ADMINISTRATIVE LETTER NO: 37
POLICY CODE: JF
Category: News & Views
Bridging the gap between math and CTE
By Rich Barratt
ROCKLAND — I teach a curriculum that’s deep in math.
From basic operations to geometry to trigonometry, math plays a big part in the machine tool industry. But as a precision machine technology instructor at Mid-Coast School of Technology, I’ve never had the proper training I need to teach the math that’s such a crucial part of the trade.
That’s where the Math-in-CTE program comes in.
Winslow senior to represent Maine at national science camp
A senior set to graduate from Winslow High School on June 8 won’t have much time to bask in the completion of his high school career.
On June 30, Michael McCann will fly to Charleston, W. Va., to represent Maine at the 48th annual National Youth Science Camp, which will join top science students from across the United States for a three-week exploration of the sciences and the arts.
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1,100 plus expected at student laptop conference in Orono
Four students will kick off the day with presentations showing how they’ve put technology to work in innovative, globally relevant ways
It’s been nearly a decade since the launch of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, which has equipped Maine middle- and high-school students with laptops and made technology an integral part of their learning.
On Thursday, May 26, more than 1,100 students, teachers and parents will overtake the University of Maine campus in Orono for the eighth annual MLTI Student Conference.
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Maine students can visit Boston MFA for free
Maine students of all ages who attend public and private schools will be able to visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston free of charge starting July 1 thanks to a recent gift from a Portland foundation.
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A new law for a new age
There’s broad consensus that we expect something fundamentally different of our schools today than we expected even a decade ago, when the federal No Child Left Behind Act became law.
Never before have we asked our teachers and administrators to see to it that every child who walks through the door master a set of rigorous standards designed with college and 21st-century careers in mind.
Telling Room called ‘Imagination Intensive’
The following is a press release from the Maine Alliance for Arts Education.
The Maine Alliance for Arts Education, the Maine Department of Education, and the Maine Arts Commission are pleased to announce that the Telling Room in Portland has been named Maine’s 2011 Imagination Intensive Community.
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Maine schools win Nellie Mae awards
An infusion of grant funds will allow Maine schools in Portland and Gray to move ahead with plans to allow students more choice in how they learn and more control over the speed at which they advance through school.
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation has awarded Gray-based School Administrative District 15 and Portland’s Casco Bay High School $185,000 and $130,000 respectively to bankroll expansions of the proficiency-based systems they already have in place.
Gilbert students eat up nutrition lessons
By Tim Follo
AUGUSTA — It’s not every day that students laugh and smile when the subject is table manners and sanitation, but it happened all day on May 17 at Gilbert Elementary School.
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Program pairs math and trades
AUGUSTA — Nearly 20 teachers of precision machining, welding, building construction and other trades have spent 10 days over the past school year paired up with middle- and high-school math teachers.
They’ve spent their time together working to more closely integrate math concepts into lessons offered by instructors at Maine’s career and technical schools.
Maine DOE Newsroom 