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May 16, 2018
Application available – Deadline Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Maine Arts Leadership Initiative, Year 8
Visual and Performing Arts Teaching Artist Leader Application
Teaching Artist Leaders, MALI Summer Institute, August 2017
Join us for a GREAT opportunity! The Maine Arts Commission invites you to be a part of the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI). Now in its eighth year, MALI offers a unique opportunity to learn and network with teaching artists and PK through grade 12 visual and performing arts educators from across the state. MALI is looking for teaching artists interested in leading and in taking a close look at effective teaching and learning in the arts. This is an opportunity for you to participate in professional development and networking, as well as to have a voice in the direction of arts education in the state of Maine.
Deadline: Wednesday, June 13, 2018
If you are selected, you will be required to attend our summer institute, July 31, August 1 and 2, 2018. We will provide sessions to help you develop your ideas and support your work. We will then ask that you take what you’ve learned and share it with other teaching artists, educators and community members in your region and beyond.
Selected Teacher Artist Leader responsibilities for the 2018-19 school year include:
- Full participation in the 3-day summer institute, July 31, August 1 and 2, 2018
- Communicate in a timely fashion by email and in a MALI phase 8 google site
- Be prepared for summer institute by completing pre-readings and responding to prompts with the MALI community
- Critical Friends Day – follow-up to the summer institute, fall 2018
- Participate in 2 meetings electronically with teaching artist leaders during 2018-19 school year
- Contribute your teaching artist leader story for the Maine Arts Education blog
- Attend a retreat to reflect on the phase 8 MALI work and plan next steps, winter 2019
Application requirements
- Current resume
- Letter of support
- Paragraph of interest
MALI BACKGROUND
Teaching Artist Leaders, MALI summer institute, August 2017
Since 2011 the initiative has been building capacity by training arts educators on the “what” and “how” of teaching and learning in the arts so they can provide the leadership in Maine through professional development opportunities. Teaching artists have been included in MALI for the past four years, and the goal of training Teaching Artist Leaders is now in its third year. As the initiative enters Phase 8, MALI has grown to include 101 leaders.
MALI’s OVERALL OBJECTIVES
- Create and implement a statewide plan for teacher leadership in arts education. This includes professional development opportunities, locally, regionally and statewide, which will expand on the knowledge and skills of teachers and teaching artists to better prepare them to teach in a student-centered and proficiency-based learning environment.
- Develop and implement standards-based high quality teaching and learning statewide for Visual and Performing Arts
- Continue to build on expanding the team of arts educators and teaching artists representing all regions of Maine
- Provide workshops and other professional development opportunities for educators
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April 13, 2018
Fabulous learning opportunity
Over 70 PK-12 arts educators and Teaching Artists traveled to Oxford Hills High School in late March to attend the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative conference. The workshops varied greatly and participants had the opportunity to attend three during the day.
Thank you to the Oxford Hills visual and performing arts staff and administrators for providing the space for the conference. One week before the conference we learned that their workshop day turned into a teaching and learning day due to the many snow days. We are grateful that they were still able to make it happen.
Kris Bisson, Kate Smith, Brian Evans-Jones
A huge THANK YOU to visual arts teachers Cindi Kugell and Samantha Armstrong for all of their attention to detail.
Thank you to the following who offered workshops:
- Cindi Kugell – Bookmaking 101: summative assessment never looked so good!
- Lindsay Pinchbeck – The Arts and Emotional Intelligence
- Dorie Tripp – Flexible Grouping Strategies for the General Music Classroom
- Catherine Anderson – Tableaus of Courage: How to Help Students Engage with Complex Content through Theater
- Samantha Armstrong – Stars and Stairs
- Phil Hammett – Creativity
- Tom Luther – Improvisation Crusader: Improvisation as an Essential Musical Skill
- Nancy Harris Frohlich – Inspiring Environmental Stewardship Through Visual Arts
- Lori Spruce and Tim Christensen – Integrating Curriculum: Making it Happen at the High School Level
- Mandi Mitchell – Looking in the Mirror: The Importance of Student Self-Reflection
- Brian Evans-Jones and Kris Bisson – Bridging Adolescence: A River Runs Through Us – Composing our Story
- Jenni Null and Linda McVety – All Aboard for Arts Travel, Full STEAM Ahead!
- Bronwyn Sale – Teaching Aesthetics and Criticism: Approaches to Standard D
- Andrew Harris – Creativity and Taking Back the Classroom
Amanda Huotari
In the middle of the day we had the fabulous opportunity to work with and learn from Teaching Artist Amanda Houteri from Celebration Barn Theater.
Participants during Amanda’s session
In June there will be an opportunity for teaching artists. PK-12 arts teachers and teaching artists will have an opportunity to apply to be a leader. Watch the blog and weekly email to learn more.
Dr. Katie Rybakova and Thomas College pre-service teachers
Jan Gill and Jenni Null
Kris Bisson and Brian Evans-Jones presenting
Tom Luther presenting
Mandi Mitchell
Samantha Armstrong and Linda McVety
Teaching artists Tim Christensen, Tom Luther, and Brian Evans-Jones
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January 5, 2018
Registration is open
Registration is open for the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI) Mega Conference at Oxford Hills High School on Friday, March 23rd, 8:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m! Participants will select 3 workshops from an offering of 15. Not only will the workshops offer great learning opportunities but we all know how much we learn when visual and performing arts educators come together to learn. The networking is always a critical part of the MALI Mega Conferences.
Schedule
- 8:30 a.m. Registration begins
- 9:00 a.m. Opening
- 9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Breakout Session I
- 10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Break
- 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Breakout Session II
- 12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Lunch, participants on their own
- 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Artist Showcase with Amanda Houteri, Celebration Barn
- 1:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Breakout Session III
- 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Closing
Contact hours
5.5 contact hours will be provided to those participating in the full day of the MALI Mega-regional conference at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School.
WORKSHOPS
Bookmaking 101: summative assessment never looked so good!
Develop a creative book making project to assess your students’ authentic learning. Perfect for the end of a grading term, this idea can be tailored to suit the needs of you and your students. Impress your administrators with your ability to keep every student fully engaged in the assessment of their own work. Grades 7-12
Cindi Kugell Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Visual Arts
Rhythm & Counting
Rhythm!! Is this one of the elements of music that you spend a lot of time on in rehearsal? How are your kids at sight-reading? Have you ever fallen into the trap of singing the part for your students? Are you clapping rhythms in class and finding that it sounds more like applause? Intended for ensemble directors, this workshop will provide a new approach to many based upon a tried and true method of counting and verbalizing rhythmic patterns. Grades 7-12
Kyle Jordan Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Music
The Arts and Emotional Intelligence
Looking at ideas on emotional intelligence and leadership collected by Daniel Goleman we will identify the core elements of emotional intelligence and compare them with habits and skills practiced in the creative process. Be ready to create, journal and discuss ideas together on creativity, the arts and emotional intelligence. All grade levels and all content
Lindsay Pinchbeck Director of Sweet Tree Arts and founder of Sweetland School
Flexible Grouping Strategies for the General Music Classroom
It is the age of customized education and differentiated instruction. Chances are, your building administrators are looking for observable evidence of this in your teaching practice. Time constraints and scheduling difficulties can make customized learning a challenge to implement in the general music setting. In this workshop, we will discuss the benefits of flexible grouping strategies, and how to use them to your advantage. Grades PK-12 General Music
Dorie Tripp Manchester and Readfield Elementary Schools, Music K-5
Tableaus of Courage: How to Help Students Engage with Complex Content through Theater
Ovations Offstage Director Catherine Anderson will introduce workshop participants to Ovations Dynamic School-Time Performance Series for 2018-19, and model for teachers how to help students engage with any story, or content (fictional or not) through the use of “tableau”. Tableau is a wordless theater activity for small groups of students that can be adapted for any age group. Participants will leave with a leasson plan with clear learning targets, and assessment criteria. All grade levels
Catherine Anderson Portland Ovations Offstage Director
SESSION II 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Choose One
Stars and Stairs
Stars and Stairs, Where am I now and Where am I going? How can the use of Stars and Stairs in your classroom help to inform you and your students of their learning progression and actively engage them in the learning process? This will be a round table discussion. Looking at your standards and your curriculum how can you use the Stars and Stairs model in your classroom. All grade levels and all content
Samantha Armstrong Paris Elementary School and Agnes Gray School, Grade K-6, Visual Arts
Creativity
Everyone seems to agree that we need more creativity in education, but just what is creativity, and how can we possibly teach it? This workshop will answer both those questions (gasp…) With one foot planted in neuroscience, and the other dangling in the depths of the subconscious, we will conduct transformative activities (visual arts based) designed to enhance the “brainsets” that contribute to creative states of mind. Grades 7-12
Phil Hammett Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Visual Arts
Improvisation Crusader: Improvisation as an Essential Musical Skill
Improvisation is commonly viewed as a specialty skill, and one that you either have or don’t. This presentation makes the case for improvisation as an essential skill, a naturally growth-minded learning tool, and an additional resource to address any number of Maine Learning Results, and to engage students and give them more ownership over their musical voice. This will be heavily participatory, exploring simple methods to more advanced, and using multiple musical languages/genres. All grade levels
Tom Luther Midcoast Music Academy, Piano, Digital Music, Music Composition Specialist, Teaching Artist, former Art Educator
Creativity and Taking Back the Classroom
Art can propel the next generation of leaders to make a personal connection to real world issues. In this workshop participants will explore strategies for helping young people forge a deep and personal connection between the environment and themselves. If our students are to have the courage to address the environmental challenges we face today, they must believe in the power of their ideas and know that they can create something tangible from them. Participants will make art that crosses subject matter boundaries and explore ways to design original curriculum that leads to action. Elementary and Middle Levels and Visual Arts
Nancy Harris Frohlich, Founder and Director, LEAPS of IMAGINATION
Integrating Curriculum: Making it Happen at the High School Level
Come join a conversation, share thoughts, and cultivate ideas regarding the challenge of integrated curriculum work at the highschool level. How can finding commonalities between subject areas motivate student learning, provide hands on experience with cross curricular connections, as well as benefit the educator as they become more proficient in the language of other disciplines? High School
Lori Spruce Brewer High School Visual Arts
SESSION III 1:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Choose One
Looking in the Mirror: The Importance of Student Self-Reflection
Self-reflection is a crucial part in the cycle of learning for both student and teacher. With regular self-reflection integrated in your classroom, students will become more aware, dig deeper, and take ownership of their learning. This applies to us as teachers. We will also discuss the importance of documentation and strategies of reflection upon our own teaching. Information gathered about student growth, understanding, and feedback on units/lessons will not only be beneficial for the development of a curriculum, but also in providing evidence for teacher evaluations. All grade levels and all content
Mandi Mitchell Hermon High School Visual Arts
Bridging Adolescence: A River Runs Through Us – Composing our Story
This workshop documents the progression of a year-long chorus project in which 7th and 8th grade students composed lyrics and music for an original performance piece. The project developed a model of integrated arts programming, including extensive literacy integration through working with a guest poet-in-residence for several weeks. The project also tied in hands-on classwork, a field experience, a connection with a wider community project, video diaries, peer critique, and of course music composition and performance skills. The workshop will give participants a hand-on experience of our project, as well as tools to create their own. All grade levels
Brian Evans-Jones Poet and Teaching Artist and Kris Bisson Marshwood Middle School Music and Chorus
All Aboard for Arts Travel, Full STEAM Ahead!
Interested in transforming your school into a STEAM based model? This workshop will include the benefits of STEAM for students, some sample STEAM lessons, and a suggested action plan for incorporating a STEAM approach into your school. Upper Elementary
Jenni Null Songo Locks Elementary Music K-6 and District Fine Arts Coodinator and Linda McVety Songo Locks Elementary Music K-5
Teaching Aesthetics and Criticism: Approaches to Standard D
How do we teach aesthetics and criticism in our Visual and Performing Arts classes? How do teachers design learning experiences for Maine Learning Results standard D? In this interactive workshop teachers will experience methods for teaching aesthetics and criticism in the 7-12 arts classroom. Sample lessons that teach forms of artistic interpretation to students will be shared as well as methods for critique. The workshop is geared toward supporting the teaching and assessment of Maine Learning Results standard D. During the second part of the workshop participants will be encouraged to share their own approaches. Participants will leave with tools that they can immediately use in their classes. Grades 7-12, adaptable for all grade levels
Bronwyn Sale Bates College, former 7-12 Visual Arts teacher
Inspiring Environmental Stewardship Through the Visual Arts
This will be a fun and informative program with practical involvement by all. All participants will have ideas to take back to the classroom and hopefully a reinvigorated perspective on their teaching with a theater focus. All grade levels
Andrew Harris Lecturer and Chair of Theatre, USM Department of Theatre
MORE INFORMATION is located on the Maine Arts Commission website.
REGISTRATION has been set up through Eventbrite.
If you have any questions please email Argy Nestor at argy.nestor@maine.gov.
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August 23, 2017
Jake Sturtevant and Barb Vinal, instructors for NEI
The New England Institute for Teacher Education is offering two courses that arts educators may be interested in taking. Refining Assessment in the Music Classroom taught by music educator Jake Sturtevant and Technology for Educators taught be former Maine music educator Barb Vinal. Learn about the courses, registration for them, and about Jake and Barb.
EDPO 540: Refining Assessment in the Music Classroom (Online)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Looking closely at our assessment practices through a collaborative and fine-tuned lens can provide unique opportunities for growth. Connecting new assessment practices to our instruction can bring exciting changes to how we approach our students and their learning. Participants will discuss how best to apply recent Music assessment work to their own unique situations in their own school music programs. This will lead them to create a personalized plan for implementing new strategies.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of this course, educators will be able to:
- Articulate recent trends in assessment and clear connections to their own classrooms.
- Develop and implement a personalized plan of instruction and assessment in their own classrooms.
- Network ideas, resources and strategies with other music and arts colleagues in the field.
- Develop a meaningful approach to ongoing analysis and modification of their own instructional practices.
- Demonstrate a clear connection between music assessment and music advocacy in their own schools and communities.
This is an online course and the instructor will set up video conference meetings with students. To register CLICK HERE. This course satisfies a requirement for re-certification by the Maine Department of Education.
This course is taught Jake Sturtevant who was born and raised in Maine by a musical family. He is a prolific composer, performer, and music educator. His compositions encompass a variety genres and media including jazz, funk/fusion, vocal, chamber music, orchestral, electronic, and multi-media works. Jake currently is a music educator at Falmouth High School. He is the former music director at Bonny Eagle High School, in Standish Maine and was music educator at Washington Academy in East Machias, Maine, Teaching Assistant of the Composition department at the University of Minnesota, and he has worked as an intern and as an independent contractor for the Maine Arts Commission. Jake has been interested in acquiring and changing his teaching and assessment practices to focus on standard based grading. He has had the opportunity to be part of the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative formally know as the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative, and has taught a variety of workshops at since the initiative started in 2011. He is continually inspired by other teachers around the state and the country who have found a variety of assessment practices that help students achieve practical goals that will help them progress, while not stifling their creativity. Jake holds degrees from the University of Maine at Augusta’s Jazz and Contemporary music program (B.A., Music, 2003), and the University of Minnesota (M.A., Composition 2005), where he studied with Dr. Judith Lang Zaimont. Beyond his profession Jake enjoys his time with his family, and all outdoor activities especially hiking and skiing.
EDE 325: Technology for Educators
This online course is currently offered for 4.5 Continuing Education Units
Course Description
In the 21st century, it is imperative that teachers keep up to date with technology tools for teaching and learning. This course will help educators best serve their students by learning how to use popular tech tools to help facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Exploration of technology applications (including Google apps) as well as the development of an online Personal Learning Network to include social media and bookmarking make the course relevant to individual educator needs and is designed to encourage continued learning beyond the course. Participants will develop a digital toolbox to help manage classroom lesson plans, schedules, and assessments and will enhance effective communication with students, administration and parents. This course helps educators to meet some of the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Competencies for Educators.
Materials Required:
- Ability to connect to the Internet – high speed connection preferred.
- Current browser such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
Prerequisites
Course Objectives
- Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
- Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments
- Model digital age work and learning
- Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
- Engage in professional growth and leadership
To register CLICK HERE.
Barbara Vinal holds a Masters in Technology Education
from Lesley University, a Bachelors in Music Education from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and holds a certificate in online instruction through the Carolina Online Teacher program (COLT) through LearnNC, a program of the UNC School of Education. She is currently an Instructional Technology Facilitator and Magnet School Coordinator for the Wake County Public School System in Raleigh, NC. She has been an educator in Maine, New Hampshire, NC and Texas for over 30 years. Mrs. Vinal was a member of the Maine Department of Education Learning Results Review Committee in 2007, which developed the Maine state standards in Visual and Performing Arts. She has presented sessions at multiple conferences on technology integration in the classroom, assessment techniques and in developing standards-based curricula and served on the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative Leadership Team.
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August 21, 2017
Maine Arts Commission Teaching Artist
Tom Luther, one of our new Teaching Artist Leaders with the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI) made the news today. Tom is a musician and teaches piano and digital/computer music. He works at the Midcoast Music Academy in Rockland.
He has created a plan for his MALI work called Standards without Standards. How Teaching Artists Can Create a Flexible Learning Template. Tom spent three days with other teaching artists and PK12 arts educators at the MALI Summer Institute at Thomas College earlier this month. His application for Teaching Artist Leader included: “I’ve found teaching to be an intensely creative act, as well as a tremendous tool for personal growth, both for myself and my students. Teaching has helped me become a better listener and observer.”
You can read the entire article from the Village Soup by CLICKING HERE.
Tom’s bio
Tom Luther is an improvising composer, pianist, and media artist working in acoustic and electronic environments. He has performed throughout the state of Maine with his modern jazz group TLQ (Tom Luther Quintet), an ambient music trio called Algorithm, and as a soloist. Luther is also a media artist, working with video, live installations, and interactive objects. In his work, Luther applies traditional composition, improvisation, generative, and interactive techniques, drawing freely from his experiences in numerous musical forms. The messages and stories are universal, and genre is simply a cultural idiom appropriate to a certain group at a certain time. Luther explores these notions through adapting techniques from different genres to create hybrid works that straddle the worlds of jazz, classical, electronic, and ambient music, bending genre and blurring the boundaries that define them. He has released two albums of his music with the TLQ, “Everything Is Blue” (2012) and “Necessity(2015). His interactive installation “Spine” premiered at Waterfall Arts in 2015, and he has shown two multi-media works as the Kelpie Gallery’s annual “Wet Paint on the Weskeag” fundraiser. Luther was a featured solo performer at “Jazz on a Summer’s Eve” at the Camden Opera House, and performs regularly with TLQ and as a sideman with the Mike Whitehead Group. He is currently working on a new ambient/downtempo trio, and an interactive floor puzzle that creates music. Luther is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music, and studied privately with pianist and composer Anthony Davis.
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August 8, 2017
What’s it really all about
As I take a few minutes to reflect on the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI) Summer Institute that was held last week at Thomas College for three days I can’t help but think about what MALI is really all about. If I had to select one word it would be COMMUNITY. As many of you know there are about 1200 visual and performing arts educators in the state and I really don’t know how many teaching artists there are throughout Maine. Both were well represented last week. Bottom line, each of the participants were teachers, striving to be better at teaching and the desire to connect with others who care deeply about arts education.
Wow, I am so humbled by their commitment and proud of what they accomplished in three days!
Reasons for MALIs success
- Teachers teaching teachers is a critical component
- MALI is a community that provides ongoing support. Teachers learn that they have peers throughout the state experiencing the same or similar situations that they do day to day. They no longer feel like islands.
- This summer’s institute had three strands; one for Teaching Artist Leaders, one for returning TLs and one for new TLs. The strands are customized for the unique group and individual needs. The strands came together for cross pollination and collaborations are formed.
- All of the ideas are based on research and what is in the best interest of teacher development.
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Phase 7 New Teacher Leaders
A Design Team guides the work of MALI and plan every detail of the summer institute. They are totally committed to contributing above and beyond.
- The MALI community grows each year with some teacher leaders returning year after year.
- Through their work TLs find their voice and are invigorated to return to their school districts. Many are recognized in their new leadership role and are invited to the table at the local level. They serve on district leadership committees, lead the school and district professional development work for all subjects and grade level teachers, and are honored for their leadership.
- The institute schedule is different each year to adapt to the changing needs but the foundation is built on What is good teaching? What is good learning? What is good assessment?
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Teaching Artist Leaders Phase 6 and 7
In 2015 Teacher Leaders created a set of Belief Statements on that include the topics that are vital to Maine arts education today: Arts Integration, Advocacy, Assessment Literacy, Creativity and 21st Century Skills, Educator Effectiveness, Effective Teaching and Learning, Proficiency Based Learning and Student Centered Learning, and Teacher Leadership.
- Teachers are connected and become Critical Friends to help support each other’s teaching.
- MALI models teaching tools
So, what makes involvement in the MALI community so special?
Looking closely at Tim Christensen’s pottery are Jenni Driscoll, Jean Phillips, Tim, and Charlie Johnson
Participants comments
Next steps
Some of the MALI Teacher Leaders (TL) and Teaching Artists Leaders (TAL) will be sharing their learning in a workshop format at the local or regional level. Others will be continuously sharing in a social media mode. The Phase 7 summer institute was really about customizing the learning for each educator. I will keep you posted as they wrap up their plans for the school year I will share the information here on the blog and also on the Maine Arts Assessment site and through the communications that are delivered by the Maine Arts Commission.
Please let me know (argy.nestor@maine.gov) if you have any questions and are interested in applying to be involved as a Teacher Leader or Teaching Artist Leader for Phase 8.
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April 26, 2017
Regional VPA Teacher Leader Search
Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI) – Phase VII
Join us for GREAT learning and networking opportunities! The Maine Arts Leadership Initiative invites YOU to be part of Phase VII. We are looking for teachers interested in leading and in taking a close look at effective teaching and learning in the arts.
Application at THIS LINK. Deadline: Friday, May 19, 2017.
Phase 1 Teacher Leaders, August 2011, Maine College of Art
If you are selected, you will be required to attend the summer institute, August 1, 2, and 3, 2017 at Thomas College. We will provide professional development and ask that you take what you’ve learned and share it with other educators in your region of Maine and beyond.
If interested, please submit a completed application by the Friday, May 19 deadline. Access the application by CLICKING HERE. Details are below.
Selected teacher leader responsibilities for the 2017-18 school year include:
- Attend the 3-day Professional Development Summer Institute, August 1-3, 2017, Thomas College, Waterville. To prepare: Pre-reading assignments and responses are expected in google site. Each Teacher Leader determines individual plan for the school year/what the outcome of their learning will be and how to share with others. This enables teacher leaders to really take on the leadership role! (List of options available by contacting Argy Nestor at argy.nestor@maine.gov)
- Communicate using a google site
- Possible Critical Friends Day as a follow-up to the summer institute
- Continuation of Another Teacher’s Stories on the Maine Arts Ed blog
- Attend retreat to reflect on the work of phase VII with MALI participants – Saturday, March 10, 2018
Maine Arts Leadership Initiative Background Information
Overall Description
Phase 2 Teacher Leaders, August 2012, Maine College of Art
Mission: Committed to the development of Teacher Leaders to ensure deep understanding and meaningful implementation of high quality teaching, learning and assessment in the Arts for all students.
Since 2011 the initiative has been building capacity by training arts educators on the “what” and “how” of arts assessment so they can provide the leadership in Maine through professional development opportunities. The details of the initiative are at https://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Programs/MAAI.
MALI’s OVERALL OBJECTIVES
- Create and implement a statewide plan for teacher leadership in arts education. This includes professional development opportunities, locally, regionally and statewide, which will expand on the knowledge and skills of teachers to better prepare them to teach in a student-centered and proficiency-based learning environment.
- Develop and implement standards-based high quality teaching and learning statewide for Visual and Performing Arts
- Continue to build on expanding the team of arts educators and teaching artists representing all regions of Maine
- Provide workshops and other professional development opportunities for educators
Phase 3, Critical Friends Day, 2013, Point Lookout, Northport
HISTORY – Phase I, II, III, IV, V, VI Summer 2011 to present
- Eighty-one teacher leaders and four teaching artists leaders attended summer institutes on assessment, leadership, technology, creativity, proficiency-based standards-based and student-centered teaching and learning
- Teacher leaders presented workshops at three statewide arts education conferences, USM, Portland, UMaine, Orono, and Point Lookout Conference Center with over 600 educators attending
- Teacher leaders facilitated almost 100 regional workshops and 15 mega-regional sites across Maine
- Another Arts Teacher’s Story series (78) on the Maine Arts Ed blog
- Arts assessment graduate courses offered by New England Institute for
Teacher Education
- Nine arts education assessment webinars for Maine educators facilitated by Rob Westerberg and Catherine Ring – archived at https://mainearts.maine.gov/pages/education/maai-webinararchives#
- Video stories of seven teacher leaders that demonstrate a standards-based arts education classroom located on Maine ARTSEducation YouTube channel or at http://newenglandinstitute.org/.
- Teacher Leader Resource Team development of items for resource bank
- Maine Arts Assessment Resources website that contains a plethora of information
Phase 4, Summer Institute, 2014, USM Portland
Phase VII components
- August 1, 2, 3, 2017: Professional Development Summer Institute for PK-12 teacher leaders (new and returning), teaching artists, and teaching artists leaders at Thomas College.
- Each Teacher Leader determines individual plan to share their learning at the local, regional or statewide level.
- Continuation of Another Teacher’s Story on the Maine Arts Ed blog
- Winter Retreat: Saturday, March 10, 2018
For More Information
Phase 5, Critical Friends Day, 2015, USM Portland
Questions?
If you have questions or would like more information please contact Argy Nestor at argy.nestor@maine.gov.
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April 6, 2017
Thomas College professional development
Bring a team from your school to the Center for Innovation in Education Summer Institute at Thomas College, June 27-29. Great opportunity to collaborate on planning for your students!
Docudrama, song writing, invasive European green crabs, and an all hands-on deck problem solving challenge—what a combination! Only at the Center for Innovation in Education’s Summer Institute: Weaving a Tapestry of Learning this June will you get to explore the connections among these activities and create powerful metaphors for learning related to the role the Arts play in STEAM curriculum and instruction.
For more information CLICK HERE.
- PreK-12 participants are encouraged to come in teams to work on projects specific to your school.
- Grants are available to defray registration costs for up to 5 people on a team.
- Format: Nationally known speakers, concurrent sessions by outstanding Maine educators, and team time with a coach to work on individual projects.
- Interactive, reflective, & practical
- Graduate credit available (must pay the Thomas graduate course fee)
Of special interest to Arts educators:
- Brooke Haycock from the Education Trust uses a docudrama format to stimulate participants’ thinking: “…transform research into performance, exposing the stories behind the data and driving straight to the heart of debate around equity in schools.” https://edtrust.org/team/brooke-haycock/
- Members of the EXPLO organization will lead us through a hands-on, interactive challenge that integrates the arts into the problem solving necessary to meet the challenge. https://www.explo.org/our-history/
Coaches include:
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March 20, 2017
Upcoming arts ed courses available
EDE 325: Technology for Educators – online course taught by Barb Vinal, April 10 – June 19, 2017
- Are you ready to take your classroom into the 21st Century?
- Are you in awe of your colleagues who are more facile with technology than you are?
- Would you like to explore how Google Drive can help you organize your classroom?
- Would you like to learn how to best use tech tools and social media?
This course is a great way to get your recertification credits in ONE class for 4.5 CEUs – all online!
SIGN UP TODAY and take your understanding of technology to the next level!
Barb Vinal (Packeles) taught music in Maine for many years before moving to North Carolina where she continues teaching and learning as the Instructional Technology Facilitator and Magnet School Coordinator for the Wake County Public School System in Raleigh, NC. She has been an educator for 30 years and holds a Masters in Technology Education from Lesley University, a Bachelors in Music Education from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and holds a certificate in online instruction through the Carolina Online Teacher program (COLT) through LearnNC, a program of the UNC School of Education. Barb serves on the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative Leadership Team. She was a member of the Maine Department of Education Learning Results Review Committee in 2007, developing the Maine state standards in Visual and Performing Arts.
EDAR 528: Brains on Fire, An Arts Integration course taught by Catherine Ring, Hilton Garden Inn Bangor, Maine – April 14, 15 and June 16, 17, 2017, (Fridays 4-8pm, Saturdays 8-4pm)
Earn 4.5 CEUs and learn how to engage students in learning through the arts! This course is approved for Gifted Talented endorsement, as well. SIGN UP TODAY!
This course will take an in-depth look at the significant role the arts can play in learning. Participants will see examples of student learning through visual art, dance, music and drama; learn about the critical evidence of improved academic achievement by students who are regularly exposed to the arts; and participate in practical, hands-on arts integration lessons which can be used immediately in the classroom. Helpful resources, including books, videos, websites, wikis and lesson plans will be shared. Collaborative work between arts teachers and classroom teachers are encouraged.
Catherine Ring is Executive Director of the New England Institute for Teacher Education and teaches graduate level courses to educators across the state of Maine. She serves on the Leadership Team with the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative since 2010. Catherine has presented at the Maine Principals’ Association Conference as well as nationally at the National Art Education Conventions. Catherine has taught visual arts for 20 years, is a former K-8 Principal and is has her Assistant Superintendent certification. Catherine completed her Education Leadership studies at the University of Vermont and received her Master of Arts from Vermont College of Norwich University. For her thesis, entitled “Education and the Arts, Toward Creative Intelligences,” she researched the role of the arts in learning and has worked closely with classroom teachers, helping them to integrate the arts into their regular curricula. She assists school districts throughout Maine with differentiated instruction, arts integration, and gifted and talented programs. Catherine is the 2014 Maine Art Education Association Advocate of the Year. Catherine teachers visual arts one-day per week at Isle au Haut School.
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February 13, 2017
Teaching as a Craft
Skills, collaboration, support, and innovation –
Quality professional development for educators is characterized by the above areas demonstrating the understanding of introducing, reinforcing and supporting deeper understanding of knowledge and skills. Our profession is a craft.
Mega-Regional Professional Development opportunities with the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative, in support with your Maine Arts Leadership Associations, are exponential in value for learning about best practices or expanding your skills to bring back to your school, colleagues, and classroom/studio/stage/rehearsal room.
This is educator to educator professional development – what you need, and when you need it.
Suzanne Goulet
Yes, the next one is during a weekday – for some an in-service day. Yes, this sometimes means that you will be away from your students artists/performers for one day. And YES, you will be glad you did. This is the catcher/pitcher conference on the mound – a time to come together, share, and grow. I always leave with gems that impact my students, my practice, my craft, immediately
Please join us, and consider asking someone to join you – for our profession, for your craft.
Looking forward to meeting you at the next Mega-Regional.
Thank you to Suzanne Goulet, MALI teacher leader and visual art teacher at Waterville Senior High School and Maine Art Education Association Teacher of the Year, for writing this blog post!
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