Arts Education

New Jersey continues to lead the nation through the release of detailed arts education information to the public and the research findings look promising — a 4% increase in high school arts participation from the previous year with significant increases in dance and theater participation. These findings are based on the arts educator assignment data for all schools and the high school arts participation data from the New Jersey School Performance Reports just released by the New Jersey State Department of Education.

We wanted to share this positions opening at Hewlett with AEFC members

Program Officer, Performing Arts

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From Elaine Weiss, from Moyers & Company:

On January 21, 2015 the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held the first of a series of hearings regarding the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), focusing on the subjects of testing and accountability. You can view the webcast of the hearing.

Key Issues Discussed:

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is looking to hire a talented Head of School/Design Team Leader. CMSD is re-opening next fall in a new, state-of-the-art building in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland. Currently a 6–12 school, the redesigned Cleveland School of the Arts will transition to a high school, with grades 7–12 in the 2015-16 school year, grades 8–12 in the 2016-17 school year, and grades 9–12 thereafter. This is an opportunity for the Head of School to position the school as a model of excellence and innovation in that community.

Andrea Shea from Boston's The ARTery reports:

At the same time that school music programs across the country are being downsized due to budget cuts, there’s one intensive music-education program that’s growing. And now Massachusetts has become the first state in the country to set aside funding for the Venezuelan-born effort known as El Sistema.

Read the full article here.

Anthony Mazzocchi is former Director of Fine and Performing Arts for the South Orange/Maplewood School District, where he launched one of the first K-4 Suzuki Violin programs in New Jersey. During his stay, the district was designated “One of the Best Communities for Music Education” by the NAMM Association, and he was nominated for the first ever GRAMMY Music Educator Award by the GRAMMY Foundation. He posts here to The Village Green of Maplewood and South Orange:

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $13.4 million to 34 organizations to help arts educators grow and improve arts instruction, and share effective models of arts in education that support student achievement in the arts and other areas.