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...

Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment

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...

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...