Spark: Art students reflect on the virtual semester
December 10, 2020
The virtual learning environment in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic has made significant changes to Palo Alto High School art classes, causing students to adjust their processes of creating pieces. Here, students taking a variety of higher level art classes, who are able to draw comparisons between in-person and virtual art classes, share what they have been painting and drawing during the semester.





![Shounak Dharap, president of the school board of Palo Alto Unified School District, announced Friday morning that Superintendent Don Austin separated from his superintendent position at PAUSD. Corbin Dodd, an Ethnic Studies and AP Seminar teacher at Palo Alto High School, said that Austin's separation from the district surprised him and his colleagues. "Negotiations are happening right now, so there's a lot of talk about the school board and the superintendent, but it [Austin's separation] wasn't on my radar, and I don't think it was on the radar of any of the teachers I've spoken to," Dodd said.](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_7950-300x225.png)

