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Community Schools of the Arts have the potential to play a more comprehensive and influential role in educating our children, one that extends beyond high quality arts education taught by professional artists. Long-term partnerships with public schools enable community schools to enrich the general and arts curriculum through many avenues, including team teaching, artist-in-the-school residencies and communal performances and exhibits by students, faculty and artists. What many CSA’s view as a partnership, however, is often a one-sided approach whereby public schools purchase programs that are developed by the arts school. True partnerships, which involve deepening mutual regard, shared responsibility and accountability, and collaborative curriculum development, have been shown to have a powerful and lasting impact on students, faculty and the greater community
The goal of the PIE Institute is to provide key leaders and decision-makers at community schools with tools, training and know-how to develop successful arts education partnerships. They will be able to enter into partnership planning with a knowledge of best practices in the field, equipped to overcome whatever challenges may arise. Participants will emerge as more capable collaborators in the development of equally balanced, sustainable school partnerships.
The Institute focuses on the following areas:
The role of partnerships in long-term enrichment of learning and teaching
Strengths and constraints of community arts schools
Building a sturdy partnership structure
Collaborative curriculum planning as professional development
Advocacy for the development of school, community and funder support
Evaluation for program improvement
The PIE Institute faculty is drawn from a variety of points on the educational spectrum, including public schools, arts education organizations, community arts schools and academia. The leading instructors are:
David Myers, PhD., Associate Director of the School of Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta and Founder/Director of the Center for Educational Partnerships in Music, also at GSU. A specialist in both arts partnerships and curriculum development, he also chaired the Guild’s 1991 Partners in Excellence Conference.
Anita Baker, EdD., an independent evaluation consultant who provides hands-on training and technical assistance to schools, community-based organizations, research and evaluation organizations and youth-serving agencies regarding evaluation, self-assessment, instrument development and data analysis and reporting. She has also served as Senior Program Officer for the Academy for Educational Development, School and Community Services, in New York City.
Maureen Heffernan, Executive Director of the Institute for Arts and Humanities Education in New Brunswick, NJ. A member of the faculty of the College of New Jersey, she is also co-developer of Interarts, a program for arts integration in and through the school curriculum. Named a Distinguished Teaching Artist by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, she will serve as the PIE Institute’s teaching artist-in-residence.
Nan Westervelt, a non-profit management and project consultant, who was formerly Executive Director of Young Audiences of Rochester (NY), for 15 years. Long active in the arts and education community, she has served as President of the New York State Alliance for Arts Education and served on the Governance Committee for the Kennedy Center Alliances for Arts Education.
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