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Eastern Iowa art teacher wins state honors for pandemic curriculum work
Buffy Quintero
An art teacher at Longfellow Elementary School in Iowa City is being recognized as Iowa’s Elementary Art Educator of the Year for her work during the pandemic to create a new district-wide elementary art curriculum.
Buffy Quintero says she focused on diverse artists and art forms while working to navigate the challenges of distance versus in-person learning.
“I just saw what things worked over Zoom and how things needed to be simplified a little bit,” Quintero says. “Kids still wanted to have fun and be doing things and making things and creating. Everyone was stuck at home so that helped to see that, yeah, kids wanted to be making art still.”