Maine Education Matters With Matt & Matt

Matt and Matt preview the bills scheduled for January 22 and 23 public hearings000 100 Introduction100 450 LD 1916 An Act to Increase High School Graduation rates for Students experiencing Homelessness or in Foster Care450 820 LD 1918 An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding the Reserve Funds of Certain School Organization Structures820 1300 LD 1878 Resolve To Establish the Commission to study the use of adjunct professors in Maines Public University and College System1300 end talk about reports

Matt and Matt review all the task force DOE whoever reports that have been presented to the Education Committee over the past month or so Remember how we love task forces Well this is the time to see what they heck they have been doing000 125 open125 420 DOE report on Response to Childhood Trauma LD 1168420 940 DOE report on Computer Science Instruction and Professional Development LD 1382940 1240 DOE report on Cursive Handwriting Instruction LD 3871240 1405 DOE report on health education and physical education in schools LD 13431405 1805 DOE report on National Board Certified Teachers salary supplemental increase LD 15491805 2120 DOE report on schools as polling places LD 8582120 2255 DOE report on youth football and CTE connections LD 7112255 2600 DOE report on the future of MLTI LD 1372600 2750 MCCS and UM reports on compensation equity in higher education LD 15382750 2905 Task Force report on college funding options LD 12832905 2955 MCCS report on transp

Matt and Matt return with public hearing previews Specifically the hearings of January 15 2020000 127 intro127 342 LD 1855 An Act To Include Student Absences for Mental Health or Behavioral Health Needs as Excusable Absences342 850 LD 1858 An Act To Protect Teachers from Professional Teacher Certificate Endorsement Changes850 1815 LD 1860 An Act To Establish a Process for the Consideration and Implementation of Changes to School Curricula1815 end LD 1894 An Act To Incentivize the Purchase of Electric Public School Buses

Matt and Matt talk with Alicia Biggs computer science teacher at Lewiston Public Schools She talks about what computer science is and what it isnt and how she shifted from teaching other subjects to computer science Its not as difficult as you might think Follow her at CSforLPS on Twitter

Matt and Matt talk with Jen Dorman the 2015 Maine Teacher of the Year at the 2019 EducateMaine Symposium She talks about the TeachToLead program teacher leadership chronic absenteeism in schools and an idea to help support and improve the rates of attendance

Matt and Matt talk with Rachel Knight the Founder and CEO of Destination Occupation at the Educate Maine Symposium 2019 She discusses what the site is about the importance of career goals at any age and how they help people all over the state Follow her on Twitter do207jobs

Matt and Matt talk with Rebecca Parker and Jessica Donovan about apprenticeships at the Hilton Garden Inn in Auburn This interview was conducted at the EducateMaine 2019 Symposium Its a great discussion of how the apprenticeship program works how it can be done in other areas and takeaways from the experience Enjoy

Matt and Matt interview Maine Representative Denise Tepler of Topsham and discuss a whole bunch of things First how legislators have to trust other legislators to get them the right information and how that actually works Then Rep Tepler talks about teacher salaries before getting into a whole lot of knowledge about how bills actually wind their way through the legislature its WAY more involved than we thought We wrap up with a talk about what legislators do in their off time spoiler its not eating bonbons on the lake

Matt and Matt return with an interview with Maine Senator Eloise Vitelli She discusses her background how she approaches the legislative process and much much more Let us know what you think at MaineEdMatters on Twitter and look for us on Facebook at Maine Education Matters

pp1 margin 00px 00px 00px 00px font 120px HelveticaIts a solo show as Matt DrewetteCard previews and reviews the public hearing for rule changes to Chapter 180 PEPG Most of the focus was on the Student Growth component and how the committee makeup has changed LD92

Matt interviews Stephanie Canter and Christian Hartjes of Newsela about how they can integrate the new social studies standards and science standards into what they do how Maine educators are using the standards and how Newsela can support educators and learners along with other assorted usual nonsense

Matt and Matt review the list of bill titles that was recently released Yes bill titles There is so much nonsense in this episode but its one of our favorites We even get into noneducationrelated bills looking at you vulgar license plates and wreckers We hope you enjoy it as much as we liked talking about it

Matt and Matt take some time to talk about the bills related to curriculum spoiler alert not many but we talk for almost 16 minutes anyway no real surpriseAround the 16 minute mark we start talking nonsense about all the task forces that have been set up for the fall There are a LOTAs always find us on social media at MaineEdMatters just about everywhere and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts

Matt and Matt discuss the carried over bills for the 129th Legislative Second Session and answer questions about what engrossed and enrolled means Perhaps We dont know

Emily Gribben helps Matt and Matt go through the changes of what happened with PEPG since last session

Matt and Matt are BACK to review the bills Governor Mills signed since weve been gone Check out our spreadsheet for the details and follow us on TwitterFacebook at MaineEdMatters and keep up to date

Matt and Matt return with a little talk about summertime where theyve been and where they are going and some ideas about future pods this fall before the legislative session ramps up in January Follow us everywhere at MaineEdMatters

In our fall interlude Matt starts by interviewing Jason Judd and Dolly Sullivan of Educate Maine Its a great conversation especially when everyone agrees that spicy dill pickle chips are the best

Julie Ann Smythe Director of Curriculum Instruction for the Saco School Department in Maine talks about the SEL Summit sponsored by the Biddeford School Department the Saco School Department the Maine Department of Health and Human Servies and the Childrens Collaborative It is August 19th through August 21st and is chockfull of amazing professional development opportunities Check out the flyer at bitly31stGKsand get out there and sign upOne of the Matts is also doing some presenting so if that appeals to you go ahead and see him make sure you bring the spicy Dill Pickle chips

Matt and Matt hand out lots of awards to celebrate the end of the 2019 session for the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee of the Maine Legislature