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Cathy 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...
Continue ReadingContinuous Improvement Planning Can Strengthen Your Arts Program
Kathy Humphrey Leave a Comment Continuous Improvement
Positioning arts improvement planning within the Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process (MICIP) is a vital action schools and districts can take to sustain...
Continue ReadingMichigan Educator Evaluation Laws: Past, Present, and Future
Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment Educator Evaluations
Teacher Evaluation & Labor Rights - A Historical Context In 1935, as our nation was recovering from the Great Depression triggered by corporate excess, in one of the most...
Continue Reading2022 Resolutions – Personal and Professional
New Year Resolutions . . . we’ve all heard of them, and chances are most of us have made them at some point in our lives. Resolutions are all about self-improvement and they contain the hope that...
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