LAUSD and the Arts

The Los Angeles Unified School District recognizes that education in the arts make a unique and vital contribution to a child*s cognitive development. Therefore the District is committed to providing all students with opportunities to attain a substantive education in the visual and performing arts at all grade levels, an education that will prepare them to create, collaborate, problem solve, perform, and appreciate works of art.

On July 22, 1999, the Los Angeles Unified School District*s Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution to commence a 10-year effort to establish arts for all students, at all grade levels, in all schools, in all four art forms. To accomplish this goal, LAUSD*s Arts Education Branch began Arts Program Schools (APS) at the elementary level. In the first eight years of the program the number of schools participating has grown from 54 to 392 and it is projected that by 2010 all elementary schools in the District will have the opportunity to participate in the APS project.

In the 2007 - 2008 school year the Arts Education Branch launched a new project at the middle school level to meet the needs of middle and high school arts teachers. The Arts Bridging Teacher Project assigns various visual and performing arts teachers to feeder schools in order to build enrollment and experience in individual art forms .

In addition to the four arts content areas mentioned above, Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Art, the Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts Education Branch (AEB) seeks to establish and support Media Arts as a fifth standards-based Arts Content discipline. Media Arts are an art form comprising of a range of creative and expressive uses of media and communications technologies, including, but not limited to , digital imaging, graphic and web design, video/film production, television, digital music, video gaming, mobile devices and interactive media.

Work has begun on the next 10-year District Arts Education Plan. The second 10-year plan must extend the critical and necessary components of a well-rounded, dynamic and rich arts education and will focus on a K - 12 continuous and articulated curriculum. The Los Angeles Unified School District recognize that the Arts programs benefit students from the entire spectrum of educational programs and demographics, including special education, at-risk, GATE, and English Learners. LAUSD further understands that the Arts, (all five) increase student engagement, empower students' creative voices, and promote active participation in an increasingly networked world.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Day at the APOLLO at Barrett


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Friday, April 17, 2009

The 2nd 10-Year Plan for Arts Edusation in LAUSD

Planning The Second
10-Year Arts Education Plan for LAUSD


CALL FOR
PARTICIPANTS



A COMMUNITY INVITATION
Deadline: May 1, 2009


The Los Angeles Unified School District 10-Year Arts Education Plan 1999-2009
LAUSD has been a national model and leader in the development and reinstatement of a comprehensive arts education for all students in dance, music, theatre, visual and media arts. Since 1999, the LAUSD Board of Education’s resolution has served as the hallmark for establishing a proper sequential curriculum in the arts, highly skilled teachers, arts professional development, communication and evaluation strategies.

Planning Participant Invitation
The 1st 10-Year Arts Education Plan was commenced as a community and district project to provide voice and leadership from inside and outside public education. The 2nd 10-Year Arts Education Plan reconvenes in similar fashion with even broader constituency groups, but with the information and knowledge of a highly successful first decade of arts implementation and access. Participants from a broad spectrum of the community are invited to nominate themselves or others to serve in a year-long planning process, guided by professional facilitators.

Planning Process Timeline
January 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 -- Planning Period: July 1, 2009 to December 30, 2009

Planning Process, Responsibilities & Commitments
Seven informant groups including generalist teachers, arts teachers, major cultural institutions, post-secondary and pre-service institutions, arts organizations, city and county service agencies, administrators, arts experts, the general public, and parents will meet in a series of meetings to examine data, explore ideas, identify current and future needs, and make recommendations for the structure of a 2nd 10-Year Arts Education Plan. Participants must be willing to attend all meetings, have reviewed all briefing materials, work collaboratively, and provide focused leadership. Time commitment will not exceed 30 hours total. Sub-release coverage will be available to participating LAUSD teachers.
As a voice for planning members, each informant group will select a chair as spokesperson for cross-convening conversations/presentations.

Planning Outcomes
At the conclusion of the planning process a set of consensus recommendations will be developed into a Plan Proposal. Included will be system procedures, goals and objectives and a draft operational plan for presentation to the Superintendent and the Board of Education.

Deadline for Submission and Criteria
Deadline is May 1, 2009. Criteria for selection is based on experience, diversity, and breadth.


Contact me for an application. Dellis Frank def5363@lausd.net


The planning process is supported, in part, by The Wallace Foundation
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DANCE, DANCE, DANCE Symposium



Nate Holden Performing Arts Center
4718 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016


SATURDAY, MAY 2nd, 2009 8:00am—3:00pm


FOR RESERVATIONS, please call WGS at 323-734-1165
Continental Breakfast
Panel Discussions
Preservation of Dance
New Technology
The Business of Dance
Raising Capital in a Recession
Master Class Workshop
DSLA MEMBERSHIP SIGN-UPS!


*Schedule subject to change


RESERVE YOUR SEAT TODAY!!
DANCE SOUTH LA
Presents 2nd Annual
DANCE SYMPOSIUM
"Preservation of Dance in South Los Angeles"


Panel discussions on Preservation of Dance, New Technology, The Business of Dance, Raising Capital in a Recession. The conference represents notable persons, institutions, dancers, educators and philanthropic groups designed for the purpose of identifying existing resources and needs of the dance community. The coalition of dance service organizations, individuals, local municipal offices and the business community will work to identify traditional, non-traditional and non-dance industry partnerships that emphasize the economic survival of dance as an industry.


The invited participants include: Arts Presenters, Professional and non-professional dance organizations, Media representatives, local theaters, Local Representative of IABD, The Department of Cultural Affairs, Arts Funding Institutions, individual foundations, The LA County Commission on the Arts, The Los Angeles Urban League, LA Unified School District, LA Community College District, and leaders from the dance field based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Inland Empire, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego County.


Co-sponsored by the William Grant Still Arts Center & the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
For more information and to view the agenda for the day go to:
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What is Reggae?





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Four-time GRAMMY-winning reggae singer, songwriter, and producer Ziggy Marley will perform his first-ever exclusive children's concert at L.A. LIVE's Club Nokia. Celebrating the release of his first children's music album, Family Time, Marley appears as part of

The GRAMMY Museum's monthly "Musical Explorations" family program.Before Marley's live performance, local drum-based performers Rhythm Child will engage the audience in free-form drumming, while performing a few of their own award-winning children's songs.

Immediately following the live performance, children and parents will participate in educational activities and crafts intended to deepen their understanding of reggae music in the Club's exclusive VIP Lounge. Don't forget to join us on Saturday, May 16 at 10 am for "What Is Folk?" featuring GRAMMY-winning children's artists Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer in the Museum's GRAMMY Sound Stage.

For more information on the event or how to become a GRAMMY Museum member, visit:
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