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<p><a href="https://mainedoenews.net/2023/10/12/maine-doe-opens-2023-2024-student-cabinet-application/">https://mainedoenews.net/2023/10/12/maine-doe-opens-2023-2024-student-cabinet-application/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Montserrat">Maine DOE Opens 2023/2024 Student Cabinet Application<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="863" height="863" style="width:8.9916in;height:8.9916in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DA00D6.2FD6F970" alt="Student Cabinet Applications Open"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">PLEASE SHARE WITH STUDENTS</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">The Maine Department of Education (DOE) is opening applications for the 2023/2024 Student Cabinet, a group of students
that meet regularly with the Maine DOE and each other to discuss educational opportunities, improvements, and policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">Facilitated by student representatives from the <a href="https://www.maine.gov/doe/about/leadership/stateboard"><b><span style="color:#0074D9;text-decoration:none">Maine
State Board of Education</span></b></a>, the purpose of the Student Cabinet is to provide a forum for Maine students’ voices to be heard. This is the fourth year the Maine DOE has appointed students to a Student Cabinet with the goal of integrating student
voices into decision-making on education issues that impact their journey through Maine’s education system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">In past years students have helped in identifying mental health needs at school, raised issues of racial equity, and
helped brainstorm ways to individualize learning. Last year, <a href="https://mainedoenews.net/2023/06/07/maine-doe-student-cabinet-highlights-mental-health-concerns-to-legislative-committee-on-education-and-cultural-affairs/"><b><span style="color:#0074D9;text-decoration:none">the
Student Cabinet presented their mental health concerns and ideas to Maine’s Legislative Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">The Maine DOE is especially interested in having perspectives from students with diverse experiences, interests, cultures,
and backgrounds represented on the Student Cabinet. It is important that the student cabinet include members from all geographical locations across Maine, and who are able to represent and advocate for underrepresented groups of students throughout Maine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">There are 12-24 seats that are open for students in grades 4 – 12 and the first year of college. The newly appointed
members will serve for a term of two years starting this November. All 16 counties in Maine will be represented on the Student Cabinet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">Selected cabinet members will be expected to attend scheduled meetings, prepare for each meeting as needed, work in
a collaborative manner with one another and with Department staff as needed, and express views and opinions openly, constructively, and respectfully.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">Scheduled meetings:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E"><br>
There will be two in-person, all-day meetings scheduled in Augusta in December 2023 and Spring 2024, accompanied by monthly virtual meetings held on the fourth Thursday of the month from December 2023 through the spring of 2024 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm via Zoom.
For in-person meetings, travel reimbursement will be provided and travel arrangements can also be made for students if needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">Instructions for applying:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E"><br>
Students interested in serving on the Maine DOE Student Cabinet will need to submit the electronic application by November 15, 2023<b>. <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=q6g_QX0gYkubzeoajy-GTiGF60qzFrBElcy-PhPoPLtUQTZOQ1RCSzlJVUI4UEs3NFM5WjdGVUI3OC4u"><span style="color:#0074D9;text-decoration:none">Applications
can be submitted electronically here</span></a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">For more information contact Rachel Paling, Communications & Outreach Manager, Maine Department of Education at rachel.paling@maine.gov.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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