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Roundtable Benefit: Julius Caesar at Theatre for a New Audience
Join us for an exclusive evening at the theater in support of the New York City arts education community. Funds raised from this benefit help the Roundtable provide quality professional development, strategic field leadership, support, community, and amplified advocacy for arts education. We hope you will join us and support the Roundtable’s efforts to assist arts educators to do their best work, helping NYC students succeed in and through the arts.
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Shape the Next 25 Years of Arts Education in NYC (and enter to win a free Face to Face Registration!)
Basking in the glow of our 25th Anniversary, the Roundtable is now embarking on a strategic planning process to discover how we can best support YOU!
We’d like to ask you to take a moment and fill out the following survey (and share with your full staff and contacts!). This survey is a pivotal moment for the Roundtable to harness the expertise of our arts in education community by enabling members and non-members to weigh in on the organization.
READ MORE >The Center for Arts Education: Teaching Artist Salon
Differentiated Teaching and Learning: Incorporating Multiple Modalities
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 20th – 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: CAE Center Space (previously known as the CAE Conference Room)
Differentiating instruction to meet the strengths, needs, and interests of all students is one of the key responsibilities of any educator. Utilizing a Universal Design for Learning framework, this workshop will explore how incorporating multiple modes of expression can provide students varied opportunities to develop and articulate understanding.
READ MORE >What Are The Benefits of Music for Babies and Toddlers?
From: https://smartparentadvice.com/benefits-of-music/
By: Ryan Howard
Music can be an exceptional tool for helping your child’s development. There are many benefits of music for babies. In fact, the Brain and Creativity Institute, located in California, has actually determined that music during childhood can accelerate brain development.
It’s not all about brain development and academic achievement, though. Music has a host of great benefits for a growing child.
READ MORE >Do you know about ArtScan?
ARTSCAN
ArtScan, a project of the Arts Education Partnership, is a searchable clearinghouse of the latest state policies supporting education in and through the arts from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
For the purposes of ArtScan, “state policy” refers to the system of laws and regulatory measures that pertain to the provision of arts education. Only those policies that hold the weight of law and refer to the arts explicitly are included in ArtScan.
READ MORE >Arts Sector Contributed $763.6 Billion to U.S. Economy—More Than Agriculture or Transportation, New Data Shows
The arts and cultural sector contributed over $763.6 billion to the American economy in 2015—more than the agriculture, transportation, or warehousing sectors, according to new U.S. government data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
The arts generated 4.2% of the overall U.S. GDP, with roughly 4.9 million Americans working in the sector in 2015, the latest year for which data is available. Collectively,
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Day of Learning 2019: Action Learning Session Resources
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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NYC Department of Education – Helpful Links
The NYC Department of Education recently restructured its website to better communicate with constituents and NYC DOE personnel:
- Main NYC DOE site (schools.nyc.gov) will be primarily for parents and families.
- Info Hub (infohub.nyced.org) will be for cultural partners and other constituents with public facing resources.
- WeTeachNYC (weteachnyc.org) will house materials and resources for educators; some content will require a NYC DOE login.
