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This online newsletter from ACA is
published periodically and intends to provide you with current, important
information from the field of Arts Learning and to support vital,
substantive arts learning throughout the State. Please feel free to send
your comments and requests for content information. We look forward to
serving your arts learning interests and needs.
The Arizona Commission on the Arts is proud
to announce the Arizona State Legislature approved a $200,000
increase to the Arizona Commission on the Arts, dedicated to
supporting new and continued arts learning initiatives across the State
of Arizona. As a part of these new dollars we'd like to introduce
Step into Arts Learning
A
new pilot artist residency program intended to introduce schools and
communities
that have not
received funding assistance from the Arizona Commission on the Arts
in the past 3 years, with particular interest and support
provided for rural and underserved student populations.
The program provides funds and technical assistance resources for the
design and presentation of standards based arts education programs
by teaching artists. These grant dollars are structured
with
$1,200
for a mini program and $2,000 for a full program to cover fees for
guest artists to present an artist in residence program, conduct
professional development for
classroom teachers
or out-of-school program staff, present a community event
and funds for
supplies and travel. There is no cash match required of the
applicant.
For more information on the Step into Arts Learning
grant
CLICK HERE
Transforming Arts Teaching: The Role of
Higher Education
This recent Dana Foundation forum looked at how colleges,
conservatories, and other higher education institutions can better
prepare and help those who teach the arts in pre-K through grade 12.
The forum sessions are now online as web casts by visiting their
website.
http://www.dana.org/events/detail.aspx?id=7934
Upgraded and
Renovated: The Community Audit for Arts Education
In November 2000, the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network
developed an effective tool known as A Community Audit for Arts
Education: Better Schools, Better Skills, Better Communities, to assist
local education, community and cultural leaders in assessing the status
of arts education in their schools and school districts, and to
encourage community partnerships to strengthen and expand arts education
for all students. While designed to encourage serious evaluation, it is
most valuable as a vehicle for encouraging conversation and community
planning in support of arts education. A workable PDF version is
available online.
http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/kcaaen/resources/CAudit6-9.pdf
New Website Supports Musicians, Music Educators
The Herb Alpert Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a new
website to support musicians, music educators, and all others interested
in building a career in the music business.
http://www.artistshousemusic.org/Home
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The Coalition
Toolkit
provides information and resources to begin, develop, or sustain an arts
education coalition in your community. In each tabbed section of the
Toolkit, you will find information, suggestions and a wealth of
resources. It provides new and emerging coalitions with conceptual and
philosophical underpinnings to build their organizations on a firm
ideological foundation. For established coalitions, it provides ideas
and suggestions for sustaining energy and enthusiasm for continuous
improvement in community arts education programs. This Toolkit helps
coalitions to shortcut the process with examples of successful work
already accomplished. This Toolkit has been designed in a flexible
format, allowing it to evolve as a document, and to be modified and
expanded upon either by ACE/FAAE or by its users. Sponsored in part by
the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs,
the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts
http://www.faae.org/content/coalitions/toolkit.asp
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Arizona State Legislature approves $200,000
increase to the Arizona Commission on the Arts, dedicated to
supporting new and continued arts learning initiatives across the State
of Arizona. The Arizona Commission on the Arts is proud to announce the
Step into Arts Learning grant program, with more grant programs to come
this Fall, available to
public and not for
profit Pre-K–12 schools and after-school programs in Arizona. Apply now to
bring one of these new programs into your site today.
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Step into Arts Learning
A new pilot artist residency program intended to introduce schools and
communities
that have not
received funding assistance from the Arizona Commission on the Arts
in the past 3 years, with particular interest and support
provided for rural and underserved student populations.
The program provides funds and technical assistance resources for the
design and presentation of standards based arts education programs
by teaching artists. These grant dollars are structured
with
$1,200
for a mini program and $2,000 for a full program to cover fees for
guest artists to present an artist in residence program, conduct
professional development for
classroom teachers
or out-of-school program staff, present a community event
and funds for
supplies and travel. There is no cash match required of the
applicant. For more information on the Step into Arts Learning
Click Here
US Airways Education Foundation
Governed by a group of educators, community leaders, and US Airways
employees, the foundation will award grants of up to $5,000 each to
nonprofit organizations located in the markets served by the airline.
Grant application deadline
October 1 of each year.
http://www.usairways.com/awa/content/aboutus/corporategiving/education.aspx
The Best Buy Teach
Award Program
recognizes creative uses of interactive technology in K-12 classrooms.
Winning programs focus on kids using technology to learn standards-based
curriculum. Schools must be located within 50 miles of a Best Buy store
to be eligible. Applications must be completed and submitted online by
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on September 30,
2007.
http://communications.bestbuy.com/communityrelations/teach.asp
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All-American Sports Poet National Contest
The Center for Sports Poetry at the Institute for International Sport
officially announces today the 2007 All-American Sports Poet National
Contest. This second national sports poetry contest provides elementary,
middle, high school and college students from across the country with
the unique opportunity over the summer to craft poems which clearly
incorporate sport as the motif. Teachers are encouraged to
administer in-school sports poetry contests and submit the winning poems
to the All-American Sports Poet National Contest. Submissions will be
accepted beginning September 1, 2007
with a submission deadline of October 15, 2007. In December 2007,
the Center will announce 25 elementary, 25 middle and 25 high school
students as members of the National Sports Poetry Honor Role and name 10
elementary, 10 middle, 10 high school and 10 college students as All
–American Sports Poets. Detailed information on the contest, submission
criteria and honors for the winners may be found by visiting the
Institutes' website at
www.internationalsport.com
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Governor Janet Napolitano Receives the
2007 National Award
for State Arts Leadership
(Image: Robert C. Booker, ED of the AZ Commission on the Arts,
Virginia Cardenas, chair of the AZ Commission on the Arts Board, and
Governor Janet Napolitano.)
at the 75th Annual U.S. Conference of Mayors’ for her ambitious and
committed support for the arts. During her inaugural year as governor,
Governor Napolitano issued three politically risky line item vetoes that
saved public funding for the arts in Arizona. Governor Napolitano,
herself a high school musician and a lifelong opera fan, supports the
arts not only in words and policy, but also as an avid attendee. She
hosts the Governor’s Arts Awards Dinner, which celebrates individuals,
organizations, and corporations for their outstanding contributions to
the arts in the state.
“We honor Governor
Napolitano for her unwavering support for the arts and for making
significant and lasting improvements to the arts landscape in the
Southwest,” said Robert L.
Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts. “Governor Napolitano
has helped make
the arts even more accessible in Arizona communities.”
“This is a great day
for Arizona,” said Robert C. Booker, Executive Director of the Arizona
Commission on the Arts. “Governor Napolitano truly understands the power
of the arts as an economic tool, a way to educate our young people, and
a path to cultural understanding across all of Arizona.”
“Every year, the U.S. Conference of Mayors recognizes the efforts of
those who believe as much as we do, that the arts are the heart of our
society. Arts and culture help shape a city’s quality of life, but
mayors also understand the connection between the arts and business and
the arts’ impact on the local economy,” said Tom Cochran, executive
director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Congratulations - 2007 Coming Up Taller Awards Semifinalists
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and its Coming
Up Taller partners, the Institute of Museum and Library Services,
National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the
Humanities, are proud to announce the 2007 Coming Up Taller Award
Semifinalists. Fifty exceptional programs from across the country were
selected, reflecting a diversity of arts and humanities disciplines and
settings.
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La Pilita Association
La Pilita Youth Docent Program
Tucson, AZ
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Pima County Public Library
Word Journeys
Tucson, AZ
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ACA Panelist Nomination
Form
Are you interested in becoming a Volunteer Panelist for the Arizona
Commission on the Arts? Or, are you interested in
nominating someone you think could make a valuable contribution to the
panel process?
Click here to download the new Volunteer Panelist Nomination Form and
Instructions.
SURVEY - Tell us
what you think about the ACA Residency Roster
As you may know The Arizona Commission on the Arts (ACA) will not
conduct a formal application/audition process to our Residency Roster in
2007. ACA will take this time to develop a new and more robust online
database and take a thoughtful look into the work of artists on our
Roster, teaching artist trends, and existing Roster policies and
procedures. We would like to ask you, as a user of the Residency
Roster, to take part in an online survey around the Roster. It is
important for us to design a roster that responds to the needs and
concerns of the field. Deadline to complete the survey,
August 24,
2007.
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226NLKEFTDW
WE WANT TO
HEAR FROM YOU -- IN PERSON!
The Arizona Commission on the Arts will be hosting listening
sessions across the state and we want to hear from you.
Click here to find out how.
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The arts work. They make children smart
From The Association For Supervision and Curriculum Development:
3.2
What's working:
The arts work. They make children smart. Chicago has many arts
organizations that send artists into the schools to integrate drama,
dance, visual arts, and music into the teaching of other subjects. A.R.T.
(Art Resources in Teaching) has 35 artists that work in public
Schools. CCAP, CAPE, and Urban Gateways also send artists into the
schools. In an evaluation done in the 1990s, schools with 84% poverty
had average scores on the state tests rise from approximately 40%
reading at grade level to 65% reading at grade level. These high poverty
schools where scores rose were all part of an intensive arts integrated
infusion into the curriculum. For over 30 years SAT scores also show
that students who have taken 4 years of fine arts in high school score
50 points higher on the SAT. So why doesn't every school have an arts
program?
What's not working:
Enough principals and teachers who appreciate the fact that the arts
allow children to have real experiences that develop their knowledge,
vocabulary, and ability to think. Teachers should be taught how to
create active learning situations as part of the classroom curriculum.
Recent brain imagery shows that the brain scan of a boy sitting still
listening to the teacher lecture is the same as the brain scan of a girl
who is asleep.
http://www.wholechildeducation.org/share/stories/
Spellings Favors
Wiggle Room for Schools
USA Today
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Wednesday proposed "a
more nuanced" way of evaluating schools under President Bush's No Child
Left Behind school reform law — one that would differentiate between
schools that are close to meeting state math, reading and science
standards and those that are "chronic, chronic underperformers."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-06-27-spellings_N.htm
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AzDEO Proudly Presents - BILL EVANS
A two-day workshop September 15th and 16th
at Arcadia High School 8:30-5:00. The purpose of this workshop is to
give Arizona teachers the experience and tools necessary to properly
teach the Bartenieff Fundamentals and Laban Effort Principles, both of
which are included in the new Arizona State Standards for Dance. In
addition, each day will also include a 1.5 hour Bill Evans Technique
Class! AzDEO Members $150; Non-Members $225 Fee includes two full-days
of workshops as well as water and lunch both days. You will also receive
16 hours toward re-certification. Space is limited. Registration will
not be accepted without payment. Must be postmarked by Sept. 1st. To
Register:
www.azdeo.org
Arts Education Conference: Pin the Tail on the Assessment
October 8, 2007, Creating Meaning via
the Intersection of assessment and the arts. Join with your colleagues and
the Arizona Department of Education for a day-long conference focused on
arts education and arts assessment in Arizona. This year's conference will
focus on assessment and the myriad of ways in which the arts are and can be
assessed in the classroom. Who Should Attend: Music, dance, visual arts and
theatre teachers, school administrators, parents, teaching artists, arts
organizations and others interested in arts education. Cost $75. For more
information or to register visit
https://www.ade.az.gov/onlineregistration/EventLocationSelection.asp?EventID=1113
2007 Afterschool Conference
Presented by the Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence. Saturday,
October 20, 2006, Mesa Convention
Center. Participate in over 30 best practice workshops including site
management, arts and literacy, behavior management, program evaluation and
more. Scholarships are available. For more information visit
www.azafterschool.org
31st
Annual Southwest Arts Conference (SWAC)
Save the Date - January 25th, 2008
New feature this year, look for
an Arts Learning Track throughout the day designed especially for arts
educators.
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