ACE June Share Out 🎉

Hello ACE Community! ✨

We made it! The school year is officially behind most of us, and the calendar has finally exhaled.

Last month, we closed things out with reflection — yearbook personas, vibe-check posters, story carousels, and audiograms that helped students name how far they'd come. 

This month, the doors are open! Maybe your students are fully into summer mode, maybe your library is gearing up for summer reading, maybe you're running a camp or a summer program, or maybe you're quietly planning for fall from a hammock (no judgment). Wherever you are, here's the thing: creativity doesn't take a vacation. So we're carrying those same four challenges into June, reframed for the season of long days, open time, and room to wander.

June Creative Activities

• Illustrate Your Yearbook Persona — Students design a personalized page that captures who they are right now: their identity, interests, and the version of themselves they're stepping into this summer. ➡️ Try it here: adobe.ly/creativewrapup1
• Design a Vibe Check Poster — Students design a decorative poster to share how they're feeling as summer begins. ➡️ Try it here: adobe.ly/creativewrapup2
• Create a Personal Story Carousel — Students build a social media carousel to highlight a moment they're proud of — or a summer goal, adventure, or hope they're chasing. ➡️ Try it here: adobe.ly/creativewrapup3
• Record a Reflection Audiogram — Students create an audio-based story that captures a meaningful memory, a summer wish, or a lesson they're carrying with them. ➡️ Try it here: adobe.ly/creativewrapup4

Each of these invites students to take everything they've practiced this year — balance, alignment, juxtaposition, intentional composition — and turn it loose on the most exciting subject of all: themselves, with a whole summer ahead.

Why This Matters

Summer isn't a pause button on learning. It's a different kind of classroom.

When students keep creating through the break, they:

• Keep their creative and technical skills warm (no summer slide on our watch)
• Explore identity and interests with low stakes and high freedom
• Practice telling their own stories with intention and confidence
• Carry a sense of agency and momentum into whatever comes next

And after the year everyone just had? A little unstructured, joyful making is exactly the kind of rest that recharges.

New to Explore This Summer: Comic Creator

One more thing before you go — and it's a good one. Comic Creator is now available to educators and students globally, living as a clickable tile right on the Adobe Express for Education homepage. (Your beta feedback genuinely helped shape and smooth this one — thank you. 💛)

Here's the flow: students enter a topic, choose a comic type (open-ended, problem-solution, process, or story), and cast their characters — picking from a roster of avatars, uploading their own photo, or snapping a selfie. Then they pick a visual style (cartoon, classic, graphic, 3D, clay, retro, manga, and more) and let AI bring it to life, quick or detail-rich, their call.

It's a natural partner to this month's Yearbook Persona activity — picture students turning their "all about me" into a full comic-strip origin story. Beyond that, it's a real boost for visual storytelling, reading comprehension, creative writing, and cross-curricular projects!

Heading to ISTE? This is your moment to bring your own creative journey to life with Comic Creator and share it with us so we can celebrate your work (and find you in the crowd!). Make yours at adobe.ly/comiccreator and tag #AdobeEduCreative and #AdobeComics so we can cheer you on. 🎉

Classroom Idea Sparks for June

June is wide open. Summer kickoff, Pride Month, Juneteenth, Caribbean American Heritage Month, and World Environment Day all live here. A few remixable ideas to spark something in your classroom, camp, or library:

Summer Learning & Adventure

• Build a Summer Bucket-List Board: Students design a visual board of the experiences, books, and goals they want to chase before fall.
• Design a Summer Reading Poster: Students create a poster recommending a favorite book or building hype for their library's summer reading program.
• Create an "Adventure Awaits" Postcard: Students design a postcard from a real or imagined summer destination, pairing photography or illustration with playful type.

Pride Month

• Design an Identity Celebration Poster: Students create a typography-driven poster celebrating who they are and the communities that hold them.
• Create a Changemaker Tribute: Students design a spotlight honoring LGBTQ+ artists, writers, and leaders who shaped culture and progress.
• Build a "This Is Me" Self-Portrait Series: Students explore identity through layered, designed self-portraits that pair imagery with their own words.

Juneteenth

• Create a Freedom & Legacy Tribute: Students design a visual spotlight on Black changemakers in history, art, science, and community.
• Design a Community Celebration Poster: Students create a poster honoring the history and meaning of Juneteenth and the joy of community.
• Build a Voices of History Carousel: Students research and design a social-style carousel sharing stories, milestones, and reflections.

World Environment Day and World Ocean Day

• Design a "Protect Our Planet" Campaign Poster: Students create a persuasive poster around a cause they care about — oceans, forests, clean air, you name it.
• Create a Local Nature Photo Story: Students document a green space near them through photography and design, then reflect on why it matters.
• Build a Sustainability Pledge Card: Students design a personal pledge card with one habit they'll carry into the summer and beyond.

Join the Conversation

Summer's the perfect time to make just for the joy of it, and we'd love to see what unfolds.

Jump in by sharing:

• Student creations (personas, posters, carousels, audiograms — all of it!)
• How creativity is showing up in your summer programs, camps, or library
• Summer traditions, reading programs, or maker projects you're building
• What your students are most excited to make with a little open time

Whether your students are diving into all four activities, picking just one, honoring a heritage month, or making something entirely their own, your work keeps inspiring educators across our global community.

Here's to sunshine, slow mornings, and every student creator still finding their story! ☀️

With creative joy,

Your Adobe for Education Community Team