JUST PUBLISHED
2009 SCEA
Arts & Education Forum
ARTS INTEGRATION
and TEACHER CHANGE
FORUM REPORT
SCEA Hires a New
Director of Dance Education
meet
Mary LaBianca
from Pennsylvania
Current Professional Development and Mentoring
Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts & Education
Wilson, NC
Arts Integration Workshop for
ArtsSmart Institute for Learning
Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council
November 17-18, 2009
Strategic Planning and Communication Initiative
Marmillion+Company is working with SCEA to re-invision our role in serving arts-focused and 21st Century learning-focused schools
2010
Arts & Education Forum
ARTS AT THE CORE OF
21ST CENTURY LEARNING
May 14-15, 2010
information coming soon
The Southeast Center for Education in the Arts (SCEA) provides innovative professional development in arts education and arts integration to enhance teaching and deepen learning in K-12 classrooms. SCEA’s nationally recognized outreach programs create exciting opportunities for personal and professional discovery, nurturing the artist within and fostering the artistry of teaching. Building on its seminal work in discipline-based arts education, SCEA incorporates emerging theories and methodologies in interdisciplinary education, placing it at the cutting edge of current practice in concept-based arts integration.
As a professional development provider, SCEA collaborates with schools and organizations across the country providing consulting services, demonstrating integrated instruction, and crafting custom, site-specific programs tailored to the needs and resources of distinct communities. Personnel travel nationwide and internationally teaching classes, conducting workshops, working on committees, and serving as consultants and writers for professional organizations and state education departments.
The Southeast Center for Education in the Arts fosters unique collaborations among people and institutions, significantly impacting local, state, and national education policy and practice. The Tennessee Arts Commission awarded SCEA its Governor’s Arts Leadership Award for nurturing creative inquiry into teaching and learning.
Founded in 1987 as one of six regional sites of the Los Angeles-based Getty Center for Education in the Arts program in discipline-based visual art education, SCEA was the only center to expand this approach to music, theatre, and dance.
During the 1990s, four satellite institutes were established in Atlanta, Montgomery, New Orleans, and Savannah to further disseminate SCEA’s philosophical concepts, instructional practices, and resources.
In 1996-2001, SCEA collaborated with the five other Getty centers in California, Florida, Nebraska, Ohio, and Texas on the Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge. This research initiative of the Annenberg Foundation and Getty Trust provided intensive professional development to 35 partner schools across the nation as they developed comprehensive arts education programs.
From 2001-2006, SCEA directors served as consultants, writers, and talent for three educational television series commissioned by Annenberg Media in Washington, DC and produced by Lavine Production Group in New York City. The project included videotape resource libraries, video workshops, instructional materials, and interactive websites.
Starting in 2002, SCEA began to apply an extensive knowledge of arts-based pedagogy to interdisciplinary professional development, creating integrated instructional strategies and curriculum that promote deep understanding through concept-based connections at the nexus of the arts and other disciplines. Annual spring Arts & Education Forums now convene educators from across the country to explore and discuss current practice in arts integration, with the goal of refining the work of professional development providers.
