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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