{"id":27633,"date":"2019-08-05T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=27633"},"modified":"2019-09-30T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T13:31:03","slug":"utc-joins-effort-to-improve-arts-education-in-county-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/utc-joins-effort-to-improve-arts-education-in-county-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC joins effort to improve arts education in county schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"867\" data-attachment-id=\"27639\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/utc-joins-effort-to-improve-arts-education-in-county-schools\/silent-sky-17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,867\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D750&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Silent Sky dress rehearsal, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017 in the Dorothy Hackett Ward Theater in the Fine Arts Center.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1510625977&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;86&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;4500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Silent-Sky-17&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Silent-Sky-17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Silent Sky dress rehearsal, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017 in the Dorothy Hackett Ward Theater in the Fine Arts Center.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2-1024x740.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-27639\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2-580x419.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2-610x441.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2-250x181.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/arts2-554x400.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theater, like this UTC production of &#8220;Silent Sky,&#8221; is one of the focuses of the new arts education initiative in Hamilton County schools.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<h3>Arts initiative<\/h3>\n<p>To see the locations of other Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child initiatives, go to:<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2M2ym6a\">\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/2M2ym6a<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Survey results<\/h3>\n<p>According to answers from more than 1,100 teachers and administrators in Hamilton County schools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>96 percent want to collaborate with other teachers to integrate arts in their instruction techniques.<\/li>\n<li>90 percent want to collaborate with local artists and arts organizations.<\/li>\n<li>92 percent want to attend workshops to learn how to integrate art into their teaching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Laurie Melnik Allen says her high school theater classes not only were a crucial part of her education, they were instrumental across her entire life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt opened me up to make sure I learned everything else that I needed to be a well-rounded individual,\u201d says Allen, director of the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts at UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Her belief in the power of art is one reason Allen is excited about the new Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child initiative, which officially begins this week in Hamilton County schools. The county is one of only 26 locations in 23 states across the country to participate in the initiative, which is sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. \u00a0Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Oregon, Montana, Ohio, Alaska and California are some of the other states involved in the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Southeast Center for Education in the Arts will be one of the ongoing partners in the education effort in the Chattanooga area, which is expected to last for many years.<\/p>\n<p>The end goal is to bring the same level of arts education \u2014 theater, visual, dance, music \u2014 to students across the system. Standard subjects such as math, English, science and social studies are the foundation of education, but the arts are \u201cthe glue,\u201d Allen says.In the beginning, much of initiative\u2019s focus will be on kindergarten through eighth grade in schools that don\u2019t currently have art classes or offer very few.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a program; it\u2019s a marathon,\u201d Rodney Van Valkenberg, interim president of ArtsBuild, one of the partners in the initiative, told a group of teachers, school administrators, government officials and local artists on Monday, Aug. 5, during the kickoff event for the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Invited by Van Valkenberg to be part of the initiative\u2019s eight-month planning process, Allen gathered surveys from more than 1,100 teachers\u2014both are an otherwise\u2014school administrators and local artists to determine what arts education already is taking place in the school system and what is missing.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that so many people responded to the survey shows \u201cthere\u2019s a strong hunger to bring more art to the students,\u201d Allen says. \u201cWe can confidently say this really does represent our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With survey results in hand, a yearlong \u201cvisioning\u201d process now begins in which members of the community, including students, parents and the general public, will discuss ideas on how to improve arts education in county schools.<\/p>\n<p>The collective effort will determine which direction \u201cto move the needle and what needle do we need to move,\u201d Allen says. \u201cTo decide where the seeds get planted first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child initiative hopes to bring the same level of arts education \u2014 theater, visual, dance, music \u2014 to students across the Hamilton County school system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/utc-joins-effort-to-improve-arts-education-in-county-schools\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":27639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,56,3,12777,64,8288],"tags":[48120,48174],"class_list":{"0":"post-27633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-college-of-health-education-and-professional-studies","9":"category-community","10":"category-music-college-of-arts-sciences","11":"category-news","12":"category-school-of-education","13":"tag-laurie-melnik","14":"tag-scea-southeast-center-for-education-in-the-arts","15":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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