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...

Cathy DePentu Leave a Comment Adolph Brown, arts education, Leadership Fellow, MASTA, Michigan American String Teachers Association, music education, professional development, professional learning

I believe in the importance of MAEIA and its resources. I always try to set aside my ego and throw myself into difficult challenges or situations in order to improve, from an advanced violin class (...

Cheryl Poole Leave a Comment assessment writing, Cheryl L. Poole, collaboration, creation, dance, music, new skills, theatre, visual arts

Cheryl L. Poole is an educator with more than 40 years of experience in visual arts, museum administration and facilitating professional learning. She has had the honor of working with educators in the MAEIA project...

Debra Henning Leave a Comment adrian villar rojas, arts assessments, arts education, arts integration, cross-curricular connections, frank gehry, iwan baan, language arts, louis vuitton, MAEIA assessments, martin agryoglo, paris, social studies, visual arts, where the slaves live

The following post offers an example of the manner in which MAEIA’s “Cross-Curricular Connections Assessment,” V.T 312 for Grade 8, can encourage students to think deeply about connections between the visual...