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
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.
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.
Friday, April 17, 2009
The 2nd 10-Year Plan for Arts Edusation in LAUSD
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