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The Star
The monthly Arts-In-Education Newsletter,
The Star, features the Top Ten
AIE programs for the month as well detailing the many programs taking place in each
of your districts. It profiles one or more programs and events and then informs
you of meetings and more.
School Year 2009/2010
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September 2009
- First issue of the 2009-10 school year includes grant info for arts education,
support for the arts in a letter to school administrators from US Secretary of Education,
Arne Duncan and in an interview of NYS Senator Jose Serrano (chair of Cultural Affairs,
Tourism, Parks and Recreation), Residency Program Profile of Dancing Classrooms,
Calendar of AIE events and more. Remember to share your residency program activities
for future Star newsletters.
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October 2009
- Read about the many Character Ed programs being presented in districts all over Suffolk, the presenters and performance at the September AIE Advisory Council Meeting,
and this year’s Scholar-Artists from Suffolk schools. Find out about the NYSED BEDS
survey on Arts Education and the results of National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NEAP) in the Arts. Follow our first of many articles about the arts and brain research.
Learn about the books available in the AIE Lending Library.
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November 2009
- Read more about research from the NYC Center for Arts Education to support arts
education both sequentially and across the curriculum. Read Harvard’s Project Zero
director Steve Seidel’s research and details on the quality of quality in arts education.
See the diversity of programs that our schools participated in this past month.
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December 2009
- Read about the workshops” Teaching Inclusion Students in the Arts Classroom” (and
will offer again in March). Get updates on Arts-in-Education around the country.
Read the profile of Bay Street Theatre’s new Literature Live Program.
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January 2010
- Read about some interesting programs our districts are participating in such as
writer Todd Strasser’s “Help! You’re Trapped in the Writing Process” (at Dawnwood
Middle School in Middle Country) and the new Ward Melville Heritage Organization
program at the Thompson House in Setauket, Medicine: Past, Present and Future. Learn
the “10 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation” and how to develop a math rap in
“Rapping in the Math Class.”
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February 2010
- There were many Arts-in-Education programs scheduled to kick off district PARP
events. There were also several Programs Profiles highlighted this month including dancer Cartier Williams at Bay Shore Middle School, Vitamin L at Babylon Grade School
and Mark Rust at Shelter Island Elementary Schools. Each of these performers is
available for additional programming this year. Find them in our Arts-in-Ed online
catalog. Also note the new, streamlined nomination form for the 2010-11 Scholar-Artist
available online.
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March 2010
- March is a month for Advocacy. See the testimonies presented in Albany on Arts
Day from the NYS BOCES Arts-in-Education Co-chair Diane Aaronson and the NYS Alliance
for Arts Education Executive Director Jeremy Johannesen. There is also testimony
from a January US Dept of Education meeting supporting Arts Education at the federal
level by 60 local, state and national organizations. Read the review of Dr. Diane
Ravitch’s new book, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System.” More
ideas on Fostering a Culture of Innovation continue in this issue.
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April 2010
- Introducing STEM Line, a new feature in current and upcoming Star Newsletters
highlighting programs and articles that contribute to Science, Technology, Engineering
and Math education, as part of our Exploratory Enrichment program. Also review of
the many March advocacy activities as well as the annual LI Media Arts Show.
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May 2010
- Read the details regarding the two NYS Education Department arts education proposals:
one for middle school arts through the EMSC department, the second for PreK-2 arts
annotation through Higher Education. Hear the update on national arts education
advocacy. Get involved in sharing your Exploratory Enrichment and Arts-in-Education
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) programs and successes.
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