Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, dance, Elementary Education, MAEIA, music, Performance Assessment, Secondary Education, theatre, visual arts

“Assessment.”  It doesn’t have to be such a dirty word. As ARTs teachers, we’re often scared off by the idea of assessments. We think they’re just...

Elizabeth Andrews Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, arts integration, authentic assessment, blueprint, Cynthia Clingman, Leadership Fellows, Liz Andrews, MAEIA, performance events, performance tasks, professional development, professional learning, program review tool, virtual sessions, webinars

The MAEIA Leadership Fellows work individually and collaboratively to create and present professional learning on the use of MAEIA resources in face-to-face and webinar formats. For some presenters, virtual sessions are new formats which lead...

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...