National Association of Elementary School Principals & Crayola
Grant Funding:
Up to 20 elementary schools will be selected to receive “Championing Creatively-Alive Children” mini-grants to implement and document results of an innovative project. Each selected project will include a $2,500 monetary grant, $500 of Crayola products. Grant recipients will share outcomes and inspire other schools to implement these innovative practices, via NAESP’s National Principal Resource Center website and/or Principal journal.
Each proposed project must:
be submitted by the principal, collaboratively planned with teachers, including the art teacher address a “what if…” opportunity to increase arts integration across multiple subjects and foster children’s communication, collaboration, creativity and engagement as self-motivated learners include objectives, success metrics, timeline, budget, contacts, and work plan Oct-June 2010 identify promising practices to share with other schools; contribute content & photos
Proposals are due by Aug. 15, 2010 for implementation in the upcoming academic year.
Requirements for the grant are posted on Crayola.com PDF of the postcard handed out at NAESP's and NAEA's annual conference. Please forward to your teachers and principals. Principal must be a member of NAESP
The Art Educators of Iowa will be holding the 60th state conference October 1-3, 2010 in Sioux City, Iowa.
Since 60th is a grand number to hold a special recognition for, we are wanting to connect with former award winners and honor them at our conference.
We need your help in locating these following people. This list was taken from Elizabeth Craw’s “First Fifty Years of AEI.” If you have contact information for these people or other names, please, please, contact Twyla Godbersen with this information.
John Fitzpatrick
Jodie Butler Greenhoe
Alfred Thomas
Bob Glocke
Loren Reed
Don Heggen
Gary Statler
Diane Foster
Norm Bennett
Doug Palmer
Michelle Provorse
Vickie Summerson
Darlene Frazier McCoy
Wendy Livy
Dale Jackson
Betty Lake
Don Kremer
Sharon Hann
Sandy Vas
Amy Pfeiler-Wunder
Gerry Rodgers
Suzanne Runyan
Susan Kropa
Cheryl Parker
Joyce Dazey
Betty Lake
Katie Virden
Dorothy Gugel
Polly Brotherton
Art Shapes the World
An article in SchoolArt magazine explains it so well:
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Advocacy
link provided with permission from SchoolArt
Iowa Public School Art Teachers
and K-12 Enrollment
1997-1998 to 2009-2010
Source: Iowa Department of Education, Bureau of Planning, Research, Development and Evaluation, Basic Educational Data Survey, Staff and Enrollment Files.
Year
K-12 Enrollment
Full-Time Art Teachers
Part-Time Art Teachers
Total Art Teachers
1997-1998
482,149
828
192
1,020
1998-1999
481,885
837
178
1,015
1999-2000
480,072
893
154
1,047
2000-2001
476,927
909
144
1,053
2001-2002
475,409
907
148
1,055
2002-2003
467,923
891
149
1,040
2003-2004
470,689
898
143
1,041
2004-2005
472,211
878
145
1,023
2005-2006
476,656
880
148
1,028
2006-2007
474,867
873
145
1,018
2007-2008
472,628
921
154
1,075
2008-2009
470,537
929
146
1,075
2009-2010
468,673
922
134
1,056
For AEI Members:
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• There are over 532,000 designers working in the U.S.
• More people are employed in the visual arts than in all of the performing arts and sports industries combined.
• 200,000 people are employed in the film industry.
• People spend approximately $55 billion annually on video games.
• The computer animation industry generates $33 billion annually.
• Jobs and employment in many creative industries are growing faster than the labor force as a whole and make up 30% of the work force by some estimates.
