Remembering Allen Weinstein, 

Beloved Board Member Emeritus of the 

DC Collaborative and Ninth Archivist of the United States

It is with great fondness and gratitude that we look back on our memories with Dr. Allen Weinstein (1937-2015,) who served on the board of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative from 2011 to 2014. Dr. Weinstein was an integral part of our strategic planning as well as a resource for our program development. Allen always brought a keen wit to all of his interactions with our board, staff and members. He took the time to mentor all team members, whether hosting readings of the latest book he was writing or of poetry by his favorite authors such as C.P. Cavafy.

Allen was most beneficent with his time and philanthropic support. He helped place DC Collaborative interns in full-time jobs, and was always happy to supply references or part-time work on his projects, even providing one DC Collaborative intern with credit in the acknowledgement page of his definitive publication of the Hiss trials entitled Perjury:The Hiss-Chambers Case.  

"Allen believed strongly in the importance of arts and humanities education, particularly for the students of Washington, DC, who he was eager to help partake in the enrichment of their city's cultural resources. He could have served on any number of boards but the fact that he shared his time with the DC Collaborative says so much about his commitment to humanities and to education," said DC Collaborative Board Vice President Dorothy McSweeny.

Allen was erudite, funny and could be tough in relaying his high standards and critical feedback but always with a humor-filled glint in the eye. He was always so very generous to share his many talents --quick to get on the piano and share a jazz improvisation or spontaneously explain why Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt were his intellectual parents. He once shared with the DC Collaborative board his personal experience as a young child when learning that Franklin Roosevelt had died, how he walked the city alone comforted only by the sorrow of strangers on the street who shared his loss. Not unlike how many of his friends and colleagues who had the honor of working with Dr. Weinstein are feeling with his passing.

DC Collaborative  Members Mapping Project

2014-2015 Data Collection Timeline

The goal of the DC Collaborative's Members Mapping Project is to illustrate our member's individual as well as collective reach among DC public and public charter schools. These maps will provide members with useful information about where outreach/services gaps exist. The goal is for the online version of this map to eventually reveal, on a member by member and school by school basis, the extent of the arts offerings and resources within DC public and public charter schools.

View the previous Member Maps!

Data

Check out the 2013-2014 School Year Statistics!

School Year 2014-2015 Collection Timeline

• What information do you want included in the 2014-2015 map? Tell us here prior to July 15, 2015
• 2014-2015 School Year Data Collection Opens- July 20, 2015
• Member Map Data Due- October 1, 2015
• Results Posted- December 15, 2015

DC Collaborative #StoryBank Blog June Highlights

Check out the DC Collaborative #StoryBank Blog June Highlights!

"More than 2,100 Students go 'Bach to School' this Year!"

This year, the DC Collaborative sent nearly 2,100 students to the Washington Bach Consort's education programs - 'Bach to School' - through the Arts for Every Student (AFES) program. 'Bach to School' encompasses two educational programs "Bach in Time" and "Goldberg Variations." The Washington Bach Consort (WBC) is a long-time member of the DC Collaborative and offers these two performances through the AFES program. 

The WBC ensures that as many students as possible have access to their educational offerings by subsidizing partial transportation costs and allowing the DC Collaborative to provide the admin support necessary to arrange all of the logistics. They also strive to make sure that the students are getting as much out of the performance as possible by providing pre- and post-educational materials for every field-trip. Check out the educational materials and more information on Washington Bach' Consort's education programs here!

Read the full post here  

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 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

   

Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)

DCCAH kicked off its participation in the SYEP program this week with 80 youth dispersed to 7 partner sites; Anacostia Arts Center, Atlas Performing Arts Center, City at Peace, F.R.E.S.H.H., GALA Hispanic Theatre, National Building Museum, and We Act Radio. Youth will engage with these organizations for the six weeks of SYEP and work directly in the arts or in the "behind the scenes" activities and industries associated with the arts. Orientation for the youth took place at GALA Hispanic Theatre on Monday, June 29. A focus of the program this year is to ensure that the youth participants have opportunities to engage in professional development experiences outside of the work of their individual partner sites. A culminating performance/sharing of the work of the summer will take place at Atlas Performing Arts Center on Friday, August 7, 2015.

Creative Measures

DCCAH is working with Ivonne Chand O'Neal, Director of Research and Evaluation at the Kennedy Center to identify non-arts "domains" that are commonly addressed in arts programming across the city. These domains include skills such as; building community, flexibility, empathy, personal voice ... Tools will be created to measure these domains and implemented in a pilot study of arts organizations working with middle school students in camp programs this summer.

FY16 Grants Cycle

July 7 sees the first of 31 grant panels for 800 applicants for the next cycle of grants at DCCAH. Panels will run through late August with award announcements being made in early-October.

 

Creative Spark! Workshop at Eastern HS Photo Credit: Tatiana Gulenkina

 DC Public Schools

DCPS seeks a Visual and Digital Arts Specialist

Position Overview

The Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) delivers high-quality instructional resources, enhances classroom practice, and scales effective programs to increase DCPS student achievement and to prepare all students for success in college, career, and life. OTL spans four core competency areas:

• Curriculum;
• Professional learning;
• Enrichments and interventions; and
• Formative assessment.

With Gratitude...