Cheryl Poole Leave a Comment arts instruction, assessment modifications, curriculum, instructional strategies, MAEIA assessments, selecting assessments, teaching style

“These assessments are fine but where are the lessons?” That was the question I would sometimes hear in the conference exhibition booth when introducing the MAEIA assessments to educators attending the conference. They...

Ana Cardona Leave a Comment Ana Luisa Cardona, arts education, arts integration, integrating arts, john berger, marshall mcluhan, michele root-berenstein, Michigan Department of Education, michigan visual and performing arts guidelines, national arts standards, robert root-bernstein, the medium is the message, ways of seeing

When I arrived in graduate school forty-six years ago, it became clear that I enjoyed crossing the boundaries of academic disciplines far too often. In those days, crossing disciplinary boundaries was a practice frowned upon...

Heather Vaughan-Southard 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...

Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are nothing new. Many schools build in time, processes, and procedures to ensure their teachers are using PLCs as a part of their pathway to build themselves within the profession and...