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Principals Institute Summer 2008CAE’s Principals Institutes, developed in partnership with the Department of Education's Integrated Curriculum and Instruction Learning Support Organization (ICI LSO), offer principals and assistant principals essential knowledge about the benefits and value of arts learning while providing the tools needed to successfully integrate arts curricula into their schools.

Through coaching and peer exchange as well as a a series of workshops and panel discussions, school leaders work with expert principals and leading minds in arts education to explore best classroom practices and quality student performance in each art form. They also obtain the keys to developing resources, budgeting time and resources for the arts, securing outside funding for the arts, sustaining mutually beneficial cultural partnerships, and expanding staff capacity to provide quality in-school and after-school arts programming. CAE provides follow-up support for principals as needed.

In short, the Principals Institutes help school leaders create a successful framework to transform their school into a flourishing, arts-friendly center of learning.

The Principals Institutes provide a wide range of in-service development opportunities that offer principals knowledge and tangible skills for creating and sustaining successful arts education programs in their schools.  Moreover, many Principals Institute workshops support effective school leadership in areas and subjects beyond the arts.  The coursework of the Institutes includes:

  • Arts Instruction and Integration
  • Arts Education and The Quality Review
  • Engaging Parents Through the Arts
  • Expert Counseling in Budgeting and Finance
  • Fostering Community Connections
  • Fundamentals of Resource Development
  • Introduction to Grant Writing
  • Leading Schools During a Difficult Economy
  • Maximizing Partnerships
  • Programming and Budgeting for the Arts
  • Resourceful School Leadership: Finding Money and Resources
  • Savvy Scheduling for the Arts 
     

FACULTY

The Principals Institutes’ leaders and faculty consists of esteemed practitioners in the fields of arts and education, including current and former principals, assistant principals and superintendants, as well as prominent educational researchers, members of the New York City Council and New York State Board of Regents, and leading arts education faculty members from Teachers College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
 
Principals Institute faculty has included: 
  • Renee Darvin, Professor of Arts Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Carol Fineberg, Arts Education Consultant, New York Times Company Foundation
  • Vincent Gentile, Member, The New York City Council
  • Ramon Gonzalez, Principal, MS 223, Bronx
  • Arthur Greenberg, former Community School Superintendent District 25; former Professor of Education, NYU/Steinhardt; CAE Board Member
  • Karen Brooks Hopkins, Member, NYS Board of Regents, and President, Brooklyn Academy of Music
  • Richard Kessler, Executive Director, CAE
  • Tamar Laks, Support Specialist for the Arts, ICI LSO
  • Dr. Eva Pataki, 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 (CAE Board Member)
  • Dita Wolf, former Principal, PS 7, Bronx
  • Dennie Palmer Wolf, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, former faculty Harvard Graduate School of Education 
     

MAKING AN IMPACT

Since their inception in 2007, the Principals Institutes have served more than 230 principals and assistant principals in 80 schools, grades K-12, across all five boroughs. Participants have reported successfully implementing arts-friendly changes in their schools and have described the positive impact of these changes within their school communities.  Overwhelmingly, there has been a request that the institutes continue to grow.
 
Summer 2009 will mark a continued expansion for the Principals Institutes, as CAE will be partnering with the New York City Department of Education’s (NYCDOE) Office of Arts and Special Projects to bring the Principals Institutes to a select group of principals as part of the NYCDOE’s Initiative for 51 Low Performing Middle Schools.
 
CAE will continue to build on its success by creating offerings that reach more principals, forge new institutional partnerships and lead to the development of new resources and opportunities for school leaders to successfully integrate the arts into their school community. 
 

Series of 3 Principals (Leadership) Institutes over the school year 2009-10

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

Led by Joanna Hefferen and Carol Morgan of ArtsConnection

October 22, 2009

Setting Goals for the Arts: A Process Driven Approach

January 12, 2010

Differentiated Learning and the Arts

Upcoming:

Tuesday, March 4, 2010

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