No Child Left Behind
The State of Maine Department of Education is seeking proposals for the identification of open educational resources (OER) to support the integration of technology in teaching and learning in each of the eight Maine Learning Results (MLR) content areas and Career and Technical Education. The grant recipients will be responsible for fostering the creation of and/or further development of an on-going statewide content area learning network that can support and encourage further dialogue regarding the creation and use of open educational resources. The Department anticipates awarding nine grants of $50,000 each. Only school administrative units meeting certain poverty guidelines can submit proposals, but collaborative proposals developed in cooperation with other SAUs, related organizations and institutes of higher education are allowed.
A copy of the RFP may be downloaded from the Department of Education website at http://www.maine.gov/education/nclb/tiid/index.html
There will be a Question and Answer/Grant Writing Session via webcast Sept. 1, 2009 at 2:30pm and accessed by clicking here.
A Letter of Intent is requested and due Sept.9, 2009. A copy of the Letter of Intent appears on page 8 of the RFP. Written questions can be submitted until September 29, 2009. Answers will be posted to the Department website by September 30, 2009.
Completed proposals must be received no later than 2:00 p.m. local time Oct. 14, 2009 at the following address: Division of Purchases, Burton M. Cross Building (Fourth Floor); 111 Sewall Street; 9 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0009. Faxed proposals are not accepted. Proposal packages must be clearly marked “NCLBA Title IID ARRA RFP”. Proposals received after 2:00 P.M. local time will be rejected, without exception.
Additional information is available by contacting me. Questions must be submitted in writing by email, fax to 207-624-6651 or letter to Bob McIntire, Maine Department of Education, 23 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0023.
If you had a chance to get to the coast on Sunday you might have seen the power of the water and wind. We drove down to New Harbor at high tide. My pictures certainly don’t show what our eyes saw but I have included one of the photos I took.
Enjoy this YouTube of her that includes clips of Karen performing over the years and Tanszpiel. Two years ago at the statewide arts education conference Karen “wowed” us with her performances making us laugh and watch her intensely. You might remember her soccer piece accompanied by my younger son.
Quote by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, speaking at Jacob’s Pillow 
“Sometimes we choose to serve our country in uniform, in war. Sometimes in elected office. And those are the ways of serving our country that I think we are trained to easily call heroic. It’s also a service to your country, I think, to teach poetry in the prisons, to be an incredibly dedicated student of dance, to fight for funding music and arts education in the schools. A country without an expectation of minimal artistic literacy, without a basic structure by which the artists among us can be awakened and given the choice of following their talents and a way to get to be great at what they do, is a country that is not actually as great as it could be. And a country without the capacity to nurture artistic greatness is not being a great country. It is a service to our country, and it is heroic service to our country, to fight for the United States of America to have the capacity to nurture artistic greatness.” 
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