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font-size: 8pt;" rowspan="1" align="left" colspan="1">Issue No. 5 </td> <td style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;" rowspan="1" align="center" colspan="1">A publication of the Michigan Youth Arts Leadership Roundtable </td> <td style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;" rowspan="1" align="right" colspan="1">November 2009</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK3"><tbody><tr> <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" valign="top" styleclass="style_IntroText" rowspan="1" align="left" colspan="2"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In this issue</span></font></td></tr><tr> <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" valign="top" width="50%" styleclass="style_IntroText" rowspan="1" align="left" colspan="1"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><a href="#MYA">Injecting STEAM into STEM</a><br><font size="1">A paradigm for talking about the necessity of arts education</font><br><br><a href="#mcaca">MCACA's List</a><br><font size="1">A list of arts nonprofits that enrich learning</font><span style="font-style: italic;"><br><br></span><a href="#mde">MDE's Infusion of Innovation</a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span><font size="1">In search of an arts-infused education</font><span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span></font></td><td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" valign="top" styleclass="style_IntroText" rowspan="1" align="left" colspan="1"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><a href="#artserve">ArtServe</a><br><font size="1">A revised advocacy toolkit tailored to the economic and budgetary crisis is forthcoming; Kennedy Awards deadline</font><br><br><a href="#national">National News</a><br><font size="1">On Location arts media project deadline; NEA gets funding boost</font><br> </font></td> </tr> </tbody></table><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK6"> <tbody><tr> <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" styleclass="style_ArticleText" rowspan="1" align="left" colspan="1"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><a name="MYA"><img alt="MYA" title="MYA" src="http://img.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif"></a><hr> <font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><img border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.105" hspace="5" width="150" alt="Michigan Youth Arts logo" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs066/1101655400290/img/105.gif?a=1102806052125" align="right">From STEM to STEAM</span></font><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In these times of economic struggle, there has been heightened discussion about educational standards and the need for innovation. At last week's President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) meeting, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and others talked about the critical need for improving STEM education - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - as a path to fostering the innovation and leadership required to refashion our struggling industries and position our country as a leader in developing new technologies and new ways of thinking.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There's something to add to that conversation.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, in a recent article in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Huffington Post</span>, writes, "Right now, our nation sees left-brain thinking, focused on logic and reasoning, as critical to future economic development...What's missing from STEM is right brain thinking - embodied by what I call the key "IDEA" (Intuition, Design, Emotion, Art). We need both both halves of the brain to work together and channel that brilliance through our hands and propagate ideas throughout our world."</span><br><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maeda advocates injecting the STEM conversation with STEAM. That A is for the Arts, and it's crucial to any discussion of innovation. Arts education, with its emphasis on creative and critical thinking <span style="font-style: italic;">and making</span> is the soul of invention. There is no new technology without creativity, without the experimentation, the risk-taking, the self-criticism and the discipline that are fundamental to the study and making of art. <br><br>To develop anything new, one has to start with an IDEA.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img height="129" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.107" hspace="10" width="131" alt="STEAM" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs066/1101655400290/img/107.gif?a=1102806052125" align="left">So, consider this paradigm in your conversations with policy-makers about arts education. Science and math are vital to a complete education, and rigorous training from qualified teachers in the sciences is essential to developing intellectual rigor, and analytic and critical thinking. Arts education is <span style="font-style: italic;">likewise</span> essential, and rigorous training from qualified arts instructors develops independent thinking, creativity, discipline, and critical making. <br><br><br>That's a recipe for innovation.</span><br> </font></td> </tr> </tbody></table><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK4"> <tbody><tr> <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" valign="top" styleclass="style_IntroText" rowspan="1" align="left" colspan="1"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><hr> <font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><br><img border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.97" hspace="5" alt="MCACA" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs066/1101655400290/img/97.jpg?a=1102806052125" align="right"><a name="mcaca"><img alt="mcaca" title="mcaca" src="http://img.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif"></a>Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs<br><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">List of area arts nonprofits<br><br></span></font></span></font>As school districts reel from the State of Michigan's ongoing budget crisis, they increasingly sacrifice art classes and teachers as a cost-cutting measure. However, most nonprofit arts organizations see it as part of their mission to provide various arts experiences to local schools. This is one way a community can make up for what's lost and/or enhance remaining school art programs. These music, theater, dance and art organizations and museums can provide school children the opportunity to experience real artworks and artifacts, see live performances, meet professional artists and realize that the arts are a part of a rich and meaningful life. Unfortunately, the loss of state funding from MCACA has significantly impacted ability of non profit arts and cultural organizations to provide educational programs. When a nonprofit loses funding, the first programs to go are usually the non-revenue generating programs such as lectures, group tours, workshops, free performances and classes. As a result, a very real possibility emerges that a generation of Michigan's children will grow up not significantly experiencing the arts. To see what's available for students in your area, a list of MCACA's past awardees and links to their websites are available <a track="on" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=6i8zfcdab.0.w74licdab.c8xo74bab.0&ts=S0421&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michigan.gov%2Fhal%2F0%2C1607%2C7-160-17445_19272-57665--%2C00.html" linktype="link" target="_blank">online</a>. MCACA staff is also available to help connect schools with area art organizations.<br> </font></td> </tr> </tbody></table><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK9"> <tbody><tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" styleclass="style_ArticleByLine" rowspan="1" align="left" colspan="1"><hr><a name="mde"><img alt="mde" title="mde" src="http://img.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif"></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><img border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.96" width="150" alt="Michigan Department of Education" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs066/1101655400290/img/96.jpg?a=1102806052125" align="right"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Arts Infused Education and Innovation...What's Behind the New Title</span></span><br>Observant readers have noticed a new title behind my signature - Arts Infused Education and Innovation Consultant. Some have wondered if there is more behind the new long title than its catchy sound.<br><br>As noted in earlier editions of this newsletter, some changes at the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) reflect declining state funding to support the work of MDE. Federal funds now comprise a larger share of support for the work of MDE. With these funds comes greater accountability to those federal fund sources which include: Title 1, Title II, and School Improvement. The overall goal of MDE is now focused on promoting instructional excellence to increase district, school, and student achievement of Michigan's K-12 curriculum.<br><br>To accomplish this goal, the position of Arts Education Consultant has been revised to:<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Provide leadership in curriculum, instruction and assessment to support the goal of increasing student achievement for all students. <br><br>The position initiates, leads, develops, provides, distributes, and supports programs, products, and tools that promote instructional excellence in the arts (dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and new media), arts infused education, and innovation.<br><br>The position provides professional and technical assistance to local and intermediate schools districts and high priority schools; coordinates activities with other MDE and state government offices and special projects designed to increase instructional excellence in high priority schools; serves as a liaison with state and national organizations; assists in the implementation and monitoring of state, regional, and federal programs, as well as State Board of Education policies; assists with research and development in arts, arts infused education, and innovation in high priority schools.<br><br>The responsibility is broad in scope requiring new and unprecedented approaches to arts, arts infused instructional excellence, and innovation in schools that reflect emerging and best practices. <br></div><br>Arts infusion was selected for this position title in keeping with the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations publication, <a style="font-style: italic;" track="on" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=6i8zfcdab.0.z74licdab.c8xo74bab.0&ts=S0421&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.menc.org%2Fdocuments%2Fonlinepublications%2FINTERart.pdf" linktype="link" target="_blank">Authentic Connections</a>, which describes arts infusion as "...the most rare and sophisticated of the three" approaches to interdisciplinary instruction. <br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">"In this model, the depth of a teacher's knowledge and the well-rounded background of the students become critical. Students' learning and outcomes in infused approaches are focused on strong relationships between complementary subjects. One project or activity may show students' learning in both areas since the relationship is so integral to both. Students accustomed to a classroom without artificial partitions of time and division of subject matter into "packages" may regularly and consistently apply and transfer knowledge from one discipline to other disciplines. In addition, students may develop robust habits of mind to seek, establish and test connections." <br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br></div>The latter part of the title refers to the fact that an arts infused education fosters innovation. This line of thinking is in keeping with the work of Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein, Ken Robinson, Daniel Pink, and Scott Noppe-Brandon whose research points to the relationship between arts infused education, imaginative thinking, and innovation. <br><br>So, there is a whole lot more to this new title than its snappy ring. Stay tuned to how this new work unfolds. <br><br><div style="text-align: right;">Ana Luisa Cardona<br><a href="mailto:cardonaa@michigan.gov" target="_blank">cardonaa@michigan.gov</a><br>Arts Infused Education and Innovation Consultant<br>Michigan Department of Education<br>Curriculum and Instruction Unit<br>Office of Education Improvement & Innovation<br></div></td> </tr></tbody></table> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK7"> <tbody><tr> <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" styleclass="style_ArticleText" rowspan="1" align="left" colspan="1"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><hr><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><img border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.98" hspace="5" width="150" alt="Artserve Logo" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs066/1101655400290/img/98.jpg?a=1102806052125" align="right"></span></font><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><font size="4"><a name="artserve"><img alt="artserve" src="http://img.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif" title="artserve"></a>ArtServe Revises Grant to Produce Action Toolkit to Address Immediate Funding Crisis</font> </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In September, ArtServe announced that it received a grant from the Kennedy Center National Partnerships to develop a new Arts Education Advocacy Toolkit in 2010. However, given the current crisis in per pupil and 20J funding cuts, we have decided to address the immediate crisis by producing an Arts Education Action Toolkit. While we will continue to produce a complete Arts Education Advocacy Toolkit available for distribution in 2010, we feel that addressing the current crisis is more than prudent. The kit will include tools that will aid in your efforts to preempt funding cuts to arts education as well as provide reactionary assistance when cuts are being considered. </span><br><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are working to complete this toolkit before the end of the week and will distribute it through our public policy e-alerts as well as our website. If you are not already receiving ArtServe's Public Policy E-Alerts please click the link below to register. </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a track="on" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=6i8zfcdab.0.874licdab.c8xo74bab.0&ts=S0421&p=http%3A%2F%2Fcapwiz.com%2Fartsusa%2Fmi%2Fmlm%2Fsignup%2F" linktype="link" target="_blank">http://capwiz.com/artsusa/mi/mlm/signup/</a><br><br><br><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Arts Education Award Applications due Friday</span></font><br>ArtServe Michigan will continue to accept applications for the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education and National School Boards Association Award and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Award (State Level), until Friday, November 6 at 5pm. Schools may nominate themselves and it's a great opportunity to showcase the excellence in arts education in Michigan schools at the state and national levels. For more information on the awards programs and nomination procedures, follow this <a track="on" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=6i8zfcdab.0.674licdab.c8xo74bab.0&ts=S0421&p=http%3A%2F%2Fartservemichigan.org%2F%3Fq%3Dnode%2F63" linktype="link" target="_blank">link</a>.<br><br></span></font></td> </tr> </tbody></table><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK8"> <tbody><tr> <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" styleclass="style_ArticleText" rowspan="1" align="left" colspan="1"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><hr><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> <a name="national"><img alt="national" title="national" src="http://img.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif"></a>National News</span></font><br><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Location brings the power of digital storytelling to the classroom.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Applications for this Kennedy Center program are being accepted until November 13. Ten middle schools will be selected for a visit by a specially equipped bus and its team of media-teaching professionals, which will work with students in 3-week sessions to create documentaries about the arts in their communities. The films will be posted on the national website. To learn more and apply, visit </span><a track="on" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=6i8zfcdab.0.574licdab.c8xo74bab.0&ts=S0421&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.onlocationproject.org" linktype="link" target="_blank">www.onlocationproject.org</a>.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">NEA gets funding boost</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last week, Congress passed a $12.5 million funding increase as part of the FY 2010 Interior Appropriations bill for both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The nation's two federal grantmaking cultural agencies will now each have budgets of $167.5 million, their highest funding levels in 16 years. 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