Drawing Blood Rebecca Chin Grade 6 Meryl Meisler, a Disney's American Teacher Award Honoree in Visual Arts in 1992, conceived the idea for www.thebleedingedge.org in response to an invitation to submit a proposal on the theme of circulation by REPOhistory, a ten-year-old art collaborative that maps forgotten events, people, and sites through public art projects around the country. Meryl immediately thought that the objectives of the CIRCULATION project - "to investigate the economic, historic, and cultural significance of human blood and the layers of social meaning that it engenders" - could be the basis for a great thematic lesson idea. She approached the Foreign Language department to collaborate on planning and implementing an interdisciplinary curriculum that explores blood and circulation as a metaphor. The learning goal was to help the students express their own ideas about the impact of blood and circulation on our day to day vernacular and thought patterns through language and multimedia technology. The result is http://www.thebleedingedge.org, a multi-lingual on-line 'zine by the ethnically and racially diverse student population of The Institute for Collaborative Education, a small public school serving grades 6-12. Click here to check out art and writing of thebleedingedge.org, including reflections and comments from the teachers involved in the project.