SOUTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION

Programs/

Projects

  JFK Center Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Awards

·   JFK Center for the Performing Arts Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Awards

·   Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Institute

·   Kennedy Center/ National School Board Association Award  

·   SC Arts Education Summit

·   SC Arts- focused Schools Directory

·    SC District Arts Coordinators Institute

Saluda River, Windsor Hill receive national recognition

WASHINGTON, DC – Two South Carolina public schools are national award winners for making arts an essential part of their students’ education during the 2008-09 school year.

Lexington District Two’s Saluda River Academy for the Arts in West Columbia and Windsor Hill Arts Infused Elementary in North Charleston (Dorchester District Two) are among only five in the U.S. recognized as John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts National Schools of Distinction in Arts Education.  The honor goes to outstanding school programs and includes a monetary award to support their arts education efforts.

Click here for the full press release.

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Three schools,

• Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts (Hilton Head Island),
• Saluda River Academy for the Arts (West Columbia), and
• Windsor Hill Arts Infused Elementary School (North Charleston).   

 received the state-level award for the 2009 John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Schools of Distinction program.   

Applications for 2010 state level awards

due March 5, 2010

·  To download information & applications for 2010, click here

Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Institute

June 22 - July 26, 2010

  Every summer, approximately 70 students (ages 15-20) from all over the nation meet in Washington, D.C., to attend the National Symphony Orchestra's Summer Music Institute. The Institute offers four weeks of private lessons, rehearsals, coaching by National Symphony Orchestra members, classes, and lectures to prepare aspiring musicians for their futures in music.   The Summer Music Institute is coordinated by the National Symphony Orchestra Education Program, which is a component of the Kennedy Center Education Department.   Participants are selected through an application process.   In South Carolina, the SCAAE serves as the state contact, beginning the process by screening the applications and then forwarding up to five to the National Symphony Orchestra for the final selection.    

Applications due Jan. 22, 2010

Download Application

Download Financial Aid Application

Kennedy Center/National School Board Association Award  

The SCAAE, as part of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network (KCAAEN), is pleased to participate in the KCAAEN and National School Board Association (NSBA) award program to honor school boards that have demonstrated support for and commitment to high-quality arts education in its school district, community, state or special jurisdiction.   Begun in 1988, this award recognizes districts that have included all four major artistic disciplines – visual arts, music, theater and dance in their programs.    School districts that meet the criteria below are invited to apply for the state award.   Nominations of those receiving the state award will then be forwarded by SCAAE for consideration for the national award.  

Review Criteria

Nominated school boards must demonstrate the following:

• a significant contribution in support of arts programs/curricula in the district’s schools. This should include exemplary programs of standards-based sequential, curriculum-based arts education and must include curriculum offerings in all of the four arts disciplines (visual arts, dance, music, and theatre) , offered as part of the school day :
• evidence of district-wide policies and long range plans for arts education;
• collaboration with community cultural resources including academic/artistic programming with universities; art museums; symphonies; opera, dance and theatre companies, professional artists, etc.;
• promotion of the value and importance of arts education at the school, district, community, state or special jurisdiction levels;
• financial support of arts instruction in the school district;
• evidence of equitable access to instructional programs in the arts throughout the school district;
• appropriate administrative and instructional support, including ongoing professional development for classroom teachers and arts specialists , adequate instructional materials, facilities and administrative oversight;
• current membership in its NSBA Federation Member State School Boards Association and fulfillment of the responsibilities of effective school board members as prescribed by the NSBA in its Code of Ethics for School Board Members.

In October of 2008, the SCAAE in partnership with the SC Arts Commission and SC Department of Education began work on assembling a directory of arts-focused/centered schools in the state.    Notices were sent out inviting schools who self-identified as having an arts-focused curriculum to participate in this project by completing an online survey.     Work is now in progress in the formatting of the gathered information into the first release of the directory which will be available online late summer of 2009.
   

The SCAAE and its partners see this document as being a living document and therefore invite those schools that have not completed the survey and wish to be part of the directory to take the survey and be added to the directory.   The Arts Schools Directory Survey is available at http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228HDHRC9J3 .    

As you must complete the survey in one session, a link to a snapshot of the entire survey has been included to help you gather all of the pertinent information prior to beginning( click here ).     You can also preview the survey on the Zoomerang site and complete it at a later time.

Each spring for the last five years, the SCAAE has hosted a statewide District Arts

Coordinators Institute. This year’s program will take place on Monday, March 22

and Tuesday, March 23 at the Columbia Marriott.

Topics scheduled for this year include an overview of the newly revised arts standards, arts curricular innovation grants, a report on USDOE Model Arts Education and Dissemination Grants and more. Best of all… thanks to funding provided by the SC Department of Education, one designated arts coordinator from each district may attend this two-day intensive  institute at no charge , including hotel.   Registration is due by March 12th. 

To download the agenda, click here.

To download the registration form, click here.