Batter Up: The Federal i3 Grant Program
Today in Baltimore is the first of three technical assistance sessions across the country for potential applicants to the USDOE’s i3 program. I have written two different entries on i3, click here and...
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The Source of the Arts Education Nile: “Money is Policy”
When the categorical funding line for arts education in the New York City Public Schools was elminated, essentially to “empower the principals” and to increase the total budget available to each...
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Guest Blog, Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: Counting the Arts as An Act of Faith
Here’s a big welcome back to Dewey21C’s regular guest blogger, my dear friend Jane Remer. What Jane has on her mind is very well thrown dart landing right smack dead center in the bull’s eye of what is...
View ArticleThe Tools of Creativity, by Jon Deak
The Tools of Creativity By Jon Deak April 10, 2010 Hola Dani - You had asked me a very good and pointed question: “If you say that the children can already compose, then what exactly do you give them...
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Dance Teacher Magazine Feature on Jody Arnhold
There are those among us, who somehow manage to do it all. I can never quite figure out how they manage it, but they do. Jody Arnhold is all that: master teacher, builder of organizations, board...
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What do Children Need the Most?
A number of years back I was fortunate to attend a two-day conference on Arts, Technology, and Intellectual Property at Columbia University’s American Assembly. At the time I was working for the...
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Books. Children. Arts. Education!
It’s never too early to consider your holiday gift list. Today, I present to you a lucky 13 list of primarily arts-oriented books for children. The wonderful thing about these books, which for me is a...
View ArticleA Favorite Arts Ed Video: The Mural Project at JHS256
I have always been fond of project-based learning. And this mural project is one true exemplar. The opportunities for many to be engaged in a multi-year arts project, that combines youth development,...
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Guest Blog, Jane Remer: A Paradox, A Paradox, A Most Ingenious Paradox –The...
Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: September 29, 2011 “A Paradox, A Paradox, a Most Ingenious Paradox” (Pirates of Penzance/Gilbert and Sullivan), The Common Core of (Voluntary) State Standards and the Untamable...
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Federal K-12 Arts Ed Funding on the Chopping Block Again
In case you missed it, on September 29th, in Ed Week’s Curriculum Matters blog was this article: STEM Ed. Among Cuts Sought in Draft House Budget Plan. The House is at it again, proposing the zeroing...
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