University of Florida’s Online Master of Arts in Art Education

.Winter Council Meeting

Here are some of your officers, furiously working in a meeting on a Saturday!

Missouri Fine Arts Academies

Just updated:  Govenor Nixon is suggesting  a ZERO budget for the Academies in 2016.  Here is what I heard:






From Ben Martin: Executive Director of MAAE:
 This will take a full court press to get funding back for the Academies. We hope to follow up with further information in the coming days. If you can, start making plans to be in Jefferson City for Citizens' Day for the Arts on Feb. 11th or Fine Arts Education Day on March 11th. Those days will be vital to our efforts to revive the Academies.

Ben Martin, Executive Director




From Kyna Iman:

. Governor Nixon has not only shut down our biggest increase ever to the Academies by withholding funding for the June, 2015, Missouri Scholars Academy and the Missouri Fine Arts Academy, but he has zeroed out our funding for the June, 2016, academies.

http://oa.mo.gov/sites/default/files/FY_2016_Elementary_and_Secondary_Education_EB.pdf

Five fabulous students testified in support of the academies' funding on Tuesday, before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Senator Schaefer has gone above and beyond to support our cause.

Please let your State Representative and State Senator know how important these funds are to your students/programs/etc.



From Fred Mintert:  Personally, I think this is a big mistake.  My son Brody went to the FA Academy in Springfield at MSU and LOOOOVVVEED it!  It still costs the participants money, but with zero funding from the state, these will disappear.

Pinterest board for MAEA Middle level.

I love Pinterest.  I gather, catalog, review and connect lesson ideas there.  Usually I just am working on adding things for my classroom.  I need to remember to also post things to the MAEA Middle level Pinterest Board.

here is the link:   http://www.pinterest.com/mrmintart/maea-middle-level-division/  Currently there are 12 or so collaborators, and we all have to start pinning more to it.  If you would like to join, let me know.  Of course, if you don't, you could just follow it in order to see the pins in your feed.

Thanks for all you do!  Keep up the good work!

Ill try to post more, make this more valuable to our community.

My First Post...What to Write?

Full Disclosure:  I am writing something because I need to have a blog to represent the hundreds of Middle Level Art Educators that cross our wonderful state of Missouri.  Hi, I'm Fred, the Middle Level Rep for MAEA.  If you don't know what MAEA is, you might be lost.  If you wanna find out, click here. 
      But the truth is, I'm not sure what to post?  What makes Middle Level art teachers want to look at a blog?  Here's what I think, and based on that, I will make posts:

     -LESSONS, LESSONS, LESSONS!  (With useful info on how to implement in my classroom.)

    -Funny stuff about being an art teacher or JH teacher.

    -Philosophy and best practices.  Classroom organization, teaching skills, etc.



If you want to join the Blog, and be updated when I post, join on the sidebar.
If you want to help post content, let me know, I will add you on as an author.  The more the merrier.

If none of this is your cup of tea, hope you have a great day and thanks for visiting!

Either way, if you want to make a comment, feel free below.

Have a great Middle Level Day!