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Sharing Days: Assessing Creativity through Producing Original Music
Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment assessment, Michigan Arts Education
Assessing creative work should focus on encouraging and supporting your student’s growth and development as a young artist. It is important to distinguish between the reflective, constructive criticism of the actual work a student...
Continue ReadingEmpowering Arts Education to Design an Anti-Racist World: Part 1
Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment Anti-racist, Black Lives Matter, Joni Starr, National Arts Education Association
Over my career as a theatre practitioner and educator, I have heard and also said many times that theatre is a reflection of the human condition. So wow! Now, in this time of civil turmoil...
Continue ReadingBookshelf: 20 Books to Stimulate Thinking for the (Arts) Educator
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment art making, arts education, class engagement, classroom management, creative process, creativity, professional development, student engagement, teaching, teaching the arts
I am a reader. I am at my best when I have new information to process and to apply to my teaching and my life. Recently, a mentee asked me to provide a list of...
Continue ReadingJoining a Michigan Collaborative Scoring System (MI-CSS) Community of Practice
Carrie Jeruzal Leave a Comment Better Together in the Arts, collaborative scoring, MAEIA, MI-CSS
2020 Update! The MAEIA Collaborative Scoring System is once again offered to art educators in Michigan in a completely virtual format. Recently “rebooted” through the “Better Together In the Arts” professional development initiative, visual...
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