| PAE Postcard November 2008 |
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In This Issue:
Arts in Mind Invitation to Arts and Cultural Organizations
Arts in Mind Update – Van Duyn Elementary
PAE's Online Auction Continues – but Don't Wait!
Calling All CNY Teaching Artists
Next Deadline for TAP Grants November 17
Opportunities
Resources |
Arts in Mind Invitation to Arts and Cultural Organizations
PAE is inviting all local cultural organizations to an update and orientation on the Arts In Mind Syracuse City Schools initiative Monday, December 8th from 1-3 pm at the Delavan Gallery. This meeting is of special interest to education personnel.
PAE has connected many cultural organizations to schools through our Arts In Mind initiative this year. There has been an increase in quantity and quality of education program requests as a result of our first pilot year. Syracuse schools now have an increased capacity to engage with cultural repertoire. At this meeting we will:
- Introduce organizations to the new annual AIM registration that will drive your presence on the new design of the AIM website. The draft site can be found at: http://www.arts4ed.org/ArtsInMind/08-09_offerings.shtml.
- Report on the progress of schools that are including cultural organizations in their arts education master plans for scheduling and funding.
- Preview the dates and schedules for the June AIM Institute. This institute offers time for your exhibits, performances, workshops, and other programs to be previewed by teachers and administrators who will plan their curriculum around these offerings for the 2009-10 school year.
Please note that this orientation is required before we publish your organization profile to our website. If you cannot attend this session, we will arrange an alternative orientation.
Please RSVP to Maureen to let her know who will be attending from your organization.
Arts in Mind Update – Van Duyn Elementary
All six schools participating in Arts in Mind this year are proceeding apace with their planning for this year's arts-based learning. In this issue we'd like to highlight some of the great work happening at Van Duyn Elementary, on the south side of Syracuse in "the Valley."
The AIM Site Coordinators at Van Duyn are art teacher Ilene Layow and music teacher Sarah Gentile, who says, "After a very exciting summer of interdisciplinary planning at all grade levels, we are off to a very exciting year! Both art and music field trips, hands-on workshops, and interdisciplinary performances are planned at all grade levels, K-5."
Over the past months, Layow and Gentile have worked with each grade level to create an AIM Whole School Plan. Students will be participating in 20 different AIM Activities, ranging from access experiences for students in each grade level to go to the Syracuse Symphony to rich integration experiences like the grade 3 Iraqi Mural Exchange. Van Duyn students in every grade are engaged in dynamic hands-on experiences with teaching artists like weaver Sarah Saulson, photographer Brantley Carroll, potter David MacDonald and illustrator London Ladd, to name a few.
Our wonderful cultural partners at the Symphony, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Lowe Gallery, the Everson Museum, Beaver Lake Nature Center, the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Art Rage Gallery, Onondaga Historical Association, the Harriet Tubman and Seward Homes and Syracuse University have worked with the coordinators to create access, alignment and integration experiences for the school year. Van Duyn Elementary is keeping the Arts IN Mind!
PAE's Online Auction Continues – but Don't Wait!
You can bid now on an exciting array of vacation packages, artwork, entertainment, merchant services, and other delights at PAE's online auction. (You can also get there from our website.) You can get a little holiday shopping done from the comfort of your home – and you'll be helping to support arts in education while you do it!
Not all the items will be available for bidding for the entire auction period, so be sure to check the closing date, and bid on your favorite items before it's too late. We will continue to add items to our catalog – over 70 items, and still growing - over the course of the auction, so keep checking back for new goodies. The auction is open only until Sunday, November 30, so take advantage of some wonderful bargains while you can!
Calling All CNY Teaching Artists
PAE has begun to collect data on teaching artists in the area to assess our local TA resources, and also to begin the process of welcoming new teaching artists into in-school and afterschool TA position in schools that PAE is working with. The survey asks about your professional training, experience, and skills. Click here to go to the survey, or you can access it from our home page.
Next Deadline for TAP Grants November 17
A Technical Assistance Program (TAP) grant can help you develop your partnership, improve the quality of your existing partnership work, or assess it more effectively. If you need to attend a conference, hire a consultant, or go to a workshop that will improve your skills, a TAP Grant can help. Go to our website to find out more. The next TAP deadline is November 17th.
Opportunities
Americans for the Arts arts education webinar
December 17, 2008 at 2:00 – 3:30 pm EST
$85.00 for Americans for the Arts members, $125.00 for non-members (to join, call 202.371.2830 to receive the member discount)
Understanding the challenge of creating and sustaining high quality formal arts learning experiences for K-12 youth, inside and outside of school, is the focus of a recent research initiative, The Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It, conducted by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The webinar will share the findings of this study and introduce some of the tools developed by the research team for use by practitioners committed to examining and improving the quality of arts learning experiences. Steve Seidel, Director of Harvard’s Project Zero and Director of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will present the completed findings of the study.
Google Earth Sponsors "Ancient Rome 3D" Curriculum Competition
In conjunction with a brand new layer in Google Earth that models the ancient city of Rome in amazing detail, Google Earth is sponsoring a competition for the best lesson plans that use the site. They are accepting curricula from all grade levels and K-12 subject areas including art history, math, social studies, physics, and philosophy, so whether you teach 5th grade art or high school engineering, you can enter. Even if you choose not to enter the contest, the website is an exciting tool.
U.N. Sponsors International Children's Painting Competition
Bayer Corporation and the United Nations Environment Program's Regional Office for North America have launched the second year of the International Children's Painting Competition. With this year's theme, Climate Change - Our Challenge, UNEP and Bayer are inviting students ages 6 to 14 to learn more about climate change and express that knowledge creatively through art. http://www.bayerus.com/MSMS/web_docs/18thICPCpkt.pdf
Resources
NYSAAE E-news
The NYS Alliance for Arts Education publishes a monthly newsletter with great info on news from the field, professional development opportunities, new publications, arts ed resources and more. You can read it online or sign up to have it delivered to your inbox at http://nysaae.informz.net/nysaae/archives/archive_161997.html