Stacey Miller, MAMS Art Teacher
The District is proud to announce that Stacey Miller, Middletown Area Middle School Art Teacher, is the first teacher in the state to have an art lesson that she individually prepared placed into the Department of Education’s Curriculum and Instructional website know as “SAS.” SAS stands for “Standards Aligned System” and is a comprehensive approach to support student achievement across the Commonwealth. SAS provides teachers across the state with exemplary lesson plans for each subject. In Pennsylvania, Curriculum Frameworks include Big Ideas, Concepts, Competencies, and Essential Questions aligned to Standards and Assessment Anchors and, where appropriate, Eligible Content.
David Deitz, Advisor to the Arts and Humanities, for the Pennsylvania Department of Education wrote the following comments: “please accept my congratulations on having Stacey Miller’s lesson plan Words and Images: The Connection Between Artist Charles Demuth and Poet William Carlos Williams published on SAS. Click on the highlighted link above to see Mrs. Miller’s lesson plan. Stacey teaches this plan to her eighth grade classes, and has now offered this in a very rigorous format for use by Pennsylvania Art Teachers. As an aside, this is the first plan in the Arts and Humanities to be created by an individual teacher (as opposed to a group of teachers from a Governor’s Summer Institute) to reach publication on SAS. Please be sure to congratulate Stacey and inform the Middletown community of the academic contribution being made by a Middletown teacher!”