Culmination of Year-long Residency in Eastport
Wednesday, May 15
Eastport Elementary School in Eastport, ME
Students in Rachel McNally’s 3/4 grade classroom use theater games to demonstrate their learning on the formation of igneous rocks.
FST Director of Education, Ian Bannon, is one of two teaching artists invited to participate in a year-long project in Eastport to create a schoolwide culture of arts integration. Ian and creative movement artist Katenia Keller have both visited the school for two days per month since August, working side-by-side with teachers in every classroom.
In 2018-19 in partnership with the administration of Eastport Elementary School (EES), the Maine Alliance for Arts Education has provided all of the EES’ classroom teachers with the professional development training and classroom support to make EES the state’s first schoolwide, classroom teacher-based model of arts integration. The Maine Department of Education is treating this pilot project as a case study, which if successful will be providing data that will be disseminated on their information platforms and presented to school administrators statewide.