Statewide Arts Education Conference-The Arts Connect!

YOU’RE INVITED! October 8, 9, 2009-Point Lookout, Northport, ME

Thursday night, preconference celebration… Friday, conference: 7:30-4:30 Cost: $75.00. Limited number of $25.00 scholarships available.

For more details please click here. Registration starts September 1, 2009. Don’t miss this opportunity to make CONNECTIONS!

The Arts Connect! Conference will provide high-level professional development for educators in K-12, higher-ed, and arts organizations, as well as artist-educators. The conference will enable these educators to support school improvement initiatives and to make meaningful connections to strengthen education in all of the arts for all Maine students.

The Arts Connect! Conference participants will:

• learn skills to improve teaching and learning in the arts;
• make connections among the arts disciplines: dance, music, theater, visual arts,and creative writing
• make new connections with other educators and reconnect with old friends;
• make connections between school and community, including arts organizations, artists, and other arts education supporters;
• learn about common issues facing educators in Maine.

Participants will be awarded 7 contact hours.

Music Educator, Andrea Peterson, 2007 National Teacher of the Year-Keynote speaker