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The Arts in Public School Education live HERE! Welcome to heartsinthearts.com..."To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable" (Raymond Williams).Asking the questions that need to be asked about the Arts and Public Education. The budgets? Minuscule. The learning spaces? Inadequate. The staffing plans? Atrocious and inhumane. Future planning? Nowhere. Arts Teachers, dispirited and disheartened are just holding on for better times. Artists themselves, their own art dwindles daily. So what if the change we have been waiting for is us? I think it is. I know it is. The country cries out for innovation- and they'll never see enough true innovation and creativity without the Arts. The Arts teach people to think, to be together, to build teams, to develop ideas. The Arts teach aspiration to a higher stage of accomplishment. Whether it is teaching the Arts in an interdisciplinary form, such as using Music to teach Math or Poetry to teach Biology; or taught for their own sake, the Arts are part of the human experience. They are the human experience in the classroom when young minds latch onto a concept and make it their own. Music, Art, Drama; these are reasons to go to school for some students. We as a society are denied the creativity of students when the Arts programs are cut. Where are the African American violinists in our public schools/the Hispanic oboists? How many of our public school students think 'cello' is a dessert? It just isn't right. Students have the right to literacy, numeracy and creativity. Creativity is to be nurtured, as much as the human spirit is to be nurtured. So, change it! You see from the inside as a teacher, program planner, program Director, parent, student... Add your voice here- tell your experiences, good and bad, and add them to our growing data-base of grass-roots data supporting more Arts in the Public school systems. We'll make this effort THE NEXT BIG THING- Excellence in Arts Education in the Public Schools! Click around, read an article, and find a Forum - you'll see "New Topic"- click there and tell us your story. Find the comment section after each section- and Comment! Suggest another article- write another article! What would you tell a State or Federal government education department how to make it better? What would you tell a sympathetic friend who's just there to listen? heartsinthearts.com Director Katrina S. Axelrod heartsinthearts.com is not affiliated with any Board of Education or municipal or state agency. heartsinthearts.com is a wholly-owned project of Meriden ArtsTrust, Meriden, Connecticut, USA KSA
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http://www.thestar.com/article/288530
Last updated by audubonstrings on 12/29/2008 12:00 AM (Read: 370 times)
Go to this address and find out a very positive thing! Let's discuss Arts Education in the Our Public Schools
Last updated by audubonstrings on 12/26/2008 12:00 AM (Read: 325 times)
Join an on-going conversation about the state of Arts Education in the Connecticut Schools. Write your opinion and see how many agree and disagree with you. Whether you are in the public schools or not, what do you want to change? Suggest topics, give us your best practices, see what others are doing in Connecticut, The more the merrier -- and the more convincing when it comes to changing the current dismal state of Connecticut's Arts Educational programs. Help your creative kids have a better place to learn and grow. To Know How to Suggest
Last updated by audubonstrings on 12/25/2008 12:00 AM (Read: 289 times)
Attitude counts for a lot these days..........even a positive atti-tude! "Taking It On the Road"
Last updated by audubonstrings on 12/22/2008 12:00 AM (Read: 353 times)
What would it take to spread the message of Excellence in Arts Education so that the 'right' people will see it? From what I have witnessed, not too much more than what we are doing here. I recently responded to a piece in Andrew Taylor's blog on ArtsJournal- go look up on and subscribe to ArtsJournal by Douglas McLennan-it is free and inspirational to the "N"th degree. The Next Big Thing- Great Arts Education in the USA
Last updated by audubonstrings on 11/21/2008 12:00 AM (Read: 395 times)
Do we have a very serious problem in the educating of our children and young adults in the Arts in the USA? I'll argue that Arts Education is inadequate, antiquated, spotty, deficient and inadequately and unevenly funded. Is it the role of the public schools to teach the Arts to students? Should the Arts be presented by the public school system or would it be better that they don't even try? Are the Arts an academic subject? Should we offer the Arts and then test for proficiency? Would that attract more money and get the attention of the State Funders of Education? Should private sources help the schools fund the arts? Does the nation have a duty to present the Arts to our children and young adults? What impact does the public school system have on the professional arts organizations in our communities? Rememberance of Inspirations Past - Part 2
Last updated by cccyo on 01/21/2008 08:23 AM (Read: 285 times)
Can plans be fun to carry out? Sure! A Plucky Schematic Rememberance of Inspirations Past
Last updated by cccyo on 01/21/2008 08:22 AM (Read: 299 times)
Who inspired you to do what you do? How did he/she/they do it? Dance and Movement in Gym Classes
Last updated by cccyo on 01/13/2008 10:36 AM (Read: 293 times)
The President's Council on Arts Fitness heartsinthearts.com central
Last updated by cccyo on 01/02/2008 08:43 AM (Read: 340 times)
Happy New Year! Literacy, Numeracy and Creativity
Last updated by cccyo on 11/29/2007 12:59 PM (Read: 282 times)
"What I wanted was to create thoughtful citizens—people who believed they could live interesting lives and be productive and socially useful. So I tried to create a community of children and adults where the adults shared and respected the children’s lives." ATTRIBUTION: Deborah Meier (b. 1931), U.S. educator. As quoted in New York magazine, p. 78 (December 21-28, 1992). An urban educator, she co-founded the innovative Central Park East High School in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. |
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