Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment Back to School, Better Together in the Arts, Remote Learning

In preparation for Fall 2020, as MAEIA’s Professional Learning Director, I met with two arts educators who have spent the last six years teaching with the Michigan Great Lakes Virtual Academy. Visual Arts educator, Carrie...

Cheryl Poole Leave a Comment arts assessments, assessing the arts, assessment catalogue, MAEIA assessments, performance events, performance tasks, rubrics, teaching artist

If someone wants something from me—a product or a performance—I’ve always been someone to do my best to deliver whatever is expected. The one caveat is that I need to be clear...

Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment Bargaining, MEA

Editor’s Note: Sometimes we like to repost popular blog articles. We refer to them as ‘evergreen’ and Chad’s insight here is definitely worth sharing again. This blog was first published in August...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts education, arts integration, communication, creative process, creative thinking, critical thinking, Joni Starr, social intelligence, transferable knowledge

Arts education benefits students because it affords them creative capacity and this allows students to be a part of making their own education instead of just receiving it. The creative process asks students to be...