Mr. Mitch Menchaca
New Leaders Elected to National Arts Education Council
Posted by Dec 17, 2009 0 comments
Mr. Mitch Menchaca
There's no doubt that these last several months have left many of us with a sense of deep divide—both across the nation and within our local communities. There are many remedies for that and most of them have nothing to do with politics (or presidents). I need to be clear that my writing here is not meant to minimize these deep and abiding concerns, nor should these words be received as an overtly political text. Instead, I simply want to drill down into what I believe art—and specifically in this context, arts education—can teach us in these anxious (for some, though not all) times.
Read MoreLively hoots and hollers accompanied the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) panel introduction when Lynn Tuttle, Director of Arts Education with the Arizona Department of Education, led 120+ national arts education professionals in a 20-minute overview of everything you ever wanted to know about NCLB and the arts.
She offered “NCLB BINGO” as the framework for sharing the plain-language facts about this legislation and the controversies that surround it. The dubious prizes included tomes on navigating titled programs, and other stimulating education legislation.
Read MoreI enjoyed Adam's (first) post, 'Arts as a Hub' very much. As an arts educator with a new visual arts center in Harlem, we're constantly thinking about how we can make ourselves a resource to the community that slowly and surely embeds itself into its fabric. It also goes along with Shane's blog that postulates, 'What Is Your Worth?'. These are hard questions for any organization to ask itself and I'm not sure whether it's more challenging since we're only five months in. Part of me actually thinks that it's not any more difficult, just that the pool that we get our answers from are very different. It has much less to do with history and tradition, and much more to do with innovation and need.
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