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| Written by Robert A. Southworth Jr. |
| Saturday, 07 January 2006 14:53 |
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CABLe is the result of a collaboration between Amy Duggins Pender, Director of Arts in Education at the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Rob Southworth, President of the SchoolWorks Lab (SWL), and Geri Hayes, Regional Arts Supervisor of New York City’s Region 1 in the Bronx. After several conversations about the field’s need for a transportable model for district-wide School Improvement through the arts, Pender, Southworth, and Hayes decided to donate their time and expertise to establishing an organization that would support the development of Quality Arts in Education model. Having created the Center for Arts-Based Learning, this team of professionals will now plan, initiate, implement, sustain, document, and evaluate an approach to arts-based school change that will eventually be taken to Scale to create district-wide, whole-school improvement. The approach will involve the creation of, and/or support for already existing Partnerships between schools and cultural organizations. This year, the work of the Center will focus on Region 1 in the Bronx, and six schools that are working with Bronx-based cultural organizations will be invited to participate in the pilot program. These partnerships will be nurtured through strategic planning assistance from the Center, targeted consulting services, and small grants to supplement existing financial resources. The partnerships will also be supported by a rigorous, Inquiry-based Professional Development program that will focus on opportunities for artists and teachers to learn from and with one another. The pilot will result in the formation of a network of six learning partnerships that will serve as the hub of an ever-expanding circle of school/cultural organization partners from across the Region, with the eventual goal of creating whole-school improvement, in and through the arts, in all schools in the district. The projected 2005-2006 programmatic budget for the Center is approximately $150,000. However, the organization is striving to raise an additional $150,000 in order to fill several permanent staff positions. For more information on this and other topics, visit the Results section of the website. |