1. Quarterly A+ Webinar
Michelle Mazan Burrows, Director, A+ Schools Program of the NC Arts Council
with
Christie Lynch Ebert, Arts Education Consultant and A+ Liaison, NCDPI
Brenda Wheat Whiteman, A+ Arts Education Specialist, NCDPI
December 1, 2011
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
(Be sure to include introductions of all presenters – and introduction of participants, as desired - during this slide and before beginning the presentation).

2. HOUSEKEEPING Questions/Answers Follow-up
Presenters online at conclusion of webinar
/phone
Presentation/Archived Webinar

3. WHO’S HERE? Principals Coordinators Teachers Fellows Friends
Let’s take a poll!
Principals
Coordinators
Fellows
Friends

4. TODAY’S AGENDA A+ Schools Program Updates A+ in the News
DPI Alignment and Support
A+ Levels of Engagement
Spotlight on Arts Integration
This slide provides a brief overview of what will be covered during this joint presentation from the Department of Cultural Resource and the Department of Public Instruction.

5. A+ UPDATES A+ JOB OPENING!! SCHOOL SURVEYS – THANK YOU!
PRINCIPAL MENTORS
A+ EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR
A+ TESTIMONIALS (administrators, teachers, parents, students, graduates, community)
IT’S COMING… A+ WEBSITE, SWAG
YOUR A+ WEBSITE, SWAG

6. A+ IN THE NEWS Senator Kay Hagan visits Rochelle Middle School

7. A+ IN THE NEWS 10 ideas for education
2011 | turn around
the achievement gap
10 ideas for education
Roosevelt Institute’s “10 Ideas for Education: Arts Integration as a Turnaround Tactic” by Chris Nickels, UNC Chapel Hill

8. A+ IN THE NEWS
Education News: “The Global Search for Education: More on Arts” by C.M. Rubin

9. A+ MOMENT “I am a big fan of the A+ Schools Program!”
~Sir Ken Robinson at the “Building a Culture of Innovation through Education” Conference

10. A+ ON FACEBOOK!
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11. NCDPI Alignment and Support
The next several slides will provide an overview of the Arts Education Essential Standards. If you attended the meeting in October or through any of the professional associations, some of this content will be a review. However, if you were not able to attend any of these sessions, these next slides will help you to become acquainted with the purpose, content, and organization of the new standards. In-depth training will be provided through NCDPI’s blended professional development, which includes Summer Leadership institutes, on-line learning modules, an Implementation guide for LEA teams that attend the summer institutes, and support materials available through the instructional toolkits for each content area.

12. Wiki Site

13. Instructional Resources
The next several slides will provide an overview of the Arts Education Essential Standards. If you attended the meeting in October or through any of the professional associations, some of this content will be a review. However, if you were not able to attend any of these sessions, these next slides will help you to become acquainted with the purpose, content, and organization of the new standards. In-depth training will be provided through NCDPI’s blended professional development, which includes Summer Leadership institutes, on-line learning modules, an Implementation guide for LEA teams that attend the summer institutes, and support materials available through the instructional toolkits for each content area.

14. Arts Education Graphic Organizers
Can be used:
to assist students with their understanding standards
in Arts Education and General Education Classrooms
in Multiple Grades and Disciplines
to address a Comprehensive Arts Education (arts education, arts integration, arts exposure)
Use:
to provide a springboard from which teachers may modify, adapt, or create new organizers to assist students with their understanding of the North Carolina Arts Education Essential Standards. The organizers are designed for arts education and general education use, and ideally in multi-disciplinary efforts. May address a Comprehensive Arts Education (as defined in S66).

15. Arts Education Graphic Organizers
History and Culture
Early/Upper Elementary and Middle Grades – the Arts and Social Studies
High School – Cultural Influences
The Creative Process
The Elements
(Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts)
The first three graphic organizers provide links with the arts to history and culture. These samples may be used with various art forms and across content areas. Three completed examples are included for the first two organizers – early elementary dance, upper elementary visual art, and middle grades music. Ideally, they will be used by both arts education and general education teachers in multi-disciplinary instruction to help students transfer and apply their understanding across the curriculum. The fourth organizer was designed for use at the high school level and focuses on helping students see connections through the lens of cultural influences. The last two graphic organizers may be used in multiple grade levels and disciplines to make connections with the creative process and to build conceptual understanding of the elements within each of the arts education disciplines: dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts.

16. Arts Education Graphic Organizers
Review period:
December 10, 2011 – January 20, 2012
Arts Education RttT Webinar
December 7,

17. Professional Development
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Module
RESA Trainings – February/March 2012
Summer Institutes – 2012
representation from every district and RttT Charter School is critical
Registration will begin in February

18. Arts Education Essential Standards PD Plan 2011-12
RESA Trainings
Region 4
Southern Pines
February 16, 2012
Region 5
Clemmons
March 8, 2012
Region 7
Wilkesboro
March 9, 2012
Region 6
Charlotte
March 12, 2012
Region 3
Raleigh
March 14, 2012
Region 2
Wallace
March 19, 2012
Region 1
Williamston
March 20, 2012
Region 8
Candler
March 26, 2012

19. West Stokes High School Stokes County Summer Institute 2
July 12-13, 2012
West Stokes High School
Stokes County
Summer Institute 2
July 10-11, 2012
Maiden High School
Catawba County Schools
Summer Institute 5
July 19-20, 2012
South Central High School
Pitt County
This is a map with the SI schedule.
Summer Institute 1
June 21-22, 2012
Enka High School
Buncombe County
Summer Institute 4
July 17-18, 2012
Croatan High School
Carteret County
Summer Institute 6
July 24-25, 2012
SanLee Middle School
Lee County
2012 Common Core and Essential Standards Summer Institutes
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

20. Resources
Accountability and Curriculum Reform Effort (ACRE) website:
Standards and Instructional Tools (all areas)
WikiSpaces for the Common Core State Standards and NC Essential Standards
A+ Wiki

21. Contact Information
Christie Lynch Ebert
Ph:
Brenda Wheat Whiteman
Ph:

22. Developing, Proficient, Accomplished, Distinguished: Determining where we are and where we want to go…
Tying school self assessment, level of engagement with teacher evaluation terminology and our Vision, Voice and Visibility framework.

23. Criteria for Levels of Engagement
Ongoing A+ Professional Development
Teacher Engagement
Principal Leadership
Distinguished
The level of engagement of our A+ schools is directly related to three criteria: ongoing professional development, principal leadership and teacher engagement. OK’s recent research confirmed these criteria.

24. VISION, VOICE & VISIBILITY
VISION: How is A+ practice and philosophy part of your school’s mission/vision, your overall school plan, your SIP, your schedule, your daily decision making, your celebrating?
VOICE: How well-versed is your faculty on what A+ is and how it impacts learning at your school? How strongly does your school speak to the value of the arts? Do your parents, students, central office staff and community know that you are an A+ school and what that means?
VISIBILITY: Is the A+ logo on the homepage of your school website with a link to the A+ website? Does your website share your A+ history and why you are A+? Does your school LOOK like it values the arts? Are the A+ Essentials on display at your school?
These three V’s continue to help us assess school needs, determine level of engagement and commitment and identify next steps in A+ implementation. If you aren’t talking about these at your school, you should be!

25. SCHOOL VISION How present is A+ in your school mission and vision?
Developing: We are trying to figure out how A+ connects with what we already do.
Proficient: A+ is a part of our mission and vision.
Accomplished: A+ is a prominent and important part of our mission and vision.
Distinguished: A+ is woven seamlessly into the day to day business of educating our students.
Poll Question: How present is A+ in your school mission and vision? Developing: We are trying to figure out how A+ connects with what we already do. Proficient: A+ is a part of our mission and vision. Accomplished: A+ is a prominent and important part of our mission and vision. Distinguished: A+ is woven seamlessly into the day to day business of educating our students.

26. SCHOOL VOICE
If a visitor walked through your school community, who would be able to tell them about A+ and how it impacts your school?
Developing: We still aren’t really sure what A+ really is ourselves, how can we tell others?
Proficient: Most of our teachers could probably share what A+ is.
Accomplished: Everyone on our staff and many of our students and parents can talk about A+.
Distinguished: Our entire school community, including our students, parents, partners, district folks and even our brand new teachers can all talk about the impact of A+ on our school community.
Poll Question: If a visitor walked through your school community, who would be able to tell them about A+ and how it impacts your school? Developing: We still aren’t really sure what A+ really is ourselves, how can we tell others? Proficient: Most of our teachers could probably share what A+ is. Accomplished: Everyone on our staff and many of our students and parents can talk about A+. Distinguished: Our entire school community, including our students, parents, partners, district folks and even our brand new teachers can all talk about the impact of A+ on our school community.

27. SCHOOL VISIBILITY
Can anyone tell you are an A+ School when they arrive at your website, marketing materials, school building or school events?
Developing: We have an A+ sign in our lobby.
Proficient: We’ve got the old A+ logo on our website and materials, but we have lots of art on the walls.
Accomplished: We’ve updated our website and materials with the new logo and have our history as an A+ school on our website. Our halls are filled with the sights and sounds of arts integration.
Distinguished: Everywhere you look, you will see something that tells you that we are A+. It is such a part of everything we do, we want everyone to know we are part of the A+ Schools Network!
Poll Question: Can anyone tell you are an A+ School when they arrive at your website, marketing materials, school building or school events?
Developing: We have an A+ sign in our lobby. Proficient: We’ve got the old A+ logo on our website and materials, but we have lots of art on the walls. Accomplished: We’ve updated our website and materials with the new logo and have our history as an A+ school on our website. Our halls are filled with the sights and sounds of arts integration. Distinguished: Everywhere you look, you will see something that tells you that we are A+. It is such a part of everything we do, we want everyone to know we are part of the A+ Schools Network!

28. LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT
Based on your thinking for the prior questions, where would you place your school on your current level of engagement?
1: We are brand new to A+ and still developing!
2: We have recently re-engaged with A+ and are
developing
3: We are proficient and looking at where to go next
4: We are fully engaged and accomplished with A+
5: We are a model A+ school, that’s in the
distinguished category!
Poll Question: Based on your thinking for the prior questions, where would you place your school on your current level of engagement?
1: We are brand new to A+ and still developing! 2: We have recently re-engaged with A+ and are developing 3: We are proficient and looking at where to go next 4: We are fully engaged and accomplished with A+ 5: We are a model A+ school, that’s in the distinguished category!

29. ALL A+ SCHOOLS SHOULD BE SELF ASSESSING!!
Continuing the Conversation: Where is our school in its implementation of the A+ Essentials? Where do we need to grow and develop?
Vision, Voice and Visibility: What is our commitment as a member of the A+ Schools Network?
Needs Assessment: What are our most pressing needs? How are we supporting new staff? Where do we go from here?
All schools should be self assessing based on the 3 Vs and determining their next steps for growth!

30. ONGOING A+ PD FUNDING IS AVAILABLE!!
For quality PD, need to schedule at least 1 month in
advance.
All A+ Schools that have committed to remaining A+ need to
plan for on-going A+ staff development.
Full staff PD; art or subject specific PD; new curriculum
support; collaboration and teambuilding; coaching;
demonstration teaching; school-to-school Networking;
facilitated A+ School visits; think out-of-the-box
Don’t forget your new teachers! Do you have an A+
mentoring plan in place?
Site Visits from A+
Many schools attended the summer A+ PD last summer and/or have had A+ PD on site this school year. In particular, BHESA, Oaks Road, STARS, Community Charter and Hill MS can speak to the benefit of on-going PD during the school year.

31. SCHEDULE YOUR SUMMER A+ PD NOW
JULY 16TH – 20TH
JULY 29TH – AUGUST 3RD
AUGUST 12TH – 17TH
We have set aside 3 weeks for A+ PD this summer, hoping that we will be able to cluster schools together for maximum networking opportunities. We will have other dates available as well for those who can’t fit within these three weeks.

32. SPOTLIGHT ON A+ ARTS INTEGRATION
We have added in a new component to our Webinars that we are calling “Spotlight on Arts Integration”. Each time, we will invite one or more schools to share what they are doing at their school. Today, we are spotlighting Rochelle MS. Rochelle Middle School is one of our newest A+ schools, just in their 2nd year of implementation. But they are doing some great work beginning to document what they are doing at their school. Remembering that we tell every new school that implementation comes in small steps, this video is a great example of a math teacher taking those steps. In the video she blends together her math standards with some of the elements of visual arts to create a meaningful learning experience for her students. I’ve asked Robert Dotson, A+ coordinator and Assistant Principal at Rochelle, to talk a little bit about his process for documenting integrated lessons – how he’s taping, what programs he’s using to edit and how and where he’s sharing his documentation.
Robert Dotson, A+ Coordinator/Assistant Principal at
Rochelle Middle School, Kinston, NC

33. MARK YOUR CALENDARS March 1st, 4-5pm - A+ Webinar
March 22nd, 10-3pm – Principals/Coordinators Spring Retreat, Raleigh Area
March 27th, 10-3pm – Principals/Coordinators Spring Retreat, Western Part of the State
April 27th – 29th – A+ Fellows Retreat, Raleigh
May 3rd, 4-5pm - A+ Webinar

34. Your A+ Team Wishes You a Wonderful Holiday Season!
The A+ Schools Program offices will be closed from
Wednesday, December 21st – Monday, January 2nd, 2012.
Happy New Year!

35. Q & A
Thanks for joining us! We will post this webinar on our website. If you have feedback about the virtual meeting format, please let Michelle know. Please feel free to log off at your leisure…