[DOE-Arts] Arts Newsletter #3

[Nestor, Argy]

GREETINGS FROM ARGY'S CUBBY with a view of the STATE HOUSE DOME at the
Department of Education

26 February 2007

 

ARTS NEWS

In the last week I have received two emails with concerns about the arts
and the EPS (Essential Programs and Services) formula.  Basically, this
formula is what decides how much money each school district  receives
annually from the state to educate students.  Periodically, I hear "VPA
are not in EPS."  That is NOT true!  All 8 content areas from the Maine
Learning Results are figured into the formula.  You can read the statute
that clearly states the inclusion of VPA at:  
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/20-A/title20-Asec15671.html
<http://janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/20-A/title20-Asec15671.html>   

This next link will give you a little more clarification of what the
first statute outlines:  
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/20-A/title20-Asec6209.html

I hope this clarifies where the arts stand when it comes to funding.
If anyone communicates a different message to you, you can refer them to
these documents.   

 


YOU'RE INVITED


Argy's Arts Blog is available to you!  YAHOOOOO!  If you are interested
in participating please go to: http://mearts.edublogs.org/ and
participate by reading, posting a comment or both.  You will find a
topic at the link.   If you choose to comment, it will come to me and I
will approve the post.  Your comment will not automatically post, so
please be patient.  Keep in mind that this blog is meant to be a
positive arena for arts educators to have discussions!

 

GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

If you are interested, please check out the attachment of grant
opportunities.

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY

The Lab School located in Washington D.C. is sponsoring: Teaching
Students with Learning Disabilities.  32 teachers will be selected to
attend this one-day workshop at the school on May 12th.  More than half
of each day (at the Lab School) is spent in arts classes and is
carefully planned to enhance academic achievement, build organizations
skills and strengthen self-esteem.   You can find the application and
more information at:

http://www.labschool.org/ <http://www.labschool.org/>        Click on:
The Power of Art/Rauschenberg

 

COMMUNICATION

If you know of others who would like to receive this newsletter, please
have them contact me at my email address below.  If for some reason you
do not want to receive this newsletter every two weeks, please contact
me and I will remove you from the list-serve.

 

PLEASE HELP 

I have received a couple of emails asking me for clarification on what
classes can be considered to fulfill the current Fine Arts Requirement
at the high school level, i.e. one credit.  I understand there was a
document (from long ago) that stated the criteria.  This may have been
in the old Chapter 125 or 127.  If anyone knows of this document or has
a copy of it, please contact me.  Thank you in advance!

 

ARTICLE

I have attached an article I thought you might enjoy called Barking Up
the Right Tree by Paul Houston, the executive director of the American
Association of School Administrators.

 

LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST 

As teachers of the Visual and Performing Arts we have so much in which
to be proud!!  March is Youth Art Month and Music In Our Schools Month.
(I am going to call it Arts Education Month).  This month take some time
and "SHOUT" about the value of arts education.  However you celebrate,
large or small, here's a great big THANK YOU from me!   Arts Advocacy
Day, sponsored by the Maine Alliance for Arts Education is being held at
the state house in Augusta on Wednesday, March 7th.  

 

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and
we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it."  Michelangelo

 

Make it a great week,

Argy

 

Argy Nestor

Visual and Performing Arts Specialist

Maine Department of Education

23 State House Station

Augusta, ME 04333-0023

624-6825

fax: 624-6821

argy.nestor at maine.gov

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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