Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment assessment, Michigan Arts Education

Assessing creative work should focus on encouraging and supporting your student’s growth and development as a young artist. It is important to distinguish between the reflective, constructive criticism of the actual work a student...

Holly Olszewski Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, assessment, Holly Olszewski, MAEIA, music, Performance Assessment

I hear many complaints about assessment from my colleagues, those in my subject area and others. When I am in a good mood, I try to counter their complaints with “Assessment is great!”, “Assessment helps...

Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment

In this series of 4 blog posts, I will share ideas inspired by MAEIA assessments for arts curriculum integration across K-12 school subjects and grade levels. These arts integration ideas are intended to foster interconnection across...

Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment Adaptation, dance, Dewsbury-White, Kathy Dewsbury-White, MAEIA, music, theatre, visual arts

2022 marks the 10th year for the MAEIA Project. The first seven years were about outlining the structure of the organism.  We articulated what gold standard arts programming looked like, we built a robust...