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20 mini grants for 2010

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

This website received the 2010 Honorable Mention Award from NAEA

Now is the time to submit YOUR proposals for presentations at the 2010 Fall Conference! We need a few more!

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New Teachers in the Arts Symposium

Saturday, October 30 in Fort Dodge

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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
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Instructional video "series" on making woven iPod, mp3 or cell phone cases

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Color Theory

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Did you know?

• 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.

Excerpt from Ringling College of Art and Design

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