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A Community Approach to an Educational Challenge 2009 Superintendent’s Summer Institute
Transcript of A Community Approach to an Educational Challenge
A Community Approach to an Educational Challenge2009 Superintendent’s Summer Institute
The educational excellence challenge of this century is to organize learning for innovation. The equity challenge is to guarantee that gender, economic status, race, and native language cease to predict who will invent a vaccine, write a prize-winning play, or engineer a major breakthrough in technology.
- Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf
More than Measuring: Program Evaluation as an Opportunity to Build the Capacity of Communities
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THE CHALLENGE
• Increased accountability
• Diminishing resources
• Competition for instructional time
• Inequitable arts delivery system
• Demand from community
THE OPPORTUNITY
• Support from superintendents
• Mentorship by Big Thought
• Creative Capacity Initiative
• Local polling supported arts education
VISIONING
• Meetings with electeds, Young Audiences, NW Business for Culture and the Arts and Regional Arts & Culture Council
• Visioning Committee assembled
• Conversations with Big Thought began
2006 2007 2008 2009
PLANNING
• Project manager hired
• Local superintendents and funders convened
• Community conversations scheduled
• Artists and arts organizations engaged
• Purpose statement crafted
• Governance structure determined
2006 2007 2008 2009
PURPOSE STATEMENT
To achieve a measurable impact on learning by integrating the community’s arts and cultural resources into the education of every K-8 student in the Portland metropolitan
region’s school districts.
GOALS
• Equity
• Integration
• Arts Processes
• Literacy
PARTNERSHIP
PARTNERSHIP
PARTNERSHIP
54% City of PortlandMultnomah County Clackamas CountyOregon Arts CommissionHillsboro Arts and Culture CouncilGresham-Barlow School District, Hillsboro School District, North Clackamas School District, and Portland Public Schools$366,250
Public funding
PARTNERSHIP
Collins FoundationJames & Marion Miller FoundationThe Harold and Arlene Schnitzer
CARE FoundationPGE FoundationUS Bank FoundationThe Oregon Community FoundationSpirit Mountain Community FundBank of AmericaThe StandardGenentech
46% Private Funding
In-Kind: North, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Tonkon Torp, MagaurnVideo Media, Heathman Hotel, Lazerquick
$315,000
PARTNERSHIP
Regional Arts & Culture Council
Board
The Right Brain Initiative Staff
Operating Partners ,
Committees and Task Forces
Governing Committee
Advisory Council
PARTNERSHIP
countiesschool districtsschoolsartists/organizationsteachersstudents
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PARTNERSHIP
2008-09 Participating
School Districts
• Gresham-Barlow
• Hillsboro
• North Clackamas
• Portland Public Schools
PARTNERSHIP
Glencoe 499
Hayhurst 351
James John 404
Markham 360
Rigler 525
Sitton 308
Whitman 369
Woodlawn461
Ardenwald264
Concord329
Oak Grove559
Spring Mountain554
Sunnyside607
View Acres428
East Orient466
Hollydale456
Free Orchards453
Jackson539
Lincoln Street574
Quatama515
WHAT TEACHERS TOLD US
The focus on literacy is
appropriate.
WHAT TEACHERS TOLD US
63% cover all academic subjects.
26% are reading or literacy specialists
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WHAT TEACHERS TOLD US
Teachers expressed high
levels of interest in the arts, but reported less
preparation in arts integration.
WHAT TEACHERS TOLD US
Teachers ranked high quality arts
integration professional
development as their top priority.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Arts Integratio
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“Arts Integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and
meets evolving objectives in both.”
- The John F. Kennedy Center, September 2008
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Arts
LiteracyOther Subjects
Arts Integration
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
“This confirmed my belief that we need to teach the whole child.”
- Teacher participating in Right Brain professional development
HOW IT WORKS
HOW IT WORKS
With an Arts Integration Facilitator, schools:
• Identify learning goals
• Select artist collaborators
• Co-plan with artists
• Examine impact on learning
LOOKING AT STUDENT WORK
HAYHURST ELEMENTARY
LOOKING AT STUDENT WORK
Winter is:Fun to sled in the snowFun to do some angels in the snowPerfect to make snowmenPerfect to make cookiesThat’s what winter is!
Pre-work sample by Ani
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Green is bushes to hide behind.Green is grass to bury your feet in.Green is many peas.Green welcomes people to the front door.Green welcomes spring to the earth and our homes.
Post-work sample by Ani
LOOKING AT STUDENT WORK
FREE ORCHARDS ELEMENTARY
LOOKING AT STUDENT WORK
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QUESTIONS
What are the existing assets in our communities for creating partnerships?
QUESTIONS
How does your thinking change when you work with others?
What are the existing assets in our communities for creating partnerships?
THE RIGHT BRAIN INITIATIVE
