Join AEMS and MSDE as we continue celebrating #ArtsEdWeek. For our final panel, we’re chatting with visual arts educators Matt Adelberg and Ernest Shaw (Baltimore City Public Schools, Michele Sison-Torres (Prince George's County Public Schools). Learn more about their journey to and through education, virtual learning, and how to better support students and teachers. Tune in every day at 5:30pm EST to join the conversation with amazing arts education around the state of Maryland!! #BecauseOfArtsEd #MDArtsEd #ArtsMakeSchoolsBetter #ThankAnArtsEducator #ArtsEdWeek Maryland State Department's Office of Fine Arts Americans for the ArtsMaryland State Department of Education

Join AEMS and MSDE as we continue celebrating #ArtsEdWeek. Today, we’re chatting with music educators Krystal Williams (Baltimore City Public Schools), Jen Retterer (Howard County Public School System), and MeLinda Ford (Montgomery County Public Schools). Learn more about their journeys to and through education, virtual learning, and how to better support students and teachers. Tune in every day at 5:30pm EST to join the conversation with amazing arts education around the state of Maryland!! #BecauseOfArtsEd #MDArtsEd #ArtsMakeSchoolsBetter #ThankAnArtsEducator #ArtsEdWeek Maryland State Department of Education Maryland State Department's Office of Fine Arts Americans for the Arts

Join AEMS and MSDE as we continue celebrating #ArtsEdWeek. Today, we’re chatting with theatre educators Ron Williams (The Modell Lyric) Julian Lazarus (Montgomery County Public Schools) and Joanna Fellows (Montgomery County Public Schools). Learn more about their journey to and through education, virtual learning, and how to better support students and teachers. Tune in every day at 5:30pm EST to join the conversation with amazing arts education around the state of Maryland!! #BecauseOfArtsEd #MDArtsEd #ArtsMakeSchoolsBetter #ThankAnArtsEducator #ArtsEdWeek Maryland State Department of Education Maryland State Department's Office of Fine Arts Americans for the Arts The Modell Lyric

Join AEMS and MSDE as we continue celebrating #ArtsEdWeek. Today, we’re chatting with media arts educator Amy Begg-Marino (Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS))! Learn more about Amy’s journey to and through education, virtual learning, and how to better support students and teachers. Tune in every day at 5:30pm EST to join the conversation with amazing arts education around the state of Maryland!! #BecauseOfArtsEd #MDArtsEd #ArtsMakeSchoolsBetter #ThankAnArtsEducator #ArtsEdWeek Maryland State Department's Office of Fine Arts Americans for the ArtsMaryland State Department of Education

To celebrate National Arts in Education Week, we talked to Maryland dance educators Emily Moul, Darryl Pilate, and Amanda Standard about their journeys to and through education, virtual learning, and how to better support students and teachers. Check out the conversation facilitated by Quanice Floyd and Alysia Lee!
#BecauseOfArtsEd #MDArtsEd #ArtsMakeSchoolsBetter #ThankAnArtsEducator #ArtsEdWeek Maryland State Department of Education Americans for the Arts Maryland State Department's Office of Fine Arts Prince George's County Public Schools Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS)

An interview with Alysia Lee, Coordinator for the Fine Arts for the Maryland State Department of Education, which runs the M:BRACE Series. This season finale will interview Alysia about her own creative origins as well as reflecting upon the past 8 weeks of wellness-based professional development workshops for Maryland's creative teaching force. The M:BRACE Podcast is a chance to learn more about the AEMS-MSDE M:BRACE facilitators as humans, as artists, as fellow individuals living in and through the COVID-19 pandemic and to learn how the arts help us all survive.

In conversation in the interview, Alysia mentioned Bloom's Taxonomy. Find out more information about that concept here.

An interview with M:BRACE Series facilitator Ben Lipitz, professional actor and Broadway veteran —Pumbaa from Broadway and National Tour productions of Disney’s The Lion King. Ben is leading a healing- and wellness-based professional development opportunity called "Monologue and Song Master Class: Deepening The Acting Process," facilitating arts educator performances of prepared musical numbers and monologues to deepen their artistic craft that will take place from 2pm-2:45pm on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. The M:BRACE Podcast is a chance to learn more about the AEMS-MSDE M:BRACE facilitators as humans, as artists, as fellow individuals living in and through the COVID-19 pandemic and to learn how the arts help us all survive.

An interview with M:BRACE Series facilitator Danna Thomas, founder of Happy Teacher Revolution and former Baltimore City Public Schools Educator. Danna is leading a healing- and wellness-based professional development opportunity called "Revolutionizing Teacher Happiness," sharing insights and techniques from her organization that center teacher wellness and provide a vocabulary for self-assessment and advocacy that will take place at 2pm-2:45pm on Thursday, June 4, 2020. The M:BRACE Podcast is a chance to learn more about the AEMS-MSDE M:BRACE facilitators as humans, as artists, as fellow individuals living in and through the COVID-19 pandemic and to learn how the arts help us all survive.

An interview with M:BRACE Series facilitator Kimberly Brown, an arts educator in Montgomery County Public Schools and curriculum director for MC3. Kimberly is leading a healing- and wellness-based professional development opportunity called "Creative Connections: Strengthening the Family Bond Through Collage" working with families to provide contemplative, reflective, and accessible making through prompted collage projects, that will take place at 12pm-12:45pm on Thursday, May 28, 2020. The M:BRACE Podcast is a chance to learn more about the AEMS-MSDE M:BRACE facilitators as humans, as artists, as fellow individuals living in and through the COVID-19 pandemic and to learn how the arts help us all survive.

An interview with M:BRACE Series facilitator James Dorsey, Vocal General Music Teacher in Prince George's County Public Schools and MC3 Roster Artist. James is leading a healing- and wellness-based professional development opportunity called "Engaging with Big Ideas through Music" using our relationship to music and lyrics that inform our own foundational identities to inform creative thinking, that will take place at 1pm-1:45pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The M:BRACE Podcast is a chance to learn more about the AEMS-MSDE M:BRACE facilitators as humans, as artists, as fellow individuals living in and through the COVID-19 pandemic and to learn how the arts help us all survive.
Due to technical difficulties, the audio quality of this interview is lower than usual. M:BRACE hopes to bring high quality recordings within what is possible given our current circumstances.