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LATEST NEWS FROM MLG
'24 Jan - Mar Assessment Coordinator with Westat and its NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) research project. This nation wide, federal project is used to assess what students are learning in public schools. Joanna was grateful to work with such a professional staff, schools, and DOE colleagues.
2024 Hired as Education Consultant for JA's $100,000 DOE funded grant to explore teacher's response to Education Learning Center Project. +
April Volunteering with Junior Achievement of Maine at the Titan Challenge event and teaching in Biddeford
Intermidiate School was a pleasure!
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2024 May Traveling to Baltimore with
JA to learn more about their
Experiential Learning Center
JA Central Maryland! Always grateful to
sit in on JA Education Committee meetings
to discuss Maine's future.
Fall 2023 - Grant award and 3-yr management project
MLG is pleased to announce that we have entered into a contract with Maine C3 upon the awarding of an $88,000 sucessful grant proposal to the Maine Business Education Partnership, Augusta. With the award announcement, MLG will be advertising, managing, and reporting upon the "Sunshine Mini-Grant" program over the next three years.
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The goal and mission of this program is to fund projects which inspire curiosity and provide opportunities where, due to financial barriers or limited program funding, students would otherwise be prevented from exploring and engaging in their possible future career interests. This award will allow any school across the state that houses a member of MaineC3 (career exploration and community engagement leaders) to apply for funding.
Nonprofit Board President
Amagara Marungi, "Better Life" (in a Ungandan dialect) started in the spring of 2021, Joanna serves as the Vice President of the nonprofit serving and partnering with rural, poor communities in Africa. In just its first 15 months Amagara Marungi has procured close to $50,000 worth of funding, from donors all over the world, joining the mission to support education, food, health programs and building materials to serve individuals from pre-birth to old age in Ugandan and Cameroon communities!
STATEWIDE ELO COACH with JMG
2022 - 2023
As the Statewide ELO Coach with JMG, Joanna and the ELO team provided research-based training and program support related to Extended Learning Opportunity programming in Maine school districts assisting in the development, onboarding, communications and troubleshooting of new and existing ELO programs as well as assisting in ongoing ELO training for JMG and public-school staff.
MOOSE TEAM LEADER for the MAINE STATE DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION
2021 - 2022
Joanna Martel has completed management of PreK - 12th grade, asynchronous Learning Progression building, one year contract with Maine DOE. Having taken on leading a team of 23 amazing Maine educators while partnering with the HHRC, in the tackling of building a PreK-12th grade learning progression on the topic, "The History of Genocide and the Holocaust", Joanna is proud to present the public, free, and innovative product of learning modules produced.
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Joanna went on to assist in the managing the completion of the Climate Education Learning Progression for a July 1st deadline.
Presenting at Maine DOE first Educator Summit & HHRC of Maine conference
Aug 2022
Joanna and one of her teammates from MOOSE presented re. the format, use, and value of MOOSE programming specifically regarding the cross section of education and career exploration at the first ever Maine DOE Educator Summit in Augusta Maine
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Later in the summer Joanna also presented to educators, community leaders, and historians re. the MOOSE: History of Genocide and the Holocaust program.
SUCCESSFUL EdD DEFENSE AND PUBLICATION
at Northeastern
University
2022
Dr. Martel is proud to share the results of the study, "Interactions Between Stakeholders for the Benefit of Career Pathway Instruction of Sixth Through Twelfth Grade Students of Maine"
The primary research questions are:
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What are the intrinsic attributes of business and student interactions that inspire students to personal empowerment?
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What are the intrinsic attributes of business and student interactions that inspire students in their desire to improve their community?
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What actions performed by business and educational leaders increase the use of problem-solving strategies and skills related to the exploration of future?
TESTIMONIALS
What’s Being Said
Joanna Martel took the lead in helping us articulate our major objectives, and reached out to teachers to understand needs and priorities moving forward. The feedback that we have received from both teachers and students has been overwhelmingly positive, and we have a much higher level of engagement.
Dr. Lucy Liaw
NextGen Researchers (Project)
When she takes on a project, she is dedicated to the cause and is very focused on the details until it is clear that the project has been completed successfully. She is a good thinker—very creative in how she approaches challenges."
Mr. John Bishop
Greater Portland Christian School
Joanna's performance was exemplary. She was conscientious in all her work and often went beyond what was expected...(her) work was of significant depth and of the highest quality."
Dr. Jody Capelluti
University of Southern Maine
Joanna knows her way around homeschooling in Maine. She has helped my family walk through the process of transitioning my daughter from public high school to a homeschool curriculum that is a great fit for her. Joanna will handle the high school transcripts and continues to provide support and encouragement as we homeschool. Her years in the private school, public school and homeschool worlds means she has a unique perspective that has been invaluable to us. We will continue to use her services as my daughter finishes her high school work and prepares for college. Thank you, Joanna!!
Linda S.
Parent
I once again would like to extend my gratitude for all the effort and work you put into making this grant happen. I learned so much throughout the process. I started reaching out to local business to keep up the funding (too). Thank you,"
-S. Gervais
Bonny Eagle High School
"We also want to extend a very special thanks to Joanna Martel of Martel Learning Group! Joanna has been instrumental to Maine C3's ability to offer the Sunshine Mini Grant awards. The stories told today affirm the impacts that these generous gifts are already making on programming throughout the state.
