Move the Needle Summit

Yesterday at Thomas College

Educators from different pathways including Thomas College education majors, Teachers of the Year, those working with Teacher Effectiveness and others participated in an opportunity yesterday to discuss technology in the classroom. Maine Arts Leadership Initiative Teacher Leader and Central School in South Berwick music teacher Kate Smith attended and you’ll see her in this video from WABI TV5 clip from the gathering. http://wabi.tv/2016/01/15/move-the-needle-summit-focuses-on-technology-in-the-classroom/

Arts Advocacy Day

Augusta – March 24

Registration for MAAE Arts Education Advocacy Day, Thursday, March 24th, is now open!  And attending yourself is only one of the ways you can register your interest and support.

In this year of increased statewide attention to arts education generated by the Arts Commission’s Census of arts ed in all Maine schools, MAAE’s Advocacy Day will be sending a message to all of the state’s legislators that every Maine student deserves access to quality arts education at school. Our lobbying at the Statehouse in Augusta this year will be a full court press!  We’re inviting our best advocates… young people… to come to Augusta from every senate and house district in the state…..first to tell their legislators how the arts have been important to them in one-on-one lobbying outside the senate and house chambers between 10 and 11 a.m. then to invite their legislators to come downstairs to the Hall of Flags to meet more of their constituents at the tables, which will be organized this year by counties and hosted by delegations from the whole community. All are invited to be at their county’s table to talk to their legislators when they come downstairs.

Register at http://eepurl.com/bLE54n if you plan to attend on March 24th yourself, if you can help us to identify a student who can attend, or if you just want to be kept in the loop about all the excitement!

For information about the Arts Ed Census click https://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/Arts-Education-Census

And feel free to contact me Susan Potters, Executive Director of the Maine Alliance for Arts Education at spotters@maineartsed.org if you have any questions about Advocacy Day.