Maine Education Matters With Matt & Matt

Matt & Courtney wrap up the 130th Legislative Session with a review of bills that were signed into law, vetoed, or died. Thanks for listening this season! We'll be back at some point, but we dont know because that would require planning and planning #soundslikework. #onbrand We have also linked the list of horrific bills around the country that limit the ways teachers and students learn. Boo to all of them.

Matt & Courtney discuss recent EDU bills that have been signed into law! Plus: we learned about something called a "Consent Calendar" and it's awesomesauce.

Matt & Courtney talk about the Child Development Services (CDS) bill that went before the Ed committee this week.

Matt & Courtney get ENGROSSED!

Matt and Courtney continue to try and wrap up the 130th special session but the Ed Committee keeps having other plans! They review A public hearing (only one!), and a few worksessions; talk about Supplemental Budgets (zzzzzzz), and more. It's a short episode this week... and you're welcome!

Matt & Courtney review the work sessions from March 2-3, 2022, preview the final(?) Public Hearing and Work Sessions for the week of March 7, and do their best to simply be a boat in the water, and let the tides take them wherever they may go.

Matt & Courtney review the work sessions and public hearings from February 22 and 24, and preview the (supposed) final week of Ed Committee work.

Matt & Courtney review the Work Sessions from February 15 & 17, discuss the Public Hearing from the Criminal Justice committee, preview the February 22 public hearing, and do a stellar job of providing highly mediocre analysis. #onbrandThere was a little Max Headroom in the recording and we apologize for the throwback to the 80s. Also, Matt Frewer is awesome.

Matt & Courtney host a panel of education rockstars to discuss the elephant that's in the education room: COVID fatigue. We talk with Kelsey Stoyanova (2022 Maine Teacher of the Year), Chris Howell (2022 Maine Superintendent of the Year), Carrie Woodcock (Executive Director of the Maine Parent Federation), and Bear Shea (MDOE Mental Health Specialist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker) about how COVID is impacting the social, mental, emotional, and physical lives of everyone in education, from administrators, to teachers, to parents... everyone... and the different ways in which COVID is fatiguing everyone. It's an empathy-fueled conversation, and one that needs to be had across the state and beyond.

Matt and Courtney review the public hearings from February 8-9, 2022, preview the work sessions for Feb 15-16, and highlight a non-Ed committee bill that has TONS to do with educators. Also: "The Rock", jazz, and logic cards!

Matt & Courtney review the worksessions from Feb 3-4, and preview the public hearings for Feb 8-9. Plus: Matt and Courtney's Hogwarts Houses revealed!

Matt & Courtney cover the Public Hearings and Work Sessions from the week of January 24-28, preview the upcoming work sessions on Feb 1 & 2, and ask the listeners to guess which Hogwarts House Matt and Courtney are in! Go to @MaineEdMatters on Twitter and vote!

Matt (@DrewetteCard) & Courtney (@BelolanC) review the work sessions from Jan 19-20, and preview upcoming public hearings on Jan 25.

Matt (@DrewetteCard) and NEW COHOST Courtney (@BelolanC; @PLearnMC) welcome everyone back for the Part Deux of the 130th Legislative Session! We welcome our new cohost, talk about recent public hearings, and raise an uncomfortable question about the current relationship between Maine Education Matters and Personalized Learning with Matt & Courtney. Thanks for downloading, subscribing, listening, and following!

We're back in 2022! The Maine Legislative Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs has reconvened and started up the second session of the 130th Legislative Session. Today's episode is a short "welcome back," with a teaser for an upcoming BIG ANNOUNCEMENT and addition to the MEM team! Thanks for subscribing and listening!

Maine Education Matters returns! A short episode about what's next for MEM, plans for the special session starting next month, and a massive announcement!

In a very special episode, Matt and Julie talk to the Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs Representative Michael Brennan (Portland). We talk about the committee, the process of how bills “work”, and of course: BILLS!!! This is a MUST LISTEN if you’re a fan of the show!!

Matt and Julie talk about their plans for the upcoming season - some of them are pretty wild - and they'd love to get your feedback on how to interact better with listeners.

Matt and Juie are here with a summer sendoff as they prepare for the new year. They are joined by their good friends at the Personalized Learning with Matt and Courtney podcast to talk about why they started a podcast and what keeps them going. Follow the PLearnMC pod wherever you listen to this pod!

Matt & Julie wrap up the last two weeks' worth of signed (or unsigned) bills that are now Maine law! Plus: Julie takes a break, and Matt summons the Emperor for a world-melding opportunity. Also, what happened to a committee member?