Forum Schedule
Friday, April 29,
2011-Mississippi Children's Museum
2:00 p.m.-Imagination Conversation
(free to the public)
5:00 p.m.-Cocktail Reception/Silent Auction (requires
registration)
6:30 p.m.-MAAE Awards Ceremony (requires registration)
Saturday, April
30, 2011-Power Academic and Performing Arts Complex
(requires registration for Forum Workshop
Day; CEUs and SEMIs available)
8:00 a.m. - Registration Opens
8:30 a.m. - General Assembly Meeting
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
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Arts in the Classroom Overview—Kim Whitt
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The Dance in All of Us—Nicole Marquez
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Show Me the Money: Leveraging Money for Arts—Dr.
Charlotte Tabereaux
10:30 - 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
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Arts Integration Teaching Artist Demo Lesson:
Flossie, a lesson in bullying (elementary)
Jodie Engle and Althea Jerome
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Arts Integration Teaching Artist Demo Lesson: Dream
Big, (secondary)
Joseph Johnson and Dr. Elaine Gelbard
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Mathematics plus Creative Arts = STEAM
Dr. Sallie Harper
12:00 p.m. - Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
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Waiting for Superman: What’s the message for
Mississippi Schools?
Carolyn Jolivette, Trecina Green, and Limeul Eubanks
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Eco-Aesthetics: A Visual Arts Experience
Tony DiFatta
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Six Schools Journey into Arts Integration-Oak Park
Elementary, Hawkins Elementary, Canton School of
Arts and Sciences, Walton Elementary, Quitman Junior
High, Oxford Middle School
3:00 p.m. Forum Finale with Student Performance
Forum Audience:
K-12 Superintendents and school administrators, K-12
teachers, higher education faculty and administrators,
K-12 students, arts and education employees from state
agencies, arts education professional organization
leaders, community arts organization and cultural
institution leaders, arts presenting organizations,
teaching artists, parent organization leaders,
community and business partners
Forum Purpose:
To recognize that tough times call
for sharing creative ideas for action that recognize
and honor the importance of rejuvenating our schools,
our communities, and our lives, as we strive
collectively to find imaginative and satisfying paths
which value arts in education
Forum Goals:
To consider
the challenges in education by imagining creative and
innovative solutions that will support our mission to
insure a better world for our children;
To commit to
acting on solutions to the problems by lifting our
children’s lives both in the arts and through the arts
as they learn to fly and soar.
Forum
Objectives:
1. Offer a venue where educators,
business leaders, government officials, and artists
can dialogue about fresh, imaginative perspectives for
21st Century education.
2. Raise awareness and appreciation of the impact of
an arts education on a child’s life.
3. Gain new insights and understanding how schools can
become more involved in arts education.
4. Broaden parent and community understanding and
involvement, investment, and support for arts in
education.
5. Recognize and honor all stakeholders for their
contribution to the education and advocacy support of
creativity, imagination and the arts across
Mississippi.
The Challenges
"We
have an historic opportunity to drive change and lift
education to a new level…The question is whether we
have the courage to face the truths about our current
state of education and to pursue fundamental change…
By working together and staying focused on children,
we can create an education system that instead of
leaving too many children behind, takes all children
forward. Let's get to work."
— U.S.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan CNN: 4/30/2009
"This is the time to stand up and say what you
believe, not sweep the issues under the rug so that we
can feel good about getting along. Our mission is to
defend and promote the interests of children...There's
nothing more worthwhile than fighting for children."
—Former
Washington, D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee, 12/13/2010
The deadline for online registration is
Monday, April 25, 2011. For more information,
please contact Jodie Engle at 614.316.0937
To participate in the Arts Front and Center Forum,
please click the appropriate links below which contain
additional information and forms:
For Forum registration information, click
here
For Forum Student Art Exhibit information,
click
here
For Awards Program Ad Sales information, click
here
For Forum Sponsorship information,
click
here
Accommodations:
The MAAE Arts Front and Center Forum host hotel is
the Courtyard by Marriott-Jackson. It is located
at 6280 Ridgewood Court Drive and is 6.1 miles from
the Mississippi Children's Museum. The MAAE
group rate is $89 per day which includes free
breakfast and on-site complimentary parking. Please
contact the hotel directly before the cut-off date of
April 15 to reserve a room. Availability of double and
single sleeping rooms is limited.. The hotel's direct
phone number is 601.956.9991. When registering,
mention you are with the Mississippi Alliance for Arts
Education in order to be allowed the group rate. For
more information about the Courtyard by
Marriott-Jackson, please go to
www.marriott.com
.
The Arts Front and Center Forum is
partially funded by a grant from the Kennedy Center
Alliance for Arts Education Network
The
Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education is funded in
part by The Mississippi Arts Commission and The
Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network.
