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What Can Dance Teach Us About Learning? — From the Dana Foundation
Here comes another piece on arts education and the brain, from The Dana Foundation’s Cerebrum Magazine. I have to say, I love this stream of pieces that is being generated by Dana. This piece, What Dance Can Teach Us About Learning? “highlights the importance of including physical learning in the classroom, to stimulate creativity, increase…
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Arts Advocacy as a Double-Edged Sword, Part Two: What is Advocacy Anyway?
As a follow-up to Jane Remer’s finely-honed blog on Dewey21c (Arts Advocacy is a Double-Edged Sword), I thought it might be helpful to post a bit of a rundown on the various types of advocacy. While the term “advocacy” may be bounced around in a singular manner, it is after all an umbrella term describing…
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Guest Blogger Jane Remer: Arts Advocacy as a Double-Edged Sword
In today’s entry for her recurring guest blog, titled CliffNotes, Jane Remer tackles arts education advocacy. Never one to mince words, Jane gives us all lots to think about. RK************************************************************************************************************* As I have said for years, the arts education community is not a true “field,” as it is riddled with great diversity of philosophy, purpose,…
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Ted Wiprud, NY Philharmonic Arts Education Advanceman On Tour: Guest Blog #2
To read Ted’s first blog; click this link. Within the Western educational system, the Teaching Artist attempts the most complete realization of student-centered learning. To borrow from Eric Booth, the word “education” has the Latin root “ducare” – to lead or draw, with the prefix “e-“, out. The fundamental stance of the Teaching Artist is…
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Guest Blog: Ted Wiprud, Director of Education/NY Philharmonic: Arts Education Advanceman for the NY Phil on Tour
Please join me in welcoming to Dewey21C, my dear friend Ted Wiprud, Director of Education at the New York Philharmonic. I’ve known Ted for over 10 years, going back to his days at Meet The Composer. We used to do professional development workshops together for composers, and I have been a big fan of his…
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Looking For a Few Good Panelists…
Peer reviewers to be exact. And, hey, it’s not me that’s looking, but it’s the USDOE. That’s right the USDOE is looking for peer reviewers for it’s Race to the Top Fund. So, if you have “experience providing thoughtful, objective, constructive, and timely oral and written feedback to applicants and/or organizations on successes and opportunities…
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And Then There Was NCLB
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been mainly occupied with education stimulus dollars, more than anything reflected in the frenzy around his Race to the Top Fund. It is, after all, a $4.3 billion fund available to state education departments through a competitive application process. Final guidelines are to appear sometime within the next three…
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The Big Bang Theory of Arts Education
This is a repost of a blog that I wrote last December. After a few recent circuitous conversations about arts integration versus arts as a discrete discipline, I thought it a good idea to repost. As George Harrison once sang: “It seems like years since it was clear.” Once upon a time, most public schools…
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Advocacy Tools: Candidate Questionnaires on Arts Education
Okay, The Center for Arts Education asked the candidates for key campaigns in New York City to complete questionnaires about their positions on K-12 arts education in the New York City Public Schools. Click here to view the press release about the Public Advocate Questionnaires Click here to view the completed questionnaires for: Bill DeBlasio,…
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What does it take to get into a select arts high school?
In this case, the article is focusing on the LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. It’s great to read about students at the very top of high school arts education in New York City. At the same time, it makes me think back to when I graduated high school, when in…