tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13767316501294205322024-02-07T20:13:12.403-06:00NEA ARTS EDUCATION CAUCUSA group of NEA fine and performing arts educators, patrons and advocates who lobby to keep arts education a vibrant, vital and required part of the curriculum for our nation's students, schools & communities. NEA caucuses are internal member-only groups. Caucuses exist and operate independently of NEA and have no authority to speak for, or act on behalf of, NEA.Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.comBlogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-72394506815726106552014-07-06T14:15:00.002-05:002014-07-06T14:29:37.600-05:0007.05.2014 NEA FAC AnnouncementPlease see an important note to members of the caucus <a href="http://goo.gl/0MGkeR">http://goo.gl/0MGkeR</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LUNCH CAUCUS
CANCELLED</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because our lunch break
is only 30 minutes long today, we WILL NOT be having a caucus meeting during
the lunch break today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>NEA FAC EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING @ 300 PM.</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old and newly elected NEA FAC Board will
meet at booth 62 & 63 to take care of business to wrap up our work at the
2014 RA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Individuals take and leave
office at the drop of the gavel today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2014-2015 EXECUTIVE
BOARD ELECATIONS</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Congratulations to
Jessica Fitzwater (2014-2016 chair); Tom McLaughlin (2014-2015 vice-chair);
Oscar Forsman (2014-2016 treasurer) on their election to office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Equal congratulations to 2014-2015 discipline
representatives to the executive board: Lance (drama NJ); Nettie Doyle (drama
MO);Ginger Fox (dance CA); <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael Gary (dance
NJ); Pam Gibberman (music); Carlos Meikel (art CO); Susan PInkney Todd (art
CO); <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NEA FINE ARTS CAUCUS
NAME CHANGE </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delegates made history
in renaming the NEA FINE ARTS CAUCUS the NEA ARTS EDUCATION CAUCUS in a Constitutional
vote (48 favor-0 oppose).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The name will
take effect as soon as the 2014 RA “gavels out”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NEA FINE ARTS CAUCUS MEMBERSHIP
CATEGORY</b> ADDED<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delegate have voted
to add a non-voting category of membership called the NEA FINE ARTSC CAUCUS
HONORARY LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP (46 favor, 2 oppose).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are currently 4 honorary lifetime
members: Lily Eskelsen Garcia; Deb Turici; Charles Fry; Bob Lague.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-85513250327217659282014-07-05T13:55:00.000-05:002014-07-05T13:55:15.208-05:00NEA FAC July 5, 2014 AgendaWe have battled technology problems again today. We apologize for these being posted so late. You will find the agenda here <a href="http://goo.gl/42e0DQ">http://goo.gl/42e0DQ</a> More to follow...we hope.Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-30986780861636895102014-07-04T08:59:00.001-05:002014-07-04T08:59:24.301-05:00Many Hands Make Light WorkWe need some help at the NEA Fine Arts Caucus Booth during the next few days. No experience is needed and we need our NEA ARTS COLLEAGUES to be organized within our caucus to do the important work and lobbying within the NEA to advance our agenda that demands that EVERYONE DESERVES AN ARTS EDUCATION. Our booth allows us to raise money for the NEA FAC and allows us to organize our members. Please drop by the NEA FAC BOOTH (62 & 63) and sign up to work at least one of the shifts. Thanks, in advance, to all of you who lend a hand.Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-86468652418451942002014-07-03T04:18:00.000-05:002014-07-03T04:21:04.349-05:00July 3, 2014 NEA FAC RA TODAYDirections to the meeting room, our agenda, minutes, news and important documents located at <br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://goo.gl/dhVDZ1">http://goo.gl/dhVDZ1</a></span><a href="http://goo.gl/dhVDZ1"></a></b><a href="http://goo.gl/dhVDZ1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></a><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">EASY
DIRECTIONS TO OUR MEETING ROOM</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Sorry for the confusion and inconvenience…we are doing the best job we can,
considering the fact that we were not assigned a room until tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many other caucuses are dealing with this as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have filed a complaint with the
RA Oversight Committeee.<br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-transform: uppercase;">To find us,</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> follow these easy
directions: from the NEA CAFÉ, exit through the doorway labels Exhibition Hall
B, go down the escalator, take one left and the first right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, look for our banner or listen for the
laughter to find us.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NBI #3 SPEAKERS & MIC YIELDERS</b><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We
need your help with our NBI—no experience is needed and we will provide you
with a script and easy-to-follow directions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you are willing to help, please show up for a short meeting in front
of the Iowa delegation 10 minutes after Dennis VanRoekel’s Keynote
Address.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iowa will coordinated the
efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SEE RESOLUTION in the link to
the left. SEE MIC YIELDING FORM in the link to the left.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a name='more'></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BOOTH SET UP</b><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
NEA FAC Non-Profit Booth table numbers are 62 & 63.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be seeting the booth up at 9:30
am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The booth will be open to sell
memberships, distribute literature, sell raffles and share arts advocacy
tools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be asking members to sign
up to work the booth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hope you can
help.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">RESOLUTION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>B46 UPDATE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Our
attempts to revise the Fine Arts Education resolution has been referred to
committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our attempt to address the
importance of being observed as discrete disciplines if being used with
infusion, integration or other trans-disciplinary applications prompted: (1)
opposition for an art educator; (2) questions about whether we were also
changing our caucus name and (3) why the national organizations were proposing
the change prompted the referral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SEE
RESOLUTION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the link below.<br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">POSSIBLE NAME CHANGE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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A motion has been made to change the name of our caucus to align with language
used within the arts<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>education and arts
community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The change of name will be
from the Fine Arts Caucus to the Arts Education Caucus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A reading of the Consitutional language
change will happen today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be
a vote of the membership this week.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: small;">mEETING SCHEDULE <br />
</span><a href="http://goo.gl/hk4vLb"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://goo.gl/hk4vLb</span></a><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
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agendas<br />
</span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: small;">july 1, 2014<br />
</span><a href="http://goo.gl/OTJi8C"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">jULY 2, 2014</span></a><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><a href="http://goo.gl/QBx2UH"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">july 3, 2014</span></a></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-transform: uppercase;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
<br />
Minutes</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://goo.gl/R79XUa"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">JULY 1, 2014</span></a><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><a href="http://goo.gl/Gy7aja"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">JULY 2, 2014</span></a><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
MIC YIELDER’S SHEET<br />
</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://goo.gl/6Xff9y"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://goo.gl/6Xff9y</span></a></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <br />
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NEA FAC RULES & PROCEDURES</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">RE-NAMING THE CAUCUS BY CHANGING FINE
ARTS CAUCUS TO ARTS EDUCATION CAUCUS</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://goo.gl/lHQOGG"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://goo.gl/lHQOGG</span></a><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">NEA FAC CONSTITUTION</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">RE-NAMING THE CAUCUS BY CHANGING FINE
ARTS CAUCUS TO ARTS EDUCATION CAUCUS</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://goo.gl/fz58bI"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://goo.gl/fz58bI</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">NEW BUSINESS ITEM #3</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NCCAS, NEA, AftA PARTERNSHIP</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://goo.gl/Sjltts"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://goo.gl/Sjltts</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PERKINS <br />
REAUTHORIZATION DOCUMENT</b><br />
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://goo.gl/R5cifa"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://goo.gl/R5cifa</span></a><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">RESOLUTION B46 UPDATE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
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Tom McLaughlin (IA, Caucus Chair) and Ginger Fox (CA) are just back from Washington, DC where they initiated a series of meetings to advance the work of the caucus. Both left the meetings with the feeling that the NEA FAC has entered a new age of being active in important policy discussions, curriculum discussions and partnerships to advance the goals of the caucus. As a result of the meetings with Americans for the Arts, the Arts Action Fund, NEA Senior Policy Staff and coordinators of the NCCAS (National Coalition for Core Arts Standards) writing and implementation process.<br />
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Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-47992409401955383282014-06-13T12:34:00.001-05:002014-06-13T12:38:55.527-05:00Dr. Jane Chu Confirmed as Chair of "the other" NEA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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WASHINGTON - Today the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Jane Chu as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Chu is currently the president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo. She fills a chair position left vacant at the NEA since Rocco Landesman stepped down in 2012.<br />
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“Today’s confirmation of Dr. Jane Chu is great news for not only the National Endowment for the Arts, but also for the arts in our country,” said Robert Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts. “Dr. Chu brings an insightful combination of expertise to the position—experience in arts education, business administration, and philanthropy. She also understands the value of art at the community level and how the arts are transformative to individuals as well as places.”<br />
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Before joining the Kauffman Center in 2006, Chu served as fund executive at the Kauffman Fund for Kansas City, vice president of external relations for the Union Station Kansas City, and vice president of community investment for the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. She holds degrees in visual arts, piano performance and piano pedagogy, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in philanthropic studies. Nonprofit Connect in Kansas City recently named her their Nonprofit Professional of the Year.<br />
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Since 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded over $5 billion in grants across all 50 states via local, state, and federal partnerships, including projects with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Each grant dollar on average is matched by $9 of additional investments. As such, the NEA stands as the largest annual national supporter of the nonprofit arts in the United States, increasing public access to and engagement with the arts, strengthening American communities, and helping foster a diverse, innovative, productive, and motivated 21st-century workforce. All together, the nonprofit arts industry and its audiences is a $135 billion industry employing 4.1 million Americans.<br />
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The announcement of Chu’s confirmation will be a cause for celebration at the 2014 Annual Convention for Americans for the Arts in Nashville, Tenn. where more than 1,000 arts professionals and community leaders are gathering June 13-15.<br />
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Americans for the Arts is the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America. With offices in Washington, D.C., and New York City, it has a record of more than 50 years of service. Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-34701496028882343052014-06-13T10:16:00.000-05:002014-06-13T10:21:21.092-05:00NEA Caucus Leaders to Advocate for Arts Educators in Pre-RA Meetings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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NEA FINE ARTS CAUCUS LEADERS HEAD TO DC TO WORK FOR NEA ARTS EDUCATORS --NEA Fine Arts Caucus Executive Board member, Ginger Fox (CA), and NEA Fine Arts Caucus National Chair, Tom McLaughlin (IA), travel to Washington DC next week to work with NEA Policy folks, Mike Kaspar and Becky Wissink, to discuss the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards soft launch, concerns about trends we are seeing in the implementation and lack of implementation of STEAM programs around the nation, concerns about using arts integration and maintaining the integrity of discrete curriculum for the arts, how we might strengthen our relationship with the Americans for the Arts and the Arts Action Fund and our next steps before launching business at this year's NEA annual meeting and Representative Assembly. Ginger and Tom have packed their two days in DC full of meeting to advocate for our members across the country.<br />
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NCCAS CORE LAUNCH WEBINAR http://nccas.wikispaces.com/National+Core+Arts+Standards+Launch<br />
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The National Core Arts Standards were launched on Wednesday, June 4th with a national conference call between the hours of 1:00 PM Eastern daylight time and 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight time, moderated by Marcia McCaffrey, New Hampshire Department of Education and President of the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE), and Lynn Tuttle, Arizona Department of Education and Immediate Past President of SEADAE.<br />
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James Catterall, Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Faculty at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.<br />
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Laurence Gartel, Digital Media Artist, National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Artist Advisory Committee<br />
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Julie Richard, Executive Director, Maine Arts Commission<br />
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Russ Sperling, Coordinator of Visual and Performing Arts at the San Diego County Office of Education<br />
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Stefan Pryor, Commissioner of Education for the State of Connecticut<br />
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Dennis Inhulsen, principal, Patterson Elementary School in Michigan, leader of the Visual Arts Writing Team<br />
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Robert L. Lynch, President and CEO, Americans for the Arts<br />
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Jonathan Katz, CEO of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies<br />
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Visual Artist, National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Artist Advisory Committee<br />
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Suzanne Henneman, Dance educator, winner National Dance Education Organization 2013 Outstanding Leadership in K -12 Education<br />
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Tee Lambert, President, Washington Elementary School District, and Title I monitoring coordinator for the Arizona Department of Education.<br />
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Melissa Hronkin, National Art Education Association's National Elementary Art Educator for 2014<br />
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Sharon Malley, Special Education Consultant, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts<br />
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John Abodeely, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Turn Around Schools<br />
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Dru Davison, Fine Arts Advisor, Shelby County Schools, Memphis, Tennessee<br />
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Donna S. Collins, Executive Director, Ohio Alliance for Arts Education and Ohio Citizens for the Arts<br />
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Howard Sherman, Former Executive Director of the American Theatre Wing, Interim Director of the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts<br />
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Paul Cothran, Executive Director, VH1 Save the MusicThespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-63954489348317914792014-06-10T12:37:00.002-05:002014-06-10T12:37:46.743-05:00STEAM vs. STEM InfographicThanks to NEA FAC friend Frederic Lee for sharing this great STEM vs. STEAM INFOGRAPHIC<br />
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LANSING -- Budget cuts may have eliminated elementary classes in arts, music and physical education for Lansing School District students, but that hasn't stopped arts education from still taking place.<br />
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The district was forced earlier this year to eliminate 87 jobs - including elementary art, music and physical education teachers - to make up for a $9 million budget deficit. Instead, the district implemented an "innovative arts and fitness" program where fewer than 20 non-certified "consultant" instructors teach the subjects during regular class time alongside teachers.<br />
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The Lansing School District declined to make Superintendent Yvonne Caamal Canul or members of the district's innovative arts and fitness program available for interviews, citing end-of-year schedules.<br />
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Cutting arts educators is a common cost-savings move for districts because of how art teachers are trained and how funding is allocated to schools, Joni Starr, assistant professor of education at Michigan State University said.<br />
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"It’s more expensive because you have to hire a qualified arts teacher," Starr said. "It’s easy to cut because they’re specialists in their field and not in a self-contained classroom."<br />
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Students preparing for careers in art or music education at Michigan State receive training through the university's programs in those artistic disciplines to become certified as experts in those fields, Starr said.<br />
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Lansing School District has received some financial support to help cushion the blow of eliminating separate arts classes at the elementary level..<br />
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In September, the district received an almost $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Magnet School Assistance program. The grant, the only one received by a Michigan school district, helped to cover the cost of setting up "STEAM" programs at two schools, Cavanaugh Elementary and Mount Hope Elementary.<br />
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The "STEAM" programs are designed to incorporate arts instruction into a science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum, a growing trend across the country.<br />
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Sesame Workshop, the company that produces "Sesame Street" for PBS, introduced STEAM concepts through a new segment, "Elmo the Musical," where the popular Muppet incorporates math concepts into musical sequences.<br />
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According to Sesame Workshop, incorporating arts into the STEM curriculum allows children to understand how the disciplines interact with producing and interpreting art.<br />
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Starr said the STEAM concept is "somewhat controversial" because it can lead to classroom teachers using art and music to teach core subjects, but without including instruction on the art forms themselves.<br />
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"Using the arts to enhance learning in other subjects is great," Starr said. "The problem is, if we’re relying on the classroom teacher to teach the arts, they aren’t. They’re using the arts to teach other subjects."<br />
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Starr, who teaches courses on integrating arts education into regular classroom teaching, said the level of familiarity required with the arts to teach both core content and arts content makes it difficult for a single teacher to do both.<br />
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"It’s really hard to be able to have all that information to the depth one needs to pull off an arts integration lesson," Starr said. Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-17418370812600758842013-10-25T04:53:00.001-05:002013-10-25T04:54:23.454-05:00For These Schools, Adding Arts to STEM Boosts Curriculum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Michelle Fredette<br />
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This article appears in the October 2013 issue of <b>T.H.E. Journal.</b><br />
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Say you're the principal of a school that has been hit by an F5 tornado. No one is hurt, thank goodness, but teachers, students, and staff must move to a temporary school while your damaged school is repaired. Do you try to simply achieve a sense of normalcy during two years of displacement?<br />
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Many principals would. And who would blame them? But Deron Cameron, principal of University Place Elementary School in Tuscaloosa, AL, saw the calamity caused by the April 2011 twister as an opportunity to do more. Armed with grants and donations from around the country, Cameron was determined to not only bring back some of the students his school had lost when the school moved, but to turn the misfortune into an advantage. "We met last year as a faculty and said, 'When we go back into our building, we don't want to do the same-old-same-old. We need to research some practices so it can be a win-win for our students,'" Cameron says.<br />
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After investigating a handful of educational approaches that ranged from Montessori to STEM, Cameron and his faculty settled on STEAM, a curriculum based on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics--plus the arts. "We liked the arts in STEAM," Cameron says. "Our students have great creativity. We saw that the creativity of STEAM would add another facet." <br />
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Other schools are taking up the STEAM approach, even without the hardship of displacement and rebuilding. They come to STEAM because they believe the arts are important, or because they want to reach all of their students, not just the ones who thrive on straight academics.<br />
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Jeremy Ferrara, who teaches fourth grade at Taylor Elementary School in Arlington, VA, says that his "aha moment" came one Saturday a couple of years ago, when he watched a student from his class creating scenery for a school musical. "This kid wasn't very strong academically," Ferrara says. "I watched him working on the set for two hours, while he measured the cardboard and lined up the pieces. I didn't talk to him, I just watched. He was completely into it. And in the end, everything came out perfectly symmetrical. It just opened my eyes to the fact that I wasn't reaching this kid the right way."<br />
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So how does STEAM work? Taylor Elementary had committed to what they were calling "STEM and Beyond." The "Beyond" part was a nod to the need for arts in the equation, but no one was sure exactly how to make that need a reality. Ferrara sought out music teacher Bianca Sanchez and art teacher Elizabeth Ashley and they began to address the problem collaboratively. They started with a lesson on kinetic energy, and when the students responded positively, they pursued additional subjects.<br />
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Typically, the process begins with a brainstorming meeting. Ferrara describes an upcoming lesson, then works with Ashley and Sanchez on some potential strategies for working the subject matter into their art and music classes. One such lesson was on the plant lifecycle, an area where students had had low test scores. Ferrara showed Sanchez and Ashley the lifecycle and the standards he had to teach. "Once we understood the science part, we had to see how to connect our own areas," Sanchez says. "For music, I don't want the kids to just sing songs on the subject. I try to find a deeper connection."<br />
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To make this deeper connection, Sanchez turned to the music of Philip Glass. "We studied the basic structure of the music, how it starts off simple and slowly changes structure in a way that reminded me of the plant," Sanchez says. Then the kids used GarageBand to create their own compositions to represent the stages of the plant lifecycle. They presented their music to the class, describing how each structural change in the composition reflected a new stage in the cycle.<br />
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One of my parents’ deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not value me as a musician. I remember my mother’s reaction when I announced my decision to study music instead of medicine: “You’re wasting your SAT scores!” My parents loved music, but at the time they were unclear about its value.<br />
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The confusion is understandable: We put music in the “arts & entertainment” section of the newspaper. But music often has little to do with entertainment. Quite the opposite.<br />
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The ancient Greeks had a fascinating way of articulating how music works. In their quadrivium—geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music—astronomy and music are two sides of the same coin. Astronomy describes relationships between observable, external, permanent objects.<br />
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Music illuminates relationships between invisible, internal, transient objects. I imagine us having internal planets, constellations of complicated thoughts and feelings. Music finds the invisible pieces inside our hearts and souls and helps describe the position of things inside us, like a telescope that looks in rather than out.<br />
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In June 1940, French composer Olivier Messiaen was captured by the Germans and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. There, he finished a quartet for piano, cello, violin, and clarinet, and performed it, with three other imprisoned musicians, for the inmates and guards of that camp. The piece (“Quartet for the End of Time”) is arguably one of the greatest successes in the history of music.<br />
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Art must be, somehow, essential for life. In fact, art is part of survival; art is part of the human spirit, an unquenchable expression of who we are; art is one of the ways in which we say, “I am alive, and my life has meaning.”<br />
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On Sept. 11, 2001, I was a resident of Manhattan. Later that day I reached a new understanding of my art. Given the day’s events, the idea of playing the piano seemed absurd, disrespectful, and pointless. Amid ambulances, firefighters, and fighter jets, I heard an inner voice ask: “Why am I here? What place has a musician in this moment?”<br />
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Then I saw how we survived. The first group activity in my neighborhood that night was singing. People sang. They sang around firehouses; they sang “We Shall Overcome,” “America the Beautiful,” “The Star-Spangled Banner”; they sang songs learned in elementary school, which some hadn’t sung since then. Within days, we gathered at Lincoln Center for the Brahms Requiem. Along with firefighters and fighter jets, artists were “first responders” in this disaster, too. The military secured our airspace, but musicians led the recovery. In measuring the revival of New York, the return of Broadway—another art form—was as significant a milestone as the reopening of the stock markets.<br />
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I now understand that music is not part of “arts and entertainment.” It’s not a luxury, something we fund from budget leftovers. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of things, a way to express feelings when we have no words, a way to understand things with our hearts when we cannot grasp them with our minds. Music is the language we choose when we are speechless.<br />
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Imagine a graduation with absolutely no music—or a wedding, a presidential inauguration, or a service celebrating the life and death of a close friend—imagine these with no music whatsoever. What’s missing—entertainment? Hardly. What’s missing is the capacity to meaningfully experience these events, as though eating great food without tasting it. Music functions as a container for experience—it augments capacity to grasp complex things. Without music, the events of our lives slip like water through cupped hands. Music increases our capacity to hold life experiences, to celebrate them, to survive them.<br />
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The performance I think of as my most important concert took place in a nursing home in a small Midwestern town. I was playing with a dear friend of mine, a violinist. We began with Aaron Copland’s “Sonata,” which was written during World War II and dedicated to a young pilot who was shot down during the war.<br />
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Midway through the piece, an elderly man seated in a wheelchair near the front of the concert hall began to weep. After we finished, we mentioned that the piece was dedicated to a downed pilot. The man became so disturbed he had to leave the auditorium, but showed up backstage afterward, tears and all, to explain himself.<br />
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He told us that during World War II, as a pilot, he was in an aerial combat situation where one of this team’s planes was hit. He watched his friend bail out and his parachute open. But the Japanese planes returned and machine-gunned across the parachute chords, separating the parachute from the pilot. He then watched his friend drop away into the ocean, lost. He said he had not thought about that for years, but during that first piece of music we played, this memory returned to him so vividly that it was as though he was reliving it. How did Copland manage to capture that picture of internal planets so clearly?<br />
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People walk into concert halls as they walk into emergency rooms, in need of healing. They may bring a broken body to a hospital, but they often bring with them to the concert a mind that is overwhelmed, a soul that is weary. Whether they go out whole again depends partly on how well musicians do their craft.<br />
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A musician is more of a paramedic than an entertainer. I’m not interested in entertaining you; I’m interested in keeping you alive. Fully alive. We’re a lot like cardiac surgeons; we hold people’s hearts in our hands every day. We just use different instruments.<br />
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What should we expect from young people who choose a future in music? Frankly, I expect them to save the planet.<br />
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If there is a future wave of wellness, of harmony, of peace, an end to war, mutual understanding, equality, fairness, I don’t expect it to come from a government, a military force, or a corporation. If there is a future of peace for humankind, if we are to have an understanding of how these invisible, internal things should fit together, I expect it will come from the artists, because that’s what we do. As we did in Nazi camps and on the evening of 9/11, the artists are the ones who might be able to help us with our internal, invisible lives.JessicaFitzwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01671780833079092324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-14493935477188071692013-08-09T09:23:00.002-05:002013-08-09T09:45:10.896-05:00NEA FAC Vice-Chair Jessica Fitzwater Completes Training, Considers Political Bid<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Jessica Fitzwater says she loves working with students while they're too young to care what people think.<br />
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The Oakdale Elementary School music teacher said the onset of adult self-consciousness discourages many people from putting themselves out onstage. But when children are little, they are risk-takers, she said.<br />
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If teachers can "catch them when they sing their heart out or dance their heart out," there's a chance that they will hang on to that fearlessness as they grow up, she said.<br />
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Fitzwater, 29, said her experience as a performer — playing the violin in the Frederick Symphony Orchestra and taking the stage with Equinox Dance Company — has made her someone unafraid to take a public stand.<br />
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Her willingness to step forward could move her from the orchestra hall to Winchester Hall; Fitzwater says she's "strongly considering" running for the District 4 seat on the county council in 2014.<br />
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Fitzwater has already started laying the foundation for a future in the public eye. Earlier this year, she graduated from the first class of Emerge Maryland, a program that prepares Democratic women to hold elected office or another leadership position.<br />
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The six-month program trained participants in ethics, diversity, campaign-building and self-presentation. Fitzwater had to collect $500 for Emerge, an assignment that both helped support the program and give her fundraising experience for the campaign trail.<br />
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One day, the participants also traveled to Annapolis to watch the Legislature in action and meet with state "movers and shakers."<br />
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The program gives women the tools they need to enter politics, Fitzwater said.<br />
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Women often feel unprepared to run for office and need convincing, while men with the same level of qualification are more likely to jump into political races without any prompting, she said.<br />
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Fitzwater says she's always been inclined to get involved, so entering the political arena could make sense for her.<br />
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Melissa Dirks, who has worked with Fitzwater in the Frederick County Teachers Association, called her friend an undeniable "doer."<br />
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Dirks said Fitzwater's experience in the arts also strengthens her ability to stand up for a cause.<br />
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"Being a professional musician ... there's never enough money and never enough support, so you're always having to advocate," she said.<br />
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Fitzwater has pushed to address disparities in arts programs in the state's schools in her role as a delegate to the Maryland State Educators Association. Though she said she knows she can't do it all, she said that is not an excuse to do nothing.<br />
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"If you have the gumption to take action … and you have the time and resources, you should," Fitzwater said.<br />
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Clout Street<br />
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday defended the choices he has made on the Chicago Public Schools budget, but did not directly address reports that neighborhood schools will face deeper cuts during the coming year than charters or other kinds of schools.<br />
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CPS estimated classroom cuts in the upcoming budget to be about $68 million. But the Tribune found that the cuts to district-run neighborhood schools is more than $100 million for instruction and operations. CPS came up with its lower figure by including budget increases at charter and contract schools that in many cases saw enrollment rise and seats added.<br />
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Asked about the differences Tuesday, Emanuel initially laid the blame with Springfield's failure to deal with the school district's unfunded pension obligations. "Look, we have a challenge. That challenge is pensions," Emanuel said.<br />
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The mayor also pointed out two charter schools were shut down recently for academic shortcomings, saying that's "never been done before, because they failed academically."<br />
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<b>And though Raise Your Hand, a parent group critical of the school district, said the new budget has forced 92 schools to cut art positions, 54 to cut music teachers, 58 to cut physical education positions and 40 to fire librarians, Emanuel sought to focus Tuesday on his push to increase full-day kindergarten and the longer school day.</b> "That's what we're going to be doing throughout the city and all our schools," he said.<br />
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The mayor's comments came at a far South Side job and mentoring program for at-risk youths, where he also talked about his decision to accept Larry Huggins' resignation from the Metra board amid questions about Huggins' attempts to secure work connected to the Englewood Flyover project for black construction firms.<br />
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Emanuel said Huggins didn't lose the mayor's confidence, despite the controversy surrounding him and the Metra board as a whole. "That's not what I said, and that's not what I believe," Emanuel said. "I believe that one, Metra needs to hit the restart, refresh button, and given everything that was going on, the best thing to do was for Larry Huggins, who has served the city admirably over many years in different ways, to step aside and so the Metra board can hit the restart button," he said.<br />
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Huggins' resignation came as an investigation continues into the circumstances surrounding the agency's decision to give CEO Alex Clifford a $718,000 severance package. Huggins was among those named in a memorandum this year by Clifford, who said Huggins carried a patronage request for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and interfered with contracts.<br />
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40! That’s how many years that federal support for the arts and humanities would be set back as a result of the devastating cuts in the FY 2014 Interior Appropriations bill currently moving through the House.<br />
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This FY 2014 funding bill would cut the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities by 49 percent, leaving them each with only a $75 million budget. This budget reduction would represent the biggest cut in the history of these agencies, even worse than the cuts experienced during the Culture Wars of the 1990s. The last time the NEA’s budget was this low was in 1974.<br />
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Last week, we reported the cuts made in Subcommittee and this week, the House Full Appropriations Committee maintained the cuts in the bill. Yesterday, Ranking Democrat of the Committee Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Rep. David Price (D-NC) offered an amendment in committee to restore the NEA cuts, but it was rejected along party line votes.<br />
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If this budget is enacted, we project about half as many direct grants will be made to arts organizations across the country and the NEA would have to cut in half the support it gives to state arts agencies. In addition to the direct support lost, the impact on arts organizations would be even broader as each dollar from an NEA grant helps to leverage at least $8 from other state, local, and private sources.<br />
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<b>Congressional Next Steps:</b><br />
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<b>Aug. 5-Sept. 9:</b> Congress goes back home for a five-week district recess/work period.<br />
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<b>September - December:</b> The House Full Appropriations Committee will likely resume mark-up of the FY 2014 Interior bill in order to finish reporting it out of committee. The bill could then come to the House floor for a full vote. At that time, we anticipate two kinds of floor amendments. Conservatives could attempt to further cut arts funding and the bipartisan members of the Congressional Arts Caucus will likely attempt to restore much of the cut funds back into the bill. We will call on grassroots advocates at this time to send many emails to their House members. Simultaneously, the Senate Appropriations Interior Subcommittee and Full Committee will also begin mark-up of their version of the FY 2014 Interior bill. We anticipate much higher funding levels for the NEA and NEH in the Senate version of the bill.<br />
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Additionally during this period, we expect Senate action on the elementary and secondary education act reauthorization as well as tax reform bills coming out of the House and Senate that would impact the charitable deduction. And to add to the drama, there will likely be a showdown on increasing the federal debt ceiling of the current fiscal year in order to keep the government running.<br />
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<b>September 30th: </b> This marks the official end of the FY 2013 federal budget. Because it is highly unlikely that Congress will complete work on the FY 2014 Appropriations bills by October 1st, it will have to pass a series of Continuing Resolutions to keep the federal government running until these bills are negotiated and finalized with the House, Senate, and White House. This could go on for months.<br />
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<b>Your Next Steps:</b><br />
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This is an excellent time to bring Congressional, media, and general public awareness to this issue before the bill reaches the floor. We recommend the following:<br />
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1. Share your story of how NEA and NEH direct funding as well as indirect funding flowing from the state arts agencies have an important impact on your organization and the community you serve. <a href="https://www.votervoice.net/ARTSUSA/Campaigns/30431/Respond">Use our online media too</a>l to contact your local media.<br />
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2. Make an appointment to meet with representatives of your Congressperson’s local district office in order to register concern about the FY 2014 Interior Appropriations bill. <a href="https://www.votervoice.net/ARTSUSA/address">Look up the District Office info</a> under the Member’s name.<br />
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3. If you haven’t sent an email to your House and Senate members on this issue yet, please do so at our <a href="https://votervoice.net/ARTSUSA/Campaigns/30433/Respond">Action Center</a>. We will ask you to do it one more time in preparation for a floor vote in the fall.<br />
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4. Please post this alert to your friends on your social media in order to build national attention to this issue.Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-33038149773019146442013-08-02T21:26:00.000-05:002013-08-02T21:26:37.787-05:00Grant will allow students to sample working with professional artists by Maggie Neil / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<br />
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Principal Ken Lockette wants the walls of Avonworth High School to be alive and vibrant -- not drab and institutional.<br />
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He also wants his students to know what it's like to work in the professional world and to prepare them for an increasingly competitive environment.<br />
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Thanks to a $10,000 grant from The Sprout Fund's Hive Fund for Connected Learning, the high school in Ohio Township is hoping to fulfill Mr. Lockette's visions through the Avonworth Pittsburgh Galleries Project.<br />
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The plan is to connect 30 to 50 high school students with five arts institutions in the Pittsburgh region: The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Toonseum of Pittsburgh.<br />
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Students will be divided into five teams, with each team assigned to an institution. Throughout the academic year, professionals in the art world will offer the students an inside look at the intricacies and challenges of working with professional artists, curating shows and running an arts establishment. The students will blog about their experiences, and the project will culminate in five end-of-year exhibits, each curated by one of the teams.<br />
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These shows will be inspired by what the students have seen and learned and will be displayed inside the school.<br />
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"It's about applying things in the real world, not just doing classroom presentations," Mr. Lockette said, adding, "It's a competitive world and you have to have certain skills."<br />
This project and others are part of what Mr. Lockette describes as the school's bigger vision in trying to change how it approaches education.<br />
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He said Avonworth hopes to move toward project-based learning, putting students in professional-world situations.<br />
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Avonworth's approach is a large part of what made it attractive to the Hive Fund's Learning Advisory Committee, which awards funds -- sometimes as much as $15,000 -- based on the use of the principle of "connected learning."<br />
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It is the result of research coming out of The Digital Media & Learning Research Hub at University of California Irvine, which is supported, like The Sprout Fund, by the MacArthur Foundation.<br />
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"Connected learning is one way of looking at how teens learn best," said Mac Howison, program officer for Catalytic Funding at The Sprout Fund.<br />
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For example, he said, teens learn more when the content is related to what they are interested in, when they are learning in an environment with their peers, when they have the opportunity to take ownership over what they are learning, and when what they are learning is relevant to their academics.<br />
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He said social media also is important because of its "centrality and ubiquity in the lives of youths and teens."<br />
Like project-based learning, connected learning prioritizes exposure to the professional world.<br />
The Sprout Fund wants projects to help create networks among local organizations.<br />
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One motivation behind this particular project is an apparent knowledge gap that some believe exists in artistically minded students about their professional opportunities.<br />
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"Often, kids who are interested in the arts might not know what their career options are," said Avonworth studio art teacher Kerri Villani.<br />
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"I want the students to learn how to be the curator, not just the artist. I want them to see what else they can do inside the museum."<br />
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To participate, students must complete a short application.<br />
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Administrators want to get a sense of the applicant's interests to pair the student with the most compatible art institution.<br />
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"I admire schools like Avonworth that are getting kids out of the classroom and into established Pittsburgh art institutions," said Heather McElwee, executive director at the Pittsburgh Glass Factory, the only institution on the list that is not a museum.<br />
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She said it is especially important "at a time when the arts are getting cut and are not necessarily part of the everyday school curriculum at all."<br />
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Another positive aspect of the project is that the school's interior will get a makeover as the students apply what they have learned to the rooms and halls of their school in their final exhibits.<br />
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"Installation isn't just about putting a painting on a wall, it's about transforming a whole room," said Felice Cleveland, director of education at the Mattress Factory.<br />
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As students learn about installation within rooms of a museum, Ms. Cleveland believes they become more aware of the environment that surrounds them.<br />
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They will become more sensitive to what environments make them happy or sad, peaceful or anxious, more or less productive, and can take ownership and action over them.<br />
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As Ms. Cleveland put it, "Through this process, I hope they look at the places in their life ... [and realize] that they can change the world ... because if you notice how the space around you makes you feel, you can change it."<br />
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Today, the U.S House of Representatives Interior Appropriations Subcommittee approved its initial FY 2014 funding legislation, which includes a proposed cut of $71 million to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This would bring funding of the NEA down to $75 million, a level not seen since 1974!<br />
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<b><a href="https://votervoice.net/ARTSUSA/Campaigns/30433/Respond">Please take two minutes to send a customizable message to your members of Congress rejecting these dramatic cuts to NEA funding.</a></b><br />
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While the subcommittee bill includes a 20 percent reduction in total spending as a part of the House budget plan, the proposed cuts of 49 percent to the NEA are significantly disproportionate. The arts community recognizes the challenges our elected leaders face in prioritizing federal resources, but funding for the NEA has already been cut by more than $29 million over the past three years. These disproportionate cuts recall the dramatic decline of federal funding for the arts in the early 90s, from which the agency has still not recovered.<br />
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In her statement during today’s markup, senior appropriator Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) said these cuts “harken back to a time when a misguided war on the arts and culture ignored the educational and cultural benefits they provide our communities.”<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>FY 2014
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>FY 2014 House
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">$138.4<br />million</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">$154.466 million</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">$75<br />million</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">$138.4<br />million</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">$154.466 million</span></div>
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This is just the first step in an annual appropriations process, which this year appears to be heading toward a dysfunctional ending. It is expected that the full House Appropriations Committee will consider this legislation next week; however, as the Senate and the House have vastly different appropriations levels, it remains unclear whether this bill will reach the House floor or a final version will ever be completed with the Senate.<br />
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<b><a href="https://votervoice.net/ARTSUSA/Campaigns/30433/Respond">A message from you now</a></b> registering your concerns with your member of Congress would be well-timed to arrive prior to any possible next step in the appropriations process.<br />
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Thank you for playing your part!Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-1396833845967179142013-07-06T11:09:00.000-05:002013-07-23T18:27:32.111-05:00ABOVE AND BEYOND--Moving America's Schools Full STEAM Ahead with Arts Integration Reason 1 of 45<h3>
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<li><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/how-to/arts-integration-beta/what-is-arts-integration-beta.aspx">Learn more about Arts Integration and what it means in schools.</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/how-to/series/arts-integration-beta/why-arts-integration-beta.aspx">Why ARTS Integration?</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/how-to/series/arts-integration-beta/changing-education-through-the-arts-beta.aspx">Changing education through the Arts (CETA).</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/how-to/series/arts-integration-beta/arts-integration-in-practice-beta.aspx">Arts Integration in practice.</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/how-to/series/arts-integration-beta/arts-integration-resources-beta.aspx">Arts Integration Resources.</a></span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="http://neafineartscaucus.blogspot.com/2012/07/what-is-steam.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Learn more about STE(A)M?</a></span></li>
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<a href="http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/4csposter.pdf" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD A FREE 4 C's POSTER BASED ON THIS ANIMATION.</a><br />
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FableVision in Partnership with P21st Century Skills SHOWS us how the arts interface with STEM work. Take a look at these students and how they approach their project of building a go-cart and complement each other with two different approaches to getting things done. This was going to be closer to number 1 but we think we should let you help share this before travelling to the RA.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;"><em><br />"We're not finished, we've only just begun..."</em></span></strong><br />
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In an increasingly complex, demanding and competitive 21st century, students need to learn more than the 3R’s they are tested on in school. It’s time to help them go “above & beyond”, by embracing the 4Cs – communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. <br />
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To get the word out to about the “3Rs + 4Cs” approach, P21 and FableVision partnered to produce a short, animated film called Above & Beyond. Enjoy & share, so we can help ALL our students flourish in the 21st century.<br />
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Many members of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills helped shape and refine this story – using their communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity skills. Special thanks to Ken Kay, Tim Magner and the Executive Board and Strategic Council of The Partnership for 21st Century Skills for all their time, talent and vision on this project.<br />
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<br />Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-85608164051559564012013-07-04T23:10:00.001-05:002013-07-22T21:00:28.934-05:00Arts Integration & STEAM Talking Points<a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8uvZ3RsJ3vSRVBtRFRkNGphdW8&usp=sharing" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for access to talking points for Arts Integration in your school and STEAM in your building, district or state.Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-11769812776918231612013-07-02T23:17:00.002-05:002013-07-23T10:59:42.701-05:0060 Great STEAM Computer APPs--Moving America's Schools Full Steam Ahead with Arts Integration Reason 2 of 45<div style="text-align: right;">
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The ideas driving the STE(A)M movement in the United States involve infusing and integrating the Arts into the STEM disciplines and content areas. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_CLQCK-WOhZl0xvHfoheMX7KhJRPqp8uEf1v7wPE3rJMZhpS94GJ-grpzSpZwAVxyD0-EP4CEFbB_alwVKym_wiF_dXrFYAu8hgp6xsKn3_kbgJSsOo4CUkrxma86zJBEV_UzbqwHwrA5/s1600/STEAM+Button+Revision+II.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_CLQCK-WOhZl0xvHfoheMX7KhJRPqp8uEf1v7wPE3rJMZhpS94GJ-grpzSpZwAVxyD0-EP4CEFbB_alwVKym_wiF_dXrFYAu8hgp6xsKn3_kbgJSsOo4CUkrxma86zJBEV_UzbqwHwrA5/s200/STEAM+Button+Revision+II.jpg" width="200" /></a>It is such a strong idea not because we want our STEM colleagues to become Arts teachers but because using the arts really accomplishs a great deal of what we hope to accomplish with NBI #2 at this year's 2013 RA. STE(A)M offers tools to: increase student learning through improved engagement; a great deal of nueroscience research supports use of the arts to improve cognition and meta-cognition; it teaches transferable skills unique to the arts that improves the skills set of STEAM learners; as a result, it improves our student/s employability skills set and it assists educators in being strong practitioners.<br />
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CHECK OUT THESE WONDERFUL APPS TO ASSIST IN TEACHING STE(A)M.<br />
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<a href="http://www.weareteachers.com/community/blogs/weareteachersblog/blog-wat/2013/06/26/60-apps-for-teaching-steam" target="_blank">60 GREAT COMPUTER APPS TO IMPLEMENT STEAM & ARTS INTEGRATION IN STEM</a><br />
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<a href="http://neafineartscaucus.blogspot.com/2012/07/what-is-steam.html" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">What is STE(A)M?</a><br />
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It is time that we join arms with each other and understand that good education is less like a baking recipe that must be followed precisely in pre-determined steps. The destination that we seek for our students is more like a road map. There are many roads that we can travel to help our students succeed. STE(A)M is probably not the best approach for all students or all teachers. It is, however, like a road map. It offers many different paths that arrive at the same destination.<br />
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Sir Kenneth Robinson says that we best approach our work as a gardener might. STE(A)M uses the arts as a tool for our students to create a situation condusive to learning. We cannot make students learn, we can't make them be engaged but we can create the conditions that might be ideal for learning. The art forms assist our students in cultivating divergent thinking, reasoning, metaphor as a tool for understanding, creativity,innovation and so much more. <br />
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Sir Ken Robinson at it again with a wonderful animation titled PAPER CLIP. A wonderful piece distinguishing between divergent thinking and creativity. Daniel Pink's A WHOLE NEW MIND and Robert Root-Bernstein's SPARKS OF GENIUS. It is the ARTS that fosters both this creative and divergent thinking.<br />
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More than that, the video echoes an ASCD article that discuss an ISTE and Verizon study aimed at reversing the lack of engagement trend seen in the STEM disciplines. <a href="http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/06/27/report-professional-development-for-mobile-learning-improves.aspx" target="_blank">THE JOURNAL </a>reports that key findings of the research proves:<br />
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<li>40 percent of middle and high school students at participating VILS schools demonstrated increased engagement;</li>
<li>52 percent of students demonstrated increased proficiency with mobile technologies in learning;</li>
<li>Students of VILS teachers were more inclined than their non-VILS peers to go to college, were more confident about being admitted, and were more inclined to major in a STEM field; and</li>
<li>Students of VILS teachers reported more positive views of math and science and more frequent use of technology, including computers, mobile phones, tablets, and digital media data and tools.</li>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: small;"><br /><strong>WHO BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF INTEGRATION IN THE CLASSROOM AND UNDERSTAND THAT USING THE ARTS AS TOOL TO TEACH THEIR CURRICULM IS WHAT STEAM IS DESIGNED TO DO. WHO ALSO BELIEVE THE ARTS ARE ALSO POWERFUL LENDS TO ENHANCE AND LEARN STEM SUBJECTS. THOSE WHO UDERSTAND THAT STEAM GIVES OUR STUDENTS A CREATIVE EDGE WITH ITS ADDED CREAVITITY SKILLS AND INNOVATION IN OUR GLOBAL ECONOMY.<br /><br />INTERESTED? KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS? Click READ MORE.</strong></span></span> </span></div>
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Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376731650129420532.post-15007433931755887762013-06-28T12:39:00.000-05:002013-06-28T12:39:25.103-05:00John Cleese on Creativity--Cultivating Creativing and Innovation is What's Behind the STE(A)M InitiativeAs one would expect, this is funny coming from John Cleese. However, don't let the light bulb jokes fool you. It's full of substance about creativity in our culture and our need to cultivate it. This is hugely important and the drive behind our STE(A)M initiatives at this year's RA. Please enjoy this but not on the RA floor as it requires too much bandwidth. <br />
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It's absolutely amazing to see this behind-the-scenes preparation that all have contributed to the RA's success. <br /><br /><strong><span style="color: white;">The NEA FAC is one of those players.</span></strong> Watch for our NBI's on the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards, STE(A)M (Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS, and Mathematics), and Costing of New Business Items. We are likely to also have an STE(A)M Legislative Amendment.<br /><br />Hats off to Jessica Fitzwater (MD), NEA FAC Vice-Chair; Oscar Forsman (IL), Treasurer; Rich Nicklay (IA), Secretary; Pamela Gibberman (CA), Music Representative to the NEA FAC Executive Board; Joe Bartell (CA), Music Representative to the NEA FAC Executive Board; Jack Rowe (ID), Visual Arts Representative to the NEA FAC Executive Board; Carlos Meikel (CO), Visual Arts Representative to the NEA FAC Executive Board; Carol Woodman (WA), Drama Representative to the NEA FAC Executive Board; Ginger Fox (CA), Dance Representative to the NEA FAC Executive Board; Michael Gary (), Dance Representative to the NEA FAC Executive Board.<br />
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Thanks to Carrie Lewis, NEA Governance liaison to the CCBR; Aaron Harris, NEA Governance liaison to the Legislative Program; and Jeffrey Goode, NEA Governance liaison to Caucuses. Thespishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436124440394843953noreply@blogger.com0