Events
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010; 8:30-4:00
Massachusetts State House Gardiner Auditorium
Hooker Entrance (Just to the Right of the Main Gate)
24 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02133
$10 for Morning Advocacy Session
$15 for Lunch in the Grand Staircase
FREE and Open to the public: Afternoon Legislative Panel and Awards Ceremony
Registration Required, please click here
Schedule:
(TBA)
Minds in Motion--Enhanced Thinking Through the Arts (Please note that this course is currently over enrolled, and the registration and waitlist are completely closed).
Join 5 renowned educators for a remarkable two-day course demonstrating how the Arts are taught through Critical and Creative Thinking, and how Thinking is enhanced through the Arts. A variety of hands-on activities will provide applications to various subjects in the curricula and is designed for elementary and secondary teachers who seek unique teaching strategies. The emphasis will be how to help teachers and students stretch their imaginations to integrate the Arts and Creative Thinking into all aspects of teaching and learning.
Leaders:
- Elaine Sisler, Endicott College
- Miriam Kronish, Cambridge College
- John Hooker, Bridgewater State College
- Nina Greenwald, UMass-Boston
- David Martin, UMass-Boston
When: Saturday April 10, 2010, 9am to 4pm; Saturday May 8, 2010, 9am to 4pm
Where: Walnut Hill School, Natick, Mass.
Cost: $75, which includes cost of One Credit from Cambridge College, and buffet lunch at each course session. Make check out to Arts|Learning.
Registration: Complete the attached form and send by March 20, 2010 in care of:
Arts|Learning at Walnut Hill, 12 Highland St., Natick, MA 01760 Registration is now completely closed
Textbooks: 2 short texts will be needed for the course; participants should order these and read them prior to Session 1. Titles will be sent when registration is received; both are available on Amazon.com.
OTHER PAST Arts|Learning NALC AND MAEC EVENTS:
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND THE ARTS SYMPOSIUM
AND ANNUAL "CHAMPION OF THE ARTS" ADVOCACY AWARDS
Held on May 27, 2009, at the Masachusetts Statehouse
Arts|Learning's Advocacy Group is pleased to announce an extraordinarily successful 2009 School Leadership Symposium and Awards Ceremony at the Gardiner Auditorium of the Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston, May 27, 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM.
The School Leadership Symposium featured nationally respected arts researchers Lisa Donovan, Nadine Gaab, Martin Gardiner, Catherine Moritz, Gottfried Schlaug, Jenny Thomson, and Shirley Veenema. They discussed their current research of the inter-relationship of the arts and learning on whole-child development, academic and artistic achievement, and 21st-century skills. The Symposium also featured a live demonstration of a Kodály second-grade music class from the Peabody School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the direction of Wendy Silverberg; a panel of three urban school principals--Susan O'Neil, Bill Henderson, and Joellen Scannell--discussing the impact of the arts on their schools, students, and learning; and performances and visual arts exhibits.
Arts|Learning's Champion of Arts Education Advocacy Awards honored 15 individuals and organizations that have made a difference in the lives of students across Massachusetts, including educators, politicians, businesses, cultural institutions, students, and administrators. Many Massachusetts state legislators were in attendance to offer their constituents citations for their accomplishments in the arts and arts advocacy.
Arts|Learning convened the annual Massachusetts Arts Education Partnership (MAEP) Institute with partners Lesley University, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and VSA arts of Massachusetts.
Read about the 2008 MAEP Institute, "Making the Case for Arts Education: Research, Advocacy and Policy," which included state and national presenters Barbara Shepherd, director of National Partnerships at the Kennedy Center, and Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville.
The 2007 MAEP Institute focused on Massachusetts arts education partnership programs that have received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Department of Education, and the National Association of State Arts Agencies. Keynote speaker Dick Deasy, executive director of the Arts Education Partnership grounded the discussion with a national perspective that included research and exemplary models.
Arts|Learning has convened past symposia independently and in partnership withother organizations and institutions such as
- National Education Priorities, the No Child Left Behind Act, and Implications for Arts Education in K – 12 Public Schools. A Conversation with Doug Herbert, Special Assistant on Teacher Quality and Arts Education, U.S. Department of Education.
- Passion & Industry: Reflecting on Practice Workshop Series & Theory to Practice Conference. Developing, managing, and sustaining schools that prioritize the role of the arts in the curriculum with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, founder of Harvard's Arts in Education Program, and Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland of Harvard Project Zerowho shared their latest research.
- School that Focus on the Arts Conference. With Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Carol Fineberg, author of Planning an Arts-Centered School, published by Dana Press, and more.
- Connections between Effective Arts Education and Academic Research. With Researcher Barry Oreck; and Hollis Headrick, director, Center for Arts Education, and more.
- Leading with the Arts: The State of Arts Education in the Commonwealth and Across the Nation. With Doug Herbert, Arts Education Director, National Endowment for the Arts; Maxine Greene, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University; and more.
