean-Up Festival, Ft. Colllins’94-‘96

Organizations / Awards / Scholarships

• Telluride School District Fine Arts Committee Member 2012-2015

• ARC Artists of Rico Member 2016- present

• Rico Center- board member 2011-2014

• Rico Womens’ Club – member 2008-2011

• National and CO Art Education, member 2000-2012

• Phi Lambda Theta – Education society 2001-2002

• Golden Key National Honor Society, member1998-2001

• Creative and Performing Arts Award, CSU1999

• 2000 Margaret Klempera Endowed Scholarship, CSU1999 and 2000

• Colorado State University Honor club, member1993-1996

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