Posts Tagged ‘Student Leaders in the Arts Movement’

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Statewide Survey

January 12, 2016

How’s it going?

You might be wondering how the statewide arts education census is doing on collecting information from EVERY Maine school. I’d say the collection is going VERY well! As of today 156 schools have responded to the call and completed the survey. YAHOO, that is 24% of our goal!

ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: It is essential that ONLY the principal complete the survey. I know, you might be thinking “BUT, I have to help my principal, since they don’t have some of the information needed to complete the task”. YOU are absolutely correct. SOOOOO…. I suggest that you go to https://mainearts.maine.gov/CMSContent/arts_in_education/2016_0106_Arts_Ed_Survey.pdf and download a .pdf of the questions. Gather the answers and provide the downloaded .pdf with your answers to your principal to complete the online survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MAINE_ARTS_ED. Just think how appreciative your principal will be by helping them to complete the survey.

Our goal is 100% of the schools to complete the online survey so we are excited that we are 1/4 to the goal. Please be sure and let me know if you have any questions.

You might want to share the below link with your principal. The video is created by the members of the Student Leaders in the Arts Movement (SLAM) from MSAD 33 under the direction of Maine Arts Leadership Initiative Teacher Leader Theresa Cerceo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgAZ07fXOr4&feature=youtu.be

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What Theresa’s Students are Saying

October 19, 2015

SLAM

Theresa Cerceo is a MALI Teacher Leader who teaches K-12 Visual Art in Dr. Levesque Elementary School, Wisdom Middle/High School, MSAD 33 (all the way up in the County). Her Logic Model plan for her work as a Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI) Teacher Leader this year, involves advocacy work with students. In her own words: “I started working with my students today on advocacy work. I had K – 12 come up with possible blog titles and the high school art club created the, “Student Leaders in the Arts Movement” or S.L.A.M.! We will have a meeting at the start of every art club meeting (once a week). We had a great talk about the importance of messaging why the arts are essential. They had a lot of great ideas and really took ownership of the project. We have a board going for all the different activities we will work on. They are excited!”

Earlier this month at the Biennial Statewide Conference The Measure of Success Theresa provided an update on her work with her SLAM students. She created a video with them that expresses why the arts and visual and performing arts education is essential to them. In the future Theresa and her students will be writing a blog post for meartsed readers so you can learn more. This is only the beginning of the work Theresa is doing with students.

 

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