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The National Arts Education Consortium
July 28, 1998
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The Project
The aim of the Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge is to link reform in
arts education with national and local efforts to reform our nation's schools. In light
of this aim, the National Arts Education Consortium (NAEC) has set the following
goals for its Challenge project:
+ to create a network of schools committed to comprehensive approaches to arts
education integrated with whole-school reform;
+ to facilitate collaborative school reform initiatives among
teachers, administrators, parents, community members and
organizations, school reform networks, and funders;
+ to provide the technical assistance necessary to build local
capacity to sustain these reform efforts;
+ to implement an effective combination of documentation and
evaluation strategies that tell the story of what has or has not
been accomplished, and why; and
+ to develop a means to nationally share successful reform
practices among educators and policy makers to inform their
efforts in school reform and to build support for arts education
as a part of the core curriculum of our nation's schools.
To advance these goals, thirty-five partner schools from urban, suburban, and rural
areas in eight states across the nation - California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas - have been selected to participate in this
national reform initiative. Educators in the partner schools are working intensely
with the NAEC's six member organizations and their cadre of mentors/critical
friends to demonstrate the ways in which the power of the arts can transform the
total learning environment for the teachers and students in these schools. Whether at
the national, regional or local levels of this project, collaborative decision making,
planning and implementation processes are key to establishing the foundation of
support necessary to sustain and institutionalize the Challenge project's goals in the
partner schools.
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