SFUSD Arts Education Master Plan Advisory Committee Meeting (April 2015)

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Disclaimer: As with all of my published notes, these are in no way comprehensive. Nor are they a literal summation of what was said. They are simply my notes, my interpreted, perspective-ed jottings that occasionally combine my own thoughts with those of the people speaking.

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- Prop C Passed - Woot Woot!
- Content Neutral
- Let’s look back to look forward.
- Let’s stay at the strategy level and out of the weeds (:-)
- Focus: students need to be safe at school / social and emotional well being
- Arts challenge = limited time / authentic / sequential / organic / sequencing / support
- Access
- Equity

- Computer literate (online access)
- The App. generation.
- The students are far more tech. literate than the teachers
- More languages should be taught
- Ethnic studies
- Local control funding formulas

- When people’s ways of thinking change, people’s ways of doing change.
- Creating a straw model to push against.
- A changed model in terms of distribution of power.
- Art making is a form of inquiry
- Completely appropriate form an equity standpoint.
- The arts are a mode of thinking.

- Sub Committee
- Next Steps

- Acronyms
- FTE’s - Full Time Employees
- PEEF - Public Education Enrichment Fund
- NEA - National Endowment for the Arts
- SRI - Stanford Research Institute

**My main “individual contributor” contribution: From an on-the-ground practical implementation perspective, RELEASE IS NOT AN EFFECTIVE MODEL FOR QUALITY ARTS INSTRUCTION.

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And a beautiful visual rendition by Todd Berman @ theartdontstop - Nice to non-virtually meet you Todd! :)

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