MLK Learning Through Art, Music, Theater
An article in yesterday’s Bangor Daily News describes Monday’s event at Ocean Avenue Elementary School. It was a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life that took place through music, art, and theater. Read the entire article by clicking here.
How well do you play with others?
The second live webinar installment of the Arts component of the Cross Discipline Literacy Network (CDLN) is this Thursday from 3pm to 4pm.
“How to play with others” is an investigation in to using strategies and frameworks so that each content area is enhanced and strengthened in the learning environment.
There are many changes and adaptions afoot in the arts world and understanding the developments available to us will help to create relationships with our non-arts education colleagues that embrace and support the unique gifts that the arts bring us.
This is an invitation to join Jen Nash, Lisa Gilman, Suzanne Goulet and specials guests, Catherine Ring and Argy Nestor in these discussions.
Please consider sharing some of your successful integrations with us!
To join the meeting:
1. Go online to http://stateofmaine.adobeconnect.com/pk202112912/
2. Select ‘Enter as a Guest’ and type your name in the corresponding field.
3. To listen and speak during the meeting, you will need to be connected by telephone:
· The meeting can call you at a phone number you provide at log-in, or
· You can dial directly into the meeting: 1-877-455-0244, Passcode 8332185782. (Use this second option when joining the meeting from sites where your phone can only be reached through a switchboard.)
Thank you to webinar facilitator Suzanne Goulet for the blog post and for the Danse logo!
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
ASCD has numerous articles on Thoughtful Arts Education, published on January 17, 2013. Below I have listed the articles and resources, and links to each of them.
National Endowment for the Arts grant guidelines
Application guidelines for the next round of Grants for Arts Projects are now available on the NEA’s website. To view the guidelines, go to www.arts.gov/grants/apply, select the field or discipline most relevant to your project, and choose Grants for Arts Projects from the list of funding opportunities.
Organizations may apply under the following categories:
Art Works: To support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. Within these areas, innovative projects are strongly encouraged. Grants generally range from $10,000 to $100,000. (Two application deadlines: March 7 and August 8, 2013)
Challenge America Fast-Track: To support projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations. Grants are for $10,000. (Application deadline: May 23, 2013)
Highlights of the changes to the guidelines for this year and what they mean to you
The Presenting discipline has been renamed Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works. Why the change? We wanted the Presenting discipline to be as open and welcoming to all multidisciplinary applications and felt a need to have the title and description properly reflect it. Additionally, some changes to the types of projects that will be accepted at each Art Works deadline have been switched between March and August. Click here to see a one-page description with all the information.
Review criteria to address innovation and inclusion have been added for the Art Works category.
Also in the Art Works category, applicants in all disciplines will upload their work samples electronically to NEA-GO over the same two-week period of time. Last year you had only one week to upload your samples and did so on a schedule according to your discipline.
References to the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) have been updated to reflect the migration to the System for Award Management (SAM). SAM is the same as the old CCR, just with a different web address.
A success!
All the reports tell us that the first Maine Arts Assessment Initiative/MLTI Mega-regional workshop was a worthwhile professional development for all those involved. Twenty five educators participated in the MAAI workshop that was held at University of Maine in Farmington.
UMF students were still on winter break so the campus was fairly quiet during the all day event. Participants attended three sessions led by MAAI teacher leaders during the day and had a variety of choices at the free workshop.
Great job MAAI teacher leaders and MLTI technology integrators. The next three Mega-regional workshops are scheduled and all educators are invited to attend but we ask that all participants be pre-registered by going to http://www.maine.gov/education/lres/vpa/assessment.html and click on the dates for the following sessions.’
Participants and facilitators at the end of a productive day!
Technical difficulties
If you tried to join the live stream today on the National Core Arts Standards you may not have had any luck with the connection or getting in to the stream. I am not sure who said: “Technology is great when it works.” Periodically, that statement rings VERY true. I am guessing that my colleagues in New York who were trying to make the opportunity feasible for everyone across the country were very frustrated. Fortunately everyone will have the opportunity to access the event since the archive will be posted starting this Sunday!
I am taking this opportunity to provide some information that you might be wondering about.
As I learn more I will provide an update here on the meartsed blog. If you have questions please go to the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards website at http://nccas.wikispaces.com/ or contact me at argy.nestor@maine.gov.
Hearing about it, really!
From Oregon a talk show that highlights STEM/STEAM – listen to the interview at http://tunein.com/topic/?TopicId=43998097#. The show includes John Maeda, President of Rhode Island School of Design who formerly was at the MIT Media Lab. An Oregon Public Broadcaster interviews a school in a Portland, Oregon school where they have are involved in STEAM education. In some cases the arts drive the learning and some times it is the opposite.
Thank you to Ann Thompson for sending the link!
You’re Invited!
ALL AP Studio Art teachers or high school art teachers who are interested in teaching AP Studio Art should consider attending the upcoming meeting in Rockland. Meeting at the Gamble Center, Farnsworth Art Museum on Saturday, January 26 from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM. The Gamble Center is right next to the Wyeth Center, at the corner of Grace and Union Streets. Park behind the Wyeth Center. The classroom space is heated, has wifi, and a screen. There are several restaurants nearby for ordering lunch. Snow date is on February 2.
Mark your calendars – dig out an interesting lesson plan or two to share, and get ready for another great opportunity to learn and share!
Bring computer, flash drive, resources to share, lesson plans to share (with examples), student work for critique, ideas, questions, and a few snacks to share.
Those who have attended in the past always benefit from the experience. And, as an added plus, if you have not been to the Farnsworth recently, it is really worth a visit! There will be time after our meeting to check out the current exhibits.
Please email Kal Elmore @ kalelmore@gmail.com if you have any questions and/or plan on attending!
Guiding Framework Released
The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) has released a narrative framework document that details the rationale, goals, and strategy of the new National Standards for Arts Education that are currently being written by five arts discipline teams in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts. The National Core Arts Standards: A Conceptual Framework for Arts Learning will be formally released as part of a streaming video presentation during the January 18-20 meeting of the coalition’s leadership and writing teams at the New York City headquarters of The College Board.
The broadcast presentation is scheduled for Friday January 18th, at 4:00 PM EST, via the NCCAS wiki at http://nccas.wikispaces.com. Questions and comments will be fielded through a companion live blog. Arts Education specialists, teachers, administrators teaching artists, parents, and community members are encouraged to attend. Viewers should plan on signing into the stream fifteen minutes prior to start time for live attendance; archival video and blog comments will be posted on the site twenty-four hours after the event closes.
NCCAS, a coalition of nine national arts and education organizations, is committed to developing a next generation of voluntary, researched-based arts education standards that will build on the foundation created by the 1994 standards (and the 2005 Standards for Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts), support the 21st-century needs of students and teachers, help ensure that all students are college and career ready, and affirm the place of arts education in a balanced core curriculum.
The framework document guides readers through the historical context for arts education and standards, the foundational research and philosophical basis for the work, and explores what it means to be artistically literate, based on the artistic processes of creating, performing/presenting/producing, responding, and connecting. The narrative also articulates the fundamental creative arts practices by which students learn in individual arts disciplines and transfer their knowledge, skills and habits to other contexts and settings.
During the video presentation, NCCAS framing committee members will walk the audience through the narrative document and its companion matrix—a template that provides a unified view of the standards for the five arts disciplines, while allowing the distinguishing characteristics of each discipline to be preserved. Leadership and the discipline chairs will also explain an updated timeline for the work and share plans for a draft review process that is set to begin this summer.
To learn more about the next generation of voluntary national arts standards, or to review video archives of previous presentations, please visit the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards website at http://nccas.wikispaces.com.
To download the Conceptual Framework please go to http://nccas.wikispaces.com/Conceptual+Framework and download the .pdf.
Got any money?
Periodically I am asked for sources of funding, grants, and/or scholarships. The bottom line question is “Got any money?” If only I did, I’d love to facilitate a grant program to provide money to arts educators across the state who do amazing work with students every day. Since I don’t have any money but I do receive informative emails that tell of funding I can pass the information on to you.
This came across my email recently and is a source that I am unfamiliar with. A piece on GetEdFunding found on EDTECH Focus on K-12. GetEdFunding is a free, curated database of more than 750 active grants and awards that are available to schools and educators.
I post funding opportunities on the “Prof Dev Opps” page that you can get to from the front page of the meartsed blog, bottom right hand side. Not only are their funding opportunities but an ongoing list of professional development. Funding sources are towards the bottom of the long list of information provided for you!
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