NEA Announces Upcoming Education Leaders Institute
(2-22-2011) This spring, the sixth NEA Education Leaders Institute will convene decisionmakers from state education departments, state arts agencies, along with educators, artists, public policy, business, and philanthropic leaders to put arts education at the center of discussion on education policy. The upcoming NEA Education Leaders Institute will take place May 11-13, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. Five state teams will attend: these teams are led by the California Arts Council; the Idaho Department of Education; the Kansas Arts Commission; the Missouri Arts Council; and the South Dakota Arts Council. Since 2007, the NEA has gathered arts education policy teams from 28 states and the District of Columbia...
The NEA Education Leaders Institutes convene state teams to discuss a shared arts education challenge, and create strategies to strengthen their state's arts education policies. State teams may include state department of education officials, governor's cabinet members, superintendents, district-level school leaders, artists, arts advocates, philanthropists and business leaders. Each team has a lead organization that has convened the other partners to address shared challenges. These teams will discuss solutions for intractable issues, such as improving networks of educators and arts professionals, fostering innovative approaches to curriculum design and implementation, and sustaining and increasing public arts education at the district, state, and national levels.