The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area is inviting our members to join fellow educators in the Bay Area at a reception at the Inventing Our Future conference at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland.

Have a glass of wine and meet your colleagues.

Register for the whole conference or just one day at http://www.inventingourfuture.org .

Click through here to RSVP for just the reception.

As the school year closes, we will celebrate. RSVP and spread the word on Facebook.

Celebrate the end of the school year with the arts educators who work in bay area public schools.

Bay Area teaching artists and administrators: you deserve this.
Supporters of arts education: come and buy a teaching artist a drink.

Thank you to Virgil's Sea Room for donating a portion of cocktail sales to the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area to advance arts education for every child.

The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues.

This session will be led by consultants from Third Plateau and Olive Grove, the strategy firms that SFUSD has engaged to manage the AEMP refresh process. Facilitators will include Paul Perry and Somoh Supharukchinda, two directors from Third Plateau. Paul is a former teacher, assistant principal, and nonprofit executive for various education organizations; Somoh has managed policy, programs, and partnerships for state and district education agencies and nonprofits.

Join us to represent your experiences working with this and other school districts. Click through to RSVP.

Teaching art is itself a powerful art form. Join us to celebrate, and be inspired by, the most talented arts educators in the region.

The Arts Ed Alliance Curriculum Slam will showcase the way educators bring creativity, critical thinking, and innovation to their classrooms. Presenters will have 7 minutes to share their story. Each presentation will consist of 14 PowerPoint slides with only 30-seconds to speak about each slide.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies that support arts education programming in the San Francisco Bay Area.

For this session, facilitated by Amy Kweskin of Artsightful, we will ask you, our stakeholders, to provide input for our strategic planning process. How should the Arts Ed Alliance approach the coming years?

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The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues.

This month, we will feature Jill Dineen, Executive Director of Leap, Arts in Education. 

TITLE Agility or Fragility: Nonprofit Innovation, Change and Growth in a Volatile Climate

Note: the date of this event has been changed so as not to conflict with the SFUSD Arts Education Master Plan steering committee meeting on February 15.

Arts education thrives through collaboration. 

At our arts education partnership showcase we will bring some of our most successful practitioners together to talk about their process.

Stay tuned for more details and a list of speakers. Click through to register.

We’ve all daydreamed about a sustainable arts education ecosystem in the Bay Area and now is our time to make plans to create those dreams together!

Join teaching artists, program directors, and arts administrators who make up our landscape of arts education as we explore the question: What does a sustainable arts education ecosystem look like in the Bay Area?

Click through to register. We would especially like to see arts administrators and teaching artists coming together from organizations, with everyone being compensated for their time.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

For this edition, we will take a closer look at program evaluation. How do we assess the work we do?

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Join us for the most comprehensive gathering of arts education organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This fair will be attended by an art coordinator from every school in the San Francisco Unified School District as well as educators from around the bay area.

Come to the Asian Art Museum to meet representatives from scores arts education providers.

Spread the word on Facebook.

Want to exhibit at the Arts Education Resource Fair? Register here.

The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues. 

No RSVP necessary. 

This month we will learn about the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco’s Citywide Creative Arts program. Patricia Zamora will tell us about this award-winning and nationally recognized art program that provides top quality art instruction while uniting youth, families and communities in a powerful way across San Francisco. 

How do we become the arts city we say we are? Does San Francisco and the Bay Area truly fit the vision of an “arts city” template?

Arts leaders seek to create education programs and partnerships that are sustainable and have impact on the community. To make this happen it’s important to have strong models and a healthy ecosystem that includes the organizations, partners, and teaching artists. In this workshop we will discuss the best practices as well as challenges (and solutions) of recruiting, retaining and developing teaching artists; teacher advocacy; and explore how we can collaborate and potentially share resources as organizations.  

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Read the recap blog post of this event here.

For this edition of the policy roundtable we will discuss and compare policies around how arts education organizations partner with school sites in different Bay Area districts. 

How can we foster more and better partnerships between schools and our programs? 

Featuring Ruth Grabowski and Stefanie Eldred of the San Francisco Unified School District Community Schools and Family Partnerships office along with Michelle Holdt, Executive Director of Arts Ed Matters and Coordinator, Visual and Performing Arts for San Mateo County Office of Education.

A free public forum

In the culture of design, we have grown adept at talking about the future without integrating “future citizens” into the conversation. Specifically, this means creating policy and programming decisions that are for and about young people without consulting or including young people in the process.

Join other teaching artists as we explore the question: What does a sustainable arts education ecosystem look like in the Bay Area?

Aimee Espiritu and Mika Lemoine will facilitate a dialogue among peers to surface the needs of those in the field and discuss how WE might meet these needs by working in coordination.

This month we will be discussing our survey of the Bay Area arts education organizations about pay and employment structures for teaching artists.

How can this data be used for further collaboration?

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

Click here to see notes from past Arts Education Policy Roundtable. 

The San Francisco Arts Commission presents it's 4th annual mini-conference for after-school educators.

Keynote speaker: Sarah Crowell, Artist Director, Destiny Arts Center, plus, choose 1 of 4 practical, hands-on workshops in dance, theater, digital media or visual arts. Learn and share best practices for creating art with youth in after-school settings.

Free breakfast and lunch provided.

The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues. 

This month: 
Jasmine Yep Huynh
Manager of Youth Programs and Teacher Support
San Francisco Ballet

RSVP not necessary.

A collection of Bay Area Theatre Companies, Teaching Artist Guild (TAG) and Arts Education Alliance Bay Area are combining efforts to host an open call for Theatre Teaching Artists. We are seeking theatre artists of various levels of experience with students of various ages (K-Adult), and we particularly encourage bilingual teaching artists and teaching artists of color to apply. 

Expand your toolkit by learning new techniques to help keep a class on track while being fun, engaging, and respectful of all of your students. Learn why were hesitant to use the term "classroom management" in our event description.

Read about how successful the event was last year. This year's event will have the same structure but with a new set of presenters.

Arts advocates from around the nation will be gathering in San Francisco for the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. If you are registered for the conference, you can participate in a whole range of activities that comprise the arts education thread.

You do not need to be registered to take part in this cocktail party. Just bring your business cards and be ready to schmooze. 

Thank you to Americans for the Arts and the Museum of African Diaspora for hosting this free event.

At this meeting, we will discuss the SF Department of Children, Youth, and their Families (DCYF) coming 5 year funding RFP and strategize about how to get the word out to arts providers.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

Click here to see notes from past Arts Education Policy Roundtable. 

We've survived and thrived through another school year.

Celebrate with current and future members of the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area.

The first TWENTY guests to arrive get a FREE drink. RSVP here to qualify.

The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues. 

This month:
 

Arts Education in a Social Justice Era

We will discuss the urgent need for arts education in our current political climate and how teaching artists and organizations can create intention within the classroom with an all-star panel including:

• Mariah Landers Ed.M., Alameda County Office of Education
• Shanna Bowie, Youth Art Exchange 
• LeShawn Holcomb, Artist and Educator

You are invited to the SFUSD Arts Festival Celebration.

The best visual art by students in the district will be on display along with student performances. Enjoy light refreshments while we honor students and their teachers.

This is a great opportunity for San Francisco's entire arts education community to come together.

On the agenda this month:

• Is there a teaching artist shortage in the Bay Area. Are you having trouble recruiting?
• Advocacy and resistance. How can we work together to advance arts education in the current political climate?

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

Click here to see notes from past Arts Education Policy Roundtable. 

The Creative Practice Exchange (aka Curriculum Slam) is a forum for you to see how the best arts educators in the Bay Area bring creativity, critical thinking, and innovation to their classrooms. Each presenter has 7 minutes and 14 slides to tell their story.

Bring lunch to the library and learn from your arts education colleagues. This time, the Bimonthly Arts Education Brown Bag Lunch, will feature Elisa Salasin, Program Director, Developmental Teacher Education Program, University of California, Berkeley and Nives Wetzel de Cediel, Lecturer, Developmental Teacher Education Program, University of California, Berkeley discussing: Deepening Pre-service Practice of Arts Integration in a Summer School Context.

How do we create and support trauma-responsive work in our programs, teaching artists and practice? Carlee Adamson, Equity Coach with Oakland Unified Public Schools, will lead an interactive workshop exploring the building blocks of trauma-relevant practice.

image: Chikako Yamashiro, Your voice came out through my throat, 2009. Video. © Chikako Yamashiro. Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates.