MALI provides PD on June 28
Summer Conference – June 28th, 9:00 – 3:30
University of Southern Maine – Portland
The Maine Arts Leadership Initiative is offering a one-day summer conference with a variety of outstanding workshops. We’ve listened to the field requesting more professional development opportunities! This is a great way to kick off your summer that will provide you with ideas and materials on developing standards and assessment tools as well as other relevant hot topics. Join your colleagues from across the state and around New England in a collaborative learning environment.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AQ7v3kosh7ReRijqyQtPvYlukURtxzjRXW_1X5NfxqM/edit#
REGISTRATION LINK:
http://goo.gl/forms/8EpYejbZeFLZxjm73
OTHER CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
http://www.maineartsassessment.com/#!mali-summer-conference-2016/qxjo8
CONFERENCE DETAILS:
- The conference is being held at USM in Portland, Wishcamper Center
- $50 registration – teams of 3 or more, $40 per person – check or paypal – no POs
- Lunch is on your own – coffee/tea and snacks will be provided
- 6 contact hours or .6 CEUs provided
- Select from 14 workshops – (descriptions below)
- Wishcamper Center, 34 Bedford Street, Portland (link to directions here)
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Free parking is located in the garage attached to the Abromson Center located right next to Wishcamper on this map
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Overnight lodging in the vicinity of USM* In addition, 10 minute drive away:
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Fireside Inn 81 Riverside St, Portland
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Portland Travelodge 1200 Brighton Ave, Portland
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Super 8 208 Larrabee Rd, Westbrook
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*Please note: These are not endorsements, simply suggestions.
WORKSHOP OFFERINGS
Theresa Cerceo
Studio Habits of Mind, Planting Seeds toward Growth and Proficiency in the Arts K-12 Visual Art
This workshop will offer give a brief overview of the work done by Lois Hetland as outlined in her book, Studio Thinking. It will offer various strategies one can implement in the arts classroom in order to track and guide students through proficiency toward MLR standards for the Arts and Guiding Principles.
Jake Sturtevant and Jan Gill
Student’s Choice: Engaging Students in Task Design Make the Concert Theirs
K-12 Music
Jan and Jake are mother and son, both music teachers; Jan in RSU 73 (elementary) and Jake (high school) in MSAD 6. Examples of strategies that allow students to choose, arrange, and perform songs. From a 3rd grade class choosing a name for their band and songs to perform on guitar, bass, keys, drums and vocals to a high school band of 60 students transcribing and arranging Uptown Funk, this session will include strategies for how to negotiate and empower student choice to promote positive interdependence, in a variety of ensembles and general music settings.
Danette Kerrigan
National Board Certification
K-12 All Educators
This session will focus on the benefits, process and incentives available to educators in the state of Maine interested in National Board certification. National Board Certification is the most respected professional certification available in education and provides numerous benefits to teachers, students and schools. It was designed to develop, retain and recognize accomplished teachers and to generate ongoing improvement in schools nationwide. Standards for each content area and developmental level are created by teachers, for teachers.
Susan Beaulier
Critical Thinking in the Art Room; It’s the Thought that Counts
K-12 Art
Expand your existing art lessons by incorporating critical thinking strategies that drive your students to think more deeply about their own art and that of others. We’ll discuss how to pose questions, frame class critiques, lead thoughtful discussions about the aesthetic qualities of visual art, incorporate writing into the studio art lesson, and provide avenues for student reflection on their art making process.
Jen Etter & Rob Westerberg
Developing Your Music Standards and Assessment Strategies
K-12 Music
This extended workshop will allow participants either on their own or in teams to look at desired curricular outcomes for their program, develop standards and indicators that are customized to their specific courses and school, and set up assessment strategies to bring authentic proficiency to life.
Iva Damon
Google Classroom
PK-12 All Educators
Who has time to orchestrate all of the current technologies of Google Drive, digital portfolios, videos, digital imagery, and getting 21 Century skills into the classroom? YOU do with Google Classroom. Make your life easier and find the Holy Grail to simple, easy to use technology that can be utilized in all classrooms.
Elise Bothel
Death to the Cookie Cutter Project
K-5 Visual Art
Do you cringe when you walk by visual art displays featuring identical pieces of art done by a classroom of diverse students? Would you like to offer more choice, but are worried that the academic content will be lost in the chaos? Are you looking for a balance of creativity and content in your visual arts classroom? This workshop is designed to offer insight and solutions about how to foster creativity while still providing a rigorous and educational art curriculum. Along with group discussion, participants will have the opportunity to work on improving their own lessons through the use of backwards design, student interest, and choice.
Patti Gordan
Hatching a Songbird: Teaching and Assessing Singing Skills at the Primary Level K-4 Music
When the wee folk walk through our door how do we make sure we’re helping them develop singing skills, not just singing songs with them? This workshop will help you plan methodical, proficiency based lessons and assessments, including formative self assessments, that are easily delivered during our limited general music class time. Help your smallest singers reach their highest singing potential and develop a love of singing!
Holly Leighton & Nancy Kinkade
Next Steps Rubrics Makes Learning More Progressive
PK-12 Art and Music
How do you motivate students to move beyond a score of 3 or 4? How do we get students to look at learning as sequential as opposed to”end result” learning? What tool can I use to make assessment more accessible to teacher and students with greater impact? Educators will leave with strategies to put students on a continuum of learning that is teacher and student friendly.
Rob Westerberg
Advocacy
PK-12 All Educators
This session will present strategies for continued implementation of PBL in your own classroom, and highlight the powerful corollary advocacy points that go along with each. If our advocacy efforts have been so useful for the past 20 years, why are we still so much in need of more? Come find out how our most recent PBL work has the potential to finally push arts education to the forefront of our school’s academic agenda while providing the richest, most relevant curriculum possible for our students.
Mandi Mitchell
Strategies to Deepen Student Engagement and Learning in the Arts Classroom, 7-12 VIsual Art
Are you struggling to demonstrate techniques, assess student learning, and still find time within your class to teach criticism and aesthetics? Get the most out of your class, every time that you meet. Learn how to develop a successful, fully implemented classroom model that offers more “bang for your buck.” You will deepen student learning and motivation, increase student engagement and interest, and encourage self-regulation and reflection while integrating three simple daily steps that structure your classroom without limiting creativity. Adaptable for all levels and all arts disciplines!
Samantha Armstrong
What are the Benefits of Student Self-reflection? (What do I still need to do? What have I learned?)
K-6 Visual Art
In this workshop we will explore the benefits of student self reflection as a means of achieving greater understanding and academic success. We will look at evidence that shows the impact self assessment has on student success and a sampling of self assessment and reflection tools and methods. You will also have an opportunity to discuss and brainstorm how you see these concepts working in your classroom.
Jen Etter & Rob Westerberg
Further Developing Your Music Standards
K-12 Music
Continue to develop your work from the Second Session or join us for the first time to dive into your own work!
John Morris
Creativity: A Group Inquiry
PK-12 All Educators
This discussion group model will help participants make connections with creativity research, while promoting inquiry and dialogue about the nature of creativity, as well as the role of creativity in K-12 teaching, learning and assessment.
If you have questions about the conference please email Argy Nestor, Maine Arts Commission Director of Arts Education at argy.nestor@maine.gov.
students per year for the past 4 years at two of Lewiston’s elementary schools; Governor James B. Longley Elementary and Farwell Elementary. Prior to her work in Lewiston, she spent 3.75 years in Auburn’s Public Elementary School system across the river and 3 years teaching all forms of fine art to youth and adults at her private art studio in Lewiston.
Recently I traveled to the County (as Aroostook is affectionately know to many) and learned a great deal AND had a fabulous time. The early morning drive north on 95, once I reach Bangor, is an opportunity to turn off the radio and look and think. It took me almost 4 hours from my home to my first destination, Wintergreen Arts Center in Presque Isle.
From there I headed north to visit Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI) Art Teacher Leader and Leadership Team member Theresa Cerceo. First stop, after my hour drive was at the Dr. Levesque Elementary School in Frenchville where Theresa was teaching a science lab. Yes, art integration in action. It wasn’t about the product but about learning by asking questions and experimenting with materials. For example, students were grinding leaves with a little bit of water. Students test scores in math and reading have increased due to the work that ALL teachers are doing during the weekly labs.
The day was complete with a discussion on PBE to learn where arts teachers in the County are on the continuum. And, two woman from the Partners in the Arts Presentation shared information about the organization and encouraged teachers to apply for grant funding.
Trevor Marcho has taught instrumental and choral music at Mattanawcook Academy in Lincoln for six years. He also co-conducts the Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestras and teaches private music lessons at Main Street Music Studios in Bangor. He is a graduate of the University of Maine, where he also teaches MUE 217, Brass Methods to undergraduate music education majors.
I hope that you receive the shiniest and most delicious apple this week from someone who really cares about you. If you don’t, please imagine me presenting you one with a giant hug and a THANK YOU! I know that the path of educational excellence is through teachers who have taken on the challenge and joys of teaching.
Everyday each teacher has the potential to influence and shape our nation by the teaching you do. Our young people are our greatest resource and we owe it to them to be the best that we can be at teaching. Thank you for the amazing work you do inspiring and changing student’s lives, going above and beyond day in and day out, for the long days you put in, for the collaboration with your colleagues, the interactions with parents, and for all the things you do as a teacher that go unnoticed. My appreciation for you goes deep and wide – THANK YOU!
Nancy Kinkade presently teaches in RSU #67: 5-6 general music (150 students), 6-8 choral music (68 students), beginning band, 6th grade band and ⅞ band (65 students). I was hired 25 years ago in RSU #67 as an elementary music teacher EK-5 (525 students). My position was eliminated four years ago and she was able to shift to the 5-8 general music & 6-12 choral position (450 students). Last year her school district suffered yet another cut/restructure to the music department which provided the opportunity for Nancy’s present position.
Holly Leighton has been an elementary art teacher at the Ella P. Burr School in Lincoln for 17 years seeing 400+ students weekly. This year she moved to the district’s high school, Mattanawcook Academy, where she is the art teacher with 92 art students from grades 9-12. (RSU 67) Holly’s main responsibilities are teaching six 70 minute classes and covering the visual art standards.
Please join Maine educators on Tuesday, April 26th, 3:30 to 5:00 for the last R.S.V.P. ME meeting of the 2015-2016 school year.
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