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Zach Vandergraaff Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, dance, Elementary Education, MAEIA, music, Performance Assessment, Secondary Education, theatre, visual arts

“Assessment.”  It doesn’t have to be such a dirty word. As ARTs teachers, we’re often scared off by the idea of assessments. We think they’re just...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment administrators, arts assessments, arts education, arts educators, blueprint, community, educator effectiveness, professional learning, program review tool, SCHECH, student growth, virtual learning, webinar

The Michigan Arts Education Instruction and Assessment project offers the MAEIA Institute, a concise professional learning offering which trains administrators-arts educator pairs how to support and measure growth in the arts disciplines.

Debra Henning Leave a Comment adrian villar rojas, arts assessments, arts education, arts integration, cross-curricular connections, frank gehry, iwan baan, language arts, louis vuitton, MAEIA assessments, martin agryoglo, paris, social studies, visual arts, where the slaves live

The following post offers an example of the manner in which MAEIA’s “Cross-Curricular Connections Assessment,” V.T 312 for Grade 8, can encourage students to think deeply about connections between the visual...

Rebecca Arndt Leave a Comment arts assessment, music, music assessment, music education, student growth, student learning, teacher engagement, testing

Today, MAEIA launches the Michigan Collaborative Scoring System field test (MI-CSS powered by Oscar Classroom ™) for 2019. The following article was written by MAEIA Leadership Fellow, Rebecca Arndt, based on her participation in the...

Carrie Jeruzal Leave a Comment adobe spark, amazon drive, artkive, arts data storage, arts education, artsonia, box, canvasly, Carrie Jeruzal, cloud storage, creatubbles, digitation e-portfolio, dropbox, edmodo, flickr, flipped classroom, google classroom, google drive, keepy, kidblog, microsoft onedrive, moodle, online gallery, online portfolio, remini, schoology, seesaw, sesame, social media, visual arts, visual arts education, weebly, wix

Arts educators who are interested in using MAEIA assessments to assist in tracking student growth often ask the question, “What do you use for storing all the artwork?”  Being that the...

Cathy DePentu Leave a Comment arts education, Cathy DePentu, dance, MAEIA, MAEIA Leadership Fellows, music, professional learning, Professional Learning Community, school year, theatre, visual arts

I have been in school for 58 of my 63 years. Granted, I’ve switched roles a few times and moved back and forth from the front of the room to behind a desk (...

Amy Lynne Pobanz Leave a Comment agent for change, Amy Lynne Pobanz, Arts Advocacy, arts education, MAEIA, MAEIA Leadership Fellows, MAEIA resources, program review, school improvement

I dream about it. The perfect place to teach and learn. A district that celebrates the arts. I fantasize about amazing arts facilities and resources for my students. I long to feel valued and supported...

Cathy DePentu Leave a Comment 21st century skills, arts education, Cathy DePentu, MAEIA Leadership Fellows, Pixar, programmers, STEAM, value of the arts

Simon Sinek’s “Golden Circle” resonates with many arts educators. The concept “Start with...

Debra Henning Leave a Comment arts integration, Hustle, International Science Gallery, project-based learning, Science Gallery Detroit, STEAM

  In 2008 science and art moved a step closer with the opening of

Cheryl Poole Leave a Comment arts assessments, assessing the arts, assessment catalogue, MAEIA assessments, performance events, performance tasks, rubrics, teaching artist

If someone wants something from me—a product or a performance—I’ve always been someone to do my best to deliver whatever is expected. The one caveat is that I need to be clear...