host school: the high school for performing and visual arts

location: houston, tx

agenda: school tour, arts classroom observations, meet & greet, common core meeting

special hotel block: the lancaster

 

February 15: register indicating intent to apply/nominate, this allows for us to provide support one month ahead of deadline if needed

March 15: deadline for all submissions/uploads

February 15: register indicating intent to apply/nominate, this allows for us to provide support one month ahead of deadline if needed

March 15: deadline for all submissions/uploads

• Arts Innovation Award

• Arts Integration School Award

• Community Partnership Award

• Denise Davis-Cotton Emerging Leader Award

• New and Emerging School Award

• Outstanding Arts School Alum Achievement Award

• Research Initiative: Individual Award

• Research Initiative: Institution/Organization/Corporation Award

• Teacher of the Year Award

• The Jeffrey Lawrence Award

 

Episode 1: Careers in Arts (28:59)

by Centro Mexico [show details] 

Episode 3: Red Noses (8:56) by School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting [show details]

Episode 4: Being a Writer: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (13:16) by Duke Ellington School of the Arts [show details]

Please click on the play button below and watch this brief, instructional, student-created video on how to participate, create your piece, and submit.  

 

by samuel hope and mark walt

ABSTRACT

Assessment is essential to all forms of work in the arts. Successful arts assessment concepts, patterns, and methods have evolved over many centuries. They are inherent in all arts teaching and central to art-making at all levels of proficiency and sophistication. And they work: achievements in the arts are among the highest in civilization. At present, these arts-based systems of assessment are increasingly pursued in a problematic context. Regnant assessment values and systems are often so highly technocratic, so narrowly focused on what can be counted easily, and so prosaically engineered for application on a massive scale that they are incompatible with the nature of arts assessment and regularly discount its value and its results. Means for responding and acting are needed that preserve the fundamental nature of arts teaching and learning. There are ways for those professionally concerned about the arts and arts teaching to reaffirm and rearticulate essential principles of artistic evaluation and, in the present environment, pursue applications of those principles in various forms of evaluation. Reaffirmation, rearticulation, and pursuit must be deeply rooted in an understanding of why these principles are essential for the progress of the arts disciplines and for arts-centered student learning. Such reaffirmation, rethinking, and rearticulation can establish the basis for explaining arts principles, achievements, and methods to others; debating when necessary; and ensuring the preservation of conditions that encourage the effective incorporation of new findings or capabilities in assessment into the ever-evolving assessment and evaluation systems developed by and suitable for the arts in ways that are compatible with their nature and the integrity of their practice.

Author and Leadership Consultant, Ken Blanchard, wrote in one of his books, "Everything rises and falls on leadership." I couldn't agree more. However, I don't think this has anything to do with positional leadership, but more about leadership principles. There are a number of people I consider leaders, from students to global dignitaries and everyone in between. I have learned and continue to learn what leadership is by observing others and reflecting on my own behaviors as a leader. Following are my most important principles that define leadership and how each principle is present or in the works at Gahanna Lincoln High School:

1. vision
2. relationships
3. clear expectations
4. communication
5. team work and service
6. accountability
7. learning

"Imagine, Innovate, Advocate" is the ninth annual Summer Institute for Arts in Education hosted by the Center for Arts in Education at Boston Arts Academy. Summer Institute allows educators the time, space, and support to imagine new possibilities for their classrooms, schools, and communities. Using a dynamic, process-based approach to school transformation, participants will explore areas including leadership development, school culture, family and community partnerships, literacy, inclusion and differentiation for English Language Learners and Special Education students, building professional learning communities, and strategic planning, fundraising and advocacy.

The program for the week will include speakers, presentations, and workshops focused on interdisciplinary, project-based learning methods, with particular emphasis on the role of the arts in creating school change. Participants will have the opportunity to choose one immersive experience during the afternoons: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), PEP (Peers Educating Peers), or Literacy/Inclusion.

Learn more. 

The Congressional budget impasse of recent months has set in motion huge, across-the-board cuts to federal programs. Called sequestration, the cuts to the federal education budget could affect millions of students, tens of thousands of educators, and programs in every school and district.

Engaging students is one of our main challenges as teachers. This challenge has been compounded by the added rigor of the common standards. Now, more than ever, students need us to offer differentiation and accessible texts to practice the skills we will assess. Using film creates a level playing field for all students and, hopefully, a much better set of experiences to remember long after they leave Ms. Keigan's high school language arts class. 

THE DREAM@50 is a tribute series in 2012/13 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Including a student art contest (K-12), a world music/dance festival, and video PSAs, THE DREAM@50 is a celebration of creative collaboration in both the Civil Rights Movement and the arts as the foundation for a new paradigm in how we can live together. THE DREAM@50 is produced by Karz Productions in partnership with the King Center, National Education Association, National Art Education Association, Americans for the Arts, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council for the Social Studies, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, United Nations Academic Impact, and YouTube. THE DREAM@50 is a sponsored project of Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts.