tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79722097199801476452024-03-15T01:00:29.083-07:00Indiana Art Education Advocacy Action BlogClyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-75565570397941423492020-06-02T06:02:00.016-07:002020-06-02T07:59:32.276-07:00Beyond Online/Remote Art Education Professional DevelopmentReading about online art education professional development from my colleagues on social media forums, there is a great need for art educators (and teachers in general education) to refine their remote art education curriculum program during this extraordinary time in pandemia.<div><br /></div><div>Let me just say, based on what I know about learning, the best remote art education experiences (or any educational program) are connected to the personal. I am not thinking about personalized learning, but learning that is personal.</div><div><br /></div><div>During this incredibly difficult time, it is important to set an expectation that regular art making contributions will make up the basis of the online form of one's program. An art making and assessment process that can be sustained without cumbersome interventions by parents and caregivers. An important consideration is that art teachers can support this process with <a href="https://wsbt.com/news/first-at-4/top-first-at-4/local-distillery-helps-elementary-school-by-providing-art-supplies?fbclid=IwAR2qbApZ69Fh9EiLQNTkmFrtwOvAB2PRRKXVVuoimFhSRgju7XxfWOiwWvY" target="_blank">materials</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhRdx4OCZE8">inspiration</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Because we are living in a precarious point in history and because the cognitive, emotive and environmental conditions of our students are aspects of their being we cannot control, teachers must be tolerant. We must be tolerant of the child's output and tolerant of the kinds of art the child is willing to produce on their own. If the child is provided opportunity to practice what it is that artists do, they are truly empowered and and their learning situated in the generation of their own tasks instead of being tasked by a task master. Children will have been granted artistic freedom, learn about agency and through dialogue with one's art teacher, taking the initiative just as real artists must do. Going beyond the given information is an artistic attribute that can be developed by one's self, but is best learned through dialogue with mentors and peers. One aspect of situated studio learning that I have observed is a natural progression of creative growth.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oRVvOEUjR1E/XtZJ54NNReI/AAAAAAAAWKM/cRNoVn28x_sNrkNzlz7UT_Jl1aysvS_HACK4BGAsYHg/TABGrowth1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="841" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oRVvOEUjR1E/XtZJ54NNReI/AAAAAAAAWKM/cRNoVn28x_sNrkNzlz7UT_Jl1aysvS_HACK4BGAsYHg/s320/TABGrowth1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>From my own experience a curriculum that provides autonomous learning conditions is an educational framework where rich creative experiences can emerge. I am suggesting that emergent curriculum experiences are feasible for art teachers who work with general populations of children to consider as the basis for their online/remote art programs. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7FyZW16cspM/XtZMz_ozJCI/AAAAAAAAWLE/VnZqBMevtoEV9J2_IsqCH9i3rcmkz4hYgCK4BGAsYHg/TABGrowth2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="739" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7FyZW16cspM/XtZMz_ozJCI/AAAAAAAAWLE/VnZqBMevtoEV9J2_IsqCH9i3rcmkz4hYgCK4BGAsYHg/s320/TABGrowth2.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I believe the important thing for art teachers to do within this new educational landscape, is to provide pathways for students to make art with whatever materials they have in their homes and develop art based on the child's time sensitive, existential interests and concerns. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HIRH58ij_M0/XtZYZ_-TCQI/AAAAAAAAWMU/B7uk0HlX1IIb1WhQmmTk0Ixry1ihkAfBACK4BGAsYHg/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-04-15%2Bat%2B9.05.57%2BAM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="547" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HIRH58ij_M0/XtZYZ_-TCQI/AAAAAAAAWMU/B7uk0HlX1IIb1WhQmmTk0Ixry1ihkAfBACK4BGAsYHg/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-04-15%2Bat%2B9.05.57%2BAM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>There are several critical pieces here. <b>One, children need inspiration to create their art </b>and <b>two, children need skills, knowledge and hardware to document and share their experiences with their art teacher</b>. Once these elements are established in an online art education program, the dialogue, reflection and learning that takes place can be limitless. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A9ZNGKx-j3o/XtZLcoLAsaI/AAAAAAAAWKo/sU8qFnxZpbYzKwUGMMUDGm512Tk8neNswCK4BGAsYHg/TABGrowth3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="755" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A9ZNGKx-j3o/XtZLcoLAsaI/AAAAAAAAWKo/sU8qFnxZpbYzKwUGMMUDGm512Tk8neNswCK4BGAsYHg/s320/TABGrowth3.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From my perspective, the important thing in setting up a remote learning program is to provide a space where a process based on the learning cycle can play out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18Cf3dEyE18/XtZVn3cN3gI/AAAAAAAAWL4/8L1Oq3zlTWsGK_z9X3kPKut2gjjEWw4AACK4BGAsYHg/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-02%2Bat%2B9.34.04%2BAM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="741" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18Cf3dEyE18/XtZVn3cN3gI/AAAAAAAAWL4/8L1Oq3zlTWsGK_z9X3kPKut2gjjEWw4AACK4BGAsYHg/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-02%2Bat%2B9.34.04%2BAM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The caveat for art teachers who pay substantial sums of money in exchange for the promise that somebody else will do the hard work of online art program development for them, is they are missing out on important professional development they can do on there own. Let me just say, it is more beneficial for the children and their art teacher if they invest in the hard work of building their own creative structures from the ground up. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RDcSVRaAsvQ/XtZNrNIsxPI/AAAAAAAAWLY/IpoZOwOLSoAte9I_1i7FzQjByXaCsPqGwCK4BGAsYHg/Photo%2Bon%2B4-8-20%2Bat%2B1.41%2BPM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RDcSVRaAsvQ/XtZNrNIsxPI/AAAAAAAAWLY/IpoZOwOLSoAte9I_1i7FzQjByXaCsPqGwCK4BGAsYHg/w320-h213/Photo%2Bon%2B4-8-20%2Bat%2B1.41%2BPM.jpg" title="Image shared with students of teacher making art in their home studio." width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-39029233217322740302020-06-01T09:24:00.005-07:002020-06-01T09:43:51.125-07:00Advocacy for Art Education During #Covid19 Pandemia<div dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7cc53e63-7fff-bd41-48aa-a87937abf1cf"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#RemoteEducation, #RemoteArtEducation #Covid19 #DistanceLearningArtExperience #distancelearningselfexpression #creativity #selfexpression #visualliteracy</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the early Spring of 2020, in a matter of hours, K-12 educators across the World would reinvent or make major adjustments to their educational programs. Accommodating "Stay-at-home" orders from state and local governments would be another challenge educators would have to overcome in order to provide optimal learning experiences for children. #Covid19 descended upon citizens in the USA like a medieval plague. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Seattle to Boston, parents and caregivers of children in K-12 schools would facilitate remote learning experiences based primarily through digital screen interaction. U.S. children and educators would now be engaged in a massive experiment immersed in machine based remote instruction and learning experience. Art educators would be forced into the same paradigm, communicating with their students through virtual reality, mixed reality, hybrid reality and altered reality through digital screens. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 218px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img height="218" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bHQBvu5ljUGO_W4BRTQmCtxqhE9imR9iDwX_4bANICDg8QpnUIbQV-QdMoPHg_69KsgiBm2QYNlyRAjlnCruxXyXPJV9x9LoAo1x7nKPpcWLuIGLkZAScv3SDqWwuqo123vl15bs" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gone is the reality of authentic, experiential learning in art classrooms with shared moments, shared materials, shared experience and shared learning. Art teachers did whatever they could to optimize their student's on-line art experiences at the close of the 2019-2020 school year. In my case, I provided more activity choices, more open ended activities, more content and more online instruction. I dialogued with students via our learning management program and did some virtual meet-ups also. I trusted students to produce personal art and then encouraged them to reflect and refine on their processes. Through dialogue, relationships are developed and communication is heightened. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 171px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img height="171" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/V2RHPemv50YA_Aq4cfLY_1DUs1a6eYGRAfYbRMKeGLzDTmwiQoYCFM6M2MkWxtQdpvmEixDEjtczEt5WMwjarGqLJz6vv7NVOkf7e9o2OTYiPlroyrKEFaviJ2aDd2HpIje0zyy3" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite the abrupt change, fear and uncertainty of living in a pandemic, I was happy with my student's level of engagement. One hundred thirty of the one hundred sixty students in my classes were maintaining regular contributions to their portfolios and staying on contact with me. Under different circumstances, with more notice, I'm sure the response would have been higher. Computer-based learning is not the educational program we signed up for but for now, it’s the one we must continue to utilize.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 187px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img alt="Teaching about the artistic process was the emphasis of our instruction." height="187" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/kfq8SbaKYD6-1wqbHGhwIq9utvivPF-zvN9Vvj62f5NlueKTvhCZL__I9wcbDz00mA0GW953VnKqpXG427rlIXWb5jW6eeAsx4gE6Mf-UxwgPZMzqtILZzS7_lqFeAGzgqbQFSLh" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students worked regularly at contributing art to their portfolios and reflecting on those activities. There was little need to make wholesale changes to our program or utilize additional</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/7972209719980147645/3902923321732274030#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> behavior modification incentives to coerce</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> children to make art. The main adjustment during remote learning time was to provide more open ended activities, more choices, daily content and more individual dialogue.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 202px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img height="202" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/IzmWK8i3-IwdbCe_LHkGMEOcQjVl86ejSXqw4hS4V5BVqIxHoXoP_T6ROBy-VafTjx40YYYBO7PuMRgh2PooUvNC53QVWEoYEShr7Dsu7ShgvRR3WpZcqU1UlblDjtPSr36N4go7" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because human beings are predisposed to use their hands, children of all ages are quite adept at mark making with all kinds of materials and can initiate this process on their own. Similarly, children can play, manipulate and make assemblages and sculpture with all sorts of materials and objects they have</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/7972209719980147645/3902923321732274030#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at home</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We would use any materials or tools available to us, utilizing any ideas that came to us. We had our cameras, digital image making programs and desire. My interest with remote learning, was to help the children recognize their capacity for spontaneous art making, in which they would take the initiative with their ideas. Taking initiative without coercion is always a good thing.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 184px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img height="184" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/0nR4tjHBFbq3PT8SKh-1XNmKxoIEICBgfyWZ6UkEs6EozwVYCdNYeolicHdTTh4Dy1O5CNCKU6kuLEsuK7nJjop9w2DCdr4C06p8CXpvb2e67vu_XWONvoYJyXmdiwHm0aZyS_LL" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our emphasis earlier in the year to provide support and structure for the development of autonomy and the practice of freedom served our students well during remote learning time. Students were already on their way to becoming self-directed artists, practicing creative freedom in our studio classroom. Now they would do it in make shift home-studios. I believed the important thing would be to provide children a connection to humanity that would sustain their self-confidence, energy and sense of agency. </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 11pt; margin-right: 11pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 182px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img height="182" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/LuS4SJlg4zbs3DMAcMJkBMM8DCoxSBv4YkcukvJsOKM7IhA1G3a_-LufeWYT488pIhBSr7coKyfaEK69o7XExwkZlYGEDQqTEU_0wsM7A2AzsObsImlXyf4pQpSDL2PtSNatmRyB" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are now confronted with the distinct possibility of beginning the school year in a remote learning setting again. I think whatever one’s learning management platform might be,</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/7972209719980147645/3902923321732274030#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">leading by example</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and establishing expertise in your subject matter is critical for the students to believe in their educational experiences and establish a relationship of trust. Understanding my students are unique individuals, instructional goals remain the same. Continue sharing new insights and pathways to art making and maintain dialogue with students about their work, ideas and creative process. Personal interaction between children and their teachers is critical for the process of intellectual development to unfold. </span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During #Covid19 remote learning time, I did not want to burden children with tasks that caused undo stress. All activities were centered upon minimal portfolio contributions. I would accept most creative efforts by students, including</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/7972209719980147645/3902923321732274030#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feral art,</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> they could document through photography, video or other means. Our dialogue was mainly through written correspondence instead of remote meetup/interaction. </span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 180px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img height="180" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/kuQFnE1lwnPR5DVPBIS0a1dT8G2nxEYcFfekO-eiPIiWJx5ytRByrjGdAcph-V7RRE0SU0SPnFJIgOB2p2iQGw-dHizVDhhyiadvmzloFcshw4oyyFYMyVZEs-8YT-Yz7Vy9_Zyq" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Questions going through my mind during the month of March centered around mental health, “What is the affect of distance learning on the child and the family? “Is distance learning benign or harmful to the family’s cohesion?” “Does distance learning have adverse affects on the relationships of children and their caregivers?” Anecdotally, conversations with busy parents who are participating in distance learning, lead me to believe there are serious problems when it comes to distance learning, tasking of children and remote education.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/7972209719980147645/3902923321732274030#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Research</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> reveals there are significant negative impacts to student’s emotional health when it comes to academic learning. Would these stresses be transmitted and experienced to other members of the family? I wanted our art experiences to have minimal extemporaneous impact on students and their families. </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Could student’s remote art activities be self-generated and self-sustaining? Can children carry out remote, self-directed art activities at home without adult support? Short answer: Yes! Can students generate ideas, realize them, reflect and report their findings back to me? Absolutely! With a learning management platform already in place we continue to communicate instruction in several modalities. I used text, images, video and live meetings regularly for demonstrations, criticism, art history and class announcements. Students need to be comfortable with photographing their work and transmitting the files back to their teacher. They need to be comfortable writing or recording reflective thought. From my experience with electronic portfolios back in 1998, children as young as eight years old can participate in this process. At the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, my goal was for students to continue to operate as autonomous agents just as they were in our regular classroom. </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I cannot understate how important the human and natural-world connection is during this extraordinary time. Human beings are biologically hardwired for experiential, hands-on learning. Personal interaction is critical to the development of creativity and intellectual capacity. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It seems that for now, remote learning will be a new normal. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having facilitated #RemoteArtEducation over the past eight weeks, I want to offer some observations and analysis.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Silicon Valley, Wall Street and other advocates of machine-based learning may </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">advertise computer programs as essential to the new educational normal, but as a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">long-term alternative to educate children for participation in democratic society, there </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the question of how behavior modification methods written into these programs, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">debases a child’s capacity for critical thinking and agency while </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">reinforcing apathy and alienation. Then there is the question of how remote</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">learning</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/7972209719980147645/3902923321732274030#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">exacerbates screen addiction</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the hundreds of thousands of children </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">who suffer from this condition. If policy makers are thinking about narrowing curricula for the sake of efficiency during the Pandemia, they should think again. Children alienated from their school experiences grow up to become adults who are alienated from society and their civic responsibilities. This is not idle talk. One only look at the levels of civic disengagement, mental illness, voter apathy, bullying and school violence to see that the intensification of test driven curricula on computer screens is not the optimal way to educate children of all ages who will soon become adults participating fully in society. Art, experiential learning, aesthetic learning, creativity, social-emotional learning and self-expression could never be more important.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make no mistake, there is no substitute for real-world interaction and authentic relationships with human beings. Altered reality, virtual reality, hybrid reality, mixed reality is not the same thing as reality. Interfacing with a digital screen for long periods of time causes atrophy of the mind, body and human spirit. I am not happy (horrified is more like it) living in pandemia and fear for the future of public education and art education programs. The pandemia has laid bare a national failure to imagine and prepare for this situation. I look forward to going back to school and working with children inside our art-studio classroom. Art education is more important now than ever before. We cannot afford more future failures of imagination.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 158px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img height="158" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/JPJjCqmJi3OLkjW5XJWjE7Scz7NhvtwJMJG7bHc9cfVW638CdCWNo4DT0T9tI9UFQ8uOpkXZ0m-T504JujWbdy9GirL1YQAK0e3sJ02f3pjlWh6wla4cv0QFkR5vdqZmrKQIZ7hP" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></p><br /><br /><br /></span></div>Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-72923490182284173482020-01-11T10:23:00.000-08:002020-01-12T11:28:17.578-08:00The Comprehensive Curricula: The Importance of Regular School-Based Fine Arts Learning Experience <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, school districts across
the US responded by emphasizing data-driven instruction in math and reading.
The pressure on schools to deliver higher test scores resulted in children
taking a lot of standardized tests throughout the year (Nelson, 2013). In
business, the bottom line is profits and losses. In schools the bottom line is
high stakes test score results. Schools are now run like businesses. Sadly,
this emphasis on test scores has led to a reduction of children’s learning
experiences through arts education, particularly at the elementary level
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the past 14 years I have served AEAI in the area of advocacy, while awareness
of the importance of fine arts learning has increased, we have continued to
observe the degrading of fine arts programs in numerous ways across Indiana.
The state has little information on the vitality of art programs that exist in
schools under its auspices. Fine art programs can be cut out of the curricula or
reduced by a thousand little cuts. Art and music teachers can be replaced by
non-credentialed individuals. Children can be hauled out of fine arts classes
required to do missing class-work. This situation has not gotten any better
(Parsad & Spiegelman, 2012). Children’s time in schools where annual
testing takes place means students are likely to spend lots of time preparing
for standardized tests leaving little room for anything else. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt;">In
order to prepare children for high stakes tests their teachers must employ a
curricula that covers lots of testing content in a short amount of time. Inside
the information processing structure of test driven curricula, students are
told what information to learn, when to learn it and how they will learn it.
Hiding behind the final test score tally is a learning experience where
children are fundamentally disempowered, coerced by authoritarian fear to learn
content in a behaviorist experience whose schedule and organization structure
they had not consented to participate in. For significant numbers of children,
this situation leads to disengagement, stultification and the school to prison
pipeline.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">If
children’s unique developmental pathways would optimally benefit from the
intensive data-driven experience they now endure, children’s school-based
anxiety, the bullying crisis, and school violence dilemma would be no more.
Blaming cell phones is an easy out for these crises but one has to ask the
question, why are children in school affected by these issues not in love with
their learning?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Human
beings are hard-wired to use their hands and whole bodies, integrating the
imaginative and emotional realm in their learning. My view is that more
opportunities for authentic, time sensitive learning, emergent curriculum,
multi-sensory learning, creative self-expression and alternative assessments
should be provided in order to alleviate harmful psycho-emotional conditions
correlated with the intensification of standardized testing curricula. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cognitive behavioral therapy in schools is a peripheral
intervention designed to normalize the child’s response to a toxic curriculum
that causes stress and anger. Expanding fine arts education, the humanities and
alternative assessment is the antidote to this situation and has never been
more important when considering the intellectual growth and physiological well
being of children in schools.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">We cannot afford future failures of imagination.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">Aftunion. (2014, June 26). AFT report shows the high cost of
overtesting. Retrieved from </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="https://www.aft.org/news/aft-report-shows-high-cost-overtesting"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc;">https://www.aft.org/news/aft-report-shows-high-cost-overtesting</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Parsad,
B., and Spiegelman, M. (2012). Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary
Schools: 1999–2000 and 2009–10 (NCES 2012–014). National Center for Education
Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
Washington, DC.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sabol,
F.R. (2010) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">No
Child Left Behind: A Study of Its Impact on Art Education. (n.d.). </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-52677835756379060652018-03-03T04:00:00.001-08:002018-03-03T04:00:55.094-08:00Indiana Youth Art Month 2018!My sincerest appreciation to 2018 Indiana Youth Art Month Co-Chairs Carrie Billman and Shayla Fish along with AEAI President Mary Sorrels, our fabulous YAM Volunteers, the hardworking events coordinators Terry and Ned at the Indiana State Capitol, AMACO-Brent's receiving specialists Dale and J.C. and our keynotes, Indianapolis WFYI Radio Host Matthew Socey and Nashville, Tennessee based singer-songwriter Caroline McKinney!<br />
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Here are some pics of the event and my remarks to the audience:<br />
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Welcome!!!<br />
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Art class is the best way for children to experience creativity at school.<br />
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Fine Arts experience can excite the child's emotional realm and strengthen neurological systems while providing opportunities for creative self expression!.<br />
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Inside the body’s nervous system, myelin..a fatty protein that covers connecting axons between nerve cells, expands during these special learning events.<br />
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What does this mean? It means memory systems and action impulses work faster inside your brain, improving the mind’s capacity to learn and think.<br />
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There is an immense amount of historical and biological evidence that reveals learning through the visual arts is vital to children’s cognitive development.<br />
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Five years ago, I remember speaking with a 7 year old child.<br />
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She was stretching packing tape over her wet tempera painting.<br />
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I asked her what she was doing.<br />
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She said, “I’m making shiny surface art.”<br />
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I said, that's fascinating!<br />
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She wrote in her journal, “ Art is a part of being creative. When you’re creative, you’re doing better than you are when you’re not.”<br />
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I thought to myself, “Why is she doing better when she is creative in school, than when she is not being creative in school?”<br />
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Think about this.<br />
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During critical phases of cognitive development, mental operations are realized primarily as a result of a child's interactions with the World around them.<br />
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There is a biological reason human beings are endowed with hands.<br />
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The hands are the key to intellectual growth!<br />
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Sadly, many children in the United States don’t attend schools where fine arts exist.<br />
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Compounding matters, there are scary trends in education today.<br />
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Among certain policy makers, there is this idea that tethering young children to digital screens and tasking them to select answers on multiple choice questions... is somehow a quality education.<br />
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I am here to tell you that finger taps on a flat, two dimensional screen, hardly passes as multi-sensory experience.<br />
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A school day consisting of screen-based learning is great for collecting numerical data but blunts participation in an abundant curricula. The worst case scenario? Excessive use of digital media introduced by the state during a child's formative development will increase the likelihood that child may become addicted to digital screens.<br />
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Seven years ago the Art Education Association of Indiana surveyed its members. We found 60 instances where arts programs were cut.<br />
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In 2010, Purdue University art education professor Robert Sabol surveyed over 3400 art teachers from across the United States.<br />
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A summary of the findings?<br />
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Children’s visual arts and creative learning experiences are being sacrificed on the altar of data collection and standardized testing.<br />
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I was admiring this years Youth Art Month exhibition earlier and I have to tell you it is a spectacular visual experience.<br />
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The children's art reveals they are developing special powers of creativity.<br />
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These children are fortunate to have families, teachers, administrators and communities who support their creative development and school art experiences.<br />
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As a parent or citizen advocate you have a powerful voice! I urge you to advocate for children’s art programs when you can. Send local, state or federal policy makers a loud and clear message either face to face, by telephone, snail mail or email to adequately fund and preserve fine arts programs for all children!<br />
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We cannot afford future failures of imagination!<br />
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I thank you!<br />
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<br />Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-52740663594454298392016-03-27T08:03:00.001-07:002016-05-09T15:56:18.441-07:00The Heroes of Indiana Youth Art Month 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
There are so many folks to thank for participating in AEAI's annual Youth Art Month advocacy extravaganza at the Indiana State Capitol each year. First of all, to the art teachers and children who participate in the event or a local event in their community, the AEAI thanks you! To think that Indiana citizens and lawmakers are surrounded by K-12 student art work during the month of March and to ponder the importance of K-12 art education programs in the lives of children, Youth Art Month is an event that has profound implications not just for art teachers and their students who participate and attend the event but for art programs all across the State of Indiana.</div>
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I'd like to share some photos of the folks who make the event at the Indiana State Capitol possible each year.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dale and JC of AMACO who store and care for the AEAI display boards at AMACO/BRENT on Indianapolis' North East Side!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave Allen set up the boards!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glenda Ritz, Brad Venable and Margerie Manifold assessed and selected art works for recognition!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parents and students attending the event pack the North Atrium of the Indiana State Capitol!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parents, students and their families view the exhibit in the South Atrium!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Palestine High School Art Student Will Burgess stands with AEAI Past President Sidney Allen and IN State Superintendent Glenda Ritz!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AEAI President Jill Sayers, President Elect Mary Sorrels and Past President Sidney Allen who are awarding student recognition awards in this photo, organized our YAM event this year!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Group photo with Superintendent Ritz!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visitors enjoy the spectacular YAM student art work throughout the month of March.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Take-down volunteers, Ashley Toy and Mary Lou DaWald re-pack the display boards at the YAM exhibit with the help of Mark.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin Webb and Mark collect and sort remaining art from the 2016 YAM exhibit. </td></tr>
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<br />Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-17754283993276730722016-02-28T06:04:00.003-08:002016-03-27T15:30:20.728-07:00YAM 2016 Remarks<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A champion of art education, a National Board Certified Teacher, elected by 1.3 million Indiana Voters, Our superintendent of Public Schools, Glenda Ritz!</span><br />
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See you at the Indiana State Capitol!<br />
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<br />Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-63880647217869177752015-11-08T09:48:00.002-08:002015-11-08T10:16:08.493-08:00Fine Art Experience Essential Except As Indiana Graduation Requirement<span style="font-family: garamond; font-size: large;">Indiana Board of Education endorses fine arts experiences for pre-school children, but </span><a href="https://www.imeamusic.org/action-alert-high-school-diploma-proposal-potentially-hinders-fine-arts-participation/" style="font-family: garamond;">may develop policies</a><span style="font-family: garamond; font-size: large;"> from the Indiana Career Council that result in the </span><a href="http://www.savearteducation.blogspot.com/2015/06/indiana-high-school-graduation.html" style="font-family: garamond;">decimation</a><span style="font-family: garamond; font-size: large;"> of K-12 fine arts programs across the state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond";">As written in the 2012 </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.doe.in.gov/sites/default/files/earlylearning/indiana-foundations-february-2012-2v2.pdf"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: 800;">FOUNDATIONS </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: 800;">to the </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: 800;">Indiana Academic Standards
for </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: 800;">Young Children </span></a></span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: 800;"><a href="http://www.doe.in.gov/sites/default/files/earlylearning/indiana-foundations-february-2012-2v2.pdf"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">from Birth to Age 5</span>,</a> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond";">art and music are essential foundational experiences for the educational development of young children:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"Fine arts engage children’s minds, bodies, and senses and
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><b>"Fine arts curricula provide ways for young children to learn and use
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><b><br /></b></span>Offering fine arts as an "option" to fulfill graduation requirements, the State will situate the fine arts as a non-essential <a href="http://www.savearteducation.blogspot.com/2015/06/indiana-high-school-graduation.html">learning experience</a>.<br />
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Administrators serving school districts with limited funding are further motivated to cut or eliminate educational programs not related to standardized high stakes testing.<br />
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In this era of austerity, placing music, visual arts, theatre and dance as provisional subject areas will further exacerbate the de-humanization of K-12 learning environments.<br />
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Fine arts experience is ok in Pre-K, but not K-12?<br />
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You can contact your Indiana State Board of Education here: <a href="http://www.in.gov/sboe/2423.htm">http://www.in.gov/sboe/2423.htm</a></div>
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Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-24730671550637751312015-10-20T19:01:00.002-07:002015-10-22T17:52:18.730-07:00My Testimony to Indiana Legislative Study Committee, Oct. 19th 2015<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Good Evening Senator Kruse and Members of the Education Study Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 20.2399997711182px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Indiana Career Council's new high school diploma requirements are top heavy in mathematics and language arts. These subject areas constitute the bulk of curricular experience across Indiana schools and are assessed through <a href="http://educationpost.org/testing-important-visiting-doctor/#.VYX-KDvF_CY">deified standardized hi-stakes testing assessments</a>. Powerful influencers of education policy with no experience in classrooms who place numerical values on student's educational growth see no problem coercing children into narrowed curricula experiences that are essentially rehearsals for more standardized tests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 20.2399997711182px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Standardized testing is not a benign process. Testing shapes curriculum. Curriculum affects development of a child's formative mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is quite evident the new diploma requirements, influenced by business entities desirous of supplying corporations with compliant workers, have fashioned a diploma structure that supports the needs of a capitalist-state and reaffirms a command and control structure of “doing to” children instead of providing pathways for individuals to control their own educational destiny with democratic learning opportunities utilizing their own curricula designs. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new requirements represent a continuation of “banking education” where children are viewed as passive recipients of knowledge. In Indiana, policymakers don’t care if the cold hard spike of inappropriate pressure is driven into the malleable minds of children utilizing high stakes standardized tests and test driven curricula. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 20.2399997711182px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sound far-fetched?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When there are winners and losers in an A-F system that weighs educational growth like meat on a butcher’s scale nor </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 20.2399997711182px; white-space: pre-wrap;">takes into account variables outside the child's daily schooling experience, there is a price to pay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Radical behaviorism as an instructional psychology is a common psychological experience that children experience during their formative years in Indiana schools. How does the state account for SERIOUS mental illness rates exceeding 4% of Indiana’s population? </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://archive.samhsa.gov/data/2k14/NSDUH170/sr170-mental-illness-state-estimates-2014.htm" style="line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;">http://archive.samhsa.gov/data/2k14/NSDUH170/sr170-mental-illness-state-estimates-2014.htm</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consider that Indiana has the second highest rate of juvenile suicide attempts in the US: </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/02/16/data-indiana-highest-rate-us-teens-considered-suicide/23508695/" style="line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;">http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/02/16/data-indiana-highest-rate-us-teens-considered-suicide/23508695/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">From 2006-’11, 1,137 children aged 10-14 took their own lives and from 2006-’11, 21,598 teenagers and young adults aged 15-24 took their own lives: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no provision for individual learning pathways in the new high school diploma requirements. Subject areas that provide humanistic learning experiences, the fine arts in particular, “may” be provided by an institution offering diploma accreditation status.</span></div>
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Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-34118375722930740522015-03-02T05:00:00.002-08:002017-04-30T07:32:52.540-07:00INDIANA Youth Art Month Celebration 2015 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remarks to YAM attendees and introduction of Indiana Supt. of Public Education Glenda Ritz: </span><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-ea76df59-da79-7009-47ad-2273bf25475a"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Celebrating learning in the arts is one of the most important things communities can do to encourage their youngest citizen’s educational success. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This American was born into slavery during the Civil War in the state of Missouri. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When George Washington Carver was a baby boy, he and his mother were kidnapped by Confederate raiders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He survived this tragedy, but his mother was never seen nor heard from again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a young boy, this great American was at risk to live a short, cruel and harsh life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fortunately, Carver’s adopted family encouraged his natural inclinations for creativity. After completing his chores on the farm where he lived the young boy took walks through the South West Missouri countryside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Young Carver collected all kinds of plants and other objects from nature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He often made drawings of his plants and he became very good at painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drawing and painting was an activity that fueled the young man’s intellect and his love of learning and he amazed his community with his art and his scientific understanding of plants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was encouraged to pursue higher learning and enrolled in the art and music program at Simpson College. Carver’s art teacher, Miss Etta Budd, recognized this great American’s artistic genius but also realized his contributions to science might be even more significant. She encouraged him to attend Iowa State University where he studied agriculture and botany and would later go on to direct the science department at the world famous Tuskeegee Institute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George Washington Carver’s work has been impacting American culture for more than a century. Among his many discoveries and scientific innovations including the invention of peanut butter and hundreds of uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes and other plants, Carver became one of the first pioneers of genetic engineering. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the development of the mind Carver said: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What can we learn from George Washington Carver’s extraordinary life? Carver experienced the power of the arts. As a young child, he became very knowledgeable in the science of plants and developed a powerful intellect through the fine arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We learn that nurturing that which is distinctive in young children is essential to their intellectual development. Art making has immense psycho-dynamic power to imbue in children the attributes of imagination, observation, intellect and perception that will serve them well into their adulthood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The only subject in school besides music that is a bonafide medical therapy is art. Art is powerful stuff. Art is science! 95% of the World’s top STEM professionals all have fine arts backgrounds. Art education is a good thing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, I leave you today with sad news. Throughout our state, we have witnessed art programs cut and creativity development reduced in our public schools. High quality art programs are at risk across this state. Real dollars reaching Indiana classrooms have declined since 2002 by at least 20%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our next speaker understands the importance of the arts in the lives of children. In 2011, she ran for Indiana State Superintendent because she saw arts education at risk across the state. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She understood that no one can predict how far an individual child may go in a dynamic school system when understanding educators, using all the resources of the community, including fine arts programs, awakens a child’s imagination and interest, thus releasing the secret ingredient of learning, emotional drive. </span></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ladies and Gentleman, it is my pleasure to introduce to you our Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz!</span></b><br />
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If you haven't signed up yet for Youth Art Month, now's the time to <a href="http://yamindiana.weebly.com/">do it!</a><br />
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AEAI Youth Art Month Chair and 2013 Indiana Teacher of the Year, Suzanne Whitton and the rest of the AEAI team are planning a wonderful program for this year. Important dignitaries from the Indiana General Assembly, Department of Education and Indiana State School Board will participate in this event.<br />
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Please consider joining us on March 1st at the Indiana State Capitol. Your participation counts!<br />
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Select 5 works of art, fill out the <a href="http://yamindiana.weebly.com/statehouse-exhibit-artwork-registration.html">application form,</a> follow the delivery instructions and get set for a wonderful time.<br />
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From my own experience, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing joyful students and their proud families at this special exhibition event.<br />
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<br />Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-40759899948033956882015-01-01T15:57:00.001-08:002015-01-01T15:57:16.498-08:00Care To Join Me @ Arts Advocacy Day 2015?Indiana Coalition for the Arts has graciously organized <a href="http://www.inartscoalition.org/main.asp?SectionID=39">Arts Day</a> again at the Indiana State Capitol on January 27th, 2015. We will be in the halls talking to legislators about the power of the arts to impact learning and change lives. Please consider joining me and other arts advocates as we exercise our right to communicate directly with lawmakers and share with them our concerns about dwindling creative learning experiences for children and the importance of an imaginative and creative citizenry. We cannot afford future failures of imagination.<br />
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Contact me at campak14@yahoo.com if you would like more information.<br />
Best wishes!<br />
ClydeClyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-18992143769080726382014-11-26T04:01:00.000-08:002014-11-26T04:03:38.762-08:00Questions 4 Legislators - Letters 2 LegislatorsIndiana state representatives and senators will be formulating new initiatives and laws that will affect students and teachers during the 2015 Indiana General Assembly legislative session.<br />
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What questions would you would like to ask your <a href="http://iga.in.gov/legislative/find-legislators/">state legislators</a>?<br />
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<li> Concerned about too much time devoted to testing and not enough time devoted to learning?</li>
<li>Are you concerned there are too many students in your classroom?</li>
<li>Hands-on science, p.e., art, music or recess disappearing from your daily school experience?</li>
<li>Is school more drudgery than joyful learning?</li>
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What do you think? These are important questions. Legislators are responsible for funding public schools and they enact laws that influence the kinds of learning experiences students must participate in. Want to <a href="http://iga.in.gov/legislative/find-legislators/">contact</a> your state representative and state senator?<br />
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Email, call or send a snail mail letter to your state congressmen and congresswomen:<a href="http://iga.in.gov/legislative/find-legislators/"> Indiana General Assembly</a> .<br />
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After sending your letter to your legislator, if you would like extra attention paid to your letter, send a copy of it to me at campak14@yahoo.com .<br />
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Participating in our democracy is one of the most important things you will ever do!<br />
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Make your voice heard!<br />
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Best wishes!<br />
Clyde Gaw<br />
Indiana Art Education Association Advocacy<br />
campak14@yahoo.com<br />
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<br />Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-15883596181856894872014-11-02T05:13:00.001-08:002014-11-02T05:13:55.958-08:00He Who Controls Education Policy Controls Children's Learning OutcomesDo schools provide children with well-rounded educational opportunities? Are teachers forced to design curriculum around tests? Or children? What kinds of educational experience are emphasized in schools today? Are children's voices considered in the design of curriculum? Or, does the spectre of teacher evaluations and A-F school evaluations based on machine graded tests dominate children's daily learning experience? Who is responsible for the current educational landscape emphasizing restrictive, punitive measures against children and educators?Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-64624441078859745952014-03-09T14:01:00.001-07:002014-03-09T20:22:02.125-07:002014 Youth Art Month at the Indiana State Capitol!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A great group of artists from all around the State of Indiana pose with 2013 Indiana Teacher of The Year Suzanne Whitton!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My sincerest thanks to Mindy Stephenson and Kheira Adda <span style="background-color: white;">for putting together an outstanding exhibition and advocacy event! Everything was just wonderful! My sincerest thanks to AEAI President Sidney Allen for her stewardship of AEAI during troubled educational times. Also my sincerest thanks to Bev Staub for her guidance and support in facilitating another outstanding YAM event! What a great time had by our artist-learners and their parents! Just a wonderful event!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are my comments to the audience:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #fafbfb; color: #4e5665; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14.079999923706055px;">I wanted to talk to you today about the arts and the formation of the mind, but my students at New Palestine Elementary tell me I take up too much of their art time because I talk too much so I will try to be brief.</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #fafbfb; color: #4e5665; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14.079999923706055px;"><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0"><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$4:0">200 years ago, in the town of Dole, France, there was a boy who was born to poorly educated parents.</span><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$5:0" /><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$7:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$8:0">Early on, he was not very astute in academics, however, he showed an immense interest in drawing and painting. He devoted much of his early life to art and at one time considered work as a professional portrait painter. </span><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$9:0" /><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$11:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$12:0">As he grew, his interests turned to science, and later he decided to use his powers of imagination in science laboratories. This former art student would go on to a spectacular career in bio-chemistry and is responsible for developing numerous scientific breakthroughs in germ theory, the science of vaccination and pasteurization. </span><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$13:0" /><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$15:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$16:0">Of course I am talking about Louis Pasteur. Pasteur credited his early art training as providing him with the capacity to envision cellular activity at microscopic levels. On the relationship of art and science Pasteur said, “The illusions of the experiment form the greater part of my power!”</span><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$17:0" /><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$19:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$20:0">Art making has immense psycho-dynamic power to imbue in children the attributes of imagination, observation, intellect and perception that will serve them well into their adulthood. </span><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$21:0" /><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$23:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$24:0">Think about it. The only subject in school that is a bonafide medical therapy is art. Art is powerful stuff. Art is science! 95% of the World’s top STEM professionals all have fine arts backgrounds. </span><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$25:0" /><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$27:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$28:0">High quality art education programs for Indiana children is a good thing!</span><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$29:0" /><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$31:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$32:0">Unfortunately, I leave you with sad news today. Throughout Indiana schools we have witnessed art program cuts. Children’s creativity development opportunities have been reduced. High quality art programs are at risk across this state. Real dollars reaching Indiana classrooms have declined since 2002 by at least 20%. </span><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$33:0" /><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$35:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0:0:$36:0">As a powerful parent or citizen advocate, I urge you to advocate for your children’s art program, please contact your state legislators at </span><a class="" data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$range0:0" dir="ltr" href="http://www.in.gov./" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WWW.IN.GOV.</a><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"> Send your federal legislators, your governor and your president a loud and clear message either by telephone, snail mail or email to adequately fund Indiana public schools and preserve fine arts programs for your children and our future. </span><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$1:0" /><br data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".6f.1:3:1:$comment10203281357498187_8106905:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$4:0">We cannot afford future failures of imagination! I thank you!</span></span></span><br />
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Is there <a href="http://www.educationreformillustrated.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-does-it-mean-to-be-educated.html">too much</a> standardized testing taking place across the country? <a href="http://riseabovethemark.com/action">Absolutely!</a> The affect of the overuse and mis-use of standardized testing is having an absolutely devastating affect on education in this country. Standardized testers are all about test performance but don't care at all about the process and complexities of learning and what that means for individual children. This is problematic because it means children are objectified and their unique capacities as human beings are marginalized. There is no reason to utilize creativity in the classroom with the emphasis on standardized testing because test data is all that matters. Art programs have been <a href="http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2013/12/mike-pence-his-artist-wife-and-death-of.html">marginalized or cut </a>since Indiana adopted the test-first-ask-questions-later approach to education policy making. I urge teachers, parents and concerned citizens to consider<a href="http://www.networkforpubliceducation.org/"> supporting this call</a> for US Congressional investigations of the mis-use and over-use of standardized testing. Contact your congressman here: <a href="http://www.usa.gov/Contact/US-Congress.shtml">http://www.usa.gov/Contact/US-Congress.shtml</a>Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-26608205921921047022014-02-01T06:03:00.001-08:002014-02-01T06:09:31.195-08:00My Response To Indiana State Senators on SB322<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As you can see from the figures in the attachment, ( New
Palestine Schools State funding: 2007: $18,700,000.00; 2014: $18,677,150.00) funding for my school district, Southern Hancock Schools, has remained
stagnant since 2006. The answer I have received from several of you when I
mention this fact in conversation is that we are in a recession. That may be
true. But the real reason over 50% of public school districts are in similar financial straits and operating on
bare-bones bread and water diet, is that many of you don't believe in Indiana
public education. Private school vouchers, initiated through this legislative
body, have taken a huge chunk out of Indiana public education funding
($81,000,000.00 in 2013). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Those of us who are public education advocates have seen a
pattern of policy and funding initiatives emerge from this legislative body
that have done much harm to children who attend Indiana public schools. An
intensification of high stakes testing, narrowing of the curricula, cuts to
fine arts, physical education, school libraries and trans-disciplinary learning
opportunities have led to diminished intellectual growth of children in Indiana
schools and lowered the capacities of Indiana schools to develop cognitive
ability in children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Preparing children to take standardized high stakes tests, does
not develop cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is developed when children are
provided a wide range of learning opportunities in school and are afforded time
to develop social and emotional connections to those subject areas. What this
body has done over the past several years with implementation of high stakes
testing mandates has turned our public schools into test prep factories. Now we
see the possible passage of SB322. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The idea that voucher schools could take taxpayer money for
private tuition but not be held to the same standardized high stakes testing
accountability rules as Indiana Public Schools should outrage every Hoosier
Taxpayer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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81 million dollars of much needed tax support were diverted away from 1.1 million children attending Indiana public schools to private schools in Indiana through vouchers last year. What does that mean? Higher class sizes. Narrowed curriculum offerings. Cuts to the fine arts. </div>
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There are two senate voucher expansion bills shaping up in the State Capital that Indiana citizens should <a href="http://icpe2011.com/At_the_Statehouse.html">keep an eye on</a>. The first item is Senate Bill 322. If this bill is enacted, any private school that accepts vouchers can be exempt from taking the ISTEP. That means more private schools can accept public money and not be held to the same accountability standards as public schools, while at the same time drawing funds away from public schools. This bill was curtailed somewhat during a committee hearing today, but could impact school funding in the future. </div>
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Another bill to keep an eye on is SB 282. This bill provides vouchers for special education students in schools that do not provide facilities as directed by the Americans With Disabilities Act. I urge you to contact your state senator to reject this bill in it's entirety. Further cuts to public school funding could have a catastrophic effect on fine arts funding. Legislators know they can dictate the curriculum because they control school and educator evaluations and they control funding. </div>
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Vouchers, if allowed to continue to take a bite out of public education, will impact what public schools can offer in the curriculum. Read more about senate bills 322 and 282 here.Politicians elected to legislative bodies can change the educational landscape any time they are in session. It is important to keep an eye on politicians. As a citizen of the United States it is extremely important to participate in the democratic process. I urge you to contact your state senator and tell them to REJECT SB 322 and SB 282 <a href="http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/legislators/">here:</a></div>
Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-53303832095762819522014-01-25T14:39:00.003-08:002014-01-25T14:57:07.799-08:00Education Deformers Advocating for the Intensification of High Stakes Testing Don't Really Give A Crap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's true! Despite overwhelming <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/201102/artsmarts-why-cutting-arts-funding-is-not-good-idea">scientific evidence</a> that the arts and other multi sensory, trans-disciplinary learning experiences that connect at a deep emotional level do in fact promote cognitive growth like no other educational experience, the corporate education deformers who make education policy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVqMAlgAnlo">do not care</a> if the arts are cut, class sizes increased or children's curricular learning activities mechanized and narrowed.<br />
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Please consider joining me on January 27th, 2014 Monday afternoon as AEAI participates again with the Indiana Coalition of the Arts annual Advocacy Day event at the Indiana State Capitol.<br />
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Contact me at campak14@yahoo.com if you are planning to attend and I guarantee we will provide you with every opportunity to express your thoughts on the importance of arts education and it's impact on children's intellectual growth directly to your legislators.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ruling polyarchy and opulent minority who heavily influence education policy in the U.S. advocating for high stakes testing have yet to provide a conception of the human mind and a rationale as to why one size fits all standardized assessments that do in fact drive educational experience in our nation's schools are good for developing intellectual growth in cognitively diverse populations of children.</td></tr>
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<br />Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-31809143160073526632014-01-07T08:19:00.000-08:002014-01-07T08:19:02.836-08:00How Much Will Indiana Public Schools Lose From Pence Corporate Tax Cuts?About $150,000,000. per year. What about libraries and other municipal government services? Try <a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2014/01/03/database-eliminating-business-equipment-tax/4310227/">another </a>$200,000,000. You can read more and <a href="http://educationreformillustrated.blogspot.com/2014/01/mike-pence-has-no-problem-slashing.html">take action here:</a><br />
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<br />Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-34318386745903395052013-12-07T04:08:00.002-08:002013-12-07T06:28:20.400-08:00Indiana Coalition for the Arts Advocacy Day 2014 is January 27th!If you are interested in attending Indiana Coalition for the Arts, <a href="http://inartsadvocates.org/">Arts Advocacy Day</a> event at the Indiana State Capitol, I can guarantee you an interesting day speaking with legislators and visiting with a cadre of arts advocates! See you in the Rotunda at 200 West Washington Street! If you are interested in attending and would like to contact me for more info you can reach me here: campak14@yahoo.com<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Public Education Advocates voice their concerns inside the Indiana State Capitol last February, 20130</td></tr>
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Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-69560176165544764362013-11-22T18:43:00.005-08:002013-11-22T19:05:41.231-08:00Why Are Public Schools Cash Strapped?Why are many Indiana school corporations operating on their 2006 budget numbers?? Here's <a href="http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2013/11/disaster-capitalism-dugger-indiana-and.html">why:</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Those of us who are familiar with the transformative power of fine arts experience understand there is a crisis in education today. Funding and viability of school fine arts programs go hand in hand. There is such a thing as quality and then there are qualities of quality. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">A cash strapped public school corporation who cuts their professional art teachers and re-institutes a program with a non-certified, non-credentialed adult who administrates the fine arts program is not a substitute for professional with bonafide experience as fine arts educator.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;"> "John F. Kennedy said: *A child miseducated is a child lost.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">*Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">*For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal."</span>Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-7111800291502328192013-10-10T20:20:00.001-07:002013-10-10T20:28:08.297-07:00Should 1.3 Million Indiana Voters Be Concerned?If Superintendent <a href="http://tribstar.com/latest/x134976787/Ritz-expects-effort-to-diminish-her-authority">Ritz is concerned</a> about her office, should the voters who elected her be concerned too?Clyde Gawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416771200572948193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972209719980147645.post-46905790942857682942013-10-06T19:41:00.003-07:002013-10-07T12:32:50.501-07:00Want To Talk About Advocacy? I'll Be Here....<br />
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.....at the <a href="http://www.aeai.org/convention-2013.html">AEAI State Conference</a>, October 18-20, at the Marriott East in Indianapolis.</div>
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