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Accepting Nominations Now! for asn awards 2013
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
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Arts Integration School Award
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Community Partnership Award
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Denise Davis-Cotton Emerging Leader Award
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New and Emerging School Award
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Outstanding Arts School Alum Achievement Award
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Research Initiative: Individual Award
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Research Initiative: Institution/Organization/Corporation Award
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Teacher of the Year Award
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The Jeffrey Lawrence Award
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asn calendar of events and gatherings
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February 15, 2013
AWARDS and EXEMPLARY SCHOOLS Nominations deadline for Intent to Apply
February - June 2013
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL CAMPAIGN
FY13 membership expires June 30, 21013
February 2013
WEBINAR SERIES, Animating the Common Core 3 episodes coming soon!
Title Sponsor, Toon Boom
March 15, 2015
AWARDS and EXEMPLARY SCHOOLS
Nominations deadline for uploading support materials
March - April 2013
WEBINAR SERIES, Teacher Evaluation and Arts Education, 4 episodes coming soon!
Partner, Arts Education Policy Review Journal, Special Issue
May 2-3, 2013
ARTS EDUCATION SUMMIT &
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
Host, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York City, NY
October 22 - 25, 2013
CONFERENCE
New York City, NY
Hosts, Juilliard, LaGuardia, New School, NYU Tisch
October/November 2014
CONFERENCE
Denver, CO
Denver School of the Arts, Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy
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arts education policy review journal article
music in u.s. federal education policy: estimating the effect of "core status" for music
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arts education policy review
volume 114 issue 1 2013
title, music in u.s. federal education policy: estimating the effect of "core status" for music
by kenneth elpus
This article reviews the political and empirical record within music education surrounding the Goals 2000: Educate America Act and reports a new study evaluating the effects of the law on music and arts education policies in U.S. high schools. School-level data (N = 670 schools) from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 were independently pooled to estimate the effects of Goals 2000 on the number of unique music courses high schools offered, the probability that schools would enforce a local arts graduation requirement, and the number of arts courses required for graduation. Results showed no effect on the number of unique music courses offered. However, for schools in states that prior to Goals 2000 had no arts education mandate or had a flexible arts education mandate, Goals 2000 significantly increased the probability of schools requiring the arts, as well as the number of arts credits required for graduation. The article concludes with implications for the arts in the current Common Core Standards movement.
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| make a short film, it becomes a music video, you win $12,000 | |  the smalls announced contest:
southbound drive, marigold video
Austin, TX rock sensation Southbound Drive are inviting filmmakers and music video directors from around the world to create an original video for the track "Marigold" from the band's new album Agnes. Via The Smalls Pitch Room each participating filmmaker will receive access to a virtual toolkit of resources, including unique performance footage of Southbound Drive - filmed in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre house from the 1970's.
The winning filmmaker will receive a prize package worth $12,000 including a $1,000 cash prize, a $5,000 video promotion campaign, showcasing at SXSW 2013 and a review by Colonel Blimp, plus more!
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| 65th annual directors guild of america awards | |  The DGA honors outstanding directorial achievement in feature film, documentary, and television every year at the annual DGA Awards celebration. The DGA also recognizes contributions by individuals and organizations to our nation's culture in support of filmmaking and television with DGA Honors, and recognizes young filmmakers through the DGA Student Awards.
- feature film-ben affleck, argo
- dramatic series-rian johnson, breaking bad
- daytime series-jill mitwell, one life to live
- musical variety-glenn weiss, 66th annual tony awards
- commercials-alejandro g. inarritu
- movies for television and mini series-jay roach, game change
- comedy series-lena dunham, girls
- reality programs-brian smith, master chef
- children's programs-paul horn, let it shine
- documentary-malik bendjelloul, searching for sugar man
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| 19th annual screen actors guild awards - stunt crews too! | |
 Theatrical Motion Pictures- outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture-argo
- outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role-daniel day lewis, lincoln
- outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role-jennifer lawrence, silver linings of playbook
- outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role-tommy lee jones, lincoln
- outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role-anne hathaway, les miserables
Primetime Television- outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series-downton abbey
- outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series-modern family
- outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series-bryan cranston, breaking bad
- outstanding performance by a female actor is a drama series-claire danes, homeland
- outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series-alec baldwin, 30 rock
- outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series-tina fey, 30 rock
- outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or miniseries-kevin costner, hatfields & mccoys
- outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or miniseries-julianne moore, game change
Honors for Stunt Ensembles- outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture-skyfall
- outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a television series-game of thrones
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executive director's message
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 Greetings Members and Friends,
Our board of directors held a strategic planning meeting last week at the Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. We proudly expanded our mission statement, our mantra, to read: ASN promotes excellence in arts education by supporting and recognizing students, leaders, educators, schools, institutions, and organizations.
We are able to to do this through our programming, services, and committee work. Quickly approaching is the deadline of February 15th to submit your 'letter of intent' to apply to our awards and recognition program AND/OR to our exemplary schools designation program. We want you to, we expect you to nominate yourself, your peers, your school, your alumnus. When you earn these recognitions, your school gains positive exposure that helps in fundraising, advocacy, and networking. Please allow us to enable you to shine!
This month we are launching our spring webinar programming, Know More. We have a three-episode series titled, "Animating the Common Core", sponsored by Toon Boom; and a four-episode series titled, "Teacher Evaluation and Arts Education", in partnership with the Arts Education Policy Review Journal. If you can't join us live, then download and view afterwards.
Lastly, everything that we have done, all that we are, and all that we will be, comes from our membership. Please consider joining a working committee and leading us into the future.
Sincerely,
Kristy Callaway
Executive Director
Arts Schools Network
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| NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT | | manhattan school of music, new york, ny
dr. marjorie merryman, interim president
Manhattan School of Music's reputation as one of the best conservatories in the country rests upon its outstanding faculty of devoted musicians and mentors. Students have the opportunity to work-often one-on-one-with prominent members of New York's most renowned ensembles: the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the orchestras of the New York City Opera and the New York City Ballet. Our teachers are deeply committed to shaping the next generation of world-class musicians and to nurturing each student's talent and development as a person. The School grants Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees, training students in performance and composition and providing an essential core curriculum in music theory, music history, and the humanities for the aspiring professional musician.
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creative arts high school
st paul public schools, mn
valerie littles-butler, principal
Creative Arts High School is a unique Saint Paul Public School. Because we are small, we have achieved a remarkably warm and friendly climate. Students choose CAHS because they have a strong desire to pursue their own artistic visions. Through their performance, visual and literary art classes, students work with teachers who are practicing artists themselves. Our academic teachers have earned, or are in the process of earning, their master degrees. For more than eight years, CAHS staff have been developing classes that are both challenging and engaging. Consequently, our graduates are well prepared for college and for life. Students at CAHS have many memories to take with them when they graduate. There are numerous evening events, including art shows, performances, open mics, picnics and the prom. We've traveled to Europe, Central America, and to the Smithsonian Institute and the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Our students have been honored for their accomplishments by receiving scholarships and by winning numerous awards sponsored by the Ordway, St. Paul Jaycees, and the Minnesota College of Art and Design. As a "Rights Site," we work in collaboration with Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. We are a school on the move! Under the new leadership of Dr. Valerie Littles-Butler, Principal of CAHS, we will continue to be a "Community of Artists Learning and Growing Together."
Learn more.
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david smith, director of technology
oakland school of the arts, ca
"David Smith is a one-man technology force at The Oakland School for the Arts. He handles everything from network health to the faculty laptop program to in-class technology integration. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two children." Donn Harris, Executive & Artistic Director, Oakland School of the Arts, CA.
David Smith also serves as an ongoing advisor to the Arts Schools Network media programming. Special thanks for your thought leadership with our master series, You Tube channel, webinars, and student engagement. We salute you!
Check out the OSA Radio blog here.
Check out the FB page.
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Is This Teacher on Your Campus?
We all have one...sometimes more than one. You know "That" teacher! The teacher who kids can't wait to get to his or her class. The teacher who always has kids engaged and in the palm of his or her hand with whatever art concept is being taught and any given day.
Yeah, you know the one.
ASN wants to hear from "That" teacher!
Best practice is defined as a teaching or instructional method that has been demonstrated by research to be an effective learning tool. By following educational research, teachers may offer students better learning programs that can improve academic achievement. So grab that teacher on your campus who makes a difference in the lives of kids everyday through quality instruction in the arts. Ask him or her to think about best practices in their classroom! My hope is that you will ask your teacher to download the form found at the link below and submit it to the ASN Best Practices Committee at the address listed on the form.
R. Scott Allen, ASN Best Practices Chair
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association supervision curriculum design releases
2013 legislative agenda | |  ascd public policy released january 30 2013 by david griffith
ASCD released its 2013 legislative agenda. Developed by the association's legislative committee, a diverse cross-section of ASCD members representing the entire spectrum of K-12 education, the 2013 ASCD Legislative Agenda outlines the association's federal public policy priorities for the year. ASCD's top priority in 2013 is a comprehensive rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that provides the necessary stability and long-term vision for our education system that helps ensure each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Within a reauthorized version of ESEA, we seek provisions - Creating meaningful accountability systems for students and educators,
- Encouraging comprehensive school improvement strategies, and
- Promoting adequate and effective preparation and ongoing professional development for educators to improve student outcomes.
- The 2013 ASCD Legislative Agenda also details some of the key elements that must be included in any federal policies to help ensure success for students, educators, and education systems.
Learn more, article.Learn more, ascd legislative agenda. |
education week releases e-book
obama's second term: what's ahead for educational policy | |
 Obama's Second Term: What's Ahead for Education Policy explores the key issues President Barack Obama and his administration face after a hard-fought election. This e-book looks at the most important policy decisions in play, with a focus on the Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluation, gun control and school safety, federal programs like Race to the Top, and reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act and waivers under that law. A must-read for 2013, the e-book features political coverage from Education Week reporters, as well as unique insights and perspectives from policymakers and teachers, focused on America's public schools. Learn more. |
education week:
states lack data on principals, study says | | 
most states lack data on school leaders' training, evaluation
february 6 2013 by sarah d. sparks
While principals increasingly are moving to center stage in national debates over school improvement, a new study finds most states have little or no information about how their principals are prepared, licensed, supported, and evaluated.
The Dallas-based George W. Bush Institute was expected to release an analysis of all 50 states' principal policies and related data collections in Washington this week. It finds that even states with otherwise comprehensive longitudinal-data systems collect limited information about principals, particularly on their preparation.
Learn more, article.
Learn more, 50-state study.
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education week: charter school growth fund paying off,
producing strong learner gains
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january 31 2013 by sean cavanagh
For the past seven years, an organization called the Charter School Growth Fund has been providing those schools with millions of dollars in grants and low-interest loans, after putting them through a screening process to try to gauge whether their promise is worth the investment.
Apparently, that screening process is producing benefits, at least according to the results of a new, nationwide study. That analysis found that schools supported by the growth fund produced greater academic gains than both traditional public schools and other charter networks.
The findings were included in the Center for Research on Education Outcomes' Charter School Growth and Replication study, released this week. While much of the study focuses on the performance of individual charter schools, charter management organizations, and organizations hired to operate those schools, the authors also included a separate analysis about the Charter School Growth Fund, which they say intrigued them for a number of reasons.
Learn more, article.
Learn more, study.
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u.s. department of education releases webinar on demand
the common core state standards and its implications for the arts | |  The Common Core State Standards and Its Implications for the Arts
Broadcast Date: 12/11/2012, released January 2013
Session Facilitator(s): 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
Session Description: 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? Session Note(s): Session content begins at the 1:27 mark of the recording. Learn more. |
| americans for the arts released aep IV: the economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences | |
 Arts & Economic Prosperity IV is our fourth study of the nonprofit arts and culture industry's impact on the economy. The most comprehensive study of its kind ever conducted, it gives us a quantifiable economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences. Using findings from 182 regions representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia, an input-output economic model is able to deliver national estimates. Nationally, the industry generated $135.2 billion of economic activity-$61.1 billion by the nation's nonprofit arts and culture organizations in addition to $74.1 billion in event-related expenditures by their audiences. This economic activity supports 4.13 million full-time jobs and generates $86.68 billion in resident household income. Our industry also generates $22.3 billion in revenue to local, state, and federal governments every year-a yield well beyond their collective $4 billion in arts allocations. Despite the economic headwinds that our country faced in 2010, the results are impressive.
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| 3 million stories, understanding the lives and careers of america's arts graduates | | 
strategic national alumni arts project conference
march 7 thru 9 in nashville tn
At least three million individuals have received arts degrees from American educational institutions over the past half century. Yet little is known about these graduates from the performing and visual arts, architecture, art and music history, arts education, arts administration, and writing. Where do they work and how do they make a living? Is their training relevant? What do these graduates, and those who train them, need to know about future trends in the artistic and creative labor market? Where are the growth areas or the jobs of the future, and where are we seeing declines? What do we need to know to better serve students from less privileged backgrounds? How should our arts training institutions prepare those students who do not intend to become artists? How is arts training relevant for doctors, lawyers, business managers, and engineers, and what do graduates working in these other fields say about their arts school educations? What are some of the most innovative models for the 21st Century arts school? What are the critical issues policy makers and educational leaders must address to ensure the relevance and vitality of arts degrees, programs and schools in the future?
"Three Million Stories: Understanding the Lives and Careers of America's Arts Graduates," is a national conference hosted by Vanderbilt University in March, 2013. Learn more. |
| 2013 newberry winner named | | the one and only ivan, by katherine applegate 
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
The 2013 Newbery Medal winner is The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate, published by HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Ivan's transformative emergence from the "Ape at Exit 8" to "The One and Only Ivan, Mighty Silverback," comes to life through the gorilla's own distinct narrative voice, which is filled with wry humor, deep emotion and thought-provoking insights into the nature of friendship, hope and humanity.
"Katherine Applegate gives readers a unique and unforgettable gorilla's-eye-view of the world that challenges the way we look at animals and at ourselves," said Newbery Medal Committee Chair Steven Engelfried.
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| national endowment for the arts announces funding guidelines for fiscal year 2014 | |  Art Works is the NEA's largest funding category, supporting the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. The deadlines for Art Works applications are March 7 and August 8, 2013. The Challenge America Fast-Track category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations -- those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. These grants feature an expedited review process with approximately six months from application to notification. The deadline for Challenge America Fast-Track is May 23, 2013. For guidelines and application materials visit the NEA website. |
| partnership for arts integration research (pair) findings | |  cape pair, chicago arts partnerships in education
an investigation in arts and learning
In 2010, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), in partnership with Chicago Public Schools, completed the PAIR project, a 4-year, Department of Education-supported grant program that brought teaching artists together with 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classroom teachers to research the impact of arts integration on students and teachers.
Explore these pages to learn more about the study, its outcomes, and its implications for the field of education.
What did we do? Learn about the program, its goals, and what happened in the classrooms!
What did we learn? Check out our findings about student academic impact and teacher professional development!
What can we all do now? Ideas for how YOU can be a part of effective, engaging, rigorous arts integration!
Learn more. |
| teacher appreciation, send a shout out and win $$ | |
 GIVE A SHOUT OUT
Our teachers, advisors and coaches give so much to us every day. Here's your chance to give something back-a thank-you to your favorite teacher, past or present. We're giving cash prizes to educators who receive the most votes in the voting period. Ten educators will receive $5,000. That's $2,500 to the individual and $2,500 to his or her school. Your Shout Outs and votes can make the difference.  ABOUT THE CONTEST Herff Jones Teacher Shout Out is a community of gratitude that lets you thank a special teacher, advisor or coach. As a way to get everyone excited about participating, we're kicking off the website with a contest. We'll reward the ten educators-and their schools-whose Shout Outs receive the most votes during the official contest voting period from March 16 to April 30, 2013. Learn more. |
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