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Focus on Learning through Arts and Technology

Lead funding by the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts through the Alliance for Arts Education Network, provided the opportunity for FAAE to address the disconnect between Career and Technology Education (CTE) and the arts within Florida’s K-12 curriculum.

In Osceola County a variety of activities were facilitated including a field trip to Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) and CREATE (Center for Research in Education, Arts, Technology and Entertainment) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) for art students and CTE students together. The CTE administrator and school principal, located computer equipment for the art teacher: seven computers, one scanner and one color printer were added to the art classroom. CTE teachers were encouraged to attend FAAE’s Digital Media Festival, for a workshop of design problems for technology teachers was planned. One CTE teacher ordered a new textbook that better integrates art with technology. The art teacher described a change in “climate, culture and instruction” as the four teachers collaborated.

In Brevard County: Dr. Susan West (art teacher) and Mark Cole (CTE) saw an overlap between CTE and Visual Arts courses in theory, but not in practice. West created a PowerPoint presentation on direct observational drawing and how to use orthogonal lines and demonstrated to CTE students how to take sightings using a pencil as a measuring tool; Cole used West’s PowerPoint to teach his students basic drawing skills. The students had a number of “A-ha!” moments, which encouraged both teachers to continue collaborative teaching where possible. Cole noted that the students were able to render shapes more accurately and achieve more precise proportions. Now he asks students to draw on paper before starting on the computer, and his students’ images are improved.

Workshops for teachers, administrators, students and parents in the Arts Integration Symposia Series, Digital Media Festival and Leadership Summit built skills and confidence and provided a read of existing skill levels for teaches.

Digital Media ChallengeA student art competition for work created or manipulated with technology. This was the singular FAAE event offered directly to students - a new and important link to teachers, students, and parents. Data on grade level, school, and teachers of work submitted allowed us to identify strong programs and awareness of the opportunity. A rubric for evaluation of student work was established by the judges committee based on rubrics developed by the Florida Alliance for Art Education. The judges were favorably impressed with the quality of work submitted and suggested that exhibiting the work would help to raise awareness and quality for future Challenges. Top entries were exhibited at the Mennello Museum of American Art.

Digital Media Festival FAAE was proud to introduce the Digital Media Festival as a pre-conference event, in conjunction with the annual Leadership Summit. On Thursday, June 16, over 150 students, teachers, administrators, and parents flooded the UCF CREATE campus in downtown Orlando for the first ever Digital Media Festival.

1 | FAAE ANNUAL REPORT 2011

Our challenges in the field of education sometimes seem daunting. These challenges are great in times of economic prosperity and even greater in times of economic decline. Now that we have moved into the 21st century, the need for creative thinkers and creative minds are even more necessary than last century. Every great invention, every great

development that propelled mankind forward came from creative thinkers who saw things differently, they were able to see beyond the world they lived in. We are preparing today’s students for careers that do not yet exist and a world we cannot imagine. We must shake the bonds of the linear-thinking-industrial age model and move our students to the new world order of creative thinkers. We do not know what tomorrow will look like, but we do know it will be more demanding and more complex than yesterday. In order to thrive, our students must be thinkers and problem solvers, not simply “widget” producers. Tomorrow’s educated workforce must be adaptable, creative, and resilient. Arts education is the model that has been proven to be the important link for tomorrow’s workforce and a creative world. Thirty years of research documents the important role the arts play in student success and in quality of life for adults. The arts, now more than ever, are needed for students to rise to the challenge. As Richard Florida states, the rise of the creative class brings a flourishing economy. I am honored to be the President of the Florida Alliance of Arts Education. As we embark together during these challenging times, I look forward to a collaborative spirit that will bring solutions through high quality arts education for all students. As president of FAAE, I look for continued emphasis on best practices and continued improvement in professional practices arts education as we continually build awareness, help to provide tools, and support for arts education. We ask why arts education? Arts education is what is best for the students and the State of Florida.

- Pearson

The all day conference included 20 workshops and choice sessions ranging over topics, including: digital story-telling, Photo Story 3, podcasting, PowerPoint, UCF Motion Capture Studio tour, careers in arts and technology panel, creating an avatar, copyright issues, as well as special tracks for youth and parents!

Highlights included keynote speaker and principal of Arts Achieve! Model School Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary, Michael Corneau and Principal Executive of IDEAS, Bob Allen. The Festival also included a critique of student digital art portfolios, by Kevin Conlon, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Ringling College of Art + Design, and Triesta Hall, from Full Sail University. Students had an opportunity to meet with Ringling, Full Sail, UCF, and UCF CREATE representatives to discuss college options and offered programs.

The Digital Media Festival concluded with a celebration of student work entered in the Digital Media Challenge in 2D, 2D Modified, and 4D (video) categories.

2011 FAAE Digital Media Challenge Winners

K-5Levi Young, 2D, Davenport School of the Arts, Polk County

Alina Dickson, 2D Modified, Davenport School of the Arts, Polk County Group Eight, 4D, Plumos School of the Arts, Palm Beach County

6-8

Lauren Rodriguez, 2D, Davenport School of the Arts, Polk County Jordan Guinn, 2D Modified, Union Academy Magnet Middle, Polk County

Zosia Ballin, 4D, Safety Harbor Middle, Pinellas County

9-12Paige Carl, 2D, Spruce Creek High School, Volusia County

Hannah Reynolds, 2D Modified, Spruce Creek High School, Volusia County Isabela Dos Santos, 4D, Cypress Bay High School, Broward County

Overall Winner

Allison Tate-Cortese, Oviedo High School, Seminole County

2 | FAAE ANNUAL REPORT 2011

Lauren Rodriguez

Alina Dickson

Hannah Reynolds

Paige Carl

Jordan GuinnLevi Young

Online Professional DevelopmentLearning Through the Arts and Technology, four modules for teachers or students to develop technology skills. These modules target novice technology users to help them cross the technology threshold. Arts and general education teachers have the greatest need of help in adopting technology tools. (www.faae.org/at/)

STARState Teacher/Artists Residency at the Hermitage Artists Retreat, a collaboration between The Hermitage Artist Retreat & The Florida Alliance for Arts Education

The State of Florida is filled with talented, dedicated artists who are also talented and dedicated, certified full time public school teachers. The lives of these particular people are spent trying to balance the challenge of expressing their artistic selves while pursuing their profession as a public school educator.

The STAR program is designed to honor and nourish the artist in the educator by providing five public school educators from Florida with the opportunity to pursue their artistic work in the inspiring environment of the prestigious Hermitage Artist Retreat. Four-week residencies will be offered to two visual artists; two writers (fiction/non-fiction/poetry/playwriting); and one composer.

The STAR program elevates the status of teachers as artists and elevates both the visibility and credibility of FAAE by association with the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Giving priority to AAMS teachers and teachers from counties with active Network Partner Alliances is an incentive for participation in those programs. A Hermitage residency is a gift of time and space for artists to attend to their work. There is no requirement to produce. It is intensely personal time for concentration AND a community of artists from different disciplines with which to share and learn. Artists invited seize the opportunity and find themselves more productive than at any other time in their creative lives.

Florida Alliance of School Administrators (FASA) Annual Conference At the invitation of FASA, FAAE coordinated a series of presentations on arts education, Next Generation Sunshine State Standards, and arts integration at the annual meeting of school administrators. The four professional service organizations: Florida Art Educators Association (FAEA), Florida Association for Theatre Education (FATE), Florida Dance Educator Organization (FDEO), and Florida Music Education Association (FMEA). The general session presentation was made by FAAE board President Tom Pearson, An Artful Revolution: Transforming School Culture and Communities while Raising Student Achievement.

Whole School Improvement through Arts IntegrationIn the first year of a three year project developed at the request of the Florida Department of Education (DOE) a search was conducted and Mary Palmer and Associates was selected to direct the project. The criteria for participating schools was developed in cooperation with DOE and Plew Elementary in Okaloosa County was confirmed as the first school. The professional development plan was developed and representatives of Plew

attended the FAAE Leadership Summit and participated in the arts integration strand of sessions. Year 2 will include onsite professional development and mentoring and coaching using tele-connection. In year three, professional development will continue and include wider involvement of school faculty.

Regional Arts Integration Symposia |Orlando, Pensacola, Sarasota, and West Palm BeachWorking in collaboration with the Florida Department of Education, Florida Department of State/

Division of Cultural Affairs, Local Arts Agencies (LAA), Florida Alliance for Arts Education Network partners, and local resources, FAAE under the leadership of Mary Palmer & Associates, LLC identified four sites in which to collaboratively offer an introductory arts integration professional development opportunity for artists, arts organizations, arts and school administrators, and teachers, both arts and subject area. Sites chosen to host Regional Arts Integration Symposia were Orlando, Pensacola, Sarasota, and West Palm Beach. This geographic spread allowed greater and more diverse participation than would be achieved in a

single site. A total of 99 individuals served on local planning committees.

3 | FAAE ANNUAL REPORT 2011

2011 STAR Cadre• Andrea Huffman | Visual Artist

McArthur High School, Broward County

• Melissa Pranke | WriterWinter Park High School, Orange County

• Tim Ostrow | Musician, L.A. Ainger Middle School, Charlotte County

• Alan Sincic | WriterOsceola School for the Arts, Osceola County

• Patricia Cummins | Visual Artist Palmetto Elementary, Miami-Dade County

Over 500 individuals from twenty-two Florida counties participated in the 2011 Arts Integration Symposia Series. It is estimated that 60,000 students were impacted by this program. AISS was held in January and February this year; the change in timeframe was excellent and allowed participants time to implement what they experienced. A total of 133 individuals, representing 26 Districts, served as presenters at these four Symposia. Content included Standards-based teaching and learning, teaching strategies, cross-curricular teaching and learning, digital media, FCAT connections, and sharing of exemplary programs. A session on inclusion through arts integration was provided by experts from VSA arts of Florida. To link the work of the Learning through Arts and Technology project, a special technology session on Podcasting was offered by experts from the University of Central Florida Center for Research, Education, Arts and Technology (UCF-CREATE) in each location. The exemplary best practices that were shared inspired Symposia participants. It is interesting to note that several of the artists, arts organizations, and other presenters have been invited to provide si te-specif ic arts integrat ion presentations as a result of their exposure at these Symposia.

SummitFAAE kicked off its annual Leadership Summit with the Arts Achieve! Awards Dinner, which honored three news Arts Achieve! Model Schools:

• McLaughlin MS & Fine Arts Academy

• Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts

• Boca Raton Community HS• Renewal of North Fort Myers

Academy for the Arts

Following the Awards dinner, keynote speaker Eric Booth set the tone for the entire conference with his inspiring speech on arts and education. Participants spent the next two days at the Doubletree by Hilton, Downtown

Orlando, devoting time to choice sessions and workshops covering everything from arts integration and advocacy to social networking and arts organization meetings. Another high point of the Summit was keynote speaker, Frank Brogan, Chancellor, State University System

of Florida, at the Friday Leadership Luncheon. A reception at the Mennello Museum of American Art, highlighted this beautiful museum. The conference closed with the passing of the gavel from Jennifer Coolidge to Dr. Tom Pearson, of Palm Beach County. Dr. Pearson then previewed his presentation on the power of the arts that he later delivered at the Florida Association of School

Administrators conference. During the conference FAAE had the pleasure of working with Florida artist, Thomas Thorspecken, who sketched and blogged about his experience during Eric Booth's speech and the Leadership Luncheon.

4 | FAAE ANNUAL REPORT 2011

The over 500 Florida arts and classroom/subject area teachers as well as artists a n d s c h o o l a d m i n i s t r a t o r s w h o participated in the 2011 FAAE Arts Integration Symposia Series "upped their game" by enhancing their knowledge and skills in differentiating instruction through the arts. The power of the arts is extending from arts classrooms into whole schools as professionals are embracing arts integration as an important contributor to student -- and teacher! -- engagement. And, WOW!, with the 2011 launch of the FAAE Digital Media Festival (DMF) and related Digital Media Challenge, FAAE began building important links between Career and Technical Education and the content of visual arts education. As the site of the first-ever DMF, UCF CREATE (Center for Research in Education, Arts, Technology and Entertainment) provided a perfect opportunity for participants to experience cutting-edge technology in action. To continue our growth, an amazing team of arts-based "techies" developed online professional development materials which integrate the arts and technology; these new materials already are impacting teachers and students across the state. There's lots more to tell about...you'll find other things to treasure it in this Annual Report. What a joy to share in celebrating over 20 years of important work by FAAE! The need for arts education is great... and our enthusiasm and commitment continues! I'm eternally impressed with the dedication of arts educators to bringing high quality education in the arts to students throughout our state! Let's continue to work together to build a better Florida for today... and tomorrow!

- Dr. Mary Palmer

Florida 2011 Compendium of Best Practices in Arts IntegrationFifty (50) programs related to AISS sessions as well as twenty-two (22) programs submitted online are included in year 2 of the Compendium. The submittals cover topics including: School Change, General Curriculum, Arts Curriculum, Community Artists and Arts Organizations, Higher Education, and Community Organizations. The Compendium is posted on the FAAE website (www.faae.org).

Numbers impacted• 6000+ students served directly through: Digital Media Challenge, Digital Media Festival, State and National Scholarships, Arts

Competitions, and Online Resources.

• 6700+ teachers and administrators served directly through: Workshops, Symposia, Leadership Summit, Competitions, and Online Resources.

• 1.5 million students impacted through greater teacher effectiveness.

5 | FAAE ANNUAL REPORT 2011

Dear Arts Education Alliance Friends:

We celebrate this year supporting the dedicated work of teachers, artists, arts and education professionals and community leaders making up the Florida Alliance for Arts Education (FAAE) to promote access and quality in arts education for Florida’s students. As a convening organization, FAAE has made possible training, networking, community resources and advocacy for alliance representatives and our network of local and statewide partners for our collective mission.

2010-11 marks 20 years for Arts for a Complete Education (ACE), a project of the FAAE, a model partnership of the Florida Department of State and the Florida Department of Education working with the University of Central Florida. Through this period, FAAE through ACE has been a leader in innovation for arts education providing

invaluable resources and training to the field. Initiatives have included hosting, with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Arts and Youth Development, bringing together the arts and juvenile justice leaders and service providers. FAAE has provided conferences and resources such as: Arts Integration, Arts and Technology, Arts and Early Learners and many more. The Alliance has provided grants to schools and communities, has published model program anthologies on Promising Practices in Arts Education as well as Florida Intersections recognizing community arts partnerships. FAAE developed the Florida First Lady’s Art Arts Recognition Program with Florida’s Former First Lady, Columba Bush. The program continues as the Arts for Life program, with annual scholarships to high school arts students. ACE Day at the Capitol, showcased visual and performing arts students each year during the Florida Legislative session.

Our 2011 Anniversary Summit acknowledged leadership of exemplary professionals and tireless community leaders. We also celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Arts Achieve! Model Schools program recognizing outstanding arts programs initiated with funding from the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation. This year’s Summit theme underscored the potential of the arts as a key to 21st century workforce skills.

Keynote speaker, internationally noted artist and educator, Eric Booth underscored the importance of arts education by stating, “People view culture and 21st century skills as opposites. The larger truth contains them both. ‘Personalness’ and pride in their work is the 21st century skills people need.” Mr. Booth also presented on the power and potential of the “teaching artist” as mentors to youth and as strong support to arts education in schools. Additionally, the Summit offered a new Digital Media Festival showcasing the innovative work in technology of Florida’s students.

Throughout the year, FAAE host regional trainings bringing together enthusiastic and committed leaders in the state with experts in the field on arts integration and technology. FAAE has served as a leader monitoring and responding to advocacy issues for arts education working with the Florida Cultural Alliance. As the state alliance affiliate to the Kennedy center Alliance for Arts Education Network, FAAE works to provide national resources to the field in Florida.

It is with gratitude and partnership that we celebrate the past 20 years. We welcome our new President, Dr. Tom Pearson to work with our talented Board of Trustees and Executive Director, Susan Burke, to advance our mission. While celebrating the leadership that has laid our foundation, we look to the challenges and opportunities ahead.

With a sense of unity among so many groups and individuals in the state we are poised to our on-going belief in the power of arts education.

With appreciation,

Jennifer CoolidgePresident, (2009-2011)