Data from the 2011 Local Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey are now available upon request.
School breakfast week challenges students to ‘go for gold’
School cafeterias across the country next week (March 5-9) will celebrate National School Breakfast Week by hosting “School Breakfast – Go for Gold,” a fun campaign designed to highlight how eating a balanced breakfast at school helps students shine.
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Conference to feature student-centered learning examples
Educators from across Maine are invited to a conference on April 13 that highlights classroom units and projects that engage all learners in work that challenges them to think critically and creatively.
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Casco Bay class challenges students to turn passion into business
Submitted by Portland Public Schools.
PORTLAND — Margo Arruda, a senior at Casco Bay High School, fell in love with the Harry Potter and “Lord of the Rings” books as a young child. “From the time I was 10,” she says, “I could navigate Middle Earth better than my hometown.”
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Arts assessment initiative going strong
Regional workshops and regular webinars are continuing throughout the state as more arts teachers are trained to make assessment in arts education an integral part of the work they do to deepen student learning.
The work is part of the ongoing Maine Arts Education Assessment Initiative.
MEDMS to be unavailable March 1-2
The Maine Education Data Management System, or MEDMS, will be unavailable March 1 and 2 as the system transitions to new server hardware.
AP4ALL course registration opens March 5
The Maine Department of Education’s AP4ALL program will offer 14 online Advanced Placement classes during the 2012-13 school year. Registration for those courses begins March 5.
Applications needed for ed jobs funds; MEDMS reporting starts March 5
Maine school units must submit completed workbooks in order to claim their portion of a $574,000 supplemental award the Department of Education has received from the federal Education Jobs Fund Program.
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Special Education Q & A: Written Notice
The Maine Department of Education has added a question and answer to the Maine Unified Special Education Regulations (MUSER) Questions and Answers document found on the Department’s website. The new question and answer gives more information about the State-required special education Written Notice form.
Maine DOE Updates – Feb. 27, 2012
Plans are moving ahead here at the Maine DOE to start the work of developing a state accountability and improvement system for our schools that’s thoughtful, fair and constructive.
In doing so, we’re acting on what we’ve heard from you: Students, parents, teachers and administrators want to get out from under the stranglehold of the decade-old No Child Left Behind law. They want a system that considers multiple valid measures in determining the performance of students and schools, and a system that helps struggling schools improve rather than feel stigmatized.
