site at https:// mainearts. maine. gov /. Thank you to all of you who helped us obtain information from 95 % of the Maine schools. This represents 97 % of Maine students.
MAINE ARTS LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE( MALI) You can still register for one of the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative one-day professional development opportunities scheduled. There are sessions on a variety of topics provided by the MALI Teacher Leaders, MLTI Apple Learning Specialists, and Teaching Artists. Topics include Arts Integration, Visual Notetaking, Music production and songwriting with GarageBand, Formative Assessment, Literacy, Digital Portfolios, Advocacy, Theatre as a Tool, and much more. For details and registration information please go http:// mainearts. maine. gov / Pages / Education / MALI-Mega-Regionals. Friday, March 17, 2017 Hebron Station School, Hebron( Oxford Hills) Wednesday, March 22, 2017 Easton Schools, Aroostook County Wednesday, April 26, 2017 UMaine, Orono – Theater sessions only TEACHER LEADERS Consider being a leader with MALI – it is a great opportunity for you to think and plan deeply for your work as a music educator. MALIs efforts and belief statements include Arts Integration, Advocacy, Assessment Literacy, Creativity and 21st Century Skills, Educator Effectiveness, Effective Teaching and Learning, Proficiency Based Learning and Student Centered Learning, and Teacher Leadership. The Belief statements are defined at https:// www. maineartsassessment. com / this-we-believe-statements.
Read about this year’ s Teacher Leaders from their blog posts at https:// meartsed. wordpress. com / in the coming months. At the end of the three-day professional development at a summer institute one teacher leader said:“ Standards based instruction and assessment is not only better teaching, it is also a way to make our case that the ARTS are core!” If you’ d like an opportunity to build on your knowledge consider being a teacher leader. Applications will be available early this spring or email me now to let me know you’ re interested.
LIST-SERV and BLOG The Maine Arts Commission arts ed list-serv has almost 1200 members. If you are not one of them please email me and I’ d be glad to add your email address to the list. You can follow the Maine Arts Education blog along with 1,767 amazing others by going to https:// meartsed. wordpress. com / and subscribing on the bottom right side. There is a ton of information and stories that is useful to anyone interested in visual and performing arts education.