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 robert sabol

ABSTRACT

The field of education in the United States is in a period of unprecedented change. Educators in all disciplines are challenged to understand and respond to the waves of reform sweeping over the national education landscape. Linking these reforms to meaningful outcomes that will produce more rigorous and effective measures of quality and performance in our schools is an ongoing goal for all educators as they work to respond to calls for educational reform. Changes in the general field of education have direct implications for arts education policy and practice. Arts educators find themselves in the position of making sense of these landmark reforms and changes in the context of arts education and determining what courses of action and responses they should pursue on the road to meaningful reform. This report provides an overview of a selected number of contemporary developments in the general field of education, brief summaries of consequential studies and education-related reports, and an examination of some policy issues these developments and reports raise for arts educators as they work to shape the future landscape of arts education.

The intended audience for this conference includes arts funders, administrators, policy-makers, educators, researchers, artists, journalists, graduates of arts programs, active participants in the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), and other individuals with an interest or stake in understanding artists' education and careers.

Participants will seek answers to pressing questions about the state of arts education and today's market for creative labor. The event will feature a combination of formal presentations and panel discussions among scholars, policy makers, journalists, artists, and educators; practicums for arts educators; and opportunities for less formal conversation and engagement between attendees. It will feature cutting-edge research in the realm of arts careers as well as multimedia presentations, exhibits, and performances from artists currently in the workforce.

In my work with nearly two thousand organizations, I've found that board members will stand on tiptoes to reach high standards if they know what's expected of them. They'll perform extraordinary feats, give unlimited time, combine all their talents for a common and great cause.

But if trustees don't understand their role, this enormous potential is reduced to a trickle, forced through a narrow institutional funnel.

In my book, The Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards, I discuss 25 habits that every board must adopt if they hope to raise substantial money. Here I'll focus on three.

Habit One: You Invest

Habit Two: Back to the Well 

The newly released study UnderDeveloped: A National Study of Challenges Facing Nonprofit Fundraising reveals that many nonprofits are stuck in a vicious cycle that threatens their ability to raise the resources they need to succeed. A joint project of CompassPoint and the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, the report found high levels of turnover and lengthy vacancies in development director positions throughout the sector. More significantly, the study reveals deeper issues that contribute to instability in the development director role, including a lack of basic fundraising systems and inadequate attention to fund development among key board and staff leaders.

Key Findings

• revolving door
• help wanted
• it's about more than one person
• breaking the cycle

Learn more.

The Kennedy Center, through its affiliate VSA, proudly presents a unique opportunity for student-artists with disabilities from around the world to present their artwork side-by-side in an online exhibition. A selection of artwork from the online entries will be chosen for a live exhibition at the United States Department of Education in Washington D.C.

Yo Soy....Je Suis....I Am...My Family
Children with disabilities are encouraged to create a family portrait that illustrates themselves among the people that provide love, support, and encouragement in their lives - their families! Portraying themselves with some of the most important people in their lives gives testament to the idea that family - no matter how big or how small - help shape who we are and provide the foundation for who we will be.

• Eligible to bypass the preliminary round in national YoungArts 2014 
• Classical Voice, Cristobal Arias, LaGuardia Arts, New York, NY 
• Filmmaking, Reed Yurman, LaGuardia Arts, New York, NY
• Musical Theatre, Gabrielle Carmine, La Guardia Arts, New York, NY

• 2013 Young Arts Finalist designation earned in Visual Arts, by Mateo Nava of Design & Architecture Senior High, Miami, FL 

On Your Way winners will automatically bypass the preliminary round in the national Young Arts program adjudication and are given access to Young Arts online portal for portfolio submission. YoungArts is the signature national program that identifies, recognizes and supports America's most talented young artists in the visual, literary and performing arts. YoungArts also is the sole pathway to the U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts awards. Applicants must be between the ages of 15-18 or in high school grades 10-12. For more information, visit www.youngarts.org

The central purpose of education standards is to identify the learning that we want for all of our students and to drive improvement in the system that delivers that learning. Standards, therefore, should embody the key concepts, processes and traditions of study in each subject area, and articulate the aspirations of those invested in our schools-students, teachers, administrators, and the community at large. To realize that end goal, these new, voluntary National Core Arts Standards are framed by a definition of artistic literacy that includes philosophical foundations and lifelong goals, artistic processes and creative practices, standards that students should attain, and model cornerstone assessments by which they can be measured. The connective threads of this conceptual framework are designed to be understood by all stakeholders and, ultimately, to ensure success for both educators and students in the real world of the school. 

The Education Week Spotlight on Implementing Common Standards is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors including:

• Aligning textbooks to the common-core standards
• Early performance results on common-core assessments
• Preparing principals for the common standards
• Using teacher collaboration to implement the common core
• Applying cost-effective strategies to standards implementation

The Education Week Spotlight on Literacy in the Common Core is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on:

• Integrating literacy across subjects in preparation for the common core
• Shifting attention to informational text and other nonfiction texts
• Applying literacy research to the common standards
• Librarians' roles in preparing for the common core
• Identifying struggling readers and implementing literacy interventions

Learn more. 

Arts instruction is an essential part of a whole child education. In tough economic times, schools have to think creatively about how to preserve arts education and infuse it into lessons across content areas, where possible.

In this issue of ASCD Express, educators offer strategies for integrating artistic lessons and activities in stimulating ways that encourage teacher collaboration.

Features:

The MET project released progress reports as its research and analysis progressed. Through these reports, practitioners and policy makers have had quick access to the data developed through the project in order to begin thinking through the practical implications of the work prior to release of the final report.

In January 2013, the MET project released its third and final set of findings, which sought to answer three questions from practitioners and policy-makers: Can measures of effective teaching identify teachers who better help students learn?; How much weight should be placed on each measure of effective teaching when combining classroom observations, student surveys, and student achievement gains?; And how can teachers be assured trustworthy results from classroom observations?

Along with a brief summarizing all of the findings, and the three research papers detailing the technical methods, in January 2013 the MET project a released set principles for effective evaluation systems based on lessons learned over the three years of the study.

Whether or not a teacher is good (and the right way to determine that) is the major issue in education today. How to figure out how to incorporate test scores, teachers' classroom manner, and any number of other factors into a holistic measurement of teacher ability has stymied everyone. But the end result of a three-year study by the Gates Foundation in schools around the country claims to have an answer...

Learn more.

In this current moment of economic uncertainty, America is once again turning to innovation as the way to ensure a prosperous future. Yet innovation remains tightly coupled with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math - the STEM subjects. Art + Design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st century just as Science and Technology did in the last century. We need to add Art + Design to the equation - to transform STEM into STEAM.

STEM + Art = STEAM

STEAM is a movement championed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and adopted widely by institutions, corporations, and individuals.

The objectives of the STEAM movement are:

• Transform research policy to place Art + Design at the center of STEM
• Encourage integration of Art + Design in K-20 education
• Influence employers to hire artists and designers to drive innovation

LALI is being specifically created to reach a new generation of potential arts leaders: today's high school students and undergraduates who are living these changes in their own experiences every day. LALI will create an ongoing dialogue about the future of the field, as participants develop skills as problem-solvers, entrepreneurs, and communicators. Interlochen will serve as LALI's headquarters but the program's reach will be global: virtual seminars, social networks, and online learning tools like Lore will all empower high school students and undergraduates from around the world as they learn first-hand from new and experienced arts leaders of all generations who are themselves grappling with critical issues and new trends in arts leadership.

The LALI website will launch on February 4, unveiling online resources and activities to prepare for the first webinar. And as LALI moves forward, Interlochen is seeking future leaders in the arts -- current high school students and college undergraduates -- to participate in LALI's free webinars, panels, online discussions, and other virtual assignments and activities.

Students, educators, potential guest speakers, or anyone who would like to learn more about this worthwhile endeavor can follow LALI on Facebook and Twitter or sign up for updates on the LALI page on the Interlochen website, which features an updated schedule and all LALI related news.