Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment Student Voice, Youth Art Month

Youth Art Month is an annual observance each March that emphasizes the value of art education for all children and encourages support for quality school...

Margaret Thiele Leave a Comment arts assessment items, arts assessments, arts education, MAEIA Leadership Fellow, Margaret Thiele, music education, performance tasks

Last year I participated in the field-testing for the MAEIA Assessments for elementary music. In that role my focus was on the assessments themselves, the length of time it took to administer them, if they...

Carrie Jeruzal Leave a Comment adobe spark, amazon drive, artkive, arts data storage, arts education, artsonia, box, canvasly, Carrie Jeruzal, cloud storage, creatubbles, digitation e-portfolio, dropbox, edmodo, flickr, flipped classroom, google classroom, google drive, keepy, kidblog, microsoft onedrive, moodle, online gallery, online portfolio, remini, schoology, seesaw, sesame, social media, visual arts, visual arts education, weebly, wix

Arts educators who are interested in using MAEIA assessments to assist in tracking student growth often ask the question, “What do you use for storing all the artwork?”  Being that the...

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...