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With support from the California
Arts Council and the Los Angeles County Productivity Fund, the
Los Angeles County Arts Commission, in partnership with the Los
Angeles County Office of Education, spearheaded a year long community-based
strategic planning process to address the findings of Arts in Focus,
resulting in Arts
for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education.
The Blueprint was unanimously adopted by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and officially launched in September 2002 (please see press and publications for more information). |
| Arts for All provides a series of policy changes and educational
initiatives to create systemic change and institutionalize sequential,
K-12 arts education, in Los Angeles County school districts, based
on the Visual
and Performing Arts Standards for California Public Schools. The
Blueprint proposes that systemic change can only occur through the
commitment and involvement of every stakeholder group and identifies
the steps that each stakeholder can take to create systemic change
through A
Call to Action Chart, pages 8-10 in the Blueprint. Fifty diverse organizations, including the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Los Angeles County Office of Education, have committed to provide leadership for the goals and strategies contained in the Blueprint. These organizations are working together under the umbrella of a County Task Force for Arts Education, formed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors upon their adoption. |
 
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For the latest on all of the Arts for All goals and strategies see the
Arts for All: 6 Year Review
November 2008 : The capstone of the Arts for All Progress Report Meeting on October 28 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was the announcement of a $1.2 million grant from The Wallace Foundation to the Los Angeles County Arts Commission to advance Arts for All. The grant will enable Arts for All to build on the achievements of its first six years by expanding its ability to increase the impact of the arts in classrooms. The strategies the grant supports call for deepening Arts for All’s partnerships with the 28 Los Angeles County school districts which joined the initiative 2003-08 and strengthening advocacy for arts education. The Board of Supervisors formally accepted the grant on November 5th.
Complete press release: http://www.lacountyarts.org/announcements/laayp_annoucement.pdf
Los Angeles Times story: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thehomeroom/2008/10/some-good-news.html
Americans for the Arts Knowledge Exchange
Preceding the Progress Report Meeting, the Knowledge Exchange, convened by Americans for the Arts, was a two-day professional development conference held on October 27 and 28 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion featuring the work of Arts for All.
The conference was attended by 120 leaders from across the arts, business and government sectors. They came from across the country including, Alaska, Palm Beach, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh and represented such organizations as Chicago and Seattle Public Schools, Palm Beach Arts Council and California Council on the Arts. A special curriculum track was provided for funders and attracted individuals from the Heinz Foundation, Fry Foundation, California Community Foundation and VH1 Save the Music. The L.A. community also attended with representatives from the Lynwood, El Monte, Montebello, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes school districts.
Over two days, 28 partners - including the Arts for All Executive Committee, Pooled Fund, arts coordinators and coaches - facilitated discussions, workshops and panels to share the core understandings and processes that make Arts for All a national model for district-wide change. Case study workshops were presented by teams from Burbank Unified, LAUSD and Mountain View School District. Leaders from Culver City Unified and Inglewood Unified were also featured as speakers.
Sponsorship support was provided by the Boeing Company, Hewlett Foundation and Wallace Foundation.
Arts for All Districts
Los Angeles County school districts committed to the goals of Arts for All, the county’s regional plan for arts education, continue to make progress.
2008-09 - Temple City, Glendale and Manhattan Beach have been assigned coaches to begin the process of planning for Arts Education with their newly created Community Arts Teams. All three districts will participate in a TOPS Facilitation Training Workshop in January 2009.
2003-08 - Artist-in-Residence Program: The following districts are now confirmed as participating in the 2008-09 Arts for All Artist-in-Residence program: Alhambra, Pasadena, LACOE, Burbank, Inglewood, Culver City, Palos Verdes, Paramount, Bassett and Wiseburn.
Arts Education Leadership Series
October 16 marked the kick off of the Arts Education Leadership Series for 2008-09. The series, a collaboration of LACOE and LACAC, is designed to support arts coordinators and administrators in the implementation of their arts education plans. The session featured Deborah Brzoska from the Kennedy Center who focused on arts assessment at the instructional level and served as a precursor to the CDE Stem Conference (National Conference in California on Arts Assessment) held on October 21-22 at the Universal Sheraton.
In addition to the Arts Education Leadership Series, LACOE and LACAC partnered in piloting the first Arts Network for Principals. The first session, “The Art of Leadership,” was held October 15 at the Huntington Library.
VAPA Standards Workshop
On October 23 a workshop was hosted at the Arts Commission on how arts education organizations can align their programming with the California Visual and Performing Arts Standards. The workshop was led by Armalyn De La O of The California Arts Project and was attended by 20 arts organizations interested in applying for the Organizational Grant Program.