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  Teaching Children’s Literature through the Arts is coming to Portland Dates:  January 20, 21 and March 23, 24, 2012  (Fridays 4-8pm, Saturdays 8-4pm) Location:  Portland, Maine                                                               Instructor:  Catherine Ring TO REGISTER:  Click Here This course… Read more »

Join arts educators Catherine Ring, Rob Westerberg, and Jake Sturtevant for some great opportunities to meet and work with colleagues while improving teaching and student learning in the arts! The New England Institute for Teacher Education is providing a unique opportunity for arts educators throughout Maine to take a three-credit, graduate level course on on… Read more »

A wonderful group of Educational Technicians from the Augusta area just completed a course on Behavior Management in the Classroom. Lots of learning, analyzing case studies, and practical application of strategies made this class immediately helpful to students and their teachers. Well done!  This course is being offered in Portland (January 20, 21 and March… Read more »

  NEWSFLASH! We are offering courses in Arts Assessment, to help arts educators take Assessment to a new level.  Check out the information below. A SPECIAL OFFER – ARTS ASSESSMENT COURSE This offer applies ONLY to these course locations which start on the following dates: York (Jan. 13, 2012), Bangor (Jan. 27, 2012) and Augusta… Read more »

Stephen York is teaching The Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom, a 3-credit Special Education course which meets the requirement for teacher certification at the Maine Department of Education.  The course is coming to Bangor and Augusta.  See our flyer below for more details! To Register, click HERE.

Two of our faculty members just received the Carol Trimble Award for Exemplary Service to Arts Education, presented at the State Arts Education Conference at USM October 7, 2011.  Catherine and Rob have been working together on the core team of the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative for 18 months and just completed their second of… Read more »

WEBINAR Don’t forget to register for our free webinar on Wednesday, November 2, at 3:30 -4:30 pm.  Rob Westerberg and I will be hosting a discussion with guests, Jay Collier, Technology consultant with the Maine DOE; Ann Marie Hutton, MLTI Technology specialist, Shannon Campbell, K-8 Visual Art Teacher, and Mary Ellen Schaper, Dance Specialist.  The… Read more »

          Rob Westerberg, music educator from York High School, and I just completed our first webinar on September 7.  We had over 50 people attend, from all over Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont!  The webinar is archived, so anyone can listen to it online by clicking on this Link. This is… Read more »

This is just in from the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) website:  I’m very excited to be doing this webinar series with Rob Westerberg!!  Stay tuned. September 7 – Maine Arts Assessment Initiative webinar August 31st, 2011 abby No comments The MLTI and Department of Education will be hosting 5 webinars throughout the 2011-2012 school… Read more »