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Camden Hills High School music educators Nancy Rowe and Kim Murphy recently took 163 music students to Norfolk, VA for the North American Music Festival. You can read the entire article (it is GREAT) published in Village Soup by clicking here.

Art Teacher Wendy Libby, from Fruit Street School in Bangor, has her students participating in the 15th annual HOPE – Help Organize Peace Earthwide – Festival at the University of Maine campus in Orono. Students have created collages and written letters. Read the details at this link from the Bangor Daily News.

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MLTI Statewide Integration Mentor, Barbara Greenstone, has a blog called Teaching With Comics. She has posted many good ideas and food for thought. You can access Barbara’s blog at http://comicteacher.wordpress.com/ or you can go to the blogroll on the bottom right side of meartsed blog and click on: Teaching With Comics. (Yes, Barb is married to music educator Paul Greenstone). Speaking of comics… please click here for a link to an interesting article from the New York Times, January 2009, written by April Dembosky: Listening to Schroeder: ‘Peanuts’ Scholars Find Messages in Cartoon’s Scores.

Glass sculptor, Dale Chihuly creates amazing work. This link has beautiful photos of his work and a resource guide with many outstanding ideas. Click here to download the .pdf document. This second article from the Georgia Bulletin is about an inspired teacher and the work she did with her students using Chihuly’s work as inspiration. Please click here.