Arts @ The Core: What Is? What If? What Now? |
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How do collaborations among stakeholders around a shared vision help achieve the culture change necessary to make Arts @ The Core of 21st Century Education a reality? To think constructively about culture change, we must first assess where we are. We will begin this session by taking stock of our own collaborative arts-in-education experiences. Who are our collaborative partners? What are the partners’ areas of expertise? What are the logistics of the collaborative experience? What are the challenges to fruitful collaboration? As we collect participants responses to these and similar questions, we begin to paint a picture of the breadth and depth of experience represented in our group. Our next objective will be to draw on our experience and our dreams to visualize and discuss ideal “Arts @ the Core” schools for our future. In what ways will the arts be the core of the curriculum? Who will be the collaborators within and outside the school? What will arts Integration collaborations look like? Through small group work, participants will encourage and inspire one another to create a visual representation of their ideal “Arts @ The Core” school. Discussion will focus on concrete new steps that can be taken to encourage more collaborative arts-in-education work in their own educational setting. Each participant will take away from this session a specific action they can take now towards realizing their vision of “Arts @ The Core". |
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Leigh Jones directs the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s ArtSmart education program, shepherding the philosophy and practice of aesthetic education that Lincoln Center Institute brought to Nashville in 1981. She has lived and breathed aesthetic education since 1986, when she moved to Nashville from New York to become a member of Tennessee Dance Theatre and a teaching artist for the Nashville Institute for the Arts. For ten years Leigh regularly led teacher professional development sessions alongside LCI TAs and taught ArtSmart study units in Nashville schools. Since becoming ArtSmart Director she has served two years on the steering committee of a national Teaching Artist Mentoring Project supported by LCI, and three years as a section editor for the Teaching Artist Journal. She completed masters degrees at Columbia University’s Teachers College (Dance Education) and Vanderbilt University (German Language and Literature, A.B.D.). |
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