Links and Threads is an electronic newsletter for district and school leaders, educators and their arts partners. Its purpose is to assist in making arts learning a more integral part of the core curriculum and achieving the greatest advantage possible from the arts for students. The publication builds upon knowledge gained through the 2004 NEA Summer Institute for School Leaders, promotes dialogue about the role of arts learning in school improvement, shares success stories and provides news about arts-related developments and opportunities.This page will make it easier for you to view the latest issue and to find content from previous issues.
June 2009
Partnership, Power and Promise in YoungstownRevitalizing waves of creativity have been flowing through downtown Youngstown, Ohio. Industrial age structures have become artists' spaces, and the recently opened DeYor Performing Arts Center keeps the night vibrant with concerts by the Youngstown Symphony and other cultural events. Afternoons have a different creative energy though—energy that comes from an innovative K-12 arts education program called SMARTS—Students Motivated by the Arts. Learn More. . . .
Wings to Fly in ClevelandA three-year grant of $2 million from the PNC Foundation will enable organizations in Cleveland to provide arts education programs and professional development to pre-K students and teachers in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and Head Start centers throughout Cuyahoga County. About 2000 children per year will experience Cleveland’s cultural richness and benefit from arts-enriched instruction designed to help prepare them academically, socially and emotionally for kindergarten.
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Ohio students who aspire to careers in theater and those who participate in the state’s Tech Prep programs may seem to be on very different roads. But at Centerville High School, those two roads converge in a technical theater program that promises an exciting range of career possibilities.
Technical theater is a Tech Prep program that combines a college prep curriculum with development of both creative and technical skills in all facets of theater production—sets and props, costumes, lighting and sound, as well as stage direction and production management. Learn More. . . .
Technical theater is a Tech Prep program that combines a college prep curriculum with development of both creative and technical skills in all facets of theater production—sets and props, costumes, lighting and sound, as well as stage direction and production management. Learn More. . . .
