Call for Proposals: World Alliance for Arts Education Summit

The World Alliance for Arts Education is partnering with the University of Florida and the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) to host a World Summit on Oct. 26-29 in Gainesville, Florida.

This event invites out-of-school time, primary and secondary school arts educators, higher education professionals, arts education researchers and policymakers, national, state and local education officials from across the world to submit proposals and attend the summit to network; share research; and examine quality structures, processes and practices. 

Ahead of the summit, there will be a Young & Emerging Leaders Forum on October 26.

Deadline to submit a proposal has been extended to May 1, 2020. Acceptances will be sent on June 19, 2020. If need be, alternative modes of dlelivery of the conference will be decided on July 1, 2020.

More info: http://bit.ly/WAAE2020

Call For Educators Interested in STEAM

With continued funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Innovation Collaborative is inviting a select group of teachers interested in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math) education to participate in a pilot cohort of free, research-validated virtual STEAM teacher professional development.

The Collaborative is entering the 6th year of its multi-year national research project aimed at providing this firm research-based foundation for the STEAM movement. It is conducting studies in teacher professional development and classroom practices and already has significant findings concerning effective practices in both.

The research is led by Collaborative staff in consultation with nationally recognized education researchers in the sciences, arts, humanities, the arts/science connections, neuroscience, and creativity. It also is led by the Collaborative’s Innovation Fellows, the top teachers identified nationally in the first round of this research. The Fellows are: Kerry Buchman (CA); Ian Fogarty (Canada), Ashley Lupfer (NC), Kimberly Olson (NH), Anna Rozzi (OR), Juli Salzman (TX), Marica Shannon (SD), Kathleen Sweet (IA), and Kristin Taylor (CA).

The Innovation Collaborative is a DC-based coalition of leading national sciences, arts, and humanities institutions working together to provide a firm research-based foundation for the growing STEAM movement. For more information, visit the website.

To express your interest, please email Lucinda Presley, chair, at lpresley@innovationcollaborative.org

Call for Proposals: Become an ITAC Innovator

Overview
After a successful pilot year, ITAC (International Teaching Artist Collaborative) is growing with new funding.  ITAC can now offer a stipend to say thanks for running a small-scale project that has a large-scale impact on our field. 

To this end, ITAC requests two kinds of project proposals:
1) some from people who wish to lead one of our proposed projects (see below); 
2) some from people who wish to suggest a passion project of their own.
 
ITAC is the first global network of artists who work in community and educational settings.  ITAC Innovators get to create new connections, to imagine and shape projects that grow and support the foundations of this field. 

We seek committed, proactive leaders for these projects, each of whom will work with a small international team of ITAC volunteers to create a meaningful new advancement for their global peers. Details of our proposed projects are below.

The Proposed Projects

Proposed projects for which we are seeking ITAC lnnovator leaders:

1. Launching a communications vehicle, perhaps a monthly newsletter, with relevant, useful, inspiring, up-to-the-minute content for network members. This will include exploration into most engaging ways to communicate with artists—you can create the vehicle that connects the global field. 

2. Creating an inventory of the arts networks and individual teaching artists at work in a select group of countries, connecting them to ITAC and mapping them in the TAG Asset Map. Be the first to reach out to a nation’s teaching artists, and to make the networks that connect them and make them visible. This work will serve as a model for other countries to undertake similar inventories. 

Open Call projects
Those projects don’t excite you?  Tell us what does!  We invite you to propose a project that you are passionate to lead that will build the global field in a clear and substantive way. It should include a volunteer working group from at least three other countries (we can help find volunteers), and should meet the following criteria.

Projects should aim toward one or more of these goals
- To create networks and global partnering, helping practitioners learn from one another and share ideas.
- To improve the practice of Teaching Artistry. 
- To raise awareness of Teaching Artistry (or whatever term you prefer to use), and how it addresses community and educational challenges.
- To add to the understanding of our field as a whole.

Support Available
ITAC is able to support several Innovator Project leaders with a stipend of £1,600 GBP each.

How to apply
Before beginning the application, please download and read the criteria. Application forms are included in the Criteria document.
Completed forms should be returned to info@itac-collaborative.com.

The deadline for application entries is midnight (GMT), February 13th, 2020. 

If you have any questions 
After reading the criteria, if you have any follow up questions you can email info@itac-collaborative.com for further information.

Webinar: Making the Case for Theatre Education

Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 3:00pm ET / 12:00pm ET 

This 101-level, foundational webinar will welcome attendees to a series developing an individual practice and commitment to advancing theatre education in one’s community and the world. Building on theory, and connecting theatre-practice, the presenter will provide ready-made tools and actionable tasks for theatre educators to begin incorporating case-making practices into their day-to-day work 

Presenter: Jeff M. Poulin is an American educator, non-profit administrator, and social entrepreneur whose work is grounded in social justice and seeks transformative solutions to society’s most-challenging problems. He has built a career influencing change by leveraging systems, increasing civic participation, and improving cultural understanding through the pursuit of research, leadership development, and policy literacy. He hopes to be an agent of positive change for his community and the global cultural community. Jeff maintains a steady roster of projects focused on the intersection of the arts & culture, education, and social justice. His works focuses on expanding opportunity for young people through professional development, educational events, and complex systems-driven programs.

Register HERE