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Principals Institute

Principals Institute Summer 2008CAE’s Principals Institutes offer principals and assistant principals essential knowledge about the benefits of arts learning while providing the tools needed to successfully integrate arts curricula into their schools.

Workshops and panel discussions enable school leaders to collaborate with expert educators in arts education. These sessions, enriched by exchanges among peers, address innovative classroom practices and student performance in each art form. School leaders acquire the skills to develop and assess sustainable arts programming during and after school. 

In short, the Principals Institutes help school leaders create a successful framework to transform their school into a flourishing, arts-rich school community.

Institute topics include:

  • Arts Instruction and Integration
  • Repertory-Based Arts Instruction
  • Discipline-Based Arts Instruction
  • Arts Career Development
  • What to Look for When the Arts Address the Common Core Learning Standards
  • Arts Education and the Quality Review
  • Engaging Parents Through the Arts
  • Creative Budgeting and Funding Streams
  • Fostering Enduring Community Partnerships
  • Grant Writing Essentials
  • Savvy Scheduling of the Arts

 FACULTY

Principals Institutes are facilitated by leaders in the fields of arts and education, including principals, superintendants, elected officials, university faculty members.
 
Principals Institute faculty has included: 
  • Rika Burnham, Frick Collection
  • Carol Fineberg, Arts Education Consultant, New York Times Company Foundation
  • Vincent Gentile, Member, The New York City Council
  • Ramon Gonzalez, Principal, MS 223, Bronx
  • Russell Granett, Artsedresources.org 
  • Arthur Greenberg, former Community School Superintendent District 25; former Professor of Education, NYU/Steinhardt
  • Karen Brooks Hopkins, Member, NYS Board of Regents, and President, Brooklyn Academy of Music
  • Dr. Jerry James, Director of Teaching and Learning, The Center for Arts Education
  • Richard Kessler, Dean, Mannes College The New School for Music
  • Tamar Laks, Former Support Specialist for the Arts, ICI LSO
  • Greg McCaslin, Education Director, Roundabout Theatre Company
  • Dr. Eva Pataki, Former Executive Officer for Research and Development, Arts Education, ICI LSO
  • Ed Sermier, former Vice President, The Carnegie Corporation; former Budget Director, New York City Board of Education
  • David Shookhoff, Director of Education, Manhattan Theater Club 
  • Marie Trope-Podell, The Morgan Library and Museum
  • Dita Wolf, former Principal, PS 7, Bronx
  • Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf, Principal, Wolf Brown, former faculty Harvard Graduate School of Education 
     

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Since their inception in 2007, the Principals Institutes have served more than 500 school leaders in all five boroughs of New York City. Participants have reported dramatic changes in the quality of arts teaching and learning at their schools.
 
This year, CAE continues these offerings in partnerships with The Council for Superintendants and Administrators (CSA) and New York's premier cultural orgnizations. Upcoming institutes will take place at: The Roundabout Theatre, The Morgan Library and Museum, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and The Center for Arts Education.
 

RECENT PRINCIPALS INSTITUTES:

Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Held at DreamYardArts Center in the Bronx, led by CAE Director of Teaching & Learning, Dr. Jerry James, attended by 13 Principals and Arts Coordinators

Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Arts Integration: Medieval manuscripts
Held at the Morgan Library, led by CAE Director of Teaching & Learning, Dr. Jerry James, Tamar Laks, and Marie H. Trope-Podell, attended by 21 Principals

Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Design Thinking: Implications for 21st century learning
Held at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, led by CAE Director of Teaching & Learning, Dr. Jerry James and Tamar Laks, attended by 19 school leaders and coordinators.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Principal Fellows: Politics of arts education
Held at our Annex, led by CAE Director of Teaching & Learning, Dr. Jerry James , attended by 8 Prinicpal Fellows and CAE staff.

Friday, February 18, 2011, 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
High Order Thinking: American Landscape Painting
Held at the Brooklyn Museum, led by CAE Director of Teaching & Learning, Dr. Jerry James and Tamar Laks, attended by 18 Principals from CFN (Children's First Network) 208.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Common Core Standards/China’s Forbidden City
Held at the Flushing Town Hall, led by CAE Director of Teaching & Learning, Dr. Jerry James and Tamar Laks, attended by 33 Principals from CFN (Children's First Network) 208.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Principal Fellows: Making the Most of Arts Programming
Held at our Annex, led by CAE Director of Teaching & Learning, Dr. Jerry James, Executive Director Richard Kessler and Director of Development Lori Sherman, attended by 9 Principal Fellows.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The Arts and Differentiated Learning and Customizing Institute Content to Meet Network Needs
Held at our Annex, led by CAE Director of Teaching & Learning, Dr. Jerry James and Russell Granet, attended by 31 Principals from CFN (Children's First Network) 208.

Saturday, November 13, 2010
Can Schools Afford a Well-rounded Arts Education in a Climate of High Stakes Accountability?
Held at the Hilton along with CSA, led by Executive Director Richard Kessler, MS 223 Principal Ramon Gonzalez, and Dr. Carol Fineberg, attended by Principals and Assistant Principals.

Series of 3 Principals (Leadership) Institutes over the school year 2009-2010

Held at the Center for Arts Education Annex in Partnership with ICI

Led by Joanna Hefferen and Carol Morgan of ArtsConnection

Tuesday, March 4, 2010

Assessing Student Learning: Gathering Data to Measure Student Progress in the Arts

January 12, 2010

Differentiated Learning and the Arts

October 22, 2009

Setting Goals for the Arts: A Process Driven Approach