MAAI Mega-Regional Workshop a Success

Yesterday at USM

Almost 75 arts educators attended the mega-regional workshop yesterday at USM Portland. The early feedback points to a success! The workshops offered a variety of opportunities on arts assessment, creativity, curriculum, instruction, technology, and others! This post includes some photos of yesterdays event and a later blog post will include workshop resources for those of you interested.

In the meantime, the Maine Arts Assessment site at http://maineartsassessment.pbworks.com has a plethora of resources that I invite you to view and use. Yesterday’s workshop information and the two coming up in Easton, March 22 and Ellsworth, March 29 is located at http://www.maine.gov/education/lres/vpa/assessment.html. You must register to attend. The MAAI workshop are a collaboration with MLTI and are FREE with contact hours included.

Thanks to the MAAI teacher leaders, leadership team, and MLTI technology integrators for their outstanding contributions yesterday. Thank you also to USM for providing the space for the workshop and to USM faculty Jeff Beaudry for his leadership with the MAAI.

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The website called WeAreTeachers has some interesting offerings. You might want to check it out and then consider subscribing.

Here are some of the recent ones:

• Art and the Brain: What Are the Benefits? This post contains some statistics that you might find interesting and useful. http://www.weareteachers.com/community/blogs/weareteachersblog/blog-wat/2013/02/13/art-and-the-brain-what-are-the-benefits-
• Time for a music break. This post contains a bunch of links to music ideas.  http://www.weareteachers.com/community/blogs/weareteachersblog/blog-wat/2013/02/19/it-s-time-for-a-music-break!
• Conquering Classroom Messes. This post has practical ideas to help with that messy classroom space at http://www.weareteachers.com/community/blogs/weareteachersblog/blog-wat/2013/02/14/conquering-classroom-messes