KEYNOTE SESSIONS
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| Joining Voices: Arts Advocacy and 21st Century Readiness | ||||
Cheri Sterman – Director of Child Development and Consumer Relationships for Crayola
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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills networks more than 90 organizations who share the commitment to building within students the skills that arts education develops: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication. Session participants will be asked to imagine "What if..." "What if arts educators became the chief creative officers in schools?" "What if schools found new ways to give children a voice?" "What if arts-infused learning thrived everyday in every classroom" "What if parents and school administrators valued the power of creative thinking?" |
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| Leading a New Direction: The College Board's Strategies for Placing Arts at the Core of Education |
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Dr. Nancy Rubino – Director of College Board Office of Academic Initiatives, College Readiness
Dr. Pamela Paulson – Senior Director of Policy at the Perpich Center for Arts Education |
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Having approved recommendations from its National Task Force on the Arts in Education, the College Board is launching a campaign for putting the arts at the core of elementary, secondary and post-secondary education. Strategies include: reaching underserved student populations, promoting student creativity, understanding the arts in a global perspective, integrating the arts into other core disciplines, engaging a greater number of professional artists in the arts education, and building partnerships and affecting policy at the national, state and local levels.
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| Making Learning Irresistible: Expanding K-12 Instructional Design | ||||
Dr. Tim Tyson – retired school principal, known as the “Pied Piper of Educational Technology"
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The soul and substance of our human experience is nurtured by beauty, is conceptualized at least as much (if not more) by non-discursive symbolism, and thrives and attains new levels of meaningfulness and significance when authentically engaging students to help them better understand real problems in the real world. Yet, I hear only one mantra for educational reform: prepare students, by mastering a minimum set of curriculum standards, to be economically viable in an increasingly globally competitive job market. But what of our young students passionately working to solve the greatest problems of our time? Why must school be so disconnected from the complex and demanding real world in which our students live? The classroom today can be virtually anything we can imagine. Join me as we start to design the, as yet, unimaginable! |
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