Arts Education Network News May 2006

In this Issue:

· Summer's on its Way · Funding o School Arts Partnership Grants · Technical Assistance o TAP Grants · Resources o Website of the Month o Classroom Resources  Available o Professional Development Opportunities · News o Laura Reeder Joins TAJ o SAP Recipient on NPR

Reaching for it at CommonGround 06!

Summer’s on its way
The school year is ending and we are looking forward to the period of planning and growth that comes when we gather together at the Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar, when we review proposals for arts in education partnerships to be funded in the coming year, when we design our budgets, and when we plot our oh-so-necessary getaways and retreats.

PAE will be using this time to review the results of CommonGround (attendance data available at our website, pictures coming soon) to provide the most effective statewide arts-in-education professional development conference for you in 2007. We will be attending the Arts Education Partnership Forum again to bring home the national conversations on partnerships with higher education and trends in funding, and we will be in conversations with many of you as we receive documentation and stories from another year of School Arts Partnerships (SAP) and Technical Assistance Program (TAP) grants.

Thank YOU for shaping the work to be done!

Laura Reeder , Executive Director

Funding
School Arts Partnership Grants

Over 40 applications have come in from around the state for the next cycle of SAP grants. They have been sent out to the panelists, and will be reviewed by the panel on June 19^th and 20^th. Confirmations of grant awards will be available after our Board has approved the panelists’ decisions, around the end of July.

Technical Assistance
TAP Grants

Technical Assistance Program grants provide support for projects that develop, enhance, and/or evaluate arts education programs benefiting children pre-K to 12^th grade.  The grant is for projects that involve planning, professional development, evaluation and sustainability. Awards range from $100 to $1,000. NYS schools, school districts, and non-profit cultural organizations, and NYS teaching artists are eligible to apply. TAP is not meant to support artist residency activities.

The on-line application for TAP Grants is available on our website. The last of the four yearly deadlines is May 1^st. 

The on-line format makes it easier for us to track and process your application, and easier for our virtual panel to evaluate.  We think you’ll find it easy to use.  You can download a Word or PDF version of the application to check the grant guidelines and do any preliminary work, and then simply enter the information on the on-line form.

If you would like more information about these grants, visit our website, or email RJ.

Resources

Website of the Month

Big Thought, A Learning Partnership, is one of the largest non-profit learning partnerships in the nation, inspiring, empowering and uniting children and communities through education, arts and culture. Their programs help students to achieve academic success and develop essential life and learning skills, and offer opportunities for children and their families to learn together. Check out what‘s going on in Dallas. http://www.bigthought.org/

Classroom Resources Available

Lexmark Offers Color Printers

Lexmark PrintArt, a national philanthropic program designed to expand and enrich the art and cultural education resources in schools, is currently underway in thousands of schools across the United States . This initiative uses digital technology and photo-quality printers to bring 19th century European masterpieces to 21st century students.  The Lexmark PrintArt program includes the gift of a color inkjet printer, a multilingual CD-ROM, a teacher's guide with academic exercises, and additional materials.  For more information, visit http://printart.lexmark.com.

Target Arts in Education Grants
Target offers grants for projects to create opportunities for students to explore, experience and create visual art, music and drama. Each Target store is authorized to make Arts in Education Grants within its community.  Grant guidelines and applications are available at your local Target store; see the Target store Team Leader. Grant applications will be accepted until May 31, 2006.  For more information, visit http://target.com/target_group/community_giving/index.jhtml.

Professional Development Opportunities

Beyond Paper and Pencil: Bringing ELA to Life through the Arts
June 27 – 29, 2006

Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery; Saratoga County Arts Council

$350 for Members of Staff Development CO-SER 522 (formerly 512).

$500 for Non-Members
https://www.questar.org/StaffDevelopment/ela/index.htm

This summer institute is designed to inspire and equip teachers to use movement, poetry, and music to increase student learning in English Language Arts, K-4. Teaching strategies will focus on main idea, key details, sequencing, character development, and reading with expression. Teachers will learn successful classroom management, while enjoying a variety of creative activities they can use with all of their students and developing specific lesson plans using these techniques.

Lincoln Center Institute National Educator Workshop.

June 26–30, 2006  Arts In Education Institute of Western New York , Buffalo

July 10–14, 2006 TiIles Center, C.W. Post Institute for Arts and Culture, Brookville, L.I.

July 10–14 & July 17–21, 2006 Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, NYC
Tuition: $500 per session, plus a non-refundable $25 registration fee by June 2.

Contact: Ashleigh Blomfield, Lincoln Center Institute, ablomfield@lincolncenter.org , 212.875.5558

Professional artists and educators offer high-quality instruction to support stellar performances as part of the Institute’s rigorous approach, known as aesthetic education. Come ready to dance, paint, make music, improvise a theater scene, and explore the ways in which art inspires teaching and learning. Bring along your own expertise, network with other dedicated educators, and refresh your teaching tool kit. Each workshop features a dynamic balance between philosophy and practice, activity and reflection, and personal and group inquiries. Open to any pre-K through grade 12 teacher, school and/or arts administrator, teaching artist, curriculum developer, or teacher/educator not currently affiliated with an aesthetic education program.

• Acquire a learning and teaching methodology that you can use in your school.
• Understand how works of art can serve as the focus for study of diverse subjects.
• Learn how to support that study by art-making, inquiry, reflection, and contextual research.
• Enable your students to develop skills of perception and description, develop their imagination, and transform inspiration into creative action.

News
Laura Reeder Joins TAJ
Our Executive Director Laura Reeder has agreed to take on the position of Newsbreak Editor for Teaching Artist Journal (TAJ).  

TAJ is an international quarterly publication from the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College in Chicago , and is the leading peer-reviewed periodical for addressing practice, research, theory, opinion, and issues related to teaching artists (professionals with skills in both teaching and the arts). It is published by Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. The founding editor was arts education innovator, Eric Booth.

Ms. Reeder will edit the “Newsbreak” section of TAJ, which disseminates information on changes in the field, conferences, grant opportunities, and advocacy occasions.

SAP Recipient on NPR
National Public Radio interviewed SAP teaching artist Glenn McClure about his newest composition, The Starry Messenger. The oratorio is based on the life and work of Galileo and Dava Sobel’s award-winning book, Galileo’s Daughter. The interview aired on Saturday, May 20 on Weekend Edition (5 – 6 pm in most places on the East Coast). If you missed it, you can hear the story at NPR’s website.

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