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Arts for a Complete EducationACE
Lee County
Speak with One Voice
• Vision: Every child in Lee County has access to a high quality arts education.
• Mission: Advance arts education for students in Lee County by working together as a community-school coalition.
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Speak with One Voice
• Short-term: Reinstate arts education • Long-term:
– Improve the quality and quantity of the arts in Lee County schools.
– Secure the position of arts education;– Strengthen community-school ties, and
therefore education opportunities for students, by working together to improve arts education.
Speak with One Voice
• Elementary arts & music are the scaffolding for middle and high school arts education
• 21st Century workplace skills• Economic issue• Analytical skills• Michael Kaiser – Kennedy Center quotes
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Speak with One Voice
• The ASK– Put our art and music teachers back– No disproportionate cuts to the arts
• The arts are part of a world class education which is the Lee County School Mission
• The arts are essential to our humanity• Business is attracted by high quality arts
education programs
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Speak with One Voice
• The Plan– School Board Meeting
• Phone tree contact parents and students• Engage PTO • Business and community leaders• Economic Development Corporation• Pin, flag, ribbon to identify arts education supporters• You must be part of the solution
– Town hall – roundtable – forum with school board– Engage the media to attend forum– Thanks Lydia!
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Speak with One Voice
• Organize– Home at the Alliance – Lee County Ace Coalition – LCAC– Janet Carter co-chair – – TBA– Steering Committee
• Lydia, Myers,Todd Hanely• Jussi – communication director
– Collect parent contact
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The Oath
• Recruit 3 parents, who recruit 3…
• Tuesday School Board Meeting– Save Art and Music programs– No disproportionate cuts to the arts
• Email and call
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Student Achievement
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A B C D EArts Credit Range Values
GPA for Florida's Arts Students
Visual Art
Dance
Drama
Music
A. Eight semesters or more (4 + credits)B. Five to seven semesters (2.5 - 3 credits)C. Three to four semesters (1.5 - 2 credits)D. Two semesters (.5 - 1 credit)E. No courses (0 credit)
Education Data Warehouse 2/13/2009
Please join us to bring the arts back to
Lee County Students
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