Southeast Center for Education in the Arts

Fifty educators representing 40 organizations from 16 states attended SCEA's fifth national Arts & Education Forum. Participants explored how to put quality arts integration into practice, looking at the pathways to quality arts integration, the way in which arts integration programs have followed these paths, and the impact on programs when these paths are taken.

This focus was a response to a call for more clarity about the dimensions of quality arts integration issued by a panel at the 2010 Arts and Education Thought Leader Forum: Assuring Equitable Arts Learning in Urban K-12 Schools and reiterated in the recent report by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America’s Future Through Creative Schools. During the two days of the Forum, participants clarifed dimensions of quality, discussed practicing what we preach, and examined the impact of quality practice on students, teachers, and schools.

Guiding everyone in “walking the talk” of quality arts integration was Dr. Bennett Lentczner, president of RealVisions, and Drs. Linda Whitesitt and Elda Franklin, authors of a new book on arts integration – The ARTS Book: Designing Quality Arts Integration with Alignment, Rigor, Teamwork and Sustainability.

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Forum registrants received a copy of this book, which served as a jumping off point for presentations and panel discussions on four key pathways to quality arts integration.

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.Bennett Lentczner.....Linda Whitesittt...Elda Franklin
REALVISIONS

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Joel Baxley.......Susanne Burgess
Laure Melnik. ........Mary LaBianca

SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR EDUCATION IN THE ARTS