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MAEIA at 10 Celebration: Moving Arts Education Forward
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment MAEIA at 10
After a life in dance, it is hard for me to consider starting any new phase of...
Continue ReadingJoni Starr: Arts Integration, Part 2
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts integration, co-teaching, Joni Starr, teacher training programs
Arts integration as a teaching approach started to come into its own in the 1970’s and 80’s. For over 30 years, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Continue ReadingMeasuring Success: Data Driven Dance
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, create, dance advantage, dance assessment, dance education, national standards in dance education, perform, respond, teaching dance
As dancers, we are consistently assessing performance- individually, technically, artistically, collectively, and so on.
Continue ReadingCathy DePentu: Excited and Engaged in Teaching After 35 Years!
Cathy DePentu Leave a Comment Cathy DePentu, data collection, differentiated instruction, Leadership Fellow, M.T421, music education, orchestra, performance critique, professional learning
Thirty-five years ago a guidance counselor asked me, “Why should we schedule a student all four years in Orchestra? Aren’t students just repeating the same class?” I attempted to explain that students continue to...
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