North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1, September, 1990 Page: 2 of 4
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PILOT POINT ISD
The Pilot Point ISD board meeting
on July 17th included a presentation by
Dr. Jack Davis, who reported on the
success of the NTIEVA and its imple-
mentation in Pilot Point. Sylvia Russell,
art coordinator, took a hands-on ap-
proach in introducing DBAE concepts
to board members and visitors. Every-
one played Token Response, and, as
expected, the Frederick Remington
received the most houses, blue ribbons,
and red hearts!
The first grade teachers have met
every Tuesday since the Institute to
share implementation ideas. They have
already developed thematic units for
the entire school year. Great job!
PLANO ISD
School board members and parents
have made a remarkable investment in
their elementary art program in accel-
erating the implementation of DBAE
training for art specialists and class-
room teachers. This summer, twenty-
four first and second grade teachers
and six art specialists representing fif-
teen schools attended a two-week insti-
tute led by Plano art coordinator Lynda
Alford and UNT faculty member Dr.
Connie Newton. Next summer's insti-
tute will involve third, fourth and fifth
grade teachers.
FORT WORTH ISD
Art specialist Carolyn Sherburn has
hit the ground running with DBAE in
coordinating Fort Worth's district-wide
elementary art inservice at the Modern
Art Museum. Carolyn made four hour-
long presentations at the two-day in-
service, focusing on specific ways in
which DBAE concepts can be imple-
mented at each school. Also participat-
ing were guest speaker Ernest Gold-
stein, Linda Powell, education coordi-
nator at the Modern, a number of do-
cents, and Ginger Head, coordinator
for Imagination Celebration.
At the request of the administration,
Carolyn and a number of other art spe-
cialists are working together in the
absence of an art program director.
Due to a family illness, James Clarke
has resigned that position and returnedto the Houston area where he has re-
sumed his previous job as art coordina-
tor for the Aldine ISD.
HEB ISD
Bedford Heights principal Eva Orr
shared her enthusiasm about DBAE
with her entire faculty in a letter! Eva
wanted to prepare her staff for an excit-
ing year, announcing that the content
on critical thinking skills would come
from the New Jersey Writing Project
and the North Texas Institute for Edu-
cators on the Visual Arts. She organ-
ized her campus inservices with art
playing a major role. The entire Bedford
Heights team and Bill McCarter pre-
sented at the district-wide inservice as
well.
DENTON ISD
Art specialist Berniece Patterson
gave an in-service workshop for the
faculty at Evers Park Elementary School
the week before school started. She led
a scanning session with the teachers
that helped them understand the value
of art in the curriculum. They dis-
cussed the correlation of Feldman's
critical analysis with Bloom's taxon-
omy to increase student critical think-
ing and verbal skills.
Rhonda Sherrill gave an in-service
presentation entitled "Critical and
Creative Connections: Art Education"
to selected Denton ISD teachers. The
presentation included an introduction
to the NTIEVA and the 1990 Summer
Institute. On September 11, Rhonda
will be updating the Denton School
Board on the status of art education in
general for Denton.
DALLAS ISD
Steve Gowens further extended his
interest in "arts across the curriculum"
by attending a two week art institute
July 9-20, sponsored by Dallas ISD at
Northwood Institute.
Mary Kolter enjoyed a trip to the
Getty Museum during a recent visit
with her son in California. She es-
pecially loved Van Gogh's "Irises".
Her son was especially impressed with
the illuminated manuscripts. Wish we
could have been with you, Mary!SCANNING THE DISTRICTS
Amon Carter Museum
Fort Worth, TexasInstitute Staff
Presents Workshops
Congratulations to Cassandra
Broadus and Jo Carlson who were
invited to present the visual arts com-
ponent of "Arts Across the Curricu-
lum" for the Texas Arts Council at
several locations in Texas this sum-
mer! Jo led an elementary teacher
workshop in San Marcos, while Cas-
sandra taught in Pearland, Gilmer and
Plainview.
Multicultural Art Print
Series Available
NTIEVA consortium members
(school districts, museums, and arts
councils) are eligible for a 40% dis-
count toward the purchase of the Mul-
ticultural Art Print series developed by
the Getty and Crystal Productions.
These are the latest in the thematic,
"Take Five" reproductions that were
used in the Institute small groups. There
are two multicultural sets with five re-
productions each, one set on Afro-
American Art, the other on Pacific-
Asian Art.
A number of participants comment-
ed on the usefulness of these sets be-
cause they are thematically grouped
and have a great deal of information
about the artwork and artist on the back
of each reproduction. The discounted
price will be around $32 (plus shipping
and handling) for the two sets. Art
supervisors and museum education co-
ordinators will be receiving a flyer from
the Getty on this offering in September.
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