Course Work for Teachers

Barbara Greenstone shares the following: You may want to share these with teachers. The courses from FutureLearn are free, but you can upgrade for a small sum (usually $70 or $80). The free ones allow you access to all the materials for the duration of the course plus 14 days. If you upgrade you have […]

ESSA replaces NCLB; Public Comment Opens Soon

I’ve just learned that the DOE will brief the legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee on Maine’s ESSA plan at 3:30 on March 1. My understanding is that Maine’s plan will also be publicly released on the same day, beginning the public comment period. To listen to the briefing: Go to legislature.maine.gov click on committees On […]

Integrating Science into the Curriculum K-6

Please find a brochure for this program integrating-science-into-the-curriculum here. When: April 1 (8 AM- Noon) Where: Augusta (Viles Estate) Who: Delta Kappa Gamma society of women educators.

NGSS Assessment Portal

Next Generation Science Assessment Online assessments using complex graphics and modeling for FREE ! Here you will find a set of tasks produced by the NGSA Collaborative, which consists of researchers and technology developers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, SRI International, Michigan State University, and the Concord Consortium. For more details about our […]

Math Common Core Aligned High School Assessments

These assessments from Engage New York are common core aligned and similar in rigor to the assessments used at BRES for their new Eureka Math Series.  Eureka Math is the commercial version of the Engage New York math assessments.  The modules are units covered in the series. Algebra 1 algebra-i-m1-end-of-module-assessment algebra-i-m1-mid-module-assessment algebra-i-m2-end-of-module-assessment algebra-i-m2-mid-module-assessment algebra-i-m3-end-of-module-assessment algebra-i-m3-mid-module-assessment […]

MEA Released Item 2016 Test

Please find below the released items from last spring’s MEA.  Student versions have no answers, teacher versions have answers. grade-3-student grade-3-teacher grade-4-student grade-4-teacher grade-5-student grade-5-teacher grade-6-student grade-6-teacher grade-7-student grade-7-teacher grade-8-student grade-8-teacher  

Arts Upcoming PD

ARTS Pre-Conference with author Cheryl Hulteen (Maine International Conference on the Arts) http://mica.bpt.me/?utm_source=E- News+July+2016&utm_campaign=July+2016+e- news&utm_medium=email October 6 11:00 – 4:00 Lewiston ARTS Maine International Conference on the Arts http://mica.bpt.me/?utm_source=E- October 6 (evening) – 7 Lewiston ARTS – Northern Maine (Orono) ASSESSMENT in the VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CLASSROOM (A 3-workshop series by MDOE) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2Tf3iC6d 8MGUiC4C9Ge3DnEKmIiBOTu6xctSU24BYyfGpXw/viewform Oct 21, Jan […]

STEM Education Innovation Challenge Grant Competition

The Maine STEM Collaborative 2016 STEM Education Innovation Challenge Grant Competition for K-12 Educators DEADLINE EXTENDED The Maine STEM Collaborative, with financial support from the Maine Space Grant Consortium, is pleased to announce the inaugural STEM Education Innovation Challenge Grant Competition. Our intention is to schedule a competition every other year in order to coincide […]

MLTI Summer Institute

Information about the MLTI Summer Institute How would you like the time this summer to do a deep dive into one topic to help you leverage your students’ MLTI devices in the classroom? How would you like the support of an expert in that topic and a cohort of colleagues with the same interest?Then the […]

Advanced Elementary Math Methods

Meets at University College Rockland EDUF 524   Advanced Math Methods Tues 8 am-4 pm Marilyn Curtis 6/28-7/26  (Hybrid) This Farmington Graduate course is designed for elementary teachers who wish  to increase both their math content knowledge and the methods they use to teach math content. This will be a blended course with 4 face to […]