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.

Rebecca Arndt Leave a Comment COVID-19, MAEIA, Remote Learning

For the last 20 years I have had the pleasure of teaching elementary general music grades K-5. Every year it seems that we are being asked to add more into our instruction even though it may...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, creative process, creativity, energy, Harvard Project Zero, MAEIA, Michael Letts, Oliver Herring, performance events, performance tasks, process-based learning, Thomas Hirschhorn, time-based

One integral aspect of many MAEIA assessment items is time limits. Sometimes this may seem unnatural, high pressure, or “test-oriented.” But in the arts, limiting time can often...

Cecilia Gollan Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, arts integration, connections, performance events, performance tasks, professional learning, program review tool, student growth, visual arts

If you were to stand outside my classroom or talk to kids that take my classes, you would get the impression that I know what I am doing. Kids would make comments about how they...