Face to Face @ 4pm: Free Digital Conference Learning Series
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The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable is proud to host our flagship event, Face to Face, as a FREE weekly digital learning series. This specially-curated series for arts administrators, educators, parents, and artists will explore the function of arts education in today’s society and how we use online tools and resources to forge community.
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A Roundtable Conversation: Advocacy in Action
Session recording now online!
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
10:30am – 12:00pm EDT
We believe that #ARTSareEssential and that during this difficult time, it’s our responsibility to ensure arts education remains a pillar of an equitable education for NYC’s 1.1 million public school students. Join Roundtable board members and members of our community as we crowdsource ways to advocate for continued access to arts education, share lessons learned while providing in-school programs, plus start the community-wide conversation on how we can use our collective impact to move the field forward.
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Performance as Time Travel: Reindigenizing Movement, Decolonizing Time
By Moréna Espiritual
Posted on Friday, May 22, 2020
This blog is a part of the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable’s new blog series, “Teaching Artists Speak Out: Blogs from Quarantine.” As schools remain closed, we’ve invited some “Teaching Artists of the Roundtable” to help us curate a series of blog posts written for and by NYC teaching artists. We’ll be posting new blogs each Tuesday and Thursday for the next several weeks.
READ MORE >URGENT ADVOCACY ALERT: Submit Written Testimony to the New York City Council in Support of Arts Education
Posted on May 19, 2020
The following letter was sent out to the Roundtable mailing list on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. To stay up to date with weekly e-blasts about advocacy efforts, best practices, current trends, upcoming events, and more, please subscribe to the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable mailing list.
READ MORE >Thoughts on Teaching and Connecting and Change
By Alex La Torre
Posted on Friday, May 15, 2020
This blog is a part of the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable’s new blog series, “Teaching Artists Speak Out: Blogs from Quarantine.” As schools remain closed, we’ve invited some “Teaching Artists of the Roundtable” to help us curate a series of blog posts written for and by NYC teaching artists. We’ll be posting new blogs each Tuesday and Thursday for the next several weeks.
READ MORE >From Cardboard to iPads: Teaching Theatre Before, During, and After the Pandemic
By Hayley Sherwood
Posted on Friday, May 8, 2020
This blog is a part of the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable’s new blog series, “Teaching Artists Speak Out: Blogs from Quarantine.” As schools remain closed, we’ve invited some “Teaching Artists of the Roundtable” to help us curate a series of blog posts written for and by NYC teaching artists. We’ll be posting new blogs each Tuesday and Thursday for the next several weeks.
READ MORE >Latest Memo from NYC Department of Education Office of Arts & Special Projects
Posted on Friday, May 8, 2020
Yesterday, the NYC Department of Education’s Office of Arts and Special Projects shared the attached memo with the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable regarding the continuation of remote learning services.
As it relates to our community’s ongoing advocacy work, the memo states:
“…Arts services that are provided remotely in collaboration and in support of schools’ remote teaching plans, and fulfill mandated services and/or New York State graduation requirements can continue to be offered.
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Extended Use Hardship Waiver Program (Sept. 2019)
The NYC Department of Education and the Borough Presidents’ Offices created the Extended Use Hardship Waiver Program in order to provide community organizations with greater access to our school facilities.
The fee waiver program launched in February 2019, and provides communities with more instructional, sporting, and recreational opportunities for students and/or adults. Community organizations that have a hardship paying the extended use permit fees can apply for a fee waiver.
Eligibility Requirements
Organizations must be:
- Not-for-profit
- In compliance with Chancellor’s Regulation D-180
- Able to demonstrate financial hardship
- In good standing with the DOE (e.g.,
CreateNYC: 2019 Cultural Action Plan (Aug. 2019)
From CreateNYC: A Cultural Plan for All New Yorkers
Posted on August 13, 2019
“In July 2017, CreateNYC was released to the public as New York City’s first-ever comprehensive cultural plan. Following months of public engagement that engaged with nearly 200,000 New Yorkers, the plan provided a long term framework for promoting greater equity, access, diversity, and expanding opportunities for all residents to participate in the City’s vibrant cultural life.
LEARN MORE >Day of Learning 2019: Action Learning Session Resources (Jan. 2019)
Online Resources
Exploring the Process and Commitment of Becoming Better Social Justice Orgs
- Community-Word Project (CWP) materials, with respect to intellectual property:
- Panel Outline | Questions for panelists were altered based on the real-time discussion.
- Social Justice Wheel | Inspired by the Undoing Racism – The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
- Sample Reflection Questions
- FB Video | We Run Brownsville
- Philly’s 7th Ward | Black Educators Share Their Thoughts on What Happens When White Women Cry in Schools
- WNYC | #ThisIsNotUs Is a Cop-Out: Social Media and Charlottesville
- Ted Talk | The danger of a single story
Chart Paper Takeaways
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