Quarterly A+ Webinar Michelle Mazan Burrows, Director, A+ Schools Program and Brenda Wheat Whiteman, A+ Arts Education Specialist, NCDPI May 9 th, pm

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 A+ Schools Program Updates & Resources  A+ Summer Professional Development  DPI Support for A+ Schools  Gerry Howell A+ Educator of the Year!! TODAY’S AGENDA

A+ NETWORK UPDATES

 Helping schools with needs assessments, goal setting, mission development and planning  Re-connecting with less engaged schools  Cultivating new A+ Schools  Increasing networking across A+ Network  Planning for summer A+ Professional Development  Fundraising and development of strategic partnerships  Data collection and analysis  Participating in national conversation on arts education  Providing support for other A+ states WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? Growing the A+ Garden: Cultivation and Strategic Partnerships

WELCOME!! New A+ Schools Joining the Network this Summer  University Park Creative Arts School First Ward Creative Arts Academy Charlotte-Mecklenberg School District  Elizabeth City Middle School, Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools  Comfort Elementary Jones County Schools

OVERHEARD AT THE REGIONAL P/C MEETINGS If you're tired at the end of a day of teaching, chances are you weren't engaging students with the arts. Stop and look at the children's faces and remember why we are teachers. Trust the children's intelligence...Children learn best through movement and relationships. I RECONNECTED WITH MY INNER ARTIST TODAY. It’s really all about our children, isn’t it?

National Endowment for the Arts Announces Second Round of Fiscal Year 2013 Art Works Grants April 23, 2013 Washington, DC -- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that the NEA plans to award $26.3 million in grants to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide. These grants support exemplary projects in thirteen artistic disciplines and fields: arts education, dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, local arts agencies, media arts, museums, music, opera, presenting, theater and musical theater, and visual arts. Art Works grants support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts enhancing the livability of communities through the arts. The NEA received 1,547 eligible applications under the Art Works category, requesting more than $80 million in funding. ARTS EDUCATION: This round of grants supports school-based projects that are aligned to and enhance the school curriculum, as well as professional development projects to equip principals, teachers, and teaching artists with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to effectively engage students in curriculum-based arts learning. A grant to the Gates County Board of Education in Gatesville, North Carolina, of $36,000 will support Gates County A+, a professional development program in arts integration for teachers and administrators from three North Carolina schools, qualifying them to become part of the North Carolina A+ Schools Program. Through this project, Gates County will be the first district in North Carolina to include all of its schools in the A+ network.

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A+ FORUM Hosted by Columbus County Schools

Up to 20 grants to help educators develop Creative Leadership teams and identify innovative, promising practices that inspire other educators to increase arts-infused education. The school will receive $2,500 and $1,000 worth of Crayola products Due June 2013, Awarded in October, 2013 Principal must be a national NAESP member. Nonmember principals can join now at Applications should focus on developing a Creative Leadership Team and increasing arts-infused education Grants should emphasize creative leadership and capacity building grants are less about a project and more about embedding a long-term commitment to arts-infused education and building creative teaching capacity. CRAYOLA CHAMPION CREATIVELY ALIVE CHILDREN GRANTS

February Educational Leadership Magazine ASCD ations/educational- leadership/feb13/vol70/nu m05/toc.aspx wsletters/education- update/jan13/vol55/num01/Ten- Reasons-Arts-Education- Matters.aspx

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Send us your  Grants  Partnerships  Arts events  Awards WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO?

HAVE YOU CONNECTED/RE-CONNECTED WITH YOUR LOCAL ARTS COUNCIL? HAVE YOU MADE SURE THAT YOUR CENTRAL OFFICE/SUPERINTENDENT KNOWS WHAT A+ IS AND THAT YOU ARE AN A+ SCHOOL? HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR WEBSITE FOR THE CURRENT A+ LOGO AND LINK? A+ HISTORY AT YOUR SCHOOL? WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN A+ SCHOOL? HAVE YOU BEEN MADE A PLAN FOR CONTINUING YOUR GROWTH AS AN A+ SCHOOL? YEAR END CHECK-IN

SUMMER DATES June 24 – 28 in Wilmington July 9 th – 10 th in Asheville July 11 th – 12 th in Boone July 15 th – 17 th in Winston-Salem (MS) July 29 th – August 2 nd in Charlotte August th in Elizabeth City

SUMMER A+ DEVELOPMENT  All schools must sign a contract for A+ PD  If you need any funding, you must have 65% attendance of certified staff  Survey monkey for your staff will help us meet your needs  May 15 th is last day for registration for June and early July A+ Conferences  Mid-late July and August PD registration is due May 30 th

PLEASE: With all submissions, please include name of teacher, name of school, details about what is happening in the photo/video and/or captions. Please make sure that you have a photo release on file for any student faces or voices that are in any of your submitted photos and videos. DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SHARE? Photos of:  Student artwork, especially that which demonstrates integrated connections  Individual students/pairs of students engaging with the arts: creating art, dancing, singing, playing instruments, on stage, etc.  Teachers collaborating or team-building  Smiling and engaged students and teachers  Things/people at your school that are uniquely A+ Videos of:  “A+ Is” or “We are an A+ School”…  Students engaging with the arts and/or Integrated lessons in progress  Events/activities at your school that are uniquely A+ AND  Integrated Lesson plans that target specific arts standards and specific non arts standards, accompanied by photos or video of students participating in the lesson and samples of student products (A+ Template lessons are particularly desirable)

MARK YOUR CALENDARS  1 st A+ Network Webinar of School Year September 5 th, 4-5pm  Fall Statewide Principal and Coordinator’s Meeting in Raleigh October 10 th, 10am – 3pm  New Teacher Training, coincides with P/C Meeting October 10 th, 10am – 3pm  Quarterly A+ Network Webinar December 5 th, 4-5pm

NCDPI Alignment and Support for A+ Schools NCDPI Updates

DPI Support for A+ Christie Lynch Ebert Arts Education Consultant and A+ Liaison Brenda Wheat Whiteman A+ Arts Education Specialist NC Department of Public Instruction Division of K-12 Curriculum and Instruction K-12 Programs Section Arts Education

A+ Wiki

Wiki Sites A+ Wiki – Arts Education Wiki –

2 nd Annual Gerry D. Howell A+ Educator of the Year Award 2012 Award Recipient Christina Garay Lohry from Benton Heights Elementary School of the Arts

$250 WORTH OF CRAYOLA PRODUCTS FOR THE CLASSROOM

A WEEK IN BEAUTIFUL CULLOWHEE, TO ATTEND WITH DISTRICT & COUNTY TEACHERS OF THE YEAR, NCCAT’S “LEADERSHIP, CREATIVITY AND CHANGE: DARING TO LEAD” SEMINAR

“Our style of teaching has to be based on how the children learn best rather than how we want them to learn”. “Teaching through the multiple intelligences and the arts requires letting go. I have to give up a large part of my control as a teacher to let students make connections and discover who they are as individuals”. “An A+ teacher advocates for the multiple intelligences and arts because it is vital to student engagement, critical thinking skills, problem solving, making connections between subject areas and self-perception”.

CONGRATULATIONS TO 2013 GERRY D. HOWELL A+ EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR!! Natalia Disney

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