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Community Science In Support Of Ecosystem-Based Management: A Case Study From The Damariscotta River Estuary, Maine, Usa, Sarah C. Risley, Kara E. Pellowe, Melissa L. Britsch, Meredith M. White, Heather M. Leslie
Community Science In Support Of Ecosystem-Based Management: A Case Study From The Damariscotta River Estuary, Maine, Usa, Sarah C. Risley, Kara E. Pellowe, Melissa L. Britsch, Meredith M. White, Heather M. Leslie
Maine Policy Review
Coastal marine ecosystems are dynamic social-ecological systems (SESs) that support diverse ecosystem services and human activities. The complexity of SESs means that ecosystem-based approaches are increasingly used to support coastal marine ecosystem stewardship. We report how a community science program in Maine, USA offers a model of organizational innovation to expand capacities for shellfish research and management. Since 2019, we have collaborated with local students, shellfish harvesters, and others in data collection, interpretation, and application, contributing to local shellfish management and ecosystem sustainability. We demonstrate how community-based social and ecological research can build adaptive capacities by centering local knowledge; generating …
Reshaping Maine Woods Destinations For Twenty-First-Century Tourists, David J. Vail, Donna Moreland, Mike Wilson
Reshaping Maine Woods Destinations For Twenty-First-Century Tourists, David J. Vail, Donna Moreland, Mike Wilson
Maine Policy Review
Maine’s rim counties—here called the Maine Woods region—suffer from chronic economic and community distress, marked by declines in several resource-based industries, an ongoing youth exodus, and a rapidly aging population. Nonetheless, many encouraging new ventures are helping to revitalize the Maine Woods economy and communities, and tourism and recreation should play a central role in these efforts. This article focuses on initiatives launched through a partnership between the 16-member Maine Woods Consortium and the Maine Office of Tourism designed to reinvigorate Maine Woods’ recreation and hospitality offerings and to enrich amenities in the region’s gateway communities.
Building The Next Generation Of Maine Leaders: Learning From The Leadership Of Mary Cathcart, Linda Silka
Building The Next Generation Of Maine Leaders: Learning From The Leadership Of Mary Cathcart, Linda Silka
Maine Policy Review
Linda Silka reflects on Mary Cathcart’s work helping build the next generation of Maine leaders through Maine NEW (National Education for Women) Leadership, a bipartisan training for college women to help them reach their full civic potential.
The Adaptive Challenges Of Leadership In Maine Schools, Richard Ackerman, Ian Mette, Catharine Biddle
The Adaptive Challenges Of Leadership In Maine Schools, Richard Ackerman, Ian Mette, Catharine Biddle
Maine Policy Review
The current landscape of educational leadership in Maine schools offers a range of challenges and uncertainties that are seldom acknowledged or appreciated. These challenges can expose significant gaps between clinical, research-based knowledge and leadership practices in schools in Maine and across the United States. These endemic issues comprise what Heifetz (1994) calls “adaptive challenges.” Solutions to the leadership challenges raised by these issues don’t come quickly or easily and are in fact inherently confusing because they don't have easy technical answers. In the context of schools, they include responses to the endemic challenges of poverty as it affects families and …
Investing In Teachers’ Leadership Capacity: A Model From Stem Education, Susan R. Mckay, Laura Millay, Erika Allison, Elizabeth Byerssmall, Michael C. Wittmann, Mickie Flores, Jim Fratini, Bob Kumpa, Cynthia Lambert, Eric A. Pandiscio, Michelle K. Smith
Investing In Teachers’ Leadership Capacity: A Model From Stem Education, Susan R. Mckay, Laura Millay, Erika Allison, Elizabeth Byerssmall, Michael C. Wittmann, Mickie Flores, Jim Fratini, Bob Kumpa, Cynthia Lambert, Eric A. Pandiscio, Michelle K. Smith
Maine Policy Review
Teachers play a key role in the quality of education provided to students. The Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) at the University of Maine has worked with partners to design, implement, and evaluate several programs in the past eight years to provide professional learning opportunities and support for Maine’s STEM teachers, leading to significant impacts for teachers and students across the state. A strategic investment in developing teacher leadership capacity played a key role in expanding the initial partnership to include teachers and school districts across the state. With support from education researchers and staff at …
A Positive Change Trinity: Lean, Servant Leadership, And Maine, William Maxwell, Joyce Gibson
A Positive Change Trinity: Lean, Servant Leadership, And Maine, William Maxwell, Joyce Gibson
Maine Policy Review
This article is a call to action for Maine’s entrepreneurial servant leaders. We believe you can be a prime catalyst for positive change in Lean/Continuous Improvement initiatives across Maine. We are proposing that Maine’s servant leaders leverage the tool of Lean/Continuous Improvement to ignite a positive shift in organizational cultures. Our positive change trinity encompasses (1) Lean/Continuous Improvement as the process map of how to achieve new, sustainable growth; (2) servant leadership as the synergist that humanizes this growth in the territory of Maine workers’ lived experience; and (3) Maine’s forward-thinking businesses as the real-world hosts for this growth.
Cafeteria Waste Reduction Programs In Three Southern Maine Elementary Schools: A Waste Audit Analysis, Jeremy Ravenelle
Cafeteria Waste Reduction Programs In Three Southern Maine Elementary Schools: A Waste Audit Analysis, Jeremy Ravenelle
Maine Policy Review
Solid waste is a serious environmental problem in the modern world. School cafeterias are one source of food and packaging waste that must be dealt with. Reducing the amount of cafeteria waste disposed of as trash through source reduction, recycling, and composting will not only improve environmental outcomes, but will also teach students about sustainability and save schools money. Waste audits at three elementary schools in southern Maine reveal that there are major differences in how effectively waste is sorted and the types and quantity of waste generated per student. Overall waste diversion was measured at 67 percent or greater …
Incubating Leaders In Maine, Joseph W. Mcdonnell
Incubating Leaders In Maine, Joseph W. Mcdonnell
Maine Policy Review
For a sparsely populated state, Maine has produced an extraordinary number of national, bipartisan leaders. What has made Maine an incubator for such leadership? Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of Democracy in America, provides useful insights into Maine’s culture as a breeding ground for its leadership. But rapid societal changes sweeping the country and the world—particularly globalization, urbanization, and the digitization of the economy—will inevitably alter Maine’s culture. This paper explores steps Maine might take to develop leaders in this new environment by preserving its past strengths and adjusting to these new challenges. Maine could overcome its north/south divide and …
Why Leadership Matters, Susan J. Hunter
Why Leadership Matters, Susan J. Hunter
Maine Policy Review
This essay is from a talk University of Maine President Dr. Susan J. Hunter gave on May 30, 2018, at Bangor Public Library as part of Dirigo Speaks. President Hunter feels her time at UMaine has allowed her many opportunities to reflect on leadership and why it matters, and recognizes that many people have shaped her perspectives on leadership.
Our Path: Empower Maine Women Network And Leadership, Mufalo Chitam, Parivash Rohani, Laura De Does, Ghomri Rostampour, Oyinloluwa Fasehun, Bethany Smart, Jan Morrill
Our Path: Empower Maine Women Network And Leadership, Mufalo Chitam, Parivash Rohani, Laura De Does, Ghomri Rostampour, Oyinloluwa Fasehun, Bethany Smart, Jan Morrill
Maine Policy Review
On March 24, 2018, the women of the Empower Network sat down to discuss the concept of leadership and their definition of what makes a leader. They were asked to reflect on the idea of empowerment and specifically tie empowerment to kindness, suffrage, and tolerance. This article excerpts their discussion and demonstrates how the Empower Network relates to their definition of leadership.
The Importance Of Leadership: Insights From Major Business Leaders In Maine, Linda Silka
The Importance Of Leadership: Insights From Major Business Leaders In Maine, Linda Silka
Maine Policy Review
Susan Corbett, chief executive officer for Axiom Technologies, Kimberly A. Hamilton, president of Focus Maine, and Peter Triandafillou, vice president of Woodlands for Huber Resources Corporation share their ideas and insights on leadership as they respond to a series of questions about their own experiences in leadership and what they see as emerging challenges or opportunities that leaders face in Maine.
Injecting New Workforce Leaders In Tourism, Hospitality And Environmental Science: A Community-Engaged Learning And Immersion Class, Tracy S. Michaud, Robert M. Sanford
Injecting New Workforce Leaders In Tourism, Hospitality And Environmental Science: A Community-Engaged Learning And Immersion Class, Tracy S. Michaud, Robert M. Sanford
Maine Policy Review
Tourism, especially nature-based tourism, is a major and growing industry in Maine. Therefore, it is important that colleges and universities graduate leaders into the Maine workforce with specific knowledge of the tourism and hospitality industry and with a connection to the environment in which it is flourishing. To graduate these potential leaders, schools must do a better job at retaining and graduating students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Community-engaged learning, including immersion classes, are a key strategy to increase student persistence in some programs at the University of Southern Maine (USM). Two academic units at USM, the Program in Tourism and …
Improving The Health Of Communities Through Population Health Assessments, Ron Deprez, Chloe Manchester
Improving The Health Of Communities Through Population Health Assessments, Ron Deprez, Chloe Manchester
Maine Policy Review
This paper describes a comprehensive, science-based approach for conducting a population health assessment (PHA), a process for identifying upstream nonmedical, social and economic determinants of health in a community, including risk factors associated with poor health status. A PHA focuses on diagnosing and improving population health disparities using public, private, and community-based strategies and resources. The paper traces the evolution of PHAs from community health needs assessments and community benefits planning. It describes the PHA process, methods, data, and analytical techniques that permit the identification of specific underlying factors in a community that adversely affect health. It also suggests criteria …
Developing Leadership Pipelines In Maine School Districts: Lessons Learned From A School-University Partnership, Ian Mette, Betsy Webb
Developing Leadership Pipelines In Maine School Districts: Lessons Learned From A School-University Partnership, Ian Mette, Betsy Webb
Maine Policy Review
The authors describe the Bangor Educational Leadership Academy, a partnership between the Bangor School Department and the University of Maine Educational Leadership Program, which enables researchers and practitioners to work more collaboratively to bridge the theory-practice gap that often plagues schools.
The Power Of Invitation: Teacher Leaders As Agents Of Change, Bill Zoellick, Molly Meserve Auclair, Sarah L. Kirn
The Power Of Invitation: Teacher Leaders As Agents Of Change, Bill Zoellick, Molly Meserve Auclair, Sarah L. Kirn
Maine Policy Review
Programs offered by universities and other entities outside the organizational boundaries of schools are an important source of ideas and support for educational improvement. Such organizations can focus on important needs—such as improving teaching of science—that schools perhaps cannot address on their own due to resource constraints. In such cases, teacher leaders can play key roles in bringing the knowledge and insights from external organizations into schools, sharing them with colleagues, and gaining administrative support. This kind of teacher leadership, responding to external initiatives rather than just to administrative priorities, is understudied, but programs in Maine that connect schools to …
Merton G. Henry: A Legacy Of Leadership, David Richards
Merton G. Henry: A Legacy Of Leadership, David Richards
Maine Policy Review
David Richards describes the many qualities of leadership manifested by Merton G. Henry: dedication, moderation, friendship, wisdom, compassion, humor, knowledge, grace, and humility.
Will The Adoption Of Science Standards Push Maine Schools Away From Authentic Science?, Bill Zoellick, Jennifer Page
Will The Adoption Of Science Standards Push Maine Schools Away From Authentic Science?, Bill Zoellick, Jennifer Page
Maine Policy Review
Maine is considering revision of rules that provide guidance to school districts about the science knowledge students are expected to have as they graduate from high school. Some science educators suggest adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) as a substantial component of the rules. In this paper, we argue that the NGSS are overly prescriptive and narrow and that a NGSS-based standard would push science instruction toward school science where outcomes are known in advance and away from authentic science where students explore questions that are useful to the community because answers are not yet known. Our experience …
Next Generation Citizen Science Using Anecdata.Org, Jane Disney, Duncan Bailey, Anna Farrell, Ashley Taylor
Next Generation Citizen Science Using Anecdata.Org, Jane Disney, Duncan Bailey, Anna Farrell, Ashley Taylor
Maine Policy Review
Crowdsourcing scientific data, also known as citizen science, is a new and rapidly growing field. The MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has developed Anecdata.org, an innovative online platform for citizen science projects to collect, manage, and share environmental data. Anecdata currently hosts 48 projects from organizations around the United States and abroad, with new projects emerging every year. Anecdata provides features that help both project managers and participants collect actionable data and interpret what the data mean, so that effective environmental improvements can be achieved. These features include self-designed datasheets, photo uploading and archiving, and data visualization through …
Signs Of The Seasons: A New England Phenology Program, Esperanza Stancioff, Beth Bisson, Sara Randall, Jessica Muhlin, Caitlin Mcdonough, Susan Gallo
Signs Of The Seasons: A New England Phenology Program, Esperanza Stancioff, Beth Bisson, Sara Randall, Jessica Muhlin, Caitlin Mcdonough, Susan Gallo
Maine Policy Review
As global climate records continue to break, average New England air temperature increases are among the highest in the continental United States, and sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Maine have increased faster than 99 percent of the rest of the world’s oceans. Little is known about how marine and upland biota respond to these environmental changes. Citizen science is being used to document and compare current phenology (the timing of life cycle events) for individual species with historically documented relationships between temperature changes and the onset of particular phenophases, such as leafout or gamete release. Signs of the …
Maine’S Journey Into The Arctic: Why The Arctic Council Matters To Maine, Dave Canarie
Maine’S Journey Into The Arctic: Why The Arctic Council Matters To Maine, Dave Canarie
Maine Policy Review
High-level Arctic officials from the United States and seven other nations in the Arctic region, and representatives of indigenous people from the Arctic, gathered in Portland October 4–6, 2016, to discuss issues of importance to the region. In this commentary, Dave Canarie describes what the Arctic Council is and why it matters to Maine.
Where Has Maine Been? Where Is Maine Going? Taking The Long View Of Maine’S Policy Context, Linda Silka
Where Has Maine Been? Where Is Maine Going? Taking The Long View Of Maine’S Policy Context, Linda Silka
Maine Policy Review
Linda Silka initiates what we hope will become a regular MPR column, which looks forward and looks back at policy issues in Maine. In this piece, she reflects on discussions she had with Aram Calhoun, Andy Coburn, Carla Dickstein, and Evan Richert.
Climate Policy 2015: Reports From The Congressional Trenches, Sharon Tisher, Peter Mills
Climate Policy 2015: Reports From The Congressional Trenches, Sharon Tisher, Peter Mills
Maine Policy Review
The bipartisan commentary by Peter Mills and Sharon Tisher urges action in Congress to address the problem of climate change, and stems from interviews with Senator Susan Collins, Senator Angus King, and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree regarding their climate-related initiatives in 2015.
Power And Pleasure Of Ideas: The Maine Humanities Council And The Public Humanities In Maine, Hayden Anderson
Power And Pleasure Of Ideas: The Maine Humanities Council And The Public Humanities In Maine, Hayden Anderson
Maine Policy Review
By providing public humanities programs and opportunities throughout the state, the Maine Humanities Council (MHC) envisions the communities of Maine transformed by the power and pleasure of ideas. This article describes several different public humanities programs sponsored by the MHC—New Books, New Readers, Literature & Medicine, Veterans Book Group, and Let’s Talk About It—and the commission’s grant programs. According to Hayden Anderson, there is a key premise underlying everything the MHC does: gathering people together to read, share, talk, and think together makes a difference.
Regionalism And Contemporary Artists In Maine: Opportunities And Challenges, George Kinghorn
Regionalism And Contemporary Artists In Maine: Opportunities And Challenges, George Kinghorn
Maine Policy Review
George Kinghorn, executive director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art, discusses the notion of Maine’s regionalism and the challenges and opportunities of sustaining a career as a contemporary artist in Maine with three artists (Lauren Fensterstock, Philip Frey, and Anna Hepler) and a curator (Suzette McAvoy).
The Importance Of The Humanities: Reflections From Leading Policymakers, Linda Silka
The Importance Of The Humanities: Reflections From Leading Policymakers, Linda Silka
Maine Policy Review
Maine is fortunate in being served by state policy leaders who care deeply about the humanities and who have devoted considerable thought to the role of the humanities in Maine’s past, present, and future. In this article, Linda Silka interviews four of these leading policymakers about the humanities and policy: Tom Desjardin, Peter Mills, Margaret (Peggy) Rotundo, and Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.
The Common Good: Collaboration Among Cultural Institutions In Maine, Jessica Skwire Routhier
The Common Good: Collaboration Among Cultural Institutions In Maine, Jessica Skwire Routhier
Maine Policy Review
A mission to serve the common good has characterized Maine cultural life since the earliest years of the nineteenth century. Collaborative institutions and initiatives within the arts and cultural community have developed and evolved in service of that goal. From professional organizations such as the Maine Charitable Mechanics, Union of Maine Visual Artists, and Maine Archives and Museums; to exhibition initiatives such as the Maine biennials, the Maine Art Museum Trail, and the “Projects” of the Maine Curators’ Forum; to collections-based projects such as Maine Memory Network and the Langlais Art Trail, this article demonstrates how the state’s museums, historical …
The Role Of The Humanities In Rural Community Development, Sheila Jans
The Role Of The Humanities In Rural Community Development, Sheila Jans
Maine Policy Review
Maine’s rural communities are facing some serious economic and social challenges. Sheila Jans explores the crucial role that the humanities play in tackling some of these challenges. The humanities provide a powerful and nimble way to generate ideas and solve problems. Examples of humanities-based initiatives and experiences in the St. John Valley at the northernmost point of Maine, bordering Canada, provide insight into the role of the humanities as a tool for development.
Never Too Old To Lead: Activating Leadership Among Maine's Older Adults, Jennifer A. Crittenden, Lelia Deandrade
Never Too Old To Lead: Activating Leadership Among Maine's Older Adults, Jennifer A. Crittenden, Lelia Deandrade
Maine Policy Review
As Maine’s population ages, there will be a growing need to mobilize older Mainers to effect change in their local communities. There are few models available nationally that illustrate how to effectively train and engage baby boomers and older adults as leaders within community contexts. This article examines what is known about leadership development generally and highlights how one program in Maine is training and supporting older leaders who are using volunteer work to improve the health and well-being of their local communities.
The Role Of Foundation Grantmakers In Responding To Community Aging: Maine Community Foundation, Meredith Jones
The Role Of Foundation Grantmakers In Responding To Community Aging: Maine Community Foundation, Meredith Jones
Maine Policy Review
Meredith Jones of the Maine Community Foundation responds to a series of questions about the role of grantmakers in responding to community aging.
Mapping The History Of The State: The Historical Atlas Of Maine, Stephen J. Hornsby
Mapping The History Of The State: The Historical Atlas Of Maine, Stephen J. Hornsby
Maine Policy Review
This article describes the creation of the Historical Atlas of Maine, one of the most significant scholarly achievements in the humanities to come out of the University of Maine. Conceived in the late 1990s, the atlas was published by the University of Maine Press in 2015. It represents an enormously ambitious attempt to map the historical geography of the state from the end of the last ice age to the end of the millennium in 2000.