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TODAY on Mount Desert Island

November 25, 2014

MAAI Mega MDIHS

Perhaps you are at Mount Desert Island High School right now enjoying and soaking up ideas, food for thought, and exchanging your best practices. Today is the first Maine Arts Assessment Initiative’s (MAAI) Mega-regional workshop being held during phase 4, 2014-15 school year. There are 55 arts educators participating. A great big THANK YOU to Charlie Johnson and the MDIHS arts staff and administration for opening up their beautiful school for this professional development opportunity.

The MAAI Teacher Leaders are offering these workshops today Studio Habits, Making Evidence of Learning from a Sequence of Artworks, Efficient and Effective Assessment in the Elementary Music Classroom, Standards-Based Grading and Assessing for Proficiency, Stir-Crazy: A Movement Tool Kit for the Sedentary Classroom, It’s Elementary, My Dear, and Resources, Resources, and MORE Resources for Music Educators are all offered today.

The PM session is devoted to sharing and learning about where other schools and districts are on the pathway of Proficiency-Based Education and Teacher Effectiveness. The individual workshops will not be repeated at other Megas however, the PM session will be repeated at each one.

The MAAI Teacher Leaders have made a commitment not only to increase their knowledge but to share their learnings and current practices with others. Many of you have heard me say that “none of us is as smart as all of us” and the Megas are designed to share all that SMART!

If you aren’t at MDIHS today you will have multiple other chances for Megas. Please go to http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-2014-2015# and check out the workshops being offered at the following locations.

Dates and Locations

Friday, March 6, 2015 Aroostook county (Registration available in the near future.)
Friday, March 13, 2015 Oxford Hills Middle School, South Campus
Thursday, April 2, 2015 UMaine, Orono
Friday, April 3, 2015 University of Southern Maine, Portland

5.5 contact hours are available for participating in the all-day workshop.

Please note

When registering there are two options for payment.

PayPal
By check issued to Maine Art Education Association, and mailed to Maine Arts Commission c/o Argy Nestor, 193 State Street SHS 25, Augusta, ME 04333. PLEASE DO NOT issue the check to the Maine Arts Commission.

Please email argy.nestor@maine.gov if you have any questions.

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Registration Open: MAAI Mega USM, Portland

October 30, 2014

University of Southern Maine, Portland, Mega-regional workshop, Friday, April 3, 2015

The Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) is once again offering Mega-regional workshops in five locations across the state of Maine during the 2014-15 school year. The workshops are being facilitated by the MAAI Teacher Leaders, different workshops scheduled for each location. Yes, you can register for more than one! 5.5 contact hours are being provided for all-day participation.

The five Mega dates and locations for the 2014-15 school year

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Mount Desert Island High School

Friday, March 6, 2015 Aroostook county

Friday, March 13, 2015 Oxford Hills Middle School, South Campus

Thursday, April 2, 2015 UMaine, Orono

Friday, April 3 University of Southern Maine, Portland

Registration is also open for Mega Mount Desert Island High School, Mega Oxford Hills, South Campus, and Mega UMaine, Orono. It will be available for Aroostook county in the very near future. MAAI is a program of the Maine Arts Commission.

The information for Mega USM, Portland is located at http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-USM-2015#USM.

Once you read through the details, you can determine which workshop you’d like to attend for Session I and Session II. To complete your registration please click on this link http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07ea1ghdq4i1s4snna/a014xi1tzgnbz/questions.

You can pay the $25 registration fee using PayPal or you can pay by sending a check made out to Maine Art Education Association and mail it to Maine Arts Commission, c/o Argy Nestor, 193 State Street, 25SHS, Augusta, 04333. You will find all of the information and details that you need when you register at the link above. Please contact me if you have any questions at argy.nestor@maine.gov.

Overall Workshop Schedule

8:15 a.m. Registration begins
8:45 a.m. Opening Session and Morning Workshops
9:10 – 10:20 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session I
10:20 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 – 11:40 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session II
11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch, participants on their own
12:30 – 12:45 p.m. Artist Showcase
12:45 – 2:45 p.m. Session III Large group by Arts Discipline
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Closing Session

The workshop titles and descriptions for the Mega UMaine, Orono are included below.

Session I

The Studio Habits of Mind: Using the “Hidden Curriculum” to Encourage Student Autonomy

Join us in our exploration of assessment and proficiency using the Studio Habits of Mind. This workshop will present a practical look at how we came to understand and use the constructs of Studio Thinking in our K-4 and K-8 classrooms to promote independent, self-directed learning. You will gain hands-on knowledge of these habits and leave with strategies you can use in your own classroom. Grades K-8 (Easily adapted for grades 9-12.)

Jane Snider Hancock Grammar School Visual Arts

Lisa Ingraham Madison Elementary School Visual Arts

The Recipe: Ingredients in a Proficiency-Based Curriculum

The thought of creating a proficiency-based curriculum from scratch can be daunting. When we try cooking something new for the first time, we seek a recipe to follow, and over time we adjust, improvise, substitute, and personalize the ingredients to make the recipe our own. We would like to share our recipe with you, it may not be exactly your taste, but we have ingredients and tools to share to help you get started. Grades 9-12 (Easily adapted for all grades.)

Michaela DiGianvittorio and Sarah Gould Gray-New Gloucester High School Visual Arts

Unpacking the Standards with your BFF (Best Foot Forward)

Looking for meaningful conversations around assessment in the elementary music classroom? So often music teachers feel as if they are working in isolation. Come see how Teacher Leaders Cynthia Keating and Kate Smith worked together to unpack the standards to identify their essential learnings. Tips for how to report essential learnings to parents will be shared. Grades PK-5

Cynthia Keating Village Elementary School Music

Kate Smith Central Elementary School Music

The Foolish Man Builds his House Upon the Sand: Laying a Firm Foundation for the Arts (and life) in Early Childhood

A workshop for Early Childhood Educators, Elementary Arts Specialists, and Elementary Administrators. Come join the fun as we explore how and why arts play is essential to every young child’s ability to learn how to learn! Grades PK-2 (all Arts disciplines)

Judy Fricke Main Street Music Studios Music

Writing What We Do: A Guide to Standards-Based Curriculum Mapping & Unit Design

Essential what? Enduring Understandings? Why is it important to write down what I do in my classroom? Many districts across the state are focused on Curriculum Mapping and Unit Design using a variety of systems for tracking and organizing curriculum, units, and assessments. This session will focus on developing skills in navigating the Understanding by Design model of unit and curriculum design. Participants will learn how to organize their curriculum, develop essential questions and enduring understandings, and determine assessment types based on what they are already teaching in their arts classrooms. Examples and resources will be provided. Grades PK-12 (all Arts disciplines)

Brian McPherson Woodside Elementary School Vistual Arts

Jake Sturtevant Bonny Eagle High School Music

Session II

Using Digital Process Folios as a Journaling Approach to Self Assessment

Have you ever wondered how to digitally document students growth and understanding? Using technology, students document their learning experiences in the art room through a process-folio. For many of us, learning is about the process not the end result – learn how reflective writing and self assessments can guide students through a greater understanding of their work. Grades 6-8 (Easily adaptable for grades 9-12.)

Melanie Crowe Marshwood Middle School Visual Arts

Hatching A Songbird: Teaching and Assessing Singing Skills at the Primary Level

Focusing on the Kindergarten year, this workshop will offer methodical strategies for teaching young children to sing. Included will be ideas for formative assessment, including student self assessment. Grades K-2

Patti Gordan Raymond Elementary School Music

Moving Towards Your Goals: Using Technology for Self-Assessment in a Performing Arts Classroom

This workshop will demonstrate how to have students successfully self-assess their work in your performing arts classroom using their own devices. Using an existing high school dance lesson, participants will learn how to have their own students measure and analyze their work using applications such as Twitter, Nearpod, eBackpack, and Youtube. Grades 9-12 (all Arts disciplines)

Emma Campbell Thornton Academy Dance

Dancing With the Standards: How to Incorporate Standards-Based Dance and Movement Activities in Classroom Learning and Assessment

Are you an arts teacher who would like to incorporate more movement in your classroom, but may feel that you lack confidence or familiarity with dance movement? This experiential workshop will walk you through a powerful yet simple creative movement exploration and dance making process that are standards-based and well suited to integrate with any content area. You will learn simple movement tools and a dance making activity that you can implement – no dance background needed – to help your students explore lesson content and engage in creative problem solving together. Grades PK-12 (all Arts disciplines)

John Morris Dance

The How and Why of Digital Portfolios

This workshop is focused on using Google Drive to create a digital portfolio as a means to show evidence of proficiency, allow for a method of feedback on student work and as a way to organize and maintain student work. This workshop can be used by all VPA teachers. Grades 6-12 (all Arts disciplines)

Jeff Orth Richmond Middle/High School Visual Arts

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Registration Open: MAAI Mega UMaine, Orono

October 29, 2014

University of Maine, Orono, Mega-regional workshop, Thursday, April 2, 2015

The five Mega dates and locations for the 2014-15 school year

Tuesday, November 25 Mount Desert Island High School

Friday, March 6 Aroostook county

Friday, March 13 Oxford Hills Middle School, South Campus

Thursday, April 2 UMaine, Orono

Friday, April 3 University of Southern Maine, Portland

Registration is also open for Mega Mount Desert Island High School and Mega Oxford Hills, South Campus. It will be available for USM, tomorrow and for Aroostook in the very near future. MAAI is a program of the Maine Arts Commission.

The information for Mega UMaine, Orono is located at http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-UMaine-Orono.

Overall Workshop Schedule

8:15 a.m. Registration begins
8:45 a.m. Opening Session and Morning Workshops
9:10 – 10:20 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session I
10:20 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 – 11:40 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session II
11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch, participants on their own
12:30 – 12:45 p.m. Artist Showcase
12:45 – 2:45 p.m. Session III Large group by Arts Discipline
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Closing Session

The workshop titles and descriptions for the Mega UMaine, Orono are included below.

Session I

Finding the Hidden Treasure in Art with Student Self Assessment

Learn how setting criteria with students sets the stage for formative assessment. Participants will create a small art work and practice the use of exemplars, setting criteria, and use of assessments to inform instruction. Come explore the benefits that come from student self assessments. Grades 5-12

Jennie Driscoll Brunswick High School Visual Arts

Efficient and Effective Assessment in the Elementary Music Classroom

When you see 200 or more students each week, assessing everyone is challenging. The lack of time seems insurmountable! At this collaborative session, we will discuss ways to make assessments efficient for both class time and your time, while still keeping them effective for teaching and learning. The presentation is directed toward elementary classroom music, but all are welcome to attend and give input. Grades K-5

Frances Kellogg Ellsworth Elementary Middle School Music

Multiple Pathways: Helping Students Achieve Proficiency in ELA and Social Studies through Performing Arts Class!

With the new proficiency based learning law, students must be allowed a variety of ways to demonstrate proficiency. This workshop will examine cross disciplinary units that assess, not only drama standards, but ELA and social studies standards as well. Specifically, we will look at performance assessments that evaluate ELA and social studies standards and can be demonstrated in the performing arts classroom but count towards a students ELA and social studies requirements. Grades 7-12

Beth Lambert Carrabec High School Performing Arts

Moving Towards Your Goals: Using Technology for Self-Assessment in a Performing Arts Classroom

Emma Campbell Thornton Academy Dance

The Foolish Man Builds his House Upon the Sand: Laying a Firm Foundation for the Arts (and life) in Early Childhood

Judy Fricke Main Street Music Studios Music

Session II

My Choice-Based Art Class, Nurturing Proficiency through Voice, Choice and Reflective Teaching

What are the benefits of a choice-based art room? How can assessments be used to foster creative growth, skill development & proficiency? In this workshop teachers will have these questions answered as well as see how a choice – based art class can teach studio behavior and allow for art creation and teacher feedback that is individualized and authentic to the learners’ experience. Grades K-12

Theresa Cerceo Dr. Levesque Elementary, Wisdom Middle/High School Visual Arts

Proficiency-Based Education in Visual Art

This workshop will provide an overview of what Proficiency-Based Education looks like in a middle school art program. Unpacking standards, creating rubrics, understanding meeting proficiency, formative vs summative, and assessment will all be part of this workshop. Grades 6-8

Gloria Hewett Mount View Middle School Visual Arts

Stir-Crazy: A Movement Tool Kit for the Sedentary Classroom

Kids not sitting still in class? Unable to focus? This session is for all teachers wanting to add some movement activities and games into the classroom without sacrificing important academic time. All games can be adapted to fit all subject areas. Grades PK-12 (all Arts disciplines)

Stephanie McGary Dance

Gold, Silver or Bronze? A Rubric fit for the Olympics!

Pam Kinsey Easton Schools Music

Rappin’ Differentiated Instruction and Implementing Standards Based Grading

Formative assessments are instrumental in giving teachers the tools they need to discover where each of their students are in the learning process. Participants will learn how to use this data to differentiate instruction for content, process and product to meet the needs of all learners. I will also share how Nokomis High School is beginning to implement standards-based grading. Grades 7-12

Lisa Neal Nokomis Regional High School Performing Arts

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Registration Open: MAAI Mega Oxford Hills

October 27, 2014

Oxford Hills Middle School, South campus Mega-regional workshop, Friday, March 13, 2015

The five Mega dates and locations for the 2014-15 school year

Tuesday, November 25 Mount Desert Island High School

Friday, March 6 Aroostook county

Friday, March 13 Oxford Hills Middle School South Campus

Thursday, April 2 UMaine, Orono

Friday, April 3 University of Southern Maine, Portland

Registration is also open for Mega Mount Desert Island High School. It will be available for the other three locations in the near future. MAAI is a program of the Maine Arts Commission.

The information for Oxford Hills Mega is located at https://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-Oxford-Hills.

Overall Workshop Schedule

8:15 a.m. Registration begins
8:45 a.m. Opening Session and Morning Workshops
9:10 – 10:20 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session I
10:20 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 – 11:40 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session II
11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch, participants on their own
12:30 – 12:45 p.m. Artist Showcase
12:45 – 2:45 p.m. Session III Large group by Arts Discipline
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Closing Session

The workshop titles and descriptions for the Mega Oxford Hills Middle School, south campus are included below.

Session I

Transform Your Fear of the Bear: Examining Proficiency-Based Arts Diploma Systems

Join us for a modified roundtable opportunity to share and glean developed strategies, reflections, benefits and challenges on this student centered journey. Beginners to full scale implementors are encouraged to participate. Please bring questions and/or artifacts to share: assessments and systems for documentation and communicating proficiency, as well as business cards/info strips to help with networking and the digital sharing of resources. Grades PK-12

Suzanne Goulet Waterville Senior High School Visual Arts

The Recipe: Ingredients in a Proficiency-Based Curriculum

Michaela DiGianvittorio and Sarah Gould Gray-New Gloucester High School Visual Arts

Dancing With the Standards: How to Incorporate Standards-Based Dance and Movement Activities in Classroom Learning and Assessment

John Morris Dance

Let the Maine Learning Results guide your Ensemble Curriculum

The Maine Learning Results are still the state wide Visual and Performing Arts Standards. Take a closer look at your ensemble and discover how you are using the MLRs each and every day. Learn new ways to integrate all of the MLRs. This workshop is applicable for any age ensemble elementary through high school. Grades 5-12

Sue Barre Waterville Junior and Senior High Schools Music

Session II

The Choir Gets It: A Meaningful Approach to Arts Advocacy

Have you been exposed to a wealth of information about why the arts are important in schools and why, as arts educators, we should advocate for our programs? If you answered “yes,” consider attending this reflective workshop that offers an opportunity to think about arts advocacy on a personal level. Listen to the arts advocacy journey of the presenter, while also having ample opportunities to share ideas with colleagues and develop your own attainable arts advocacy goal. PK-12 (all Arts disciplines)

Samantha Davis Molly Ockett Middle School Visual Arts

The Foolish Man Builds his House Upon the Sand: Laying a Firm Foundation for the Arts (and life) in Early Childhood

Judy Fricke Main Street Music Studios Music

Graphic Notation: “Do You See What I Hear?”

Participants will learn a simple music graphing process that can serve as an effective tool for teaching repetition & contrast, form, and note reading skills to visual learners. In addition, participants will match audio examples with their corresponding music graphs, as well as have the opportunity to play simple melodies on Orff instruments by reading the melodic graphic notation. Those in attendance will discover there is an answer to, “Do You See What I Hear?” for all the learners in their music classes. Grades K-8

Linda McVety and Jenni Null Songo Locks Elementary School Music

The How and Why of Digitial Portfolios

Jeff Orth Richmond Middle/High School Visual Arts

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Registration Open: MAAI Mega MDI

October 21, 2014

Mount Desert Island High School Mega-regional workshop, Tuesday, November 25

The Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) is once again offering Mega-regional workshops in five locations across the state of Maine during the 2014-15 school year. The workshops are being facilitated by the MAAI Teacher Leaders with each location scheduled with different workshops.

The five Mega dates and locations for the 2014-15 school year

Tuesday, November 25 Mount Desert Island High School

Friday, March 6 Aroostook county

Friday, March 13 Oxford Hills Middle School South Campus

Thursday, April 2 UMaine, Orono

Friday, April 3 University of Southern Maine, Portland

The information for MDIHS Mega is located at http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-2014-2015#.

Once you read through the details, you can determine which workshop you’d like to attend for Session I and Session II. Click on this link http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e9vs7ccfi0fmlna1/start to complete the registration.

Overall Workshop Schedule

8:15 a.m. Registration begins
8:45 a.m. Opening Session and Morning Workshops
9:10 – 10:20 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session I
10:20 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 – 11:40 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session II
11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch, participants on their own
12:30 – 12:45 p.m. Artist Showcase
12:45 – 2:45 p.m. Session III Large group by Arts Discipline
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Closing Session

The workshop titles and descriptions for the MDIHS Mega are included below.

Session I

The Studio Habits of Mind: Using the “Hidden Curriculum” to Encourage Student Autonomy

Jane Snider Hancock Grammar School Visual Arts

Lisa Ingraham Madison Elementary School Visual Arts

Making Evidence of Learning from a Sequence of Artworks

This hands-on workshop will explore a simple photographic darkroom technique to produce artworks to use as examples of proficiency for several of the National Core Arts Standards along with links to Maine’s present P.E.I.’s. Student work will also be presented as examples/exemplars for levels of proficiency. Grades 6-12

Charlie Johnson Mount Desert Island High School Visual Arts

Efficient and Effective Assessment in the Elementary Music Classroom

Frances Kellogg Ellsworth Elementary Middle School Music

Let the Maine Learning Results guide your Ensemble Curriculum

Sue Barre Waterville Junior and Senior High Schools Music

Session II

Standards-Based Grading and Assessing for Proficiency

This workshop is about how to use standards and create learning targets in the visual art classroom. We will be focusing on using standards in every day art lessons, assessing for proficiency and showing growth through the use of portfolios. Grades 6-12

Shannon Westphal Ellsworth High School Visual Art

It’s Elementary, My Dear!

Come find out ways you can advocate for your elementary school arts program. In this workshop, we will share ideas and strategies to get what you need for your visual art or music classroom and simultaneously take arts education to a whole new level. Let’s put all those wonderful resources and tried and true strategies to work for us! Grades PK-8

Catherine Ring New England Institute for Teacher Education Visual Art

Stir-Crazy: A Movement Tool Kit for the Sedentary Classroom

Stephanie McGary Dance

Resources, Resources and MORE Resources for Music Educators

This session will identify helpful, meaningful resources for every need under the sun! Attendees will inform the conversation, bringing their own unique needs to the table. The take-away will be for every music teacher to leave with a bucketful of assistance towards implementing standards, proficiency and assessment practices into their own classrooms. Grades PK-12

Rob Westerberg York High School Music

Session III

The Arts and Proficiency: What, Why and How?

The afternoon session will be focused around group discussions utilizing key questions on how proficiency is being implemented across the state of Maine in our own arts classrooms. Participants will leave with concrete ideas and/or plans to facilitate their own actions. These may lead to breakout sessions to deeper discussions and common concerns. This session will be separated between visual and performing arts teachers.

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MAAI Teachers as Resources

October 20, 2014

Teacher Leaders as leaders

Responding to the needs and voices of teachers in the field, the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAA) has begun a series of steps to help all PK-12 Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Art teachers develop their own quality work as Maine implements the new proficiency law, Maine Statute 4722-A-Proficiency Based Diploma Standards, that requires all students to display “proficiency” in all subject areas.

The first of these steps is designating past and current MAAI Teacher Leaders to serve as live “go-to” people for advice, talking through problems and ideas and providing support. Between the Leadership Team and Teacher Leaders, there are over three dozen people who have volunteered to be these live resources. Go to maineartsassessment.com, click on either of those two pages (Leadership Team and/or Teacher Leaders) under the dropdown, “About MAAI: who we are”. You will find contact information in red for those who are willing to work with you, as well as what grade levels and subject areas they teach, where they teach it, and a list of topics they have had experience with.

As the only grassroots arts assessment entity in the United States, it remains a goal of MAAI to be here in a practical way for teachers in the field, “removing us from the islands” for once and for all. Please take advantage of the work that has already gone on in recent years by respected colleagues throughout Maine, and contact them often as you progress through your proficiency work!

If you have questions or ideas for other needs that you have during the transition, please contact MAAI Leadership Team member Rob Westerberg at mllama4@maine.rr.com or Argy Nestor at argy.nestor@maine.gov. MAAI is a program of the Maine Arts Commission with many partners including MAEA, MMEA, New England Institute for Teacher Education, USM, MLTI, MDOE, and MAAE.

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The Survey Says

October 14, 2014

Information on the standards-based /proficiency system and teacher effectiveness

In early October, 2014 the leadership team of the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) had questions about major policy questions, and commissioned an informal poll on standards-based/proficiency systems and teacher evaluation. Nine questions were asked (7 listed below), five of them about the policies, two of them were about assessment literacy and leadership in assessment, and the final two asked about the kind of support MAAI could provide. As of October 10 there were 173 responses to the survey. Thank you to those who took the time to respond!

For approximately half the respondents work on the standards-based / proficiency system is still at the beginning stages, and a third of the respondents are just on their way. Just over half the arts educators are involved in professional development and professional learning communities to work on the system overall, compared with just under half who are doing similar work on standards-based / proficiency in the visual and performing arts.

Almost two-thirds of the respondents indicated that they were just beginning to work on the teacher evaluation system; only 12 out of 173 respondents claimed that they had a fully implemented teacher evaluation system. Over two-thirds of the respondents claimed that they had no involvement in the teacher evaluation system.

One of the key areas of need for the development of these policies is classroom assessment literacy. Less than one third of the arts educators felt confident about their assessment literacy to develop the standards-based / proficiency system. Furthermore, almost sixty percent of arts educators indicated that the leadership in their schools was not providing a clear stance on the standards-based / proficiency system.

What are the big take-aways? There is work to do on standards-based / proficiency, and even more to do on teacher evaluation. A key to success will be the overall assessment literacy of teachers and administrators, and MAAI is poised to provide professional development in the coming year.

A great big thank you to Leadership Team member and USM faculty Jeff Beaudry who contributed his expertise to creating the survey as well as providing the blog with the findings. Next week information will be provided on the last two questions! Please know that if you didn’t have a chance to contribute your information this time to this survey you will have another chance in the future.

Where is your district with regard to the standards-based/proficiency system?
Are you directly involved with a professional learning community on the development of your school/district’s standards-based/proficiency system?
Are you directly involved with arts educators in a professional learning community on the development of your VPA standards-based/proficiency system?
Where is your district with regard to the implementation of the Effective Educator (teacher evaluation) system?
Are you directly involved with arts educators in a professional learning community on the development of your VPA teacher evaluation system?
Do you believe that you have the knowledge about high quality classroom assessment and assessment literacy to develop a standards-based/proficiency system?
Overall how would you characterize your school’s administrative leadership on assessment literacy in the arts?

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MAAI at the State House

October 13, 2014

What a day!

Friday was a great opportunity for the Teacher Leaders from the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) to present their workshops as a “dry run” to critical friends. Fifty-eight educators traveled from all parts of Maine to participate in the day. Eighteen workshops were presented in 6 different groups to the critical friends, held in the State House and the Cross Office Building. Teachers bring students on field trips to the State House but it is not often that a group of teachers attend an all-day event there. As compared to when the legislature is in session, it was fairly quiet but that doesn’t take away from the beauty of the Capitol. The first session of the Maine Legislature was held in Maine’s State Capitol on January 4, 1832. As many of you know the dome is presently undergoing renovations and the new copper is gleaming and a site to behold with the changing of the leaves.

We gathered in the beautiful space used by the Council Chamber which I am certain never held that many educators. The Chamber is a segment of State Government of the leadership, a small group that is led by the President of the Senate rotating with the Speaker of the House, to make decisions that impact the entire body of the legislature. Each of the six groups participated in two morning workshops that were held where some of the Maine State Government does their daily business, the Burton Cross Office building. The groups gathered for lunch back in the State House and USMs faculty member and MAAI leadership team member Jeff Beaudry shared the findings of the survey that many of you participated in during the last week on Proficiency and Teacher Effectiveness. (I will post the info in another blog post).

Molly Ockett Middle School Visual Art teacher Samantha Davis presents her workshop to critical friends

Marshwood Middle School art teacher and Teacher Leader Amy Cousins participating in Teaching Artist Randy Fein’s workshop using clay.

Raymond Elementary School music teacher and veteran MAAI Teacher Leader Patti Gordan assists Ellsworth Elementary Middle School music teacher and new Teacher Leader Frances Kellogg with her workshop.

In the afternoon the groups participated in one more workshop and gathered for the wrap-up where the group facilitators provided an overview of what took place in their groups. Phase 4 music Teacher Leaders Kate Smith and Cynthia Keating lead us in song called “We Are One” and adapted for MAAI. It was a worthwhile day for all involved. The Teacher Leaders will tweak their workshops to ready them for the Mega-regional workshops being presented in five locations this year (listed below). Registration will be available soon if you are interested and able to attend please mark your calendars!

USM faculty and MAAI Leadership team member Jeff Beaudry shares the data recently collected from the survey all Maine arts educators were invited to participate in.

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to the critical friends who participated in the day!

Mega-regional workshops 2014-15 school year

Tuesday, November 25 Mount Desert Island High School

Friday, March 6 Aroostook county

Friday, March 13 Oxford Hills Middle School South Campus

Thursday, April 2 UMaine, Orono

Friday, April 3 University of Southern Maine, Portland

Critical Friends participate in movement workshop led by Teaching Artist John Morris in the rotunda in the State House while former Governor John Baldacci looks on.

MAAI Leadership Team member Catherine Ring provides an overview from her groups workshops.

Wrap up on Critical Friend Day at the State House.

New teacher leaders and music teachers Kate Smith, Central Elementary School and Cynthia Keating, Village Elementary School lead the group in song.

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Critical Friends Come to the State House

October 9, 2014

MAAI converges on the State House Tomorrow!

Three years ago the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) Teacher Leaders suggested that they have the opportunity to receive feedback on their workshops before they take them “on the road”. The MAAI prides itself in responding to the needs of the field. So, we created a day that we like to call Critical Friends Day, when the teacher leaders do a dry-run of their workshops before taking them on the road.

On Friday, tomorrow, 52 educators will travel to Augusta and the State House complex to do just that. All 52 will serve as Critical Friends providing feedback to each of the workshop presentations provided by the phase 4 and veteran Teacher Leaders.

It is sure to be nerve wracking, tense, fun, and very worthwhile. Those serving as Critical Friends come from all walks of education. Arts teachers, teaching artists, a retired teacher and Teacher of the Year, an ELA and Social Studies teacher, and an Assistant Principal. All bring something useful to the workshops and we are glad that they will attend!

You might be asking, “when will these workshops be offered to the rest of the education community?” Below is the list of the Mega-regional workshops. Watch this blog for the registration information that will be available in the near future. The regional workshops will also take place throughout the state so check in with the teacher leaders from your region to see when they will take place.

Mega-regional all-day workshop schedule

Tuesday, November 25—Mount Desert Island High School Friday
March 6—Aroostook County
Friday, March 13—Oxford Hills Middle School, South Campus
Thursday, April 2—UMaine, Orono
Friday, April 3—University of Southern Maine, Portland

Break a leg

Good luck to the Teacher Leaders who go bravely forward sharing their expanded knowledge from being a MAAI Teacher Leader and most importantly THANKS for taking on the leadership role. Thanks to those who will be joining us as Critical Friends. For more information on the MAAI please go to our new and wonderful site at http://www.maineartsassessment.com.

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What’s Happening in Your District?

October 7, 2014

Speak up, we’re listening

You have just 42 hours and 44 minutes from when this blog is posted (5:15 AM, Tuesday, October 7) to complete a survey created by the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) Leadership Team that will take you about 5 minutes. You have until 12:59 PM, Wednesday, October 8.

I know what some of you are thinking…. I am tooooo busy to complete a survey…. My opinion doesn’t count…. I’d rather go outside and take photos of the leaves changing… Who has time for that?

MAAI has priorities and one of them is this: Listening and responding to the needs of the field to provide resources to assist you with your teaching responsibilities. We know that if you are well equipped that students benefit. We want them to be the big winners and we know if they are there is a darn good chance that you have what you need to be an excellent teacher. So put away those excuses and do what needs to be done now!

Time is running out.

Please take about 5 minutes and complete the survey located at http://esurvey.inspiredata.com and type in the code 672562 to complete the survey. If you have any questions please contact Argy Nestor argy.nestor@maine.gov. Thanks for participating!

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