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We thank the following schools for participating in the On Your Way student talent recognition program. - Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. School of the Arts
- ChiArts
- Denver School of the Arts
- Design and Architecture Senior High School
- Duke Ellington School of the Arts
- Harrison School for the Arts
- Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
- Interlochen Center for the Arts
- LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
- Las Vegas Academy Performing and Visual Arts
- Lusher Charter School
- Oakland School for the Arts
- Perpich Center for Arts Education
- Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts
- SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
- Tri-Cities High School
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Life in the Arts Season 3
Upcoming episodes from: - Gstar School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting
- Duke Ellington School of the Arts
- Orange Grove Middle Magnet School of the Arts
- Oakland School for the Arts
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asn calendar of events and gatherings
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January 24-25 2013
ARTS EDUCATION SUMMIT & BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX
May 2-3, 2013
ARTS EDUCATION SUMMIT & BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York City, NY
October 22 - 25, 2013
CONFERENCE
New York City, NY
NYU Tisch, NYU Steinhardt, Laguardia
November 2014
CONFERENCE
Denver, CO Denver School of the Arts, Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy
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arts education policy review journal
topic, national dance education organization: building a future for dance education in the arts | |  arts education policy review journal
volume 113, issue 4, 2012
national dance education organization: building a future for dance education in the arts
by jane bonbrighta & susan mcgreevy-nicholsa
ABSTRACT
The field of dance arts education in the United States is in an entirely different place today than it was at the turn of the century. Much of this change is due to a convergence of events that involved: federal and state legislation, policy, and funding that supported dance in arts education; a forty-year transition of dance out of departments of physical education into the colleges of fine and performing arts; and the establishment of the National Dance Education Organization, which provided infrastructure (standards, assessments, research, certification, teacher training, professional development, and programs and services) that was needed to support dance taught as an art form. This infrastructure has become an integral component to building, nurturing, and sustaining strong arts-based programs over the years at local, state, or national levels.
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| 2012 kennedy center honors | |  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced the selection of the seven individuals who will receive the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. Recipients to be honored at the 35th annual national celebration of the arts are: bluesman Buddy Guy, actor and director Dustin Hoffman, comedian and television host David Letterman, ballerina Natalia Makarova, and rock band Led Zeppelin. While Led Zeppelin is being honored as a band, keyboardist/bassist John Paul Jones, guitarist Jimmy Page, and singer Robert Plant will each receive the Kennedy Center Honors. Learn more. |
| 55th grammy nominees announced | | 
The recording industry's most prestigious award, the GRAMMY, is presented annually by The Recording Academy. A GRAMMY is awarded by The Recording Academy's voting membership to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences. It is truly a peer honor, awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions (GRAMMY Awards Voting Process). The annual GRAMMY Awards presentation brings together thousands of creative and technical professionals in the recording industry from all over the world.
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art basel miami beach
world's largest art fair wraps up
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10 december 2012
Art Basel enters its second decade in Miami Beach with a display of premier quality works and strong programming across the city
Miami Beach, Florida, USA - The 2012 edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach officially closed yesterday, Sunday, December 9. Praised by critics, exhibitors and visitors as Art Basel's most serious presentation in Miami Beach to date, its galleries across the board reported consistent sales throughout the week.
The show, whose main sponsor is UBS, again attracted 50,000 visitors, generating an attendance of 70,000 over the five show days. Art Basel in Miami Beach was visited by over 130 museum and institution groups from across the world. Renowned private collectors from the Americas, Europe and emerging markets returned, and were joined by new collectors from around the globe. As Art Basel marked its second decade in Miami Beach, more than 250 leading galleries from 31 countries from North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia presented the highest quality of work at the show, underlining its seriousness. Given a particularly strong representation of Modern material at the show, as well as the entry of a dynamic selection of younger galleries - including nine that were newly accepted to the fair from NADA- visitors explored 11 decades and over 110 years of art history within the Miami Beach Convention Center. Additionally, collaborations with local and international partners ensured a diverse and deep program of art events, from Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon to Art Public, Art Video and Art Film, making this edition a celebration of the artists and their galleries. Learn more. |
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Americans for the Arts' Education Council - Musical Chairs
In the last issue of e-news, I shined our teacher spotlight on Jessica Wilt as the incoming chair for the Americans for the Arts' Education Committee.
Jessica is actually the vice chair for 2013, and will be the chair in 2014.
The 2013 chair is actually Ken Busby.
And the 2012 outgoing chair is Victoria Plettner Saunders. Thank you to Victoria for her courageous leadership over the past year!
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executive director's message
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Dear
Greetings members and friends!
So many of us fill our weekends with arts experiences. This weekend my dance card had only one partner, Art Basel Miami Beach. I started at Design Miami, a global forum for design, which has a cathedral-like facade defined by long white inflated tubes. I ended by closing the Miami Beach Convention Center, where I gorged on celebrated works by Botero, Picasso, Warhol, and was inspired by 250 galleries that represent amazingly diverse new artists.
Later this week, we will announce the winners for the On Your Way talent recognition program for high school students talented in classical voice, filmmaking, musical theater, and visual arts. Students applied with online portfolios, which were judged by individuals selected from prestigious colleges and conservatories. Winners will not only receive scholarships, but they'll also get valuable exposure and advice. All students who auditioned got a jump on applying to colleges by creating the portfolios. Participating schools are listed further down in this e-news.
On January 25, 2013, we will hold our Board of Directors meeting in Houston, Texas at the High School for Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA). Committee Chairs will convene, report, and strategize. We eagerly invite members to serve on the committees and we hope that you will consider doing so. You can view the list of committees and their members, and contact Kristy Callaway for more information or to sign up.
We come together, we share, and we apply what we learn. I pray that every facet of your professional and personal life is filled with intersections and interactions that challenge and inspire you.
Good luck and Godspeed.
Sincerely,
Kristy Callaway
Executive Director
Arts Schools Network
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| NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT | |  arizona school for the arts, phoenix, az
principal, sara maline bohn
Founded in 1995, Arizona School for the Arts is a rigorous academic and performing arts learning community cultivating leaders of the future. Located in downtown Phoenix, ASA currently serves more than 800 students in grades 5-12. As one of the top schools in the state of Arizona, ASA has expanded its footprint through a multi-phased plan. During the Three Phase process, ASA has moved from leased spaces in the neighborhood to its own self-contained campus. The previously undeveloped corner lot on 3rd street and McDowell has been transformed to a beautiful and functional courtyard and the four-story McDowell South building stands as a new landmark in downtown Phoenix. ASA strives to be recognized as the premier source of college preparatory academic and arts education providers in the metropolitan Phoenix area and the state. ASA continues to build enduring partnerships with the area's premier arts organizations and has established itself as a vital part of downtown Phoenix's vibrant educational and artistic community.
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south carolina governor's school for the arts and humanities, greenville, sc
president, dr. bruce halverson
 The South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities is a public residential high school for emerging artists. The school gives artistically talented high school students from across the state the opportunity to study their art in a supportive environment of artistic and academic excellence. Arts concentrations include Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts.
The nine-month residential high school is modeled after a master-apprentice community with an arts faculty who are all practicing artists, as well as educators in their areas of expertise. In addition to rigorous pre-professional arts training, students receive an intense and innovative academic education that fosters connections to the arts while meeting all the requirements necessary for a South Carolina high school diploma.
Dancers can attend the residential high school from tenth through twelfth grades. All other art areas are two-year programs for eleventh and twelfth grade students.
Students apply and audition to attend the school. There is no tuition to attend, although there are minimal processing and meal plan fees. Life at the Governor's School is a constant collaboration. Emerging artists from different backgrounds and all five art areas work together, learn from one another, and grow to form bonds that last long past graduation.
Summer programs include Discovery, Academy, Summer Dance and Teachers' Institutes. Learn more.  | | TEACHER SPOTLIGHT | |
 nina m. yancy, desoto 2013 rhodes scholar dance teacher, citystep @ harvard, cambridge, ma
Nina M. Yancy, DeSoto, is a senior at Harvard majoring in social studies. Nina has interned in the British House of Commons, for CNN, and for the Center for American Political Studies. She has been a teacher and director of Citystep, an organization that provides dance instruction to low income youth, and worked with developmentally challenged youth in Peru. She is also a member of the Harvard Ballet Company and a choreographer for the Expressions Dance Company. While in high school, her family lost their home in Hurricane Katrina. Nina was recently chosen to be the first class marshal of her graduating class. At Oxford, she intends to do the M.Sc. in global health science.
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u.s. department of education webinar december 11th
common core state standards and its implications for the arts | |  The Arts in Education staff at the U.S. Department of Education would like to invite you to participate in the following webinar...
The Common Core State Standards and its Implications for the Arts
Session Facilitators:
Scott Jones (lead), Arts Education Partnership; Denise Brandenburg, National Endowment for the Arts; Scott Norton, Council of Chief State School Officers; and, Scott Shuler, Connecticut State Department of Education
Since their release in 2010, the Common Core State Standards have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. Now, as attention shifts from the adoption of the Common Core to implementation, many questions arise regarding how this affects the arts and other core subjects that complete a well-rounded education. What is the status of states' plans to move the Common Core Standards from the conceptual realm into reality? What impact, if any, has the Common Core initiative had on current efforts to revise the 1994 National Arts Standards? And how can the arts help inform states' efforts to redesign student assessment and teacher evaluation systems to conform to the new requirements of the Common Core?
Scheduling and logistical information regarding the webinar can be found below. A handout and an Outlook invite for the webinar are attached to this email. Please feel free to forward this information to other parties on your management team that might be interested in this topic; your help in disseminating this information is appreciated. Questions and/or concerns should be directed to justis.tuia@ed.gov.
Topic: The Common Core State Standards and its Implications for the Arts
Date and Time:
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Event number: 740 189 662
Event password: ed12
Event address for attendees:
https://educateevents.webex.com/educateevents/onstage/g.php?d=740189662&t=a
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the common core ate my baby and other urban legends
| | educational leadership, magazine
published by association of supervision and curriculum design
december 2012/january 2013 | volume 70 | number 4
common core: now what? pages 10-16
by timothy shanahan
 A noted literacy expert dismantles five myths about the new standards and shows what the standards really entail.
Urban legends are plausible stories-told as truths-that revolve around the complexities and challenges of modern life. Such legends are usually told as though they happened to someone the teller knows (a friend of a friend), such as the story about the friend's grandmother who dried her poodle in the microwave. (If these tales are meant to be cautionary tales, I've never been sure whether that one was supposed to warn us of the dangers of technology or of grandmothers.) Sociologists haven't managed to pin down exactly how and why these stories get started, but they're clearly spread by word of mouth and there's usually a grain of truth in them (and sometimes, as it turns out in the case of "the dingo ate my baby" story, more than a grain of truth).
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| more principals learn job in real schools | | 
4 december 2012
practical readiness, local needs stressed
by jaclyn zubrzycki
A growing number of principal-preparation initiatives are forsaking university classrooms in favor of much more familiar training grounds: the schools and districts where those aspiring leaders will end up working.
Through coaching and mentorship initiatives, residencies and internships, and other new programs, both districts and university education schools are turning their focus to building practical readiness, in context, and offering continued learning and support for principals already on the job. Traditional principal-training programs "haven't been as connected to the realities of the profession as they need to be," said Dick Flanary, the deputy executive director of programs and services for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, based in Alexandria, Va. "Universities talk about preparation, and school districts talk about readiness." Learn more. |
interview with dave brubeck
from latimes archive 12/05/2010 | | |
latimes.com
from the archives: dave brubeck at 90: 'i'm very fortunate'
by gene seymour, special to the los angeles times
5 december 2012
The jazz legend is being celebrated with a Clint Eastwood-produced documentary on TCM and a CD retrospective.
 Two years before Dave Brubeck died, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the great jazzman on the occasion of his 90th birthday. With Brubeck's death at 92, we share our visit to his home in this profile from Dec. 5, 2010.
WILTON, Conn -- Most people who have never lived in Connecticut imagine that the whole state is exactly like Wilton. It's not, but driving toward the town where Dave Brubeck lives, you understand why this dream never dies, especially in late autumn when every tree seems almost mythic in its chromatic display and every pitch and roll of the rural, straight-from-the-calendar-page landscape yields views that can either fill your heart or break it gently.
You can easily love this area of the world in the same unfettered way the whole world seems to love Dave Brubeck. Jazz may not occupy the center of the musical universe at the front end of the 21st century, but even people who know little, if anything, about jazz know who Brubeck is. And what they know, they like very much. Through more than 60 years of recordings and performances at colleges, concert halls, festivals and nightclubs all over the world, Brubeck put forth a body of work - as pianist, composer and bandleader - that is as accessible as it is ingenious, as stress-free as it is rhythmically emphatic, as open-hearted as it is wide-ranging.
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critic salutes oscar niemeyer, the visionary brazilian architect who died last week, aged 104
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 the observer / the guardian
by rowan moore
8 december 2012
oscar niemeyer: an appreciation
Oscar Niemeyer was brilliant, energetic, ruthless, by all accounts charming - and extraordinarily long-lived. He died last week aged 104, a bridge across time to the now-historic modern movement in architecture. He was the master of the curve, the architect who could command tonnes of concrete and steel to swoop and turn with a few strokes of his pencil. He brought movement to modern architecture, and invented a version of it that was expressive and seductive, clearly not functional, and clearly different from the Germanic glass box of the Bauhaus. According to Norman Foster, the city of Brasilia, for which Niemeyer designed the most significant monuments, "is not simply designed, it is choreographed".
He was the first modern architect from a country outside Europe or North America to achieve global fame. More than anyone else, including his architectural colleagues such as Lúcio Costa, he shaped the modern image of his country, Brazil. The twin towers and upside-down dome of the National Congress in Brasilia, and its crown-shaped cathedral, telegraphed into black-and-white newspapers in faraway countries, were updated versions of the White House and Capitol in Washington: white monuments of a new democracy. It was an extraordinary achievement, to endow this new-made city with instant, and potent, mythology.
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| do you have the best community for music education? | |  Don't miss out on being recognized as a Best Community for Music Education! Teachers, parents, school administrators and board members are invited to complete the 2013 survey online now through Friday, January 18, 2013.
"The designation has helped to validate the work of the students, faculty, administration and community in building a music program of which we all can be proud," said Brian P. Timmons, district music coordinator of Bergenfield public schools, in Bergenfield, N.J. "Through the economic crisis, we have been able to continue to grow and develop our program with unprecedented participation. Our designation has undoubtedly been a positive factor in that success."
Developed in partnership with The Institute for Educational Research and Public Service of Lawrence, Kansas, an affiliate of the University of Kansas, the BCME survey compiles information about funding, graduation requirements, music class participation, instruction time, facilities, support for the music program, and community music making programs.
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| 16th annual sphinx competition february 13-17 | |  The Sphinx Competition is held every year in Detroit, Michigan. The competition is open to all Junior High, High School, and College age Black and Latino string players residing in the U.S. The Sphinx Competition offers young Black and Latino classical string players a chance to compete under the guidance of an internationally renowned panel of judges and to perform with established professional musicians in a competition setting. Its primary goals are to encourage, develop and recognize classical music talent in the Black and Latino communities. Learn more. |
best books of 2012
selected by the editors of the new york times | |  notable children's books of 2012
This year's notable children's books - the best in picture books, middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction, selected by the children's book editor of The New York Times Book Review.
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100 notable books of 2012
The year's notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
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| american ballet theatre announces national training curriculum schedule | |  ABT's National Training Curriculum is a program for the development and training of young students that embraces sound ballet principles and incorporates elements of the French, Italian and Russian schools of training. Under the direction of ABT Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie, ABT's National Training Curriculum was designed and written by Franco De Vita and Raymond Lukens in collaboration with ABT's Artistic Advisors and the Medical Advisory Board. ABT's National Training Curriculum aims to assist beginning through advanced teachers in training dance students to use their bodies correctly, focusing on kinetics and coordination, as well as anatomy and proper body alignment. Artistically, the National Training Curriculum strives to provide dance students with a rich knowledge of classical ballet technique and the ability to adapt to all styles and techniques of dance.
ABT Certified Teachers have completed intensive training in the ABT National Training Curriculum and successfully passed comprehensive examination(s). Learn more. |
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