[Members] Arts Education Newsletter
Rick Dapprich, MASTA Web Manager
mastawebsite at me.com
Mon Jan 11 10:59:58 UTC 2010
Issue No. 7 A publication of the Michigan Youth Arts Leadership
Roundtable January 2010
In this issue
Kendall Student wins national Award
Sara Sciba promotes art education
ArtServe Music Scholarships
National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute for young adults
Data Collection in Arts Ed
CCSSO endorsement
MCACA Minigrants
Regional organizations and schools can benefit
News and Opportunities
VSA Institute, Claiming Creativity in Chicago, MDE conference, Japan
fellowship, AEP in D.C.
Sara Sciba wins 2010 NAEA Higher Education Student Achievement Award
The National Art Education Association bestows one award annually to
recognize excellence in student achievement at the college university
level. This year's award goes to Sara Sciba, a senior at Kendall
College of Art and Design.
Sarah is a talented visual artist. Her work is often displayed on
Kendall's walls as an example of excellence. For the past three years
she has donated artwork to the Grand Rapids Public Schools'
fundraiser, Arts Jam, helping to raise thousands of dollars for their
arts programming.
Sarah consistently demonstrates leadership. She has served as the
Michigan Arts Education Association Student Chapter President and
Secretary and on the state level she has served as the Co-Student
Representative on the MAEA Council for the past 2 years. Last year she
presented at the MAEA conference, How to Start a Student Chapter.
After being inspired during the NAEA conference, she has worked hard
to improve Kendall's Student Chapter to the point of excellence.
The Kendall administration has also recognized Sarah's leadership
capabilities, asking her to represent the student perspective on their
long-term strategic planning committee's Student Life Focus Group. She
was also invited to be a part of the hiring committee for the Director
of Student Activities candidates.
Deadline to Apply for National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music
Institute - January 22nd
Calling all serious music students! Don't miss the opportunity to
apply for the Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music
Institute. This is a four-week summer music program at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the performing Arts in Washington, DC, for student
instrumentalists.
Each year, through an initiative of the NSO National Trustees,
ArtServe Michigan recommends up to five young Michigan musicians for a
National Trustees' fellowship. The program is open, by application
including a recorded audition, to high school students, as well as
college freshmen and sophomores, seriously considering orchestral
music as a career and willing to devote themselves to a musical
education. Applications are evaluated by a team of professional
musicians and music education professionals and the top five
applicants are forwarded for further consideration at the national
level.
Deadline for Applications: Materials must be submitted to ArtServe
Michigan, 1 Clover Court, Wixom, MI 48393 by Friday, January 22, 2010
at 5:00 pm EDT. Students will be notified of the results by mid-March
2010.
The fellowship provides the following benefits to students accepted
into the program:
·Round-trip air transportation to and from Washington, DC
·Housing, meals, and local transportation, during the program
·Private lessons taught by a member of the National Symphony Orchestra
·Chamber music coaching by NSO musicians
·Master classes and seminar
·Attendance at selected rehearsals and performances of the NSO
·Participation in the NSO Summer Music Institute Orchestra
·Performance opportunities in DC metropolitan area
·Exposure to internationally-renowned conductors, soloists, and
musicians
For additional information and details on how to apply for the program
please visit artservemichigan.org.
CCSSO Endorses Data Collection in the Arts and Other ESEA Core
Academic Areas
"The Council is vitally interested in promoting a full and balanced
curriculum for all students. Collecting data on all curricular areas
s the only way to make this balance transparent."
Gene Wilhoit, Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
Educators can testify to the system's renewed emphasis on data-driven
decision-making. The conversations are not only about summative data,
i.e. data that lets us know how successful teaching and learning has
been, but also about formative data, i.e. data that lets us know how
we're doing as we're doing it so that we can adjust and improve
instruction, as well as opportunities to learn data.
Summative data is like a Mapquest that lets us know if we got from
point A to point B. Formative data is more like the gauges on our
automobile that we can monitor and adjust as we drive between points A
and B to ensure we get there safely, without destroying the engine,
and with enough gas. Opportunities to learn data lets us know who was
in the car, who was running behind it, and who was still at home.
In the arts, we have suffered from a scarcity of easily accessible and
reliable data. We have had only two limited arts NAEP (National
Assessment of Educational Progress) tests that tell us what a small
national sampling of 8th grade students know and can do in only the
visual arts and music. There is currently no MEAP or Michigan Merit
Exam to measure student success in the arts. Most districts have not
yet developed common summative and interim assessments for the
Michigan Merit Curriculum's 1-credit arts requirement and Michigan
does not currently gather data on arts course offerings and
participation. At this point in time, it is difficult for educators
and administrators in Michigan to collectively understand how many
students are participating in arts education classes and what those
classes are, how well students performing in these classes, and what
might be done to improve student success in these courses.
On December 10, 2009, the State Education Agency Directors of Arts
Education (SEADAE), the professional organization of my peers across
the country, issued a press release announcing the following Council
of Chief State School Officers endorsement:
"Chiefs should encourage data collections of school courses, teachers,
and numbers of students enrolled. Collections should include the core
academic subjects as defined by ESEA as well as physical education,
health, and career technology education." (ESEA defines core academic
subjects as English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science,
foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history and
geography.)
This recommendation from the professional organization of
superintendents of state departments of education to its members is a
key victory in broadening conversations at the national and local
levels from a limited focus on only English Language Arts and
mathematics to one that includes all ESEA core academic areas. It was
an effort led by the arts educators that comprise SEADAE but it is one
that advocated for inclusion of other content areas also suffering
from a lack of statewide data. The CCSSO recommendation is critical as
states further develop the longitudinal data systems that will inform
education policy for the coming decades.
In the SEADAE press release Sue Gendron, Commissioner of Education
(Maine) and CCSSO President, stated, "As we move ahead with our
unprecedented effort to collect important and comparable data from all
states, it is critical that we have a complete picture of the range
and depth of the curriculum around the country. This includes the
curricular areas that are tested as well as those that are not."
Jerry Zahorchak, CCSSO Liaison to EIMAC and Pennsylvania's
Commissioner of Education, noted "When state data on classes,
teachers, and students are collected, we must have a complete and
accurate picture of what courses are being offered, who is teaching
them, and how many students are receiving the instruction."
Ana Luisa Cardona
Education Consultant
Arts Infused Education and Innovation
Michigan Department of Education
cardonaa at michigan.gov
MCACA's 2010 Programs Reflect Historically Low Funding
The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs has approved
programs for FY 2010 that reflects the greatly reduced revenue
appropriated for grants, address the needs of the state's arts and
cultural organizations, regardless of geography, in a fair and
equitable way and still offer Michigan's citizens some access to high
quality arts and cultural projects, programs and educational
opportunities.
The following are two programs that may be of particular interest to
educators. Additional programs will be announced mid-January, check
out our new website for updates and more: www.themedc.org/arts.
Regional Regranting Minigrant Program - grants of up to $4,000 for
nonprofit organizations, schools and municipalities for high quality
arts and cultural projects. Applications and assistance are available
through one of 19 regional regranting agencies located throughout
Michigan. This list of regranting organizations and contact
information is available on MCACA's website. Applications for mini
grants will not be available until after January 18, 2010; the
deadline to apply is February 24, 2010.
School Bus Fast Grants - grants of up to $500 per K-12 school building
for the documented transportation cost of a field trip to designated
MCACA-affiliated arts and culture organizations. The deadline to apply
is February 8, 2010. Guidelines, applications and the list of
organizations are on MCACA's website.
The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs also supports
special projects and initiatives:
The National Endowment for the Arts' Poetry Out Loud Program and the
Michigan Touring Arts Program managed by the Michigan Humanities
Council (www.michiganhumanities.org).
The New Leaders Art Council of Michigan is MCACA's youth advisory
council and will offer a grant program in 2010 just for youth projects
(www.themedc.org/arts).
MCACA partners with Arts Midwest (www.artsmidwest.org), who offers
grant assistance and brings national and international touring artists
to Michigan, among a host of other programs.
For more information, contact Carolyn Damstra, Program Manager: damstrac at michigan.org
(please note new email address).
News and Opportunities
VSA arts Institute, February 25-27
The VSA arts Institute is a series of professional development
workshops that focus on designing and delivering arts learning
experiences that reach students with disabilities. Through discussion
and hands-on arts activities, participants gain an understanding of
the foundations of arts learning and inclusive education, and how to
use inclusive practices in their work. Learn more and register at
vsami.org.
Jan. 22nd RFP Deadline for MDE-NCA School Improvement Conference
Share your arts education strategies with others statewide. "Effective
School Improvement Practices" will take place in Lansing, March
15-16. Presentations should emphasize hands-on, practical information
that is directly related to improving student achievement. National
speakers will be featured, along with selected outstanding concurrent
sessions conducted by practitioners and featuring what works in
schools. For more information and to submit a proposal email Ana Luisa
Cardona at cardonaa at michigan.gov.
Claiming Creativity symposium in Chicago, April 21-24
The symposium Claiming Creativity will take place at Columbia College
Chicago. The audience will be composed of practitioners and
policymakers from all over the world. Claiming Creativity will offer
presenters and other participants a practical forum for the
investigation of long-standing and emerging issues in the arts and
arts related fields. Through workshops, roundtable discussions and
selected presentations from leading experts on creativity in the arts,
commerce, science and industry, participants will share research,
develop works in progress, and share their findings through a web
forum and a symposium "journal," published through one of Columbia
College Chicago's academic presses. Visit Claiming Creativity for
more information.
Deadline for the U.S./Japan Creative Artists' Program: February 1, 2010
Eligible applicants are architects, choreographers, composers,
creative writers, designers, media artists, playwrights, visual
artists, or solo theater artists who work with original material
(including puppeteers, storytellers and performance artists).
Multidisciplinary artists and artistic directors of theater or dance
companies are also eligible. The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
works cooperatively with the National Endowment for the Arts to
sponsor The U.S/Japan Creative Artists' Program. The program provides
support for up to five outstanding contemporary and traditional
artists from the United States to spend a five-month residency in
Japan to pursue their
individual artistic goals. Click here for details.
Registration opens January 11 for AEP's Spring 2010 National Forum in
D.C.
Arts Education Partnership's conference focuses on new leadership not
just at the federal level, but also in how it relates to arts and
education leaders of the next generation, and the new ideas and
concepts that will help bring us to the next stage in making the arts
a real and cohesive part of every child's education. Invited speakers
include: Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education; Rocco Landesman,
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. April 9-10. To
learn more and register, click here.
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