Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment Back to School, collaboration, dance, MAEIA, music, Online Learning, theatre, visual arts

In preparing ourselves as educators for this [input your own adjective here] school year, it is so critical for us to not become an island. More than ever, we must lean on one...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment Americans for the Arts, Arts Advocacy, Arts Education Field Guide, Arts Education for America's Students, Arts Education Partnership, ArtScan, Barb Whitney, Creative Many Michigan, Critical Links, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art, ESSA, Imagination Project, James Catterall, Lansing Arts Gallery and Education Center, MAEIA, UCLA

Access to the arts for students in schools offers an avenue for self-expression and a source of inspiration. Beyond that, the arts develop students’ critical thinking skills. Additionally, numerous studies prove the arts benefit academic...

Debra Henning Leave a Comment arts integration, Hustle, International Science Gallery, project-based learning, Science Gallery Detroit, STEAM

  In 2008 science and art moved a step closer with the opening of

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment Back to School, Better Together in the Arts, MI-CSS. MAEIA Arts Lounge, 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...