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.

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts integration, Beth Post, Carrie Jeruzal, Cathy DePentu, Cecila Gollan, Cindy Swan-Eagan, Cynthia Clingman, dance, Debra Henning, face-to-face presentations, Hedy Blatt, Holly Olszewski, James Mobley, Liz Andrews, MAEIA Fellows, MAIEA resources, Margaret Theile, MCACA, Michigan Arts and Cultural Affairs, Michigan Department of Education, music, professional development, Rebecca Arndt, special needs, Tammi Browning, theatre, visual arts, webinars

The MAEIA project, with generous support from the Michigan Council on Arts and Cultural Affairs and the Michigan Department of Education, assists school districts, buildings, educators,...

Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment MAEIA at 10

Michigan’s arts education community is filled with champions and collaborators. As we’ve grown since 2012, we’ve supported one another with fierce kindness and grace. We’ve got heart, and we’ve got grit....

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, creative thinking, critical thinking, dance education, education, response assessments, teaching dance

I continually find myself in a situations appearing to be dominated by “either, or”. It has prompted me to think about this in terms of dance education. In (dance) education, consumers- and many providers- seem...