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MAEIA: Looking Forward
Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment dance, Kathy Dewsbury-White, Looking Forward, MAEIA, music, theatre, visual arts
This is part two of a two-part series that looks back and looks forward at the purposes and achievements of the Michigan Arts Education Instruction & Assessment (MAEIA) project. Check out
Continue ReadingHeather Vaughan-Southard: Who Teaches That Way?
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, arts educators, Demonstrating Educator Effectiveness, Leadership Fellows, newsletter, practice, presentations, Professional Learning Community, social media, theory
Years ago, I worked with a colleague who told me she had viewed the catalogue of MAEIA assessment items and wondered, “Who Teaches that Way?” I think her impression was there was a lot of...
Continue ReadingEmbodiment: The depth of SEL in and through the Arts
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment SEL, Social Emotional Learning
Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been a focus of discussion for educators and families in the 2020-2021 academic year, particularly as COVID-19 forced schools to adapt quickly, and in the process, highlighted the need to better...
Continue ReadingIn a Previous Life . . . they taught me so much
In this blog post we are thrilled to introduce the ponderings of Jim Dalling as found in his Remarkable Fools Letter series. Recently Jim was talking with his 14-year-old daughter about how people...
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