This conference is designed for all educators: general classroom teachers, sequential arts and music teachers, school administrators, teaching artists, cultural organization education coordinators, school librarians, and interested parents.

The day's offerings include: hands-on workshops focusing on arts-in-education programming, planning, execution, and evaluation; a keynote address from John Cimino, director of Creative Leaps International; and a luncheon honoring Carol Terry, Field Coordinator for Fine Arts with the Syracuse City School District. Our goal is for everyone to come away with renewed passion and enhanced skills for ensuring that the arts are an integral part of every student’s education.

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Keynote Speaker John Cimino
"Unfreezing Our Creative Assets - Summoning Our Courage and Releasing Imagination"
In higher education, business and the business of educating our children for lives in the 21st century, we will achieve very little to advance our standing as a society unless each of us, individually and via our institutions collectively, invests wholeheartedly in our capacity for creativity and original thinking. As educators, artists and business leaders, we are ideally positioned to lead the way.

John Cimino, Jr. is Director of Creative Leaps International and is a member of the Syracuse Kauffman Initiative National Advisory Board. Read more about his keynote address.  NYS legislative advocates for the arts, including Senators David J. Valesky and Jose M. Serrano and Assemblyman William T. Magnarelli, will be joining us.


A Celebration of Carol Terry
Luncheon, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
The Syracuse City School District continues to expand the access to the arts for students at a time when other districts are making desperate cuts. Carol Terry has been a champion of creativity and innovation in education as the Field Coordinator of Fine Arts. She has generated excitement and rigor that brings community and classroom together through the arts. Join us as we celebrate her continuing legacy of learning.

A ticket for this luncheon is included with conference registration.
Ala carte tickets are available for $35 per person.
Additional donations in honor of Carol Terry can be accepted on the registration form.
Purchase tickets online for lunch only.

Our Honoree:
Carol Terry is Field Coordinator for Fine Arts with the Syracuse City School District. She supervises Music, Visual Arts and Theater education. During her nine years in this position, the district has developed complete pre-k-12 curricula for the arts in addition to a wide range of sustained initiatives that integrate the arts into all facets of education. Partners for Arts Education was founded just months before Carol came to Syracuse, and her advisement has been essential to the design of many of our most successful endeavors.

Her philosophy that we need to educate all students to be knowledgeable in the arts and to be well-rounded, literate adults who will be a part of a global society drives her commitment to the learning. Her leadership with teaching staff, community teaching artists, cultural organizations, and higher education come together to provide rich experiences for the SCSD students that are unmatched by other upstate school districts. Carol has taught in the West Genesee and LaFayette School Districts and at the Onondaga Nation School.
 

 Creativity and Other Boundless Resources for Recession-Era Education
 is a collaboration among 

Empire State Partnerships