Portland students to Maine peers: Plan a service project

Lincoln Middle School students challenge Maine youth to create community change on Global Youth Service Day, April 20-22

PORTLAND — Lincoln Middle School students, leaders in service projects that have greatly benefited their campus and neighborhood, are celebrating Global Youth Service Day 2012 (April 20-22), joining millions of other young people around the world who are creating community change as part of Global Youth Service Day, the world’s largest and longest-running service event.

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CTE instructors contribute to national career readiness tests

Students taking video production, visual and performing arts, sound engineering and other multimedia courses at career and technical education centers across Maine regularly take assessments to determine whether they’ve mastered the course expectations.

Soon, multimedia students won’t be taking just any test, but an assessment that tests their mastery of the skills considered important by the businesses that might some day employ them. And their teachers will have had a hand in developing the test.

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Bus drivers offered training at regional conferences

Note: This dispatch was updated on April 5 at 9:13 a.m. to correct an error in information supplied about registration.

The Maine Association for Pupil Transportation is sponsoring six free conferences this spring in every Maine region to provide training to transportation personnel in all Maine school districts.

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Maine Board of Ed member appointed to national panel

The following is a news release from the Maine State Board of Education.

AUGUSTA –Steve Pound, vice chair of the Maine State Board of Education, and associate director for workforce development at Cianbro, has been chosen to serve with a national panel of experts on a group that will examine how students learn and demonstrate their knowledge.

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School leaders invited to summer institute

UPDATE: To model what we are asking districts to do in the classroom, to customize the learning experience, the Maine DOE, working with interested districts, will provide customized leadership retreats to requesting districts instead of the initially-planned Leadership Institute. These one-day retreats for the eight districts that showed initial interest will allow them to include more teacher leaders and school board members as they develop a strategic plan towards a learner-centered environment.

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