July 2011
Wallace Foundation Project to Test Benefit of Summer Learning Programs for Low-Income Students
July 2011 | Arts Education Partnership - "As a part of The Wallace Foundation’s multi-year, $50 million summer learning initiative, children in low-income communities in six cities will take part in improved summer learning programs this summer. Beginning this summer through the summer of 2014, these school district-based programs will provide much-needed experience and evidence on how schools can end the damage from summer learning loss, which leaves many students several years behind by the time they enter high school
The selected school districts—Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Duval County (including Jacksonville) FL, Pittsburgh and Rochester, NY—will use their Wallace grants to strengthen their programs, starting with students who will be fourth graders in the fall. Based on evidence gathered this summer, researchers from the RAND Corporation will help school leaders identify improvements for next summer. Plans include Wallace support for improvements over all four summers.
Read the full press release on The Wallace Foundation’s website for more information on this summer learning initiative and the participating school districts."
Ken Robinson on the Principles of Creative Leadership
July 2011 | by Rae Ann Fera, fastcompany.com - "Sir Ken Robinson is among the world's elite thinkers when it comes to creativity and innovation. The author of Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative, a 10th anniversary edition of which was published in March, and The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Robinson has dedicated much of his professional life to helping governments, educational systems and businesses understand that creativity is not a fanciful luxury.
"Creativity is not some exotic, optional extra. It's a strategic issue," said Robinson while in Cannes where he was invited to speak about the necessity for creativity in innovation. "So what people are faced with is having to think very different about how to run organizations."
Here Robinson talks about making creativity a priority, his disdain for the term creative industries, leadership from the middle, and why in times of economic crisis creativity is an urgent imperative." Full Article
Arts Education Partnership Fall 2011 National Forum
June 2011 - Regular registration is now open to the public for the AEP Fall 2011 National Forum, “Transforming Urban School Systems Through the Arts,” to be held Thursday and Friday, September 15-16, 2011, in San Francisco, CA. This national conversation—at the conclusion of the second National Arts in Education Week—will address how arts learning can help reclaim our urban school systems and re-engineer the future of America’s cities.
