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Arts Front and Center Forum

April 4, 2008
8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
MSU Riley Center, Meridian, MS

Sponsored by
The Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education
Mississippi Association of School Superintendents

Consider this . . .

A December 2007 national poll conducted by Lake Research Partners reports,

“88% of Americans believe that the so-called basics in education alone are not adequate for the 21st Century workforce without the ability to be imaginative, creative, and innovative.”

This poll and several recent books reveal a widening gap between instructional practices in America’s public schools and what is needed in the 21st Century global economy. A comprehensive education, one that includes the arts, is one way to bridge that gap.

The Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education will convene the forum to address this important and timely topic.

Purpose of the Forum:
To showcase multiple means available to assist students at all grade levels to learn in and through the arts and, thus, to prepare them for productive citizenship in the 21st Century.

Goal:
To equip forum participants to initiate new strategies that increase students’ access to arts education in their local community and/or school district.

Who should attend?
Higher Education Faculty and Administrators
K-12 Superintendents and Administrators
K-12 Arts Specialists and Teachers who infuse the arts
Arts and Education Employees from state agencies
Arts Education Professional Organization Leaders
Community Arts Organization/Cultural Institution Leaders
Arts Presenting Organizations and Teaching Artists
Teacher Education Students and High School Arts Students
Parent Organization Leaders, Parents and Citizens

Forum Agenda:

8:30 Registration

9:00 General Session

• Welcome

• Performance

• MAAE Moment

• Keynote speaker, Doug Herbert, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education

10:30 Break

10:45 Break Out Sessions

12:00 Forum Synthesis

• Reports from breakout sessions

• Evaluation

• Door Prizes

1:00 Awards Luncheon

• Presentation of awards

• Art Exhibit

Keynote Speaker

Doug Herbert is the Special Assistant on Teacher Quality and Arts Education to the Secretary of Education. Prior to May 2004, he was the Director of Arts Education at the National Endowment for the Arts, a post he held since 1992. Under his leadership, the Endowment partnered with the U.S. Department of Education to support the development of national voluntary standards in arts education, and to establish a framework and testing specifications for inclusion of the arts in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as The Nation’s Report Card. Mr. Herbert served as the program’s assistant director for more than four years. As Assistant Director, he coordinated the Endowment’s cooperative efforts with the Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement to develop an arts education research agenda, to recognize schools nationwide for their exemplary arts education programs under the Department’s Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Mr. Herbert was also the national program director for Very Special Arts, an educational affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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The Arts Front and Center Forum is partially funded by a grant from the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network

Registration for the Forum

Registration is due by March 28, 2008. All fees must be paid in advance. Registration fees include MAAE Awards Luncheon. Registration is not complete until fees have been paid.

Payment Method

• Check or cash only
• Please make check payable to MAAE.
• MAAE does not accept credit cards.

 Mail to:
Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education
101 Carrie Road, Hattiesburg, Mississippi  39402
Phone: (601) 268-6996     Fax: (601) 296-9929
Email: Lola.Norris@usm.edu

 Registration Fees

• $ 20 Student
• $ 40 Current member of MAAE
• $ 50 Individual

 REGISTRATION INFORMATION

To register on-line (preferred method), click here.

If you would like to print a mail-in registration form,
click here (Word format)  
               or
click here (pdf format)

Name____________________________________________________________________________
                            This name will appear on your nametag.
Title_____________________________________________________________________________
 

Organization (if applicable)________________________________________________________

Category or Type:      ___ School District  ___ Arts Council    ___ Cultural Organization 

___ Educational Organization  ___ College/University  ___ Arts Organization   ___ Individual

 ___ Artist/Teaching Artist  ___ Student  ___ Other, please specify

 Address_________________________________________________________________________

 City ____________________________________________ State _____ Zip __________________

 Telephone _________________________________________FAX__________________________

 Email____________________________________________________________________________

 Is this your first MAAE Forum?  Yes _____ No _____

 Are you a member of the MAAE?  Yes _____ No _____