PAE Postcard December 2006

Congratulations to art$TART Recipients!

This year’s art$TART applications were, as usual, representative of the highly creative thinking of our educators and artists.  The following schools have been selected for art$TART grants:

Onondaga County :
 - *Allen Road Elementary (North Syracuse) 4^th graders with the Everson Museum for New York's Native Flora & Fauna: Bringing the Outside In"

 - *Dr. Martin Luther King School (SCSD) 4^th graders with Syracuse Children’s Theatre for “Understanding Life on the Underground Railroad”
 - Franklin Magnet School (SCSD) 5^th graders with musician Patti Heath for “The Science of Music”

 - Jowonio School (SCSD) pre-K with ceramicist and photographer MaryFaith Decker for "The Welcome Project"

 - Montessori School of Syracuse (private) 1^st – 3^rd graders with weaver Sarah Saulson for “The Art of Weaving in Native American Cultures”
 - *Nottingham High School (SCSD) 10^th graders with NYS Early Music Association for “Interactive Sessions in Baroque Culture”
 - Renaissance Academy-Carnegie High School (SCSD) with the Everson Museum for “Making Choices: Stereotype vs. Prototype”

 - Salem-Hyde Elementary (SCSD)  6^th graders with photographer Stephanie Bursese for “I am a Landscape” Solace Elementary (SCSD) 4^th – 6^th graders with Open Hand Theater for “Puppetry Playwriting Project”

Cayuga County:  
Millard Fillmore Elementary (Moravia CSD) 3^rd graders with theatre artist Holly Adams for “Chaos”

Cortland County :  

- Cincinnatus Central School K, 2^nd, 3^rd, 5^th, 6^th, and GED students with the Everson Museum for “Thinking Through Art”

Madison County :  
- Chittenango Middle School 7^th graders with fabric artist Sharon Bottle Souva for “Sew, Why Not?”

 - *Hamilton Central School 9^th – 12^th graders with Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University , theatre artist Holly Adams and filmmaker Thomas Hoebbel for “Public Health in History: Documentary Film”

 - * Madison Elementary School 3^rd and 6^th graders with Open Hand Theater for "MASC - Madison 's Adventures in Societal Costuming"

 - *Madison High School 11^th – 12^th graders with Stone Quarry Hill Art Park and fabric artist Susan Parker for "Fiber Art: From Field to Fabrication"

* These projects are part of the CCE Research Initiative - see below

You can get more details about all the projects at our website.

CCE Research Initiative Begins

Community, Culture, & Education is a Central New York Arts-in-Education Research Initiative established to assess and improve how PAE can support CNY cultural organizations as they partner with schools.

With funding from the Gifford Foundation, PAE has engaged Phil Alexander, AIE consultant for the NYS Council on the Arts, and established an Evaluation Team of CNY arts-in-education professionals to help us examine six of our 2006-07 funded art$TART partnerships (see asterisked projects above). The partnership teams will meet with the Evaluation Team and Dr. Alexander six times during the Spring of 2007, while their art$TART projects are in progress, to identify the elements of arts in ed that resonate with the CNY educational/cultural community and learn how PAE can facilitate these relationships and leverage them for additional funding.

Over the years, PAE has been hearing and noticing that CNY educators, cultural organizations, and funding organizations are all interested in strengthening arts in education as a long-term, creative educational strategy. They frequently come to PAE with great ideas for new programs that will engage the other two populations, but too often run up against obstacles. We believe that it is time to bring these groups together by researching how our schools can fully benefit from the rich community resources available in CNY, how our cultural organizations can connect effectively with schools, and how PAE can support this activity to enhance the education of our students.

You can stay informed about developments in CCE on our website.

CommonGround 2007 Update
We are very pleased to announce that Arnie Aprill, Executive Director of the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) will be a keynote speaker at CommonGround 2007 , March 28 – 30 in Rochester .  Mr. Aprill coordinates innovative arts projects which link schools and their communities, and shows how student social competence and community social capital can be developed through the arts.

There is funding available to help defray registration and travel expenses for CommonGround attendees.  The second of two CommonGround TAP application deadlines is February 1^st.  You can submit your on-line application any time before then.  Just go to our website for more information and the application.

Registration for CommonGround 2007 will open mid-January. Watch our website for details as they emerge.

TAP Grants Available

Need some help with developing assessments for your arts-in-ed project? Trying to find the funds for an arts integration workshop at your next teachers’ conference day? You can apply for funding for consultants, travel  and professional development opportunities that develop, enhance and/or evaluate arts education programs benefiting children Pre-K to 12^th grade.  The next of the five yearly deadlines is January 2^nd.  Visit our website for more details and the application.

Resources

Educating for Creativity
If you have access to a high-speed internet connection, check out the link below.  It is a 15-minute video presentation by Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out Of Our Minds: Learning To Be Creative and it is a very funny, insightful, delightful and inspiring piece about the education children really need to be prepared for the future.  http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=ken_robinson

Opportunities
NYS Artists Invited to Apply for Arts Colony Fellowships
Deadline: January 15, 2007
The mission of the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts (http://www.saltonstall.org/ ) is to support visual and literary artists in New York State. Artists and writers who are New York State residents are invited to apply for fellowships (month-long summer residencies) at the 200-acre Constance Saltonstall Arts Colony in Ithaca, New York.

The summer fellowship categories are poetry; fiction or creative nonfiction; painting, sculpture, or other visual arts; and photography. Five artists are in each session: one photographer, one poet, one prose writer, and two painters, sculptors, or other visual artists. The summer fellowship competition is open to all New York State residents (including New York City).

Visit the Salons Foundation Web site for complete program information. RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005402/saltonstall .

SmartBrief Seeks Freelance Writer (Education, K-12)
Job Location: Telecommute
Company Website: www.smartbrief.com
Date posted: 12/04/2006

SmartBrief is seeking a part-time freelance writer (up to 25 hours per week) to help create daily e-mail publications focusing on education news of interest to administrators and teachers in the K-12 and special education community. If you love to research and write and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-intensive work environment, you'll fit right in.

Job Duties:
• Search the Web to locate news articles and other online information sources of interest to teachers and administrators working in primary and secondary education.
• Select and summarize (in 2-3 sentences) online articles and other content for use in e-mail publications.
• Use SmartBrief's online article search engine and publishing tools to produce the finished product.

Required Skills & Experience:
• Ability to write quickly and accurately on multiple, tight daily deadlines, beginning at 7 a.m. (EST), Monday thru Friday.
• At least two years of experience as a journalist or proven writing and editing skills.
• Alternative: At least two years of experience in a communications or research role with a consulting firm, association, nonprofit or other relevant organization.
• Knowledge of AP style.
• Sophisticated understanding of how to find news and information on the Web.
• Knowledge of the curriculum, public policy, technology, teaching and learning issues facing educators in the K-12 community.

Candidates of interest will be contacted by SmartBrief to arrange a timed writing and editing test.

Please e-mail your cover letter and resume to jobs@smartbrief.com.
Place the following in the subject line: SmartBrief Education Writer.
Contact e-mail: jobs@smartbrief.com

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