Arts Academy Revitalization Action Team

Link: Walter Gropius Manifesto

I’m cleaning off my bulletin board and noticed a printout from Diane of this Web page, which talks about the relationship between “artist” and “craftsman”.

Welcome to the New Blog!

Hi everyone,

I’ve just set the blog up and converted all 50 of this year’s meeting minutes to blog posts.  As you can see, you can now search in all of the minutes using the Search box in the upper right, and can view posts by category or by month.  I’m going to make some categories for “Links” and “Reading”, but please feel free to add categories as you find appropriate.

Arts Academy Meeting Notes, June 11, 2007

Summary:

If anyone has comments about the HOME project to share with the staff in our Friday presentation, please e-mail them to Lisa.

Planning for next year around shared curricula has already begun between Video Tech, Web Programming, Graphic Arts, and Commercial Art. We need to start coming up with a "common language" for our courses so that students can move between our classes and understand how they’re connected.

For next year, we will use our debriefing from the HOME project to help plan a better group project experience. We need to teach creative AND critical thinking skills.

Where do our kids go after they graduate? Some of our kids are dropping out of community college because they’re bored, but they’re not ready for 4-year college. Internships? Other?

In August we will meet for 2 days (8-noon or 8:00-1:00p.m.) to plan for next year. In September we will present our vision to Mary Jo. Please be thinking about dates in August.

Please see the full notes for some interesting links to Web sites that came up in our discussions.

Meeting adjourned at 2:40 p.m.

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Arts Academy Meeting Notes, June 4, 2007

Summary:

Meeting adjourned at 2:15 p.m.

This was the beginning of the debriefing of the HOME project. Highlights:

• students need more structure
• a 1-week intensive would work better
• do it earlier in the year
• maybe group together kids from different classes in smaller groups to do the exercises, instead of focusing on making the projects collaborative
• make sure we don’t skip the middle of the process–this year we skipped from doing a few exercises to doing a project, and it felt disconnected.
• discussion about a "thin" experience for more students or a richer experience for fewer students.

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