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Heather Vaughan-Southard, Joni Starr, Amy Pobanz, Cathy DePentu Leave a Comment dance, music, Online Learning, Online Teaching, Performance Assessment, theatre, visual arts

As stated before, we find ourselves in unprecedented times and with the possibility of adapting your teaching to online platforms, we at MAEIA are here for you. In a previous posting we asked educators to...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment COVID-19, dance, music, Online Learning, Resources, theatre, visual arts

In light of COVID-19 and our commitment to support arts educators and families, the MAEIA social media pages will be ramping up our posts sharing tools and resources to keep kids creating. Find us on

Heather Vaughan-Southard, Joni Starr, Amy Pobanz, Cathy DePentu Leave a Comment Adaptation, assessments, dance, MAEIA, music, Online Learning, theatre, visual arts

As we find ourselves in unprecedented times, with the possibility of adapting your teaching to online platforms, we at MAEIA are here for you. Though our assessment catalog is not a bank of lesson plans,...

Joni Starr Leave a Comment Courageous Creativity, creativity, dance, Joni Starr, MAEIA, music, theatre, visual arts

This is an unprecedented time. Our regular routine has been disrupted, human interactions are minimized and our relationship to the future has been compromised. The question is: Who do you choose to be in response?...

Cathy DePentu Leave a Comment arts education, Cathy DePentu, MAEIA, music

What does that even mean? Does it mean we just have fun all the time? No. Does it mean that we don’t work at what we do? Absolutely not. Does it mean that I...

Holly Olszewski Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, assessment, Holly Olszewski, MAEIA, music, Performance Assessment

I hear many complaints about assessment from my colleagues, those in my subject area and others. When I am in a good mood, I try to counter their complaints with “Assessment is great!”, “Assessment helps...

Carrie Jeruzal Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, assessment, Carrie Jeruzal, learning differences, MAEIA, Performance Assessment, visual arts

Educational modifications and accommodations are every teacher’s responsibility.  They are required as outlined in federal and state law (Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 1997, Reauthorization of IDEA 2004 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973-Section 504). If...

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...