Essentially this bill means that students who attend career and technical education high schools in the State of California do not have to have any arts instruction, at all. They still have to have all the other subjects required for graduation, but not the arts. And the really bad news is that this bill appears to be moving full steam ahead.I am a big supporter of CTE. in … [Read more...] about The State of California Considers Bill That Will Hurt K-12 Arts Education
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Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Four
Click here for Part Three Caracas, April 12-13, 2010 This will be the start of "The Week That Was!" for us and this wonderful, colorful band of children. If I didn't know through years of composing symphonic music that creativity can indeed be given a boost in restricted, unknown and time-intensive circumstances, I would say this could not be done, even attempted. But Richard … [Read more...] about Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Four
Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Three
Click here for Part Two Caracas, April 9-10, 2010 The excitement builds. Also the nerves. Have you ever noticed how, when you travel to a completely new environment, all emotions are magnified? The joys are expansive, the fears are bottomless, each event rings clear, vibrates with color. I feel I should go to bed wearing dark sunglasses! And yet, there is a penetration to … [Read more...] about Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Three
Guest Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part One
I am really, really, really! pleased to bring to you one of my very favorite artists: the composer, bassist, and educator extraordinaire: Jon Deak.Jon has offered to provide a guest blog on Dewey 21C about his trip to Venezuela, as artist in residence with El Sistema, which considering all the attention it has gotten over the past couple of years, should need no introduction … [Read more...] about Guest Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part One
Guest Blog, Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: Counting the Arts as An Act of Faith
Here's a big welcome back to Dewey21C's regular guest blogger, my dear friend Jane Remer. What Jane has on her mind is very well thrown dart landing right smack dead center in the bull's eye of what is on everyone's mind as they read about ESEA, Race to the Top, the Common Core standards project, and dare I even say the very existence of arts education as education budgets … [Read more...] about Guest Blog, Jane Remer’s CliffNotes: Counting the Arts as An Act of Faith