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issue 114 l october 14 2014 enews

Greetings Members and Friends,

It's finally time for our ASN National Conference in Denver, Colorado! Next week, from Wednesday, October 22 through Saturday, October 25, will be the culmination of a more than a year's worth of strategizing, scheduling, and "sweating the details."

ASN's board, conference committee, and sponsors have strived for excellence in this conference -- just as we all strive for excellence in arts education. From choosing our host city and theme, Career Pathways in the Arts, to engaging speakers and panelists to planning visits and performances, we have kept you and your goals in mind. The result, we believe, will be an educational, exciting, and entertaining event for you.

Now, it's your turn! When you gather in Denver next week, throw yourself into the conference whole-heartedly. Get to know other ASN members and share your passion, knowledge, and experiences with them. Gain inspiration from the presentations, join in the discussions, and explore the performance and education venues.

And most of all, celebrate our students! Attend their

performances and congratulate them. After all,

they are what we are all about!

See you next week!

Sincerely,

Kristy Callaway

Executive Director

new! renewal credits for conference attendence

You'll receive a Renewal Credit Certificate for 25 hours in the areas of: content, classroom strategies, administration, and accountability.

After the conference, we will email a PDF Certificate based on your attendance and submission of event evaluation.

*Each state determines acceptable in-service renewal credits/hours, please check with your appropriate Department of Education.

denver spotlight on

members site visit

The University of Colorado Denver, College of Arts & Media is located in heart of downtown Denver and is at the center of the city's thriving, dynamic arts community.

Attendees will be transported on an executive luxury shuttle bus and will have a catered lunch provided at the University of Colorado Denver. The afternoon will include a tour of the facilities at America's Public Arts and Media College. The first college in Colorado devoted exclusively to arts and entertainment, the CU Denver College of Arts & Media utilizes the latest technology and encourages students to integrate their discoveries of art's emerging dimensions with comprehensive instruction on its classical forms.

The tour will include stops at the College of Arts & Media's state-of-the-art digital animation labs, cutting-edge recording studios, the Emmanuel Art Gallery, and many other outstanding facilities on campus.

denver spotlight on

colorado creative career industries' sessions

Career and Technical Education Arts Programs in Colorado - Preparing Artists for Careers in the Arts

Jonathan Howard, Audio Production Instructor, Denver School of the Arts
Jennifer Jirous, Colorado Program Director for STEM, Arts and IT, Colorado Community College System

Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs are an important element of the Colorado Creative Industries. Learn about how CTE Arts programs are supported at the state level as well as implemented at the local level at the Denver School of the Arts. Topics will include internships, partnerships with arts organizations and job training.

Internship Panel
Talya Dornbush, Education Director at the Center for Visual Art and Affiliate Faculty, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO
Nate Greene, Career and Technology Facilitator Counselor, Denver School of the Arts, Denver, CO

Young artists and creative entrepreneurs share stories of the 2014 Creative Industries Internship Program and facilitators discuss the complexities of developing internship programming. Interns design and build site-specific installations, develop a network in the local arts and culture landscape and serve as ambassadors for Denver's premier urban art initiatives. Supported by Center for Visual Art and Goodwill Denver CTE faculty, they are challenged to reach their professional potential in the field. Listen to their stories!

Preparing Elementary and Middle School Students for College and Career

Presenters: Creative Arts Academy at Kunsmiller (KCAA) Middle and High School CTE Digital Design and Performing Arts Teacher

Participate in a review of how CTE instructional practices inform all levels, K-12, at KCAA. Discuss the benefits of exposing students, early on, to the CTE pedagogy. Examine how the P21 and Arts Integration frameworks align with the CTE standards to provide opportunities and experiences grounded in authentic practice for students of all ages.

denver member spotlight

counseling to college and career' sessions

So you think you want to major in the arts in college? Come and learn about what really matters and what doesn't as you start down the college admissions road to success!

Imagining Future Careers
Audrey Tanner, Associate Provost for Enrollment, CalArts, Valencia, CA; Murphy Monroe, Assistant Vice President for Enrollment, Columbia College Chicago, IL; Melissa Brodsky-Levine, Director of Career Development, NYU Tisch, New York, NY; Leslie Gaston, Chair,

Department of Music Entertainment and Industry Studies, College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver, CO

How does a degree in the arts prepare you for interesting expected and unexpected careers? How will your degree prepare and train you to be a fine artist, musician, or performer, and give you the skills to be resourceful, resilient, and able to imagine and forge your own unique career? Come hear about the existing career paths that are typical for students pursuing the arts and learn how to think about career paths differently, imaging not only

what exists today but also what might exist tomorrow.

Finding the Right College Fit
Sally Gaskill, Director, Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; Lee Ann Adams, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), Providence RI; Valerie Morris, Dean, School of the Arts, College of Charleston, SC; Laurence Kaptain, DMA and FRSA, Dean, College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver, CO

Financial Aid 101
Travis Springfield, Lead Counselor, Houston High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, TX; Andrew Laue, Director of Undergraduate Admissions, Webster University; and Joann Brennan, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver

Logan Arts Leadership Institute, Interlochen Center for the Arts
Edward Farraday, Vice President-Education Programs

Summer Programs
Halley Shefler, Founder and CEO, ArtsBridge, LLC, MA; and Peggy Burt, Executive Director, California State Summer School Arts Foundation, Pasadena, CA

Summer Programs in the Arts - What Do They Really Do for Students and how to decide on what is best.
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A California Bridge to College, Implications for a National Initiative
Peggy Burt, Executive Director, California State Summer School Arts Foundation, Pasadena, CA; Allison Ball, Education Director, YoungArts, Miami, FL; Nuit Hansgen, Director, ARTSEDGE, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.; Cybele Garcia Kohel, Arts for All Coach, Los Angeles County Arts for All, CA

A team of partners from the County, State and National level will come together to discuss strategies for supporting students, parents, teachers, and guidance counselors around college access, opportunity and choice in the arts.

new webinars

Online Applications:

Five Easy Steps to Getting Your Students in Front of Top Performing and Visual Arts Programs

Thursday, October 16th 3:30PM ET
(20 minutes duration)

DESCRIPTION
High School counselors please join us for 30 minutes to learn how you can help connect your talented students with hundreds of college and university programs. Acceptd has created an online community where your students can create a free performance and/or visual art portfolio that can be seen by admissions departments and program chairs from some of the world's most prestigious higher education institutions. During this webinar we'll share with you how to easily disseminate information to your students so that they can be part of this online network, apply for scholarships, and discover new opportunities in higher education!

SPEAKER

Brian McGarry is Senior Vice President at Acceptd. Having spent the last 15 years in education publishing he is excited to be working with an ed tech company that's helping to connect students with new performance and educational opportunities. Acceptd is the premier arts network for application management, recruiting and marketing services used by hundreds of schools, festivals, competitions and professional organizations. Including Arts Schools Network's On Your Way scholarships! Acceptd believes the right opportunities should be accessible to any student regardless of geography or socio-economic status and has developed software to accomplish this. Consider the possibilities.

National Core Arts Standards, Arts Standards for the 21st Century

3 Episodes Released Thursday, October 16
10 minutes each

Episode 1
National Core Arts Standards, the 21st Century and Media Arts: Who? What? Where? How?

Episode 2
Diving in Deeper: A closer look at the Media Arts Standards

Episode 3
Model Cornerstone Assessments: choose them, use them, make them your own

DESCRIPTION

The new national core arts standards bring a world of expressive and purposeful ideas for dance, music, theatre and visual arts, and for the first time, they include national arts standards specific to the emerging art form of Media Arts. Housed in an interactive home and created by educators for educators, these standards and their accompanying model cornerstone assessments are a valuable tool to guide arts curriculum planning and instruction now and into the future.

SPEAKER
Cory Wilkerson, Project Manager, State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE)

Ms. Cory Wilkerson is a former arts educator currently working in arts consulting and administration. Ms. Wilkerson was a contributing editor to the Pennsylvania Arts and Humanities standards, served on the Pennsylvania Assessment through Themes project, co-chaired the Arts Committee for Pennsylvania Standards Aligned Systems, and consults on the Pennsylvania Student Learning Objectives initiative. In her capacity as Project Director for the State Education Agency for Directors of Arts Education, Ms. Wilkerson served with the National Coalition for Core Arts (NCCAS) standards working on the new national core arts standards; and is a member of the NCCAS Media Arts leadership committee.

stay connected

Grant opportunity!

Information, guidelines, and application materials for the 2015 National Artist Teacher Fellowship.

Letters of intent are due November 19, 2014.

standards

research

advocacy

thanks to our conference host william kohut

William Kohut

was appointed Principal of the

Denver School of the Arts in May of 2009. Denver

School of the Arts is a 6 -12th grade Magnet school for the Arts in the Denver Public Schools.

Denver School of the Arts has been recognized as one of the top high schools in America by US News and World Report having been granted the distinction of being a "Gold Medal" winner for four straight years.

Denver School of the Arts was also name a Distinguished "Blue" School in Denver Public Schools, and was designated an "Exemplary Arts School" by the Arts Schools Network in October 2014.

Through his leadership in the arts he has been recognized as the Colorado State Thespian's "School Administrator of the Year". He received the Colorado Music Educators Association Honored Administrator Award in 2012.

The National Federation of High Schools awarded him the Outstanding Music Educator Award as recognition for his leadership in the Arts in 2012.

student performances @ denver conference

Listed in chronological performance order:

Denver School of the Arts, Middle School Theater Scenes, Shawn Hann and Brandon Becker, Theater Directors

NOCCA Jazz Ensemble, Khari Lee, Music Director, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

Denver School of the Arts Middle School Guitar Ensemble, Richard Serianni, Guitar Program Director

Orange County School of the Arts, Classical and Contemporary Dance- Steven B. Hyde, Director

Denver School of the Arts Theater scenes from MacBeth, Brandon Becker, Director

Orange County School of the Arts - MONTAGE!, Cindy Peca, Creative Director, Ryannlee Davis, Choreographer, Melissa Wackerman, Vocal Director

Creative Arts Academy at Kunsmiller Elementary Choir - Teacher Director: Sarah Burton, K-12 Vocal Music Instructor

Denver School of the Arts Dance Ensemble, Alicia Karczewksi and Michael O'Banion, Dance Department Directors

Denver School of the Arts, Video Cinema Student Video Showing, Ed Glassman and Amy McGrath, Video Cinema Department Directors

Denver School of the Arts Jazz Choir and Opera Scenes, Robert Styron, Vocal Music Director; Bryan Stinar, Resident Vocal Artist

Electric Rock Orchestra (ELRO), Idaho Arts Charter School, Christine Jenkins, Orchestra Director, Nampa, ID

Noel Community Arts School Advanced Dancers, Paige Farlow, Director, Denver, CO

Colorado Springs Conservatory, Growing up at the Colorado Springs Conservatory

Duke Ellington School of the Arts, New Washingtonians Jazz Combo @ Ellington, Davey Yarborough, Director, Washington, DC

Creative Arts Academy at Kunsmiller, "AACK" (Improvisational Theater) - Teacher Director: Lacey Ruskin, Secondary Drama Instructor; Student Director: Adrian Ortiz, KCAA Junior, Denver, CO

Creative Arts Academy at Kunsmiller - K-2 Dance Ensemble - Teacher Director: William Starn, Elementary Classical Dance Instructor, Denver, CO

Denver School of the Arts Brass Ensemble, Dave Hammond, Director

asn calendar of events

october 22-25 2014

annual conference

denver school of the arts
denver, colorado

january 15-16 2015

board of directors' meeting

douglas anderson school of the arts
jacksonville, florida

march 15 2015

awards nominations due

exemplary schools applications and renewals due

tba

spring tour of arts schools

april/may 2015

board of directors' board meeting

cornish college of the arts
seattle, washington

october 21-24 2015

annual conference

cornish college of the arts

seattle, washington

october 24-28 2016

annual conference

booker t. washington school of the performing and visual arts

dallas, texas

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