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💡An insight from our conversation with Michelle Blanchet, the co-founder of The Educators' Lab, highlighting the importance of civic education and how our present actions shape tomorrow's civic landscape. Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/dbxjQQPn This post is part of a series introducing the remarkable individuals featured in the first issue of NECE Magazine. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dePqR6-y

Join us as we explore the dynamic relationships between artists as educators and educators as artists; and how this can bring diverse perspectives to the education field. Both approaches contribute to the holistic well-being of the arts educator. https://ow.ly/H2xQ50S8XlA

Where do artists work? Find out in this webinar on May 2.

The work of Local Cultural Education Partnerships across the last decade has helped to balance the inequity of creative opportunities for young people in places of highest need (usually measured by lowest educational attainment) but much more needs to be done and the special momentum of those partnerships (many of them now disbanding due a change in funding approach) needs to be harnessed whenever possible by local strategic stakeholders. I was thrilled to talk to members of the Department for Education recently about their developing creative education policies, the solutions needed to bring creativity back into the classroom, and how they might manifest in places like rural Norfolk. Given that creativity is in the top five skills required by employers it’s obvious that we must commit to keeping creative education alive and well in all its many guises for all our many people and places.

Theatre often sheds a lens onto the relationship, industry, or lifestyle you've chosen, but most often the ones that you find yourself in. The Stage played an oversized role in my development, and I use skills I learned in my salad days off-Broadway in every role I've held since. Michael's fantastic points apply universally. While an effective recruiter looks for talent everywhere and a successful business developer looks for the benefit each potential client could enjoy, a good human looks for the people who can contribute to the situation at hand, not only from the privileged (who will ALWAYS have more access and more resources available to them) but from those who do not have those opportunities so readily available. Only you (and possibly your therapist) know the innerworkings of the journey you are on. Others are on their own journey. Respect that, and know that everyone brings a worth that is likely not listed on their CV, or indicative of their address. You were accepted by someone, at some point, based on your journey alone -- be it a program, or school, a circle of friends, or maybe your first job. Never assume the better candidate is the one with access from the start. Never assume they have it all together. Everyone's journey is different, diversity in experience is why diversity is so critically important. It is what makes a good industry great. Everyone deserves an opportunity, but every opportunity deserves the depth, talent, and innovation that comes with diversity.

Reading is a gift. Knowledge is power. Writing is communication on all levels. Opportunities are open doors to the possibilities. Pathways to be be in your creative space, (pun intended 😊) #internationaldayofeducation #education #writing #reading #learning

NEW: The distribution of arts and culture funding in Greater Pittsburgh is racially inequitable, according to a newly released research report from The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. 'A Second Look: Racial Equity and Arts Funding in Greater Pittsburgh,' supported in part by a National Endowments for the Arts’ research grant, is a 5-year follow-up to the Arts Council’s 2018 Racial Equity and Arts Funding in Greater Pittsburgh report and explores if, how, and in what ways arts grantmaking in Greater Pittsburgh has progressed toward distributive justice. Learn more about this important research: https://buff.ly/3Ws1PrE

How can we work together to improve access to arts education? 🍎 We tackled this question in the first-of-its-kind Arts Education Landscape report with the goal to better understand K–12 arts education in our region and outline a path to improving access to the arts for all students. The report looks at arts education for approximately 2,800 public school districts and 8 million students! 📝 Read the full report at https://lnkd.in/gr5CD25a

We really believe in the arts and Exeter School and Exeter Pre-Prep School. You can read about why we value it so much in my article https://lnkd.in/di7J5HG8 Talkeducation

[New Post] The Importance of Arts Education in Afterschool For several years there has been an on-going decline in the funding for arts education in schools which we have been discussing as a major problem. Afterschool programs are perfectly positioned to fill this gap. In this blog we offer 2 guest blogs from Oakland Leaf on the importance of creativity and arts education. https://lnkd.in/gZ3d4kX3