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New Standards for Music in Education
Guided Internship Programs as vehicles for the preparation for music majors, education majors and community musicians as Artist-Teacher-Scholars who perform, instruct, and conduct research in community based collaborations in public schools.
The development of the MIE Electronic Portfolio Assessment System
Adapted on National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, that document evidence of teaching skills developed in MIE guided internships.
MIE Professional Development Exchange Projects that provide visitations, presentations, on-site program development and assessments of innovative practices among various partnership sites.
The Music-in-Education.org Website linked with local MIENC websites that serves as a information and distribution center of professional development research, program development literature, and active communication channels for all MIENC members and their local partners. The website will support (a) access to publications, (2) online discussion and mentoring communications; (3) collaborative research in laboratory school programs, and (4) communications and live conversations among teachers, mentors, guided interns, faculty members, alums in the MIENC network.
Working Conferences, Institutes & Forums that convene multiple constituencies receptive to new models for music's role in public education reform in order to (1) create a system and impetus for re-examining school practices with regard to MIENC principles and practices in relation and interconnection to a larger network of communities, disciplines, and broader context of general education, (2) sustain a critical evaluation of Music-in-Education program development for the purpose of leveraging and effecting local and national public school education policy, (3) share new forms of professional development for music educators, classroom teachers, teaching artists, (4) focus on the translation of the MIE principles into practice and its impact on school performance, the enhancement of music education programs, and arts organization outreach, and (5) to continue to meet with decision makers in order to advance change in public school policy through presentation and strategic implementation of model development and innovative practices that support music's evolving role in education and music teacher preparation reform.