blurb from NY Times:
In a report to be released on Monday the nonprofit Center for Arts Education found that New York City high schools with the highest graduation rates also offered students the most access to arts education. The report, which analyzed data collected by the city’s Education Department from more than 200 schools over two years, reported that schools ranked in the top third by graduation rates offered students the most access to arts education and resources, while schools in the bottom third offered the least access and fewest resources. Among other findings, schools in the top third typically hired 40 percent more certified arts teachers and offered 40 percent more classrooms dedicated to coursework in the arts than bottom-ranked schools. They were also more likely to offer students a chance to participate in or attend arts activities and performances. The full report is at caenyc.org.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
CAIS workshop in January
*Save the Date* Thursday, January 14, 2010 , 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
California Association of Independent Schools
A professional day in Integrated Visual and Language Arts
Organized by Jeni Anderson, Julia Morgan School for Girls
Title: The Power of Personal Narratives Through Bringing Together Poetry Writing, Printmaking and Bookmaking
Location: Julia Morgan School for Girls
Intended audience: Teachers of visual art and language arts in particular. Others welcome. All grade-levels.
Brief Description: Led by artist-educators Luz Marina Ruiz and Cathleen Micheaels, this workshop will offer a personally and professionally powerful integrated arts experience through written and visual imagery. Participants will write personal narrative poems, create relief prints to accompany their poems, and then bring the two together in books that they will hand-craft. The day-long professional development workshop will include time to share work and discuss ways to integrate such projects into the classroom as well as a break for conversation over a brown bag lunch.
Great meeting!
Caren Andrews and Jen Stuart hosted a great meeting of close to 30 art teachers from all over the bay area at San Francisco Friends School on Wednesday October 21st from 8:30-12.
Jen & Caren opened the meeting with the quaker practice of silent time, and then shared a little bit about their program. After a break to move cars the group took tours of the amazing historic building. We then generated small group discussion topics ranging from how to organize meetings to project sharing.
For the future: we would like to meet once or twice a year as an all bay area group in order to visit a variety of schools, make connections and spend a little time in self-generated topics. We will rotate this between weekends and school days in order to better serve more people traveling greater distances. We will meet whenever somebody volunteers to host and facilitate- anyone up for hosting the next meeting?
Regional or special interest groups can be called by anyone at anytime. The East Bay art teacher group is a great example of a group meeting to start collaborations, both with each other and the community, such as the homeless shelter BOSS in Berkeley. They have also talked about starting a website. This group will be meeting in November at Head Royce at 4 pm- location TBA. Please contact Nina Nathan if you are interested in joining them! nnathan@headroyce.org
Another example of this is if anyone wants to figure out how to teach animation, or talk about clay projects, or address issues particular to a specific age group. You don't have to be an expert to call a group together- just plan a date and put out the word!
We hope to work with (and take advantage of) CAIS for things like speakers or all-day workshops, as well as to disseminate announcements. Thank you Jeni Anderson (from Julia Morgan School) for working so hard to plan a professional day in January- look here for more details soon.
The blog will continue to serve, for now, as a place for EVERYONE to share ideas. If you have come to a meeting you will be invited to post, but anyone can request to post- just email Adra. Teachers are also encouraged to add links to galleries of student art in whatever form you have. A small group is also looking for other avenues for us all to communicate, led by Alice Engelmore & Adra Valentine. Just let either of them know if you have any expertise or ideas.
Jen & Caren opened the meeting with the quaker practice of silent time, and then shared a little bit about their program. After a break to move cars the group took tours of the amazing historic building. We then generated small group discussion topics ranging from how to organize meetings to project sharing.
For the future: we would like to meet once or twice a year as an all bay area group in order to visit a variety of schools, make connections and spend a little time in self-generated topics. We will rotate this between weekends and school days in order to better serve more people traveling greater distances. We will meet whenever somebody volunteers to host and facilitate- anyone up for hosting the next meeting?
Regional or special interest groups can be called by anyone at anytime. The East Bay art teacher group is a great example of a group meeting to start collaborations, both with each other and the community, such as the homeless shelter BOSS in Berkeley. They have also talked about starting a website. This group will be meeting in November at Head Royce at 4 pm- location TBA. Please contact Nina Nathan if you are interested in joining them! nnathan@headroyce.org
Another example of this is if anyone wants to figure out how to teach animation, or talk about clay projects, or address issues particular to a specific age group. You don't have to be an expert to call a group together- just plan a date and put out the word!
We hope to work with (and take advantage of) CAIS for things like speakers or all-day workshops, as well as to disseminate announcements. Thank you Jeni Anderson (from Julia Morgan School) for working so hard to plan a professional day in January- look here for more details soon.
The blog will continue to serve, for now, as a place for EVERYONE to share ideas. If you have come to a meeting you will be invited to post, but anyone can request to post- just email Adra. Teachers are also encouraged to add links to galleries of student art in whatever form you have. A small group is also looking for other avenues for us all to communicate, led by Alice Engelmore & Adra Valentine. Just let either of them know if you have any expertise or ideas.
Friday, October 16, 2009
See you Wednesday, October 21st 8:30-Noon
Hope to see many of you at San Francisco Friends School Wednesday morning, October 21st from 8:30-12.
We will spend the morning working in small groups, sharing ideas and discussing topics that you bring. Please bring your ideas, project examples and lesson plans you would like to work on or share.
In the meantime, feel free to share ideas, questions and event announcements here! If you are ready to post, just send a request and I will set you up to be a contributor.
Where?
http://www.sffriendsschool.org/About/contact-sffs.html
When?
Wednesday October 21st
8:30-Noon
We will spend the morning working in small groups, sharing ideas and discussing topics that you bring. Please bring your ideas, project examples and lesson plans you would like to work on or share.
In the meantime, feel free to share ideas, questions and event announcements here! If you are ready to post, just send a request and I will set you up to be a contributor.
Where?
http://www.sffriendsschool.org/About/contact-sffs.html
When?
Wednesday October 21st
8:30-Noon
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