October 2006 Newsletter

SMARTS: BRING BACK THE ARTS

CALIFORNIA STATE PTA ONLINE NEWSLETTER

October 2006

SMARTS is California State PTAs program to encourage arts education. The California State PTA wants to create advocates for quality arts education at every school in California. We hope you will spread the word about the benefits of arts education. Please e-mail this newsletter to PTA district, council and unit members.

In this issue:

1) Advocacy for the Arts

San Francisco Launches Arts Master Plan
Strategic Recommendations for Maximizing New Arts Funding
Highlights of Arts Education Research

2) Interactive Websites for Parents, Teachers, and Students

Joy to Learn: Visual and Performing Artists on the Web

3) Announcements

Arts in Schools: New Grant Program from the California Arts Council
Arts Teachers Fellowship Program
Arts Resources for Teachers
Inclusive Arts Education Funding
National Art Contest
Using Music to Teach Mathematics Grants for Grades Kâ€“2 Teachers

1) Advocacy for the Arts

San Francisco Launches Arts Master Plan
Advocacy for the arts pays off in San Francisco as the school district launches its new arts master plan. Read the article:
â€œVisual, performing arts to be reborn in schoolsâ€�
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/28/BAG3CLE72R1.DTL

Download the plan:
http://portal.sfusd.edu/data/aemp/AEMPcombined.pdf

Create your own Arts Master Plan!
http://www.capta.org/sections/programs-smarts/downloads/caep.pdf

Strategic Recommendations for Maximizing New Arts Funding
The California Arts Project shares strategies for teachers, administrators, parents, and others involved in decision making on the use of the new state funds. You can download and reproduce any document you find useful.
http://csmp.ucop.edu/tcap/news/support_visual.html

Highlights of Arts Education Research
Read the fact sheet about arts education research from Americans for the Arts.
http://www.artsusa.org/public_awareness/facts/

2) Interactive Websites for Parents, Teachers, and Students

Joy to Learn: Visual and Performing Artists on the Web
Joy to Learn provides web-based presentations by world-class visual and performing artists for use by students and teachers. The series includes:

Theater with Hector Elizondo
http://joy2learn.org/epres_theater.html

At the Piano with Alan Gampel
http://joy2learn.org/epres_atthepiano.html

Dancing with Gregory Hines
http://joy2learn.org/epres_dancing.html

Jazz with Wynton Marsalis
http://joy2learn.org/epres_jazz.html

Painting with Elizabeth Murray
http://joy2learn.org/epres_painting.html

3) Announcements

Arts in Schools: New Grant Program from the California Arts Council
This program is designed to support artists in residency activities. Deadline is November 17, 2006.
http://www.cac.ca.gov/344/#15

Arts Teachers Fellowship Program
Arts teachers from specialized public arts high schools can apply for funding for artistic development through the Surdna Foundation Arts Teachers Fellowship program. Deadline is November 17, 2006.
http://www.surdna.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=326426&attrib_id=12040

Arts Resources for Teachers
Explore thousands of primary source images and documents aligned to California standards on the University of California website.
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

Inclusive Arts Education Funding
VSA arts and MetLife Foundation provide Arts Connect All funding to create or enhance multi-session, inclusive education programs by strengthening partnerships with local public schools.
http://www.vsarts.org/x273.xml

National Art Contest
The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems seeks to capture the vision of artists about what schools would look like when they value and include the backgrounds, experiences, and heritage of ALL students.
Deadline is October 31, 2006.
http://www.nccrest.org/events/events/art_contest.html

Using Music to Teach Mathematics Grants for Grades Kâ€“2 Teachers
http://nctm.org/about/met/mendlesohn.htm

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