Keynotes
Arnold Aprill
Executive
Director of CAPE (Chicago
Arts Partnerships in Education)
 Arnold
Aprill comes from a background
in professional theater as an award-winning
director, producer, and playwright.
He has taught at the University
of Chicago, Columbia College, and
the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago. He is one of the co-authors
of Learning
Partnerships: Improving Learning
in Schools with Arts Partners in
the Community, published by
the Arts Education Partnership,
and is one of the co-editors of Renaissance
in the Classroom: Arts Integration
and Meaningful Learning. He
consults nationally and internationally
on the role of the arts in effective
school improvement. He has been
recognized for exceptional leadership
by the Chicago Community Trust
and by the Leadership for a Changing
World initiative supported by the
Ford Foundation.
photo by Marc PoKempner
Tara M. Brown
Assistant
Professor of Curriculum & Instruction
in the Minority
and Urban Education Unit at the
University of Maryland
 Tara
M. Brown's work centers on issues
of educational equity, dropout and
school exclusion, and
educational uses of technology and
new media, particularly as they pertain
to low-income adolescents of color.
Tara’s
most recent study is a participatory
action research project in which
she is working with high school students
attending an urban, special education
alternative school, using media and
new technologies to explore the schooling
experiences of marginalized adolescents
excluded from mainstream public schools.
She is a recipient of a Spencer Research
Training Grant and a Jacob’s
Foundation Information Technology
Dissertation Grant. Tara
is also a painter and visual artist. Find out more about her multimedia
projects.
Glenn McClure
and the
Strong as Steel Corporation
of the Mt. Morris Middle
School
 Glenn
McClure, president of the
Association of Teaching Artists,
is a composer and arts integration
leader. His
teaching artist and consulting
work stretches across New
York State and includes other
national and international
partnerships. His
most recent project, “Galileo’s Universe,” has engaged more
than 15 schools, a best selling author, and an NPR report. His current
projects are focused on building university partnerships and raising public awareness
of AIE. Mr. McClure is also a member of the NYS Alliance for Arts Education
board and an advisory board member for PAE and Young Audiences of Rochester.
 For
10 years, the Strong as Steel Program has engaged 7th and 8th grade students
and faculty, teaching artists, and parents in arts-based learning and innovation. All
students in the district learn to play steel drums while exploring integrated
lessons in core curriculum and career studies. Their partnership won the Harvard-Radcliff
Award for Teaching Innovation and they are frequent presenters at state conferences. Most
recently, Strong As Steel piloted a pre-service teacher training initiative in
arts integration with the SUNY Geneseo’s School of Education. They
are recipients of numerous LCB, SAP, and community grants, and the NYS
Music Fund.
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