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In This Issue
- Send a Thank-You for Arts Education Today
- An Unfinished Canvas: Large Scale Assessment
- Schools Receive Grand to Incorporate Drama into Curriculum
- Masters in Arts Management Program at Claremont Graduate University
- What Drama Education Can Teach Your Child
- Illinois Releases Comprehensive Arts Ed Guidebook
- Technology Makes Art Education a Bigger Draw
- Comparing the Presidential Candidates on Art
- Colorado Educatiors Say Arts Education Improves Test Scores
- Program Uses Art to Reinforce Core Curriculum
- Texas Move to Tighten GPA Formula Sparks Backlash
- Tombstone Schools Superintendent Aims to Bring Back Arts
- October is National Arts and Humanities Month (NAHM)
- Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour
- Transforming Arts Teaching: The Role of Higher Education
CONFERENCES, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Expressive Arts in Social Action: Peace-ing Our World Together
- Making History Come Alive!
- Americans for the Arts and LA's Arts for All Host Knowledge Exchange
- Arts Education and the Economy: Why it matters so much for L.A.'s Future
- 2008 SNAP Supper Seminar
RESOURCES, FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- NAMM Foundation Offers Funding for Music Making and Research
- The Surdna Foundation Arts Teachers Fellowship Program
October 10 , 2008
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Send
a Thank-You for Arts Education Today
The Arts and Music Block grant funds – a total of $109.7
million - reflects the Governor and legislature's continued commitment
to and understanding of California's need for high quality schools,
rich in arts learning that prepare all students for success. Recognize
this commitment by sending
thanks to show our elected officials how important these
funds are to ensuring that every child receives the education s/he
deserves, with arts education as a core component.
An
Unfinished Canvas: Large Scale Assessment
California’s State Board of Education adopted content standards for the visual
and performing arts in 2001, but the Education Code neither requires schools
to follow state arts content standards nor mandates any student assessment in
the arts. Recent experience has shown that large-scale assessment used for the
purpose of accountability can be effective as a force for implementing standards-based
K–12 curriculum and instruction in mathematics, science, social studies, and
English/language arts. It is not at all clear, however, whether large-scale assessment
could or should be used to support the implementation of K–12 standards-based
arts education. Commissioned by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, this
paper provides a review of the status of large-scale arts assessments and current
practice in statewide arts assessment for the purpose of K–12 education accountability. Click
here to read report.
Schools
Receive Grant to Incorporate Drama into Curriculum
In California, a $999,000 grant, awarded to the Moorpark Unified School
District by the U.S. Department of Education recently, will boost creativity
and enhance learning skills in local elementary classrooms. To read
article,click
here.
Management
Program at Claremont Graduate University
Claremont Graduate University is announcing this week its new, revamped
Masters in Arts Management program. A partnership of the School of
Arts and Humanities and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate
School of Management, the Arts Management program blends the curricula
of both: study in the arts and humanities with contemporary management
skills. The course of study allows graduates to get a leg up in a changing
non-profit world which demands backgrounds in both business and the
arts. Click here
for more information.
What
Drama Education Can Teach Your Child
According to Gai Jones, a theater educator with over forty years of experience
and former president of the California Educational Theatre Association
(CETA), “Theater addresses the skills which benefit children's education
and development in five general areas: physical development/kinesthetic
skills, artistic development /drama and theater skills, mental development/thinking
skills, personal development/intra-personal skills, and social development/interpersonal
skills.” To read the article, click
here.
Technology
Makes Art Education a Bigger Draw
In art classes at schools and universities today, new and emerging software
is rendering art appreciation and even actual artistic production accessible
to a far greater number of interested students and aspiring artists
than ever before. . . . Read the article here.
Comparing
the Presidental Candidates on Arts
ArtsVote, a program of Americans for the Arts Action Fund, has released
its Summary of 2008 Presidential Candidates Arts Positions. Click
here to
compare the candidates’ positions.
Colorado
Educators Say Arts Education Improves Test Scores
A new study by the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado
Council on the Arts found that public high schools offering more arts
education have higher academic achievement, regardless of student ethnicity
or socioeconomic status. They also have lower dropout rates. Click
here for article here.
Click here to view study here.
Program
Uses Art to Reinforce Core Curriculum
Nearly 60 elementary schools in Utah are using art to help students get
smart. It's all because of a new state-funded art program. Research
suggests that art can actually help students with core subjects like
math, science and English. To
read more, click here.
Texas
Move to Tighten GPA Formula Sparks Backlash
In Texas, arts classes would not be included in calculations of high
school grade point averages if a controversial proposal is approved. "The
proposal would require schools to compute GPAs by including only courses
in English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and foreign
languages. Grade point averages would have to be calculated on a four-point
scale, with an extra point given only for Advanced Placement, International
Baccalaureate, and dual-enrollment courses, which can permit college
credit. . . . The proposal would also mean that a vast array of courses
—from theater to career and technical education—would not count in a
student’s GPA." For full story, click here.
Tombstone
Schools Superintendent Aims to Bring Back Arts
In Sierra Vista, AZ, the Tombstone school district will be pursuing a
10 percent override during the November election that would raise property
taxes by an average of $6 per month to bring back music, art and P.E.
Click here for
the article.
2008
SNAP Supper Seminar
Meet and reconnect with the Sierra North Arts Project community in an exploration
of the unique ways that the arts offer as ways of communicating and expressing
ideas, feelings, experiences, and history, October 28, 2008 at the University
of California, Davis
Athletics and Recreation Center. For more information or to make a reservation,
Contact: Christine Monroe 530-752-9683 clmonroe@ucdavis.edu or
Staci Garcia 530-752-0576 slsteadman@ucdavis.edu.
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October
is National Arts and Humanities Month (NAHM)
NAHM is an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the positive impact the arts
bring to our schools and communities. Join supporters and leaders across the
county in recognizing the importance of arts and culture in our daily lives.
Check out the National Arts and Humanities Month Events Map here to learn more
about the NAHM events happening in your community and nationwide this October.
Kennedy
Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour
Announces the launch of their new website to open their 2009-2010 season. Click
here.
Transforming
Arts Teaching: The Role of Higher Education
This new Dana Press book examines innovations in arts-teacher training
and features the best practices at 24 higher-education institutions. Also included
are proceedings from The Dana Foundation’s 2007 national symposium on how colleges,
universities and conservatories can enhance arts learning. To request free copies of the publication, contact Johanna
Goldberg (jgoldberg@dana.org) at The Dana Foundation.
Conferences, Professional Development
Expressive
Arts in Social Action: Peace-ing Our World Together
Hosted by Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, the International Expressive
Arts Therapy Association invites participants in an international gathering
celebrating the journey of Expressive Arts in Social Action: Peace-ing
our World Together. August 12–15, 2009. For more information on the 2009
IEATA Conference click
here . Contact Jaime Crispin (jaimecrispin@yahoo.com) with any questions.
Making
History Come Alive!
This professional development workshop for educators offers a multitude
of strategies for integrating drama into the social studies/history curriculum
presented by the Kennedy Center Partners in Education Team, Cal Performances
and Berkeley USD, will be held on October 14, 2008 in Sacramento. For more
information
click
here, or
contact: Rica Anderson
(510) 642-6838.
Americans
for the Arts and LA's Arts for All Host Knowledge Exchange
District-Wide Change in Arts Education, American for the Arts’ inaugural
Knowledge Exchange, will feature
Los Angeles County's successful Arts
for All, an initiative focused on enabling sequential K-12 arts education
in Los Angeles County school districts. Over the course of two days,
participants will share knowledge, grapple with key questions, and actively
synthesize information for applicability to participant communities anywhere
in the nation. Workshops will highlight the consensus-building process
utilized by the California Alliance for Arts Education coaches in their
work throughout Los Angeles County.
October 27–28, 2008 in Los Angeles.
Click here
to register.
Arts
Education and the Economy: Why it matters so much for L.A.'s Future
Hosted by the Arts in Education Aid Council in San Fernando Valley, a convening
featuring a synopsis of the Otis Report on The Creative Economy of the
Los Angeles Region will be held on October 23, 2008 at Our Community School
in North Hills. For
more information or to RSVP, call 818-6102050 or assist@aieac.org.
Resources,
Funding Opportunities
NAMM
Foundation Offers Funding for Music Making Research
NAMM, the trade association of the international music products association,
is accepting proposals for the NAMM Foundation's grants program. The foundation
annually provides support for community music-making programs, scientific research
on the effects of making music, and music programs for seniors and school-aged
children. For more information, click here.
The
Surdna Foundation Arts Teachers Fellowship Program
The Surdna Foundation is pleased to announce the ninth round of the Surdna
Arts Teachers Fellowship Program, a national initiative to support the
artistic revitalization of outstanding arts teachers. We have expanded
our eligibility guidelines and awards this year: arts teachers working
in specialized public arts high schools and arts-focused magnet and charter
high schools can apply for grants of up to $5,500 in support of artistic
growth, with a complementary grant of $1,500 provided to each Fellow’s
school for post-fellowship activities. For more information, click
here.
Assistant/Associate
Professor - Art Education Coordinator
California State University, Long Beach
To apply, go to their site.
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