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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Arts Education Policy Forum brings together teachers, administrators, civic leaders and community members to address current issues in arts education, and to ensure the future of quality arts education for all of Michigan's students.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The 2013 conversation will cover the progress we've made in the last four years and the work that needs to continue to advance arts education in the areas of <strong>Student Access, Professional Preparation & Development, and Accountability. </strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left">Education Update from the Michigan Department of Education </p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left">Michigan Arts Education<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Instruction and Assessment (MAEIA) Blueprint presentation by Ana Cardona of the Michigan Assessment Consortium (see below for more info) </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MCACA Arts Education Grants presentation by Chad Badgero of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA) </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Keynote Speaker: Jerry Jennings of Michigan Association of School Administrators</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Additional Keynote Speaker and an Arts Education Action Plan to be announced. </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000090;"><br /><span style="color: #25426a;"><strong>REGISTRATION</strong></span></span><br /><div><span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The event is free and open to the public, except attendance will be limited to the first 100 people. Register today at the Michigan Youth Arts </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 153, 204); text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt;" track="on" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=wcu8kjnab.0.zdbvqfkab.c8xo74bab.0&ts=S0919&r=3&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michiganyoutharts.org%2Fadvocacy%2Fleadership" linktype="1" target="_blank">website</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></span>
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<div>Inviting Public Review of the MI Arts Education Instruction and Assessment Program Instructional Blueprint </div>
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<div><span face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The MAEIA Blueprint Writers have completed Draft 1 of the MAEIA Instructional Blueprint<span style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2">.</span></span></div>
<div><span face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This document describes a K-12 gold standard arts education program across four disciplines.The document is currently being reviewed by the MAEIA In-depth Reviewers, and the public is invited to review Draft 1 using an e-survey and PDF of the draft document. <br /><br />The purpose of the MAEIA Instructional Blueprint, an accompanying audit tool and subsequent assessment specifications and prototypes, will result in resources intended to provide a roadmap for voluntary program improvement and enhancement in the state of Michigan.<span> </span>Arts education assessments will be developed in Years 2 and 3 of this project. The MAEIA project will align with <b>National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS)</b> in order to reflect and support the current national revision of National Standards for Arts Education, and will reflect the expectations contained in the <b>MI Arts K-12 Grade Level Content Expectations</b>. MAEIA is coordinated by the <b>MI Assessment Consortium</b> and through the <b>MAEIA Project Management Team.</b></span></div>
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<div><span face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">MI-Arts Wikispace:<span> Blueprint documents and link are found on the Wikispace Homepage under <b>Blueprint Review</b></span> </span></div>
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