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Missouri Alliance for Arts Education
News Update
The Missouri Alliance for Arts Education is a non-profit arts education service organization comprised of the statewide arts education organizations, private citizens, and businesses that works to help Missouri's students receive high quality arts education at every level.
September, 2020
Collaborative Action Campaign
Collaborative Action Campaign
MAAE has joined a united effort utilizing National Association for Music Education's voter voice platform to give our constituents an opportunity to make their voices heard.
This three-part action campaign is addressed to:
encourage Missouri state legislators to support education in future budgets
encourage US Congress to appropriate COVID relief funds in support of education
encourage Missouri's governor to release withheld funds
Find the link to this UNITED ACTION CAMPAIGN here.
Thanks to our partners in this united effort including: Missouri Citizens for the Arts, Missouri Music Educators Association, Missouri Art Education Association, the Missouri Choral Directors Association, the Missouri Dance Organization, the Missouri Association of Jazz Educators, the Missouri Chapter of American String Teachers Association, Missouri Thespians, Missouri Citizens for the Arts,Missouri Bandmasters and the Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri. Check the progress of the initiative on the map : https://www.moaae.org/advocacy/advocacy-campaignsIN THIS ISSUE
https://sites.google.com/moaae.org/maae-match
See something missing? Have an idea of something to share? email director@moaae.org.
MAAE-MATCH COVID support
MAAE-MATCH COVID support
Need Distance Learning or Modified In-person learning support? We've created an online resource hub just for these uncertain times. MATCH - Missouri Arts Teacher Center for Help provides you with access to resources that can help you talk with your administrators, and explore new and exciting ways of safely implementing your curriculum. Created by MAAE's POST-COVID-19 Work Force it contains guidelines, new lesson ideas, strategies and resources which are added daily. Subdivided by arts discipline, you'll find ideas to support distance learning and modified in-person learning.
Did you know? Job offerings, grant opportunities and more
Did you know? Job offerings, grant opportunities and more
MAAE receives news from our partner organizations and attempts to gather that information in one place for your reference. Check out our "Did You Know" page for information. (Access from this link, or from the navigation menu above.)
Want in? email director@moaae.org for the ZOOM link for our FREE monthly sessions.
ALL are welcome.
October MAIN EVENT - 10/5/20
October MAIN EVENT - 10/5/20
Plan to join our next MAAE - MAIN EVENT - October 5 at 4pm when we welcome Katie and Steve Schisler. Katie (music) and her husband Steve (visual arts) both teach at A.D. Stowell School Elementary in Hannibal, Missouri with a unique approach to Arts Integration and STEAM. View their school's video here.
MAAE has plans to continue offering the MAIN EVENTS monthly. Help us pass the word and find arts and non-arts teachers who practice arts integration in their classrooms and invite them to attend. Email director@moaae.org to register.
July presenters - Middle School - So Choi (visual arts) and Lee Newell (math)
August presenters - Early Childhood - Sherry Norfolk and Ed Reggi Wolf Trap trained teaching artists.
COCA Autumn Institute November 7-8, 2020
COCA Autumn Institute November 7-8, 2020
During this event, COCA affiliated teaching artists and facilitators from across the country will share the content originally developed for the Summer Institute. Open to both arts and non-arts teachers, join in two energizing days of learning experiences that provide concrete strategies for the classroom. >learn more at COCA's website here.
Arts Integration Partnership Search
Arts Integration Partnership Search
SEEKING EDUCATION PARTNERS! MAAE has developed a tool which may be of use to arts integration practitioners as they collaborate with others in designing lessons and units of instruction. We are looking for some teachers in both arts and non-arts subjects in the same school who might want to team up and try out some new ideas. We have plans to partner you with an arts integration coach to help facilitate your work. Interested? email director@moaae.org for more information.
The KS/MO Kennedy Center Partners in Education is pleased to sponsor this engaging workshop experience designed for TEACHERS of GRADES K-5 scheduled for Wednesday, October 7, 2020. - 4:00 PM 6:00 PM featuring Jessica DiLorenzo, presenter.
"Our emotional states shift as we move through events in our day. In this session you will not only learn a strategy to help students become aware of feelings and the events that shape them, but you’ll also learn how dance can become a tool to manage and express emotions."
What a great opportunity for arts and non-arts teachers to partner and join in this learning! Participants will be asked to complete an a self-guided learning module (approx. 1.5 hours) prior to the live webinar session. >Visit the website for more information.
MAAE Listening Sessions Continue
MAAE Listening Sessions Continue
addressing issues of Racism - Inclusion - Diversity - Equity
MAAE reaffirms its mission to promote high quality arts education for the benefit ALL Missourians. The RIDE committee is conducting a series of "Listening Sessions" to see if elements of systemic racism or bias have contributed to the observation that few people of color currently participate in state-wide arts ed conferences, and few students of color are involved in honors ensembles. Consider becoming a part of this important work. We want your voice to be heard! Each listening session is limited to 15 participants. Email to register director@moaae.org.
FREE - Visual Art Educators Fall Conference
FREE - Visual Art Educators Fall Conference
The MAEA Virtual Fall Conference is Oct 2-3. Register free at maea.net on the conference tab. Our conference features many pre-recorded workshops for MAEA members on our Educate.Today site, and several special events and vendor workshops, live on our Facebook page @maeaarteducator. Don't miss our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Sarah Cress Ackerman on Saturday October 3, at 9 am.
HAPPY National Arts in Education Week
HAPPY National Arts in Education Week
Since 2010, the 2nd week in September has been named National Arts in Education Week by the U.S. Congress. During that week, September 13-19, 2020, MAAE would love to hear YOUR stories about why ARTS ED was and is important to you, your students and your community. Join the social media campaign on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube by using #BecauseOfArtsEd.
SIGN THE PETITION: https://americansforthearts.salsalabs.org/nationalartsineducationweek2020/index.html
Coming Soon - NAHM
Coming Soon - NAHM
October is National Arts and Humanities Month (NAHM)- Originally "National Arts Week" and founded by Americans for the Arts to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts, NAHM is now a coast-to-celebration of the importance of culture in America. Be a part of the celebration! Use #Showyourart2020 to share your stories on social media @MOArtsEd.
FREE Outdoor Metropolitan Orchestra Concert
FREE Outdoor Metropolitan Orchestra Concert
I wanted to share a free outdoor concert with The Metropolitan Orchestra of St. Louis on September 13, featuring guest artists Christine Brewer, Leonard Slatkin, and Scott Schoonover! Like many of us- you been missing live performances and this one is following social distance guidelines.
Sunday, September 13 at 5:00 PM at
The Jaycee Stage in Frontier Park,
500 South Riverside Drive,
St. Charles, Missouri
**Audience members should bring their own lawn chairs and are asked to maintain social distancing except when seated with their families. All are encouraged to wear masks.**
This concert has been underwritten by the Music Performance Trust Funds and The Metropolitan Orchestra of Saint Louis.
MOAJE honors Leon Bradley - jazz music educator
MOAJE honors Leon Bradley - jazz music educator
Arts educators passionately encourage young artists. Leon Bradley was a music educator that did just that. As part of is legacy the leadership of the Missouri Association of Jazz Educators have been working with members of the Bradley family to provide professional development support of emerging jazz educators. To learn more or make a donation visit the MOAJE website here.
MAAE endorses "Put Creative Workers to Work" proposal
MAAE endorses "Put Creative Workers to Work" proposal
MAAE joins 760 other arts groups in a proposal sponsored by Americans for the Arts seeking ways to put Creative Workers impacted by the pandemic back to work. Read the proposal here.
Music Enrichment Course - Form and Analysis
Music Enrichment Course - Form and Analysis
The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center in the St. Louis area is sponsoring a FREE virtual class in Form and Analysis for students in grades 6-12 who have an understanding of how to read music and basic knowledge of key signatures, scales and how to identify triads (although that will be reviewed in the first sessions.) Interested? email: Mark Sarich: lnac.mark@gmail.com.
Change of address
Change of address
Please let us know if you move or change positions.
This will help to prevent delay of the receipt MAAE news and other information. Email director@moaae.org. We will happily update your sending preferences as well.
If you have welcomed a new colleague, please help us connect with them. If any of your friends or colleagues has retired or moved on we'd love to stay in touch with them, too!
• • • UPDATES ONGOING INITIATIVES • • •
• • • UPDATES ONGOING INITIATIVES • • •
Items below contain updated information about ongoing work of MAAE. Read on to stay informed!
New Teacher Mentor Help
New Teacher Mentor Help
When schools closed in March due to the pandemic, hundreds of Missouri's student teachers had an abrupt end to their preservice training. MAAE is willing to help connect teachers new to the profession with an experienced mentor to help ensure that any experiential gaps can be filled. Please contact director@moaae.org or complete this short survey and we'll help you connect those new teachers in need with a mentor in their specific arts discipline.
Visit MAEA site for more details. - or contact coordinator Vicki Bean, senate.exhibit@maea.net.
Accepting Submissions -
Annual Senate Art Hall Exhibit Contest
Accepting Submissions -
Annual Senate Art Hall Exhibit Contest
Co-Sponsored by MAEA and MAAE we celebrate excellence in student work exhibited in the hallway outside the Senate chambers. One entry is selected for each Senate district. (37 pieces of art statewide.) Student work is submitted by the teacher, and submitted to each senator for the final selection process. NOT just for visual artists! We welcome both 2-D and video submissions from any teacher from any arts discipline. >Learn more here.
Show-Me Arts (SMarts) Student Advocacy Summit
Show-Me Arts (SMarts) Student Advocacy Summit
Training the next generation of arts advocates, the SHOW-ME Arts program (SMarts) provides information, training and role-playing activities for students - who then apply those skills by meeting with their legislators.
With social distancing and travel restrictions, plans are in the works to host regional training sessions in YOUR area. Stay tuned for more details. We'd love to work with you and your students!
Save the Date! 3/24/21 - Fine Arts Education Day
- "A Bicentennial Celebration!"
Save the Date! 3/24/21 - Fine Arts Education Day
- "A Bicentennial Celebration!"
Plan to join us for MAAE's Fine Arts Education Day at the Missouri State Capitol to highlight the importance of fine arts education in Missouri schools. In our COVID-19 world, we imagine there will be opportunities for remote visits, or sharing of video recordings to help us make connections between the arts and Missouri's legislators. We also have hopes for live performances if safety guidelines permit. Consider participating and STAY TUNED as our plans develop. We'd love to have you involved.
Bicentennial Poster Contest - entry deadline 10/31/20
sponsored by the Missouri Bicentennial Commission. Bicentennial Poster Contest - entry deadline 10/31/20
Celebrating Missouri's 200th Anniversary of statehood the Bicentennial Commission announces a poster contest is open for students in grades 3-12. We are pleased to share links to more info and at-home friendly lesson ideas to help students of varying grade levels become inspired to create their own poster by looking back at the poster from 100 years ago which celebrated Missouri's first 100 years in 1921. Help us tell others. Spread the word! >learn more about rules for entry submission
What you doing for the Bicentennial?
What you doing for the Bicentennial?
Missouri 200 years of statehood 1821-2021
With Missouri's milestone of 200 years of statehood on August 10, 2021 it's a perfect time to explore the richness of Missouri history discovering Missouri's artists, playwrights, musicians, actors, dancers, choreographers and more! Tell us what you're planning and we'll share your ideas with others to educate and inspire. Questions? director@moaae.org.
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