“One of the
most intense
and motivating experiences for me
as a director of a community school.”
—Susanne Baker,
DePaul Community
Music Division
- 71st ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN PHILADELPHIA, PA, OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 1, 2008
- REGISTRATION
Pre-Conference Institutes
Wednesday, October 29
The Conference for Community Arts Education will feature three Pre-Conference Institutes on Wednesday, October 29. Led by master trainers and expert practitioners in the field, these full day sessions provide participants opportunities to increase their understanding of critical issues in community arts education and to develop and practice new skills. Pre-Conference Institutes sell-out fast. Register Today!
2008 Pre-Conference Institutes:
- Outcome-Based Evaluation
- Partners in Excellence: The Arts Education Partnership Institute
- Creative Lives: Building a Career as a Teaching Artist
Outcome-Based Evaluation (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
Community arts education organizations must demonstrate the impact of their programs on both students and communities in measurable ways in order to secure government, foundation and community support. To that end, outcome-based evaluation (OBE) methods are far and away the tools of choice.
OBE—a systematic method of determining whether a program is achieving its intended results—has other pragmatic benefits as well. Most importantly, it enables you to assess the effects of an arts education program on students and to improve program planning and implementation.OBE provides precise answers to critical questions including:
- How has our program changed or improved the skills, behaviors, or attitudes of our students?
- How has the program benefited our community?
- What has been the impact of grant funds used to support our program?
During the institute, you’ll learn how to apply a logic model to develop a program evaluation plan, identify appropriate instruments to collect measurable outcome data, and develop methods for responding to evaluation results. You’ll also receive a comprehensive manual on the principles of outcome-based evaluation as well as tools and templates to use back home.
Faculty: Claudia B. Horn, President and CEO, Performance Results, Inc.
Partners in Excellence: The Arts Education Partnership Institute (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
True partnerships, characterized by mutual understanding and commitment, collaborative planning, and joint curriculum and professional development, have powerful, long-term effects on students, faculty, institutions and communities.
The Partners in Excellence Institute will provide you with the tools and training needed to develop successful arts education partnerships with K-12 schools. This series of hands-on workshops explore the value of partnering and addresses best practices in structuring, managing and sustaining these relationships.
As an Institute participant, you will:
- Explore the benefits and challenges to collaborating with a school
- Learn the characteristics of effective, sustainable partnerships
- Explore successful strategies for planning and implementing a collaborative curriculum that honors the needs, goals and expertise of all parties
- Practice using tools to ensure good communication among all parties
- Work with experts and peers to address your particular partnership challenges.
You’ll also receive a complimentary copy of the National Guild’s Partners in Excellence: A Guide to Community School of the Arts/Public School Partnerships from Inspiration to Implementation and Profiles in Excellence: Case Studies of Exemplary Arts Education Partnerships.
The Partners in Excellence Institute is appropriate for executive directors, program directors, and development directors of community arts education organizations and their public school partners.
Faculty: David O’Fallon, President, MacPhail Center for Music; and Beth Vogel, Consultant, Partners in Arts Education Program, National Guild
Creative Lives: Building a Career as a Teaching Artist (10:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
A teaching artist wears many hats: artist, educator and entrepreneur. Creating a meaningful balance between these roles and building a sustainable career can be challenging. How do you continue to develop your artistic and teaching skills while negotiating for fair compensation and benefits?
Designed for professional teaching artists, this highly interactive institute will engage you in hands-on activities and collective dialogue to deepen your awareness of what brings you to this work, how best to integrate your artistic and educational excellence, and how to communicate the value of your work in order to secure the support you need to be successful.
As a participant, you will:
- Learn dynamic ways of integrating your artistry and teaching
- Train in strategies for self-assessment and the assessment of student outcomes
- Explore the nuts and bolts of the teaching artist “business”—including contract negotiation, advocacy, benefits and more—and new opportunities for professionalizing the field
- Re-energize your creative spirit!
This Institute is appropriate for professional teaching artists and is being offered in partnership with Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership, and the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation. Registration includes lunch and a casual end-of-day reception to foster peer-to-peer networking and exchange.
Faculty: Jan Norman, National Director of Education, Research and Professional Development, Young Audiences; and Magda Martinez, program director, Community Partnerships in the Arts, for the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial