ArtsEd Digest

Volume 1, Issue 12 - August 25, 2009

Welcome to ArtsEd Digest, the new and improved face of the AEP listserv. The ArtsEd Digest is an online publication that allows for the easy access to vital and timely information about arts education from our partners and from the field. It is published twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday. Items for inclusion in the upcoming listserv must be submitted by close of business on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month. For example, items for the Digest to be published on Tuesday, September 8 should be submitted by close of business Friday, September 4.

New from the Arts Education Partnership

New Updates on "Charting a Course for the Arts and 21st Century Learning"!
Online registration at the rate of $195 has been extended to September 15th! Register now – after the deadline, the registration rate increases to $225.

AEP is delighted to release the final agenda for the Forum – we hope you’ll be as excited as we are about the line-up. Please click the links to see the Forum at a Glance timeline and a list of all session descriptions for the Forum, including an outstanding slate of small group sessions taking place on both Friday and Saturday.

Finally, don't miss your chance to enjoy the special discounted rate of $169/night at the Hotel Marlowe! The cut-off date is September 4, 2009 to secure this rate at the hotel. After this date, reservations will be accepted based on room availability at the hotel at the best available rate.

Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio Featured on Local News

A YouTube video segment showcases the work of Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio (YANEO), one of the sites in the Ford Foundation Arts Education Initiative. The video includes footage of students in arts-rich lessons, interspersed with interviews of Marsha Dobrzynksi, Executive Director of YANEO; Andrew Koonce, Principal of the Cleveland School of the Arts; and Katherine Solender, Vice President of YANEO. This segment is from the program “Helping Hands” on The Time Warner Cable Northeast Ohio Network (NEON). NEON features hundreds of hours of original local programming.

U.S. Department of Education 2009-2010 FRSS Arts in Education Surveys

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) are collaborating to conduct seven surveys on arts education in U.S. public schools during the 2009-10 school year. The surveys will be conducted through the NCES Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) (http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/), which was used to conduct previous national surveys on arts education in 1999–2000 and 1994-95.

Specifically, a survey will be conducted with:

Elementary school principals
Elementary music specialists
Elementary visual arts specialists
Elementary general classroom teachers
Secondary school principals
Secondary music specialists
Secondary visual arts specialists

In order to minimize respondent burden each survey will only have three pages of questions. Both school-level surveys will be administered beginning in the fall of 2009, while the administration of the teacher-level surveys will begin in January 2010. NCES anticipates releasing initial school-level data results by January 2011 and teacher-level results by June 2011. A larger, more comprehensive report will follow the initial releases and provide combined and detailed findings for all of the surveys, including comparisons between the 1999–2000 and 2009–10.

Contact:
Peter Tice, Ph.D.
Project Officer, Fast Response Survey System (FRSS)
National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences
1990 K St., NW, Suite 9033
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 502-7497 (p)
peter.tice@ed.gov

International Thespian Society Troupes Featured in Showtime Documentary

Three Southern Indiana troupes of the Educational Theatre Association's (EdTA) student honorary division, the International Thespian Society (ITS), are featured in an upcoming SHOWTIME documentary. Guys 'N Divas: Battle of the High School Musicals premieres Thursday, August 27th at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.

The documentary follows Thespian troupe 1794 at Floyd Central High School; troupe 4501 at New Albany High School; and troupe 3860 at Jeffersonville High School as each produces a musical in the hopes of earning an invitation to perform at the International Thespian Festival, the annual event produced by ITS.

“Guys 'N Divas: Battle of the High School Musicals is a warm look at the passion and commitment of our Thespians and their teachers, and the support of the parents, as they work to earn the opportunity to perform on the main stage at the Thespian Festival,” says EdTA Executive Director Michael J. Peitz. “But, it is about more than this. It is about the lessons that come from taking part in the theatre arts, lessons in teamwork, perseverance, and working toward a goal.”

Guys 'N Divas: Battle of the High School Musicals is directed by filmmaker Barry W. Blaustein, known for the award-winning documentary Beyond the Mat, as well as the feature film comedies Coming to America, Boomerang, and The Nutty Professor. It is executive produced by Blaustein and Spitfire Picture’s Nigel Sinclair, who produced the Grammy Award-winning documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. The film, a presentation of Showtime and Lionsgate, is a Spitfire Pictures Production. Debra (Rahri) Simon serves as producer and Guy East and Tobin Armbrust serve as co-producers.

Teacher Opportunity: Global Youth Media Arts Program Now Accepting Teacher Applicants

World Savvy’s Global Youth Media & Arts Program (MAP) is excited to invite Bay Area middle & high school teachers to participate in the 2009-10 academic year! This year’s theme is Immigration and Identity.

Deadline for submissions: 5PM on Friday October 9, 2009

WHAT IS WORLD SAVVY’S MAP?
The MAP is an arts education program for Bay Area youth ages 12-18.

WHY IS THE MAP UNIQUE?
The MAP blends the arts and global issues. Through the MAP youth use their own lives and communities as a platform to examine a global theme using visual arts, performance and media.

WHO DOES THE MAP SERVE IN THE BAY AREA?
600+ youth each year
20+ Arts, Media, English, Social Studies, Performance, ELL, or any creatively curious educators!

World Savvy provides teachers with professional development in the form of useful tools and skills to integrate global perspectives into the classroom. The program culminates with a public art event called The Global Youth Media & Arts Festival that showcases youth artwork, performance and media!

To learn more: contact Katina Papson katina@worldsavvy.org or call 415.292.7421.
To access details on the program and fill out an application go to:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Iz4HEPIKWXUB2TV6RA0UNA_3d_3d

Employment Opportunity: AYPF Website and Database Coordinator Position

The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is seeking a Website and Database Coordinator to join our non-profit team dedicated to providing learning events to education and youth policymakers.

The Website and Database Coordinator (Coordinator) is responsible for various important administrative functions in the office, including management and maintenance of the website and database, providing logistical support for events, publications dissemination and fulfillment, and general administrative support for the office. Tasks will include posting event information and supporting documents on the website, making appropriate links, and providing quality control to ensure web pages and links are accurate, active, current, and consistent in appearance. For a full job description, please click on the attached link: http://www.aypf.org/about/employment.htm

Scholarship Opportunity: National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Foundation College Scholarship Award: Americans for the Arts Recipient

For the second year, Americans for the Arts is cosponsoring the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Foundation College Scholarship Award: Americans for the Arts Recipient to encourage the integration of the arts into economic education.

Two $5,000 scholarships will be awarded to college level students or students entering college, who come from an economic disadvantaged household, have attended a public school, can demonstrate a long term participation in the study of, creation in and/or performance in one or more art forms, including dance, music, theatre, literary, visual/media arts), excelled academically, and have formally declared the intent to study and apply economics in their pursuit of higher education and professional career.

Applications are due at close of business on Monday, September 14th, emailed or faxed to:

Marete Wester, M.S., Director of Arts Policy
Americans for the Arts
One East 53rd. Street, 2nd. Floor, New York, NY 10022
T 212 223 2787, ext. 1105
F 212 980 4857
Main Line 202 371 2830
Email mwester@artsusa.org

The final candidates will be selected by a scholarship sub-committee of the NABE Foundation Board and notified by end of September. Winner are announced publicly at the NABE Annual Meeting in October.

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