As a dedicated teacher, I want to prepare my students for real world applications. To that endeavor, for the past 7 years I have strived to inspire my students to reach their academic goals in math and the visual arts each school year. I currently teach in an urban school in the city of Chicago, where our state tests scores have made the biggest gains within the district in math and science. Our art program, which I run as the school arts liaison, is considered a Level 5 ARTs program, wh...