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| The Florida Institute for Art Education | Volume 6 Number 1 Spring 1997 | |
| Transforming Education Through the Arts Six FIAE Schools Selected for Nationwide Education Reform Program | ||
The Florida Institute for Art Education has moved to a new location just in time for 1999! We are still on campus at FSU and still in a house, but our new place is bigger, with more room to both expand our resource center and work on the curriculum bank and other projects. There have also been some changes in FIAE personnel, with the departure of part-time staffers Lizzie Gonzales to Bolivia to start her own art education project and Marianna Furlin to a new full time job. We have two new part-time assistants, Summer Kuhlman, assistant to Director Charlotte Minnick-Boroto and Diane Clark, an art education doctoral candidate who will be working with Liaison and State Coordinator Cynthia Hollis on the curriculum bank and web page projects. Robin DuPont remains with FIAE as our bookkeeper. We are sad to see our old house being torn down to make way for a new student life center, but are pleased that we have such a beautiful new place to call home. Our new address is: Florida Institute for Art Education In Progress FIAE Web Page Externships FIAE has set up an externship program with Dean Johnson and E.O. Stinson, students from Florida High (FSUS), who are using their technical expertise to both update the look of our web page and add information on an ongoing basis. Connie Lewis, Professor and Instructional Technology Coordinator, oversees the student work, along with Cynthia Hollis of FIAE. The externship program benefits students in that they get 'real life' experience as well a great line on their resume for future employment opportunities. FIAE is looking to expand the externship program in the future to include other school to work opportunities for high school students. Curriculum Bank News FIAE has an extensive teacher-developed curriculum bank that is currently being catalogued by Cynthia Hollis and doctoral research assistant Diane Clark. The goal of this cataloguing project is to make the teacher developed curriculum available via our web page. Curriculum Development Team FIAE has initiated a new tie with the Art Education Department at FSU with the Curriculum Development team. Many teachers have commented over the years that it's hard to find the time to fully develop a curriculum unit and so this class has been put together to respond to those needs. The team consists of FSU Art Education doctoral candidates with various discipline specialties. It meets weekly with Leon county mentors Cynthia Hollis and Dr. Ron Yrabedra to work on the teacher developed units, fleshing them out and adding new information where needed. We request that any Florida TETAC teacher needing help with a curriculum unit now in progress please call 850-644-2977 and we will be glad to work with you. School News National Evaluation Sites Chosen We are pleased to announce that the Getty/Annenberg National Evaluation Team from Westat has selected two Florida TETAC schools, Buck Lake Elementary in Tallahassee and Eastside Elementary in Lake City, to be case study schools for the TETAC project. These schools are part of a group of only twelve schools chosen nationally to be case study schools. Buck Lake Buck Lake has a 5th Grade Teacher, Nancy Hoffman, who received first place in the AT&T Virtual Classroom Project grant. What the project did is link up Mrs. Hoffman's Buck Lake Elementary 5th grade class with a fifth grade class in India and a fifth grade class in Canada. The kids from these three classes hve designed a web page together. They worked on the project every Saturday morning from 10-11 am (the time difference of the various places makes this be the only time they can really hook up) they do this LIVE over the internet--they can see and talk to one another live. The last day they will be doing this is FEB 22-- I hope you can send someone out one Saturday before then, because it is a really great project. FSUS Math teacher and coach, Steve Ash, is teaching his high school students about Cartesian Coordinates via art. This year Coach Ash had them reproduce a very large (18'x24') gridded portrait of Chief Osceola, chief of the Seminole Nation (the original was by the artist, George Catlin). The project was presented to the students by first having them study the work of contemporary artist, Chuck Close, who recently had a major retrospective of his work that traveled to the National Gallery in Washington DC as well as the Whitney Museum in NYC. The final product, seen in this photo, represents how students can become involved in learning math through the arts. Coach Ash has been keeping track of the student's scores and has noticed a significant positive difference in student scores and comprehension since becoming a part of TETAC two years ago. Williston Elementary, Williston Art Historian Annie Smith Workshop at Williston Elementary and The Harn Museum Williston Elementary site coordinator, Linda Proctor, brought Canadian Art Historian Annie Smith to Florida for workshops at Williston Elemenary on Friday afternoon January 8th and at the Harn Museum in Gainesville all day Saturday, January 9th. The Friday workshop was an inservice for Williston Elementary TETAC teachers and the Saturday one was attended by teachers from both Williston Elementary and Eastside Elementary in Lake City. Ms. Smith is a wonderful speaker with a wry sense of humor who helped the teachers experience the delights of art historical study via hands-on production activities, museum dialogue activities and slide presentations. She charmed the audience with stories of her own elementary teaching days, showing slides of work produced by students under her supervision. Because of her fresh approach to teaching art history, she is a much sought after lecturer at museums and conference venues. We are sure that the teachers who attended these workshops will take this knowledge into the classroom and share it with their lucky students. Ms. Smith has written a book that is a great classroom resource, Getting Into ART HISTORY, published by Barn Press, 8 St. Thomas #5, Toronto, Ontario, M5 S2 B8, Canada. Eastside Elementary, Lake City Laura Null and Betsy Ward, site coordinators for TETAC at Eastside have been conducting an ambitious schedule of weekly workshops for their classroom teachers. |
Achievements and Awards Cary Mashler, Art Educator and site coordinator for F.K. Sweet Elem, has a new art facility. This facility is a whole building devoted to to Visual Arts, and includes two classrooms, a ceramics kiln room, an art library, a student gallery and Mrs. Mashler's office. Congratulations Cary! Laura Hunter Null, Art Educator and Site Coordinator for Eastside Elementary is a National Board Certified Teacher and has recently been appointed to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' Early Childhood & Middle Childhood/ Art Standards Committee. The task of this committee is to translate the Board's policy statement on What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do into operational standards for Early Childhood and Middle Childhood Art. Linda Proctor, Art Educator and Site Coordinator for Williston Elementary was awarded an $8,300. Arts and Education Grant from the State Division of Cultural Affairs for her county (Levy County). She will be using part of this award to bring noted art historian Annie Smith to Williston Elementary and to the Harn Museum in Gainesville for teacher inservice programs in Art History. Linda has also received a $5,000. Teacher Incentive Grant from Arts for a Complete Education, a Florida arts advocacy group. Judy Wellborn, Principal, Williston Elementary received the Levy County award for Administrator of the Year, 1997-98. Sue Colombo, English and Humanities Teacher and Site Coordinator at Florida State University Research School (FSUS), was named to the Board of Directors for the Florida Council of Teachers of English. She also gave a presentation, along with Elaine Nicoloso, FSUS Middle School English Teacher, to the fall Conference of the Florida Council of Teachers of English, focusing on the work they have accomplished in the TETAC project. Debi Barrett-Hayes, Art Educator and Site Coordinator at FSUS presented TETAC developed DBAE units for the SEATCCO Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia in November. Ms. Barrett-Hayes also was one of the 1998 national recipients of the Milken Outstanding Teacher Award, which has a $25,000. honorarium. There are no strings attached to how she might use this money, although she has plans to use it to buy art supplies for her students. FSUS was awarded an Arts for a Complete Education Grant for activities they have planned in conjunction with the upcoming Judy Chicago Retrospective at the FSU Museum, curated by museum educator Dr. Viki Wylder. More information about the retrospective as well as a curriculum unit on Judy Chicago's Holocaust Project can be found here. Steve Ash, FSUS high school Math teacher has received the 1999 Teacher of the Year Award for both his school and district. Evelyn Pender, Art Educator at Kate Sullivan Elementary, presented The Importance of the Arts to Systemic Reform, at Arthur Anderson's Learning for the 21st Century International Conference, in the Spring 98. Evelyn has also been invited to address the Congress of the 1999 International Symposium in Art Education to be held at the Taichung Museum of Art in Taichung, Taiwan in March. TETAC Art Educators and Site Coordinators Evelyn Pender, Julie McBride, Fran Kautz and Debi Barrett-Hayes are writing the State Exemplars for the Sunshine State Standards for the Visual Arts. These exemplars will be published on the State Department of Education's Electronic Curriculum Planning Tool site, and can be accessed at the State Department of Education Web site. Julie McBride and Fran Kautz, Co-Art Educators and Site Coordinators for Buck Lake Elementary School have been named co-Art Teachers of the Year, 98-99, by the Florida Art Education Association, the first time this award has been shared. Dr. Charlotte Minnick-Boroto, Director of FIAE, was awarded the 1998 Distinguished Educator Award from the College of Education at Florida State University. Cynthia Hollis, State Coordinator for FIAE, presented a paper on the Florida TETAC project to the fall 1998 Florida Art Education Association Conference in St. Petersburg, and gave a paper on John Dewey at the Spring 1999 International Education Conference in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Summer Institutes '99 There are eight upcoming summer institutes planned to take place throughout the state this year. The schedule is as follows: Florida State University School Renaissance for the New Millennium, June 1 - June 9th, with Dr. Ron Yrabedra and Cynthia Hollis as faculty. The work for this institute has already started, as there are monthly presentations as well as advance 'homework' for all participants. This institute is designed to help teachers plan new curriculum for the upcoming year around the school-wide theme of Renaissance for the New Millennium . Florence, Italy Williston Elementary A two day production skills workshop in early June. Dates TBA. Williston Elementary, Williston Eastside Elementary Hokusai's The Great Wave A basic Institute with Dr. Ron Yrabedra as faculty (June 14-18). June 14 - 25 Eastside Elementary, Lake City Buck Lake Elementary, Kate Sullivan Elementary, Florida State University School Leonardo's Mona Lisa A Basic Institute with Dr. Ron Yrabedra as faculty. June 21 - July 1 Florida State University Museum and Fine Arts Building New Advanced Institute Art, Math and Science, Connections With various discipline experts. June 28 - July 1 Odyssey Science Center/Museum of Art, Tallahassee Appleton Museum Open Institute Leonardo's Mona Lisa A Basic Institute with Dr. Ron Yrabedra as faculty. July 6--16 Appleton Museum, Ocala Leon County Open Institute Leonardo's Mona Lisa A one week Basic Institute with Dr. Ron Yrabedra as faculty. July 19 - 23 Place TBA, Tallahassee St. Lucie County Open Institute Leonardo's Mona Lisa A Basic Institute with Dr. Ron Yrabedra as faculty. July 28 - August 6 Place TBA, St. Lucie County |
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