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Arts Education
Advancing Arts Education means addressing both quality and access. This year’s convention will focus on creating the best arts education and ensuring student access. Sessions will include lobbyists and national educators on No Child Left Behind; the most recent research on urban systems and arts education quality; workshops to identify your community needs and resources; local case studies in positive change; and major advocacy projects linking arts education to future workforce skills. This year, we are also offering the first-ever national convening for and by teaching artists. Participate in the series of sessions on Teaching Artistry to find out more about how-to’s on healthcare and join in conversations about core competencies. Peer-to-peer and expert-to-audience formats will deliver current and comprehensive arts education information that will help you to improve the quality of and access to arts education in your community.
No Child Left Behind & Arts Education
Any conversation about education today must account for the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on public education. Some research shows that NCLB is narrowing the curriculum. Talk to a principal or teacher and you'll hear a dire tale of creativity-free classrooms. Arts education supporters are still fighting for time and money despite new opinion polls on the positive value of imagination and the need for creativity in a globalized, outsourced economy. Arts education advocates in Washington, DC, and across the country have drafted recommended revisions to the law, presenting them on Capitol Hill throughout reauthorization discussions. Senior lobbyists, advocates, and education experts will address these and other seemingly insurmountable obstacles to high-quality arts education for every student.
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- Tom Cahill, Executive Director, Studio in a School
- Lynn Tuttle, Director of Arts Education and Comprehensive Curriculum, Arizona Department of Education
- Paul D. Houston, Ed.D. , Executive Director, American Association of School Administrators
- Heather Noonan, Vice President for Advocacy, The League of American Orchestras
- Richard Victor, Advocacy Chair, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association
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Arts Education Evolution: Think Globally. Act Locally.
Join leaders from the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network as they share tools and resources that will help you build infrastructure in your state and community to support arts education. Today's leaders must be wholeheartedly engaged in civic life if we are to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world, and it can start with arts education.
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Arts Education Evolution: Think Globally. Act Locally.
Join leaders from the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network as they share tools and resources that will help you build infrastructure in your state and community to support arts education. Today's leaders must be wholeheartedly engaged in civic life if we are to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world, and it can start with arts education.
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How Coordinated Efforts Improve Access to Arts Education in Urban Centers & Qualities of Quality
Come hear representatives from RAND Education and Project Zero discuss how they are working to assess and improve both access to and the quality of arts education. A new RAND Education study compares and contrasts six system-wide attempts to build and/or improve local arts education provisions for children. Based on case studies of functioning arts education systems in New York City, Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alameda County (CA), RAND is developing concepts for important interactions among the components of these systems. Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education is identifying what constitutes high-quality arts learning and teaching and how to achieve and sustain quality in diverse arts education settings with school-aged youth.
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Managing a Faculty of Teaching Artists
Experienced colleagues will guide participants through a discussion of critical issues related to earning a living as a teaching artist: consultant versus employee; intellectual property; recruitment; fees; health insurance; evaluation and assessment. Participants will be invited to choose a table (rotating is welcome) and ask the experts questions about the best faculty management methods around.
Presenters:
- Amy Duma, Director of the Teacher and School Programs, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Mimi Flaherty Willis, Senior Director of Education, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
- Adam Huttler, Executive Director, Fractured Atlas
- Helga MacKinnon, Executive Director, Young Audiences of Western New York
- Marie Ortiz, Program Director, Healthcare, Fractured Atlas
- Patricia Saraniero, Ed.D., Professor of Theatre and Education, University of San Diego
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How Coordinated Efforts Improve Access to Arts Education in Urban Centers & Qualities of Quality
Come hear representatives from RAND Education and Project Zero discuss how they are working to assess and improve both access to and the quality of arts education. A new RAND Education study compares and contrasts six system-wide attempts to build and/or improve local arts education provisions for children. Based on case studies of functioning arts education systems in New York City, Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alameda County (CA), RAND is developing concepts for important interactions among the components of these systems. Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education is identifying what constitutes high-quality arts learning and teaching and how to achieve and sustain quality in diverse arts education settings with school-aged youth.
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Models of Teaching Artist Training
Teaching artists and those who hire them are invited to participate in a table rotation, meeting the professionals who created the Teaching Artist survey handed out at registration. Participants will learn about the many and varied teaching artist training programs across the country and meet those who have common needs or resources.
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- Participants in the Teaching Artist survey
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The School Administrator's Perspective of Arts Education & The Job of a District Arts Coordinator and a Local Arts Agency
This session presents the findings of Carnegie Mellon Master of Arts Management graduates whose collaborative thesis project examined challenges and opportunities faced by public school administrators as they developed symbiotic relationships with local arts organizations and arts education service organizations. We'll also discuss the job of a district arts coordinator and the role of local arts agencies in districtwide change, such as needs for validation, relationship-buillding, and making your case to administrators. Full access to arts education means finding solutions to the true barriers.
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Teaching Artist Studio
This Studio is a home base for conference participants interested in issues related to professional teaching artists. Those who attend will be led through a guided discussion fueled by participant needs, giving time and space to integrating experiences and lessons learned. Those electing to participate in the Studio will be asked to meet each day of the conference. Conference participants considering or already eager to change their practices may want time to reflect in the company of peers, and the Studio is the place where it’s happening.
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Teaching Artist Studio
This Studio is a home base for conference participants interested in issues related to professional teaching artists. Those who attend will be led through a guided discussion fueled by participant needs, giving time and space to integrating experiences and lessons learned. Those electing to participate in the Studio will be asked to meet each day of the conference. Conference participants considering or already eager to change their practices may want time to reflect in the company of peers, and the Studio is the place where it’s happening.
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Moving from Policy to Action: An Interactive Discussion on the National Arts Policy Roundtable on Arts and Workforce Development
Learn about the outcomes of the second annual National Arts Policy Roundtable on Arts and Workforce Development, held at Sundance in October 2007. In this interactive session, participants will break into small groups and move past discussion to actual planning for action. This session will be presented first on Friday at 9:00 a.m. as part of the Private-Sector Track.
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Arts Education Innovator
With so much talent to share, how could we choose just one? We’ll feature the genius of three matchless leaders through the clarity of one extraordinary interviewer. Jeffrey Brown, our interviewer, was has been a Senior Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer since 2005. His primary responsibilities are in the areas of culture, arts, and the media. Richard J. Deasy is the Director of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), a coalition of more than 100 organizations that promotes arts education for student success. Under his leadership, AEP has been credited with major, national advances in arts education. Deasy has been a senior state education official in Maryland and Pennsylvania and a prize-winning reporter on politics and government. Nick Rabkin is the Executive Director of the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, which produces the Teaching Artist Journal and is currently creating the first multi-city study of teaching artists. Rabkin was Senior Program Officer for Arts and Culture at the MacArthur Foundation and is editor of Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century. Andrea Peterson, a music teacher at Monte Cristo Elementary School in Granite Falls, WA, is the 2007–2008 National Teacher of the Year. During the last 10 years, she has revitalized near defunct music programs in both the elementary and high schools. When district finances fell short, Peterson found alternative sources, ultimately surpassing the $55,000 equipment goal.
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Arts Education Workshop: Better Program Evaluation
Program evaluations can garner resources and improve our impact. This workshop demystifies evaluation and illuminates the methods of experts. Attendees will leave with an understanding of design, execution, and implementation. This workshop includes: A step-by-step to the evaluation process; guidance on developing evaluation questions and the methods to answer them; qualitative and quantitative instruments; and answers to your specific questions. We will pause throughout to practice the steps, addressing pitfalls and challenges for providers new to evaluation—nonprofits, schools and districts, and teaching artists.
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