Friday, January 29, 2010

School of Everything

Sometimes you need to market yourself. It's that kind of world.

School of Everything is "a social learning network that connects people who can teach with people who want to learn."

I have not tried it yet, have you?

Intrigued.

The company's website is designed to help independent teachers market themselves to prospective students. It has a search engine that matches local teachers with students shopping for an instructor. According to their literature, this clever idea is simply an old-fashioned message board, made new. Search me.

"In the 1960s a group of people set up the Free U in sunny California - it started with blank piece of paper pinned to a notice board asking what people could teach and once subjects were listed and there were enough people signed up to each they ran the courses. Makes sense really doesn't it? We just decided to turn that into a 21st century new fangled website thingy so you can design your own education however you please."

Visit School of Everything to find out more.

President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union last night and declared it strong. He did not mention teaching artists, but there's always next year.


If this is Friday, this must be Facebook.


Also: Audra McDonald - Stars and the Moon (Songs for a New World)





Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Best Art

Carla Ching navigates through life in New York City as a playwright and teaching artist. On her blog, Minutiae and Flux, she shares about her life in art, and I'm so glad she does.

For example, in a recent post about a residency she did around the Broadway musical Fela!, Ms. Ching reveals that she made a personal discovery about her work as a teaching artist as it relates to time.

Lacking enough time to craft a proper culmination, she pushed forward anyway, scaffolding a lesson that was challenging, but ultimately successful--resulting in student work she describes as "dense, rich and dangerous."

In an excerpt below, Ms. Ching sums up what we supposedly know as a teaching community, but may fail to put into practice when we are stressing out about time management issues:

"... it reminded me, art can be made. It can be made quickly with decent scaffolding. And most importantly, the best art is made when it comes out of what the young people have to say. This sounds obvious. But I think that we forget this all the time. I have to remember this and make it the root of what I do."

Read the entire article, after the jump.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Infinite Support

The Teaching Artist Union is on a serious mission. The School of the Future is in full swing, and Brooklyn is the place to be tonight if you are an emerging TA, or a veteran.

Details below:

INFINITE SUPPORT
This Wednesday, please join us for our first EVER
|| INFINITE SUPPORT SESSION || 7-9PM UNION HALL ||
Please RSVP || Union Hall || 1013 Grand St., 4th Floor || L Train to Grand

Come with a pencil, leave with a treasure map.

Led by Phoebe Zinman Winters, we will lay out all the nuts and bolts we have gathered about working in alternative spaces in NYC as a teaching artist.

Are you interested in becoming a Teaching Artist in NYC, but you don't know where to start? Are you an experienced Teaching Artist in NYC, but you want to know what the rest of us are doing? Let's get together, pool our resources and experiences and get our open source on! We will eventually use the information we collect in a Teaching Artist Manual. In the process, you can come experience the information waterfall.

We will discuss:

-What types of jobs are available to teaching artists

-Organization models

-Application Procedures

-Where to look for jobs

-Experiences within different types of institutions and organizations


Plus: West Side Story - Something's Coming

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Soul Searching

Once again, writer/activist Arlene Goldbard explains it all for you.

Ms. Goldbard is, of course, the writer of an impressive series of articles advancing the idea of a "New New Deal" for artists. She is a fierce advocate for positive social change, and her blog on culture, politics and spirituality is a destination point for teaching artists and others in the field.

Ms. Goldbard's latest essay explores the phenomena of disappointment in both political and emotional terms.

I read it, and was amazed, moved and grateful.

See what I mean:

The Disappointment System
by Arlene Goldbard

My friends tend to a few views of President Obama and the Democrats at the end of Year One. They seem different, but actually, all are part of the Disappointment System, my new name for the combination plate of hurt and response which has become our national dish. As is so often the case, what we are as political animals in the wide world is largely due to what we eat in the little world of relationship and emotion.

Read the rest of the essay, after the jump.


Monday, January 25, 2010

Thank You, Gary Dayton

A Message From ATA Executive Director, Dale Davis:

Now that you have retired from The New York State Council on The Arts, how do we say thank you to you, Gary Dayton, for all you have done for artists in education and for The Association of Teaching Artists.

Thank you Gary!

Thank you for bringing us together in Poughkeepsie, in 1998, where the seed for an organization for artists who worked in education was planted. Thank you for nurturing that group of artists as we met again, developing a mission statement, goals, and the name of the new organization: The Association of Teaching Artists.

Thank you for your personal belief in artists and what we have to contribute to education. Thank you for your guidance.

Thank you for all of your work on ATA's behalf!

Dale

Dale Davis
Executive Director
The Association of Teaching Artists

Lunch on Friday?

Teaching artists who don't have anywhere to be on Friday at noon, might want to register for this upcoming webposium on working with students with disabilities. It promises to be interesting, useful, and FREE.

For details, see below or after the jump.

The Dana Foundation is pleased to invite you

to a free Webposium for Teaching Artists

Discussion about the challenges and successes of working with students
with disabilities.

Friday, January 29, 2010

11:00-12:00 (CST) 12:00-1:00PM (EST)

Join us online for a discussion about the challenges and successes of
working with students with disabilities. The event will be streamed
live and viewers will be able to join in the Q and A at the end of the
session.

What do teaching artists need to know to be successful when working
with students with disabilities?

What do teaching artists need to know, understand, and be able to do
to achieve success in a self-contained or inclusion classroom? The
panel consists of artists and educators dedicated to making the arts
accessible to all students. The panelists will discuss practical
classroom strategies, lesson plan modifications, as well as the
necessary questions to ask in order for everyone (artists, students,
teachers, para-professionals, and administrators) to be successful.

Panelists include:

Judith Jellison, Regents Professor of Music and Human Learning,

Butler School of Music, University of Texas, Austin

(expertise in music and disabilities)

Allison Orr, Artistic Director,

Forklift Danceworks

(expertise in dance and disabilities)

Sherry Snowden, Lecturer, Art Education,

Texas State University

(expertise in lesson plan design, visual arts, and disabilities)

Moderator:

Russell Granet, Founder, Arts Education Resource

(expertise in theatre and disabilities)

To register: https://danaevents.webex.com/mw0306l/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=danaevents&service=6&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdanaevents.webex.com%2Fec0605l%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26confViewID%3D278697518%26siteurl%3Ddanaevents%26%26%26

Registration ends January 28

The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic organization supporting
brain research through grants and public education about the successes
and potential of that research. Dana produces free publications;
coordinates the International Brain Awareness Week campaign; supports
the Dana Alliances, a network of neuroscientists; and maintains a Web
site, www.dana.org.

Friday, January 22, 2010

TGIF

Today is Friday, which mean's it's all over.

ATA is on Facebook, and I'm kind of on Twitter. Maybe you'll stop by?

The New York Times reports that, after the Democratic Party's historic Senate loss in Massachusetts, President Barack Obama has signaled a willingness to jettison near-universal health care.

Crain's says that New York City's unemployment rate tops the nation's at 10.6%.

Plus: The FREELANCERS UNION offers group insurance rates for freelance teaching artists, and others who want to live.

Cinema: Synecdoche, New York - The Finale


Thursday, January 21, 2010

Futurists

From the Teaching Artists Union, we have received word that the School of the Future is now.

Cool. Why wait?

Not to be confused with that other school of the future, TAU's SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE is an art project and the "launching pad for the art movement of education."

More information is below, and on the group's website:

THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE
The School of the Future is an artist-run school for teaching artists. The school focuses on teaching artists as experts in the study of information through performing and visual arts; it serves as the first site devoted to the resourcefulness and adaptability of teaching artists. Each curriculum developed for the school is an art project, making the school a group show. The projects will be designed to use art as a learning process that activates and considers the site of the school.

The portable school building is fit with movable walls, so no barriers will remain between after school educators, professors, and substitute public school teachers. The school term is a process of discovery where the students and teachers refine this model of school from within the transparent school walls, engaging in a large collaborative artwork that analyzes, critiques, and pushes school out of its big brick buildings.

School of the Future opens this July in Bushwick’s Sgt. Dougherty Park for a month of programming. Starting in February, an open call for curriculum asks artists to consider the site of the school as an art project that they can engage a specific student body to perform.

The School of the Future is a project of the Teaching Artist Union—a group of NYC artists who consider teaching a part of their art practice. Principal Cassandra Thornton and Head Librarian Christopher Kennedy (Institute of Applied Aesthetics) are also supported by TrustArt, OpenSpaceAlliance, NYC Parks Department and the Association of Teaching Artists.

Site Visit Sunday January 24, 1pm
Join us on Sunday for a site visit to Sgt. Dougherty Park, the site for the SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE. The park is located on the corner of Meeker Ave. and Vandevoort Avenue. It is bordered by the BQE, Staples, and Con Ed property, in a wonderful industrial wasteland. Since projects at the school will respond to the site, please attend a group site visit or go solo, but please feel obliged to learn the park.

Also: Tron - Light Bikes w/ Jeff Bridges




Wednesday, January 20, 2010

To the Choir

The Bruce High Quality Foundation would like to remind you that "the $200,000-debt-model of art education is simply untenable." Instead, BHQF proposes exciting free alternatives, and encourages prospective students to Build Your Own University. Teaching artists who crave continuing education without the side effects, such as the strangled feeling that can come from being mired hopelessly in debt, might want to check it out.

Learning opportunities are listed below. I didn't make them up.

Bruce High Quality Foundation University is:

A university, a space for higher education and research, a community of scholars; an expansion of the BHQF practice to include more participants (that's where U come in); and a "fuck you"* to the hegemony of critical solemnity and market-mediocre despair.

To join a class, check their website or send an email to the listed address. Or come to Build Your Own University (BYOU) to find out more.


WRITING GROUP

Sundays, 12-4pm
chateauxmargo@gmail.com


OCCULT SHENANIGANS IN 20TH/21ST CENTURY ART
Sundays, 3-6pm
occultshenanigans@gmail.com


THE ARTIST AT WORK
Sundays, 6-9pm
Website


NASA (THE NATURAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS OF ART)
Mondays, 12-4pm

Webpage


WHAT’S A METAPHOR?
Mondays, 6-8pm

Website


BHQFU DETECTIVE AGENCY

Mondays, 7:30pm

Website

eliascotez@googlemail.com


BYOU (BUILD YOUR OWN UNIVERSITY)

Jan 12, Feb 9, March 9, April 6, May 4, June 1, all at 7pm

Webpage


OPEN CRITIQUE

All the Tuesdays when BYOU is not scheduled. 7pm

Webpage

PHILOSOPHY OF MOTION PICTURES

Wednesdays, 7:30-10:30pm

Webpage


DRAMA

adrearose@gmail.com


MUSIC IN SPACE

Saturdays, 3-6pm

Website

Also: Patti Smith Group - Because the Night



Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Need To Know

ATA Board Member Russell Granet, who is a pioneer in the field of arts education and disability issues, hosts another installment in a series of useful webposiums for TAs. The first in the series, "Artists in Classrooms: The Role of the Teaching Artist", took place last year. It brought together TAs together from all over the world, and was sponsored, as is this one, by the DANA Foundation, leaders in the field of arts education research and funding.

Structured as a panel discussion, this latest webposium session will be streamed live, and viewers are invited to join in a Q and A at the end.

Not to be missed.

Details are below:

TEACHING ARTISTS & SPECIAL EDUCATION WEBPOSIUM

Friday, January 29, 2010

11:00-12:00 (CST) 12:00-1:00PM (EST)

What do teaching artists need to know, understand, and be able to do to achieve success in a self-contained or inclusion classroom?

Join us for an online discussion about the challenges and successes of working with students with disabilities.

The panel consists of artists and educators dedicated to making the arts accessible to all students. The panelists will discuss practical classroom strategies, lesson plan modifications, as well as the necessary questions to ask in order for everyone (artists, students, teachers, para-professionals, and administrators) to be successful.

Panelists include:


Moderator:

Russell Granet, Founder, Arts Education Resource

REGISTER NOW! Registration ends January 28 at 5:00pm

Monday, January 18, 2010

Lest We Forget

The Association of Teaching Artists (ATA) is a non-profit professional organization whose mission is to strengthen and serve Teaching Artists from all disciplines in New York State. The Association of Teaching Artists strives to create a community of professional Teaching Artists by: Empowering the practice of Teaching Artists' as a profession; Providing a network for communication and the exchange of resources; Shaping the field of Arts in Education; Providing advocacy, training, and professional development; Publicly recognizing distinguished achievement.

Video: Martin Luther King Jr. on Love and Non-Violence

Also: Marvin Gaye - Everybody Needs Love

Friday, January 15, 2010

Lifelines

The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (TheARTS), is one of the key local arts councils serving New York State. TheArts serves as a "catalyst" for art, and administers a number of grant programs for teaching artists, and their allies, including NYFA's Strategic Opportunity Stipend, which has an upcoming deadline at the end of the month.

Thanks to Lynn Dates, TheARTS' Community Arts Development Director, for the heads up.

Details are below:

Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS)
New York Foundation for the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipends <>Deadline: January 27, 2010

Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS) provides grants designed to help individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of specific, unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career. These are $100-$600 grants for forthcoming opportunities (not necessarily projects) that are distinct from an artist's ongoing work. Deadlines are three times a year.
A panel of community members will evaluate applications. Applications should clearly articulate an opportunity that is new in relation to an artist's career thus far, and should clearly explain the benefits of participation in the opportunity.

Only residents in New York State (excluding NYC) are eligible to apply. To learn more about SOS and download an application, visit the New York Foundation for the Arts' website at www.nyfa.org/sos.


QuickARTS: Community Arts Money in a Jiffy!
QuickARTS awards are for individuals, artists, volunteer groups and organizations residing in Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben counties of New York.

Deadlines: February 3, June 2 and October 1, 2010, 5 pm (for postmark and hand delivery) This mini-grant program is designed to fund a broad range of arts and cultural projects through a process tailored to the unique needs of individuals and organizations in Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben counties.

QuickARTS is administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes and funded by The Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Inc. Individuals and organizations may submit proposals to The ARTS three times a year. Grants ranging from $50 to $500 will be awarded to community-based arts and cultural projects that are accessible to the general public and marketed in a way to grow audience participation in and around Chemung County.

QuickArts is a competitive grant-making process and applicants are encouraged to submit the strongest proposal possible. TheARTS provides technical assistance where applicants may discuss proposal ideas. The panel process involves an optional applicant interview where applicants can verbally strengthen their proposals by an informal interview with the review panelists. To request an application or for more information contact Lynn Dates by calling 607-962-5871 x226 or emailing TheARTS@eARTS.org.

Learn more about TheARTS' opportunities for artists, organizations and schools.

Also: If it's Friday, this must be Facebook.

Story: Iroquois Creation Story @ the Smithsonian with text and streaming audio narration along with a searchable database of learning standards for the related exhibition. Spectacular.

Countless generations ago there existed beings who inhabited the Sky World. One day a great tree was uprooted in this world, creating a hole through which a pregnant woman fell. As she fell, the woman's descent was broken by a flock of water fowl, who then placed her on the back of a great sea turtle. The water animals retrieved some earth from the bottom of the sea and placed it on the turtle's back. As the woman walked about, the earth began to grow, forming Turtle Island.

In time the woman gave birth to a daughter. When the daughter reached womanhood, a spirit placed two arrows across her abdomen and she became pregnant with twins. The mother died during childbirth, and the twins argued incessantly as they grew to be young men. One twin created things of beauty, while the other twin created mischief. Eventually the twins fought, and the victorious brother turned to a final task. He formed a figure from the earth and gave it life. This being was the first of our people.





Thursday, January 14, 2010

A Good Teacher

Even though John Dewey never had to walk through a metal detector to go teach a workshop, I think some of his writings on education remain useful for professional teaching artists to consider. I wonder what Mr. Dewey would say about a school system that daily requires thousands of young people of color to submit their bodies to inspection; surrendering their shoes, belts, jewelry and dignity before they are allowed to learn?


Excerpt: Preoccupation with the Disconnected

by John Dewey

The following is a talk given by Dewey to the New York Academy of Medicine, 1928.

The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice--all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

The division in question is so deep-seated that it has affected even our language. We have no word by which to name mind-body in a unified wholeness of operation. For if we said "human life" few would recognize that it is precisely the unity of mind and body in action to which we were referring. Consequently, when we endeavor to establish this unity in human conduct, we still speak of body and mind and thus unconsciously perpetuate the very division we are striving to deny.




Wednesday, January 13, 2010

View to a Thrill

The Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) offers teaching artists, and others, a uniquely inspiring resource. On their website, a short video segment called "How I got my grant" provides valuable insight into the process of applying for and securing a grant. If you are looking for seed money to launch your brand-new shiny idea, you might want to watch someone who's been there and done that. It's so simple. I watched, and I loved it.

In 3-minutes of terrific testimony, Jason Marr, the fearless leader of Hip to Hip Theatre Company, describes the process of successfully applying for the first grants he's ever written.

The video is posted below, and there are many more resources on the QCA site for teaching artists, including a Toolkit, and a link to the Urban Artist Initiative Forum.

Video: How I Got My Grant featuring Jason Marr of Hip to Hip Theatre.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Bold, Cautious, True

At the Katonah Museum in New York State, an interesting exhibition of work from the Civil War era takes its title from a Walt Whitman poem.
Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era will be on exhibition in the Beitzel and Righter Galleries until January 24, 2010.

The show presents paintings by Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer and others. Patrons may preview images from the exhibition online.

The image attached to this post is by Eastman Johnson. He lived from 1851-1899 and you can read his digitized personal correspondence on the website of the Smithsonian.

Also:

As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,
To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)
I mark'd at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier;
Mortally wounded he and buried on the retreat, (easily all could
understand,)
The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose--yet this sign left,
On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,
Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering,
Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life,
Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,
Comes before me the unknown soldier's grave, comes the inscription
rude in Virginia's woods,
Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.

Westchester's Challenge

The Westchester Arts Council's Municipal Challenge grant program matches municipal funds raised by organizations. Only institutions with a funding track-record are eligible, and priority will be given to outdoor and summer events.

Download the 2010 Municipal Challenge Grant Guidelines here (PDF).

For the full application and detailed information, visit ArtsWestchester.org or contact Eric Siegel at esiegel@ArtsWestchester.org.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Art Plus

The Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute in St. Louis, Missouri invites teaching artists to be a part of a thrilling conversation about art and social change.

At the Crossroads: A Community Arts and Development Convening will take place from March 25 - 27, 2010 at the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission (RAC) Cultural Resource Center. Attendees should expect to join other practitioners for a dynamic conference designed to examine "new paths and crossways for the arts in these changing times."

Click here for registration information.

Click here to find an airline.

Also: Judy & Co. - The Trolley Song (Meet Me in St. Louis)


Friday, January 8, 2010

All Work

Teaching Artist jobs.

At Idealist.org our irregular Keyword search continues, despite the odds.

Here are this week's results.

Keyword: "Teaching Artist" returns 12 hits!

  1. Program Director - Neighborhood Writing Alliance

    Chicago, Illinois United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Job Description: Program Director Half-Time Position The Neighborhood Writing Alliance (NWA) provokes dialogue and promotes change by creating opportunities for adults in low-come communities to write, publish, and perform works about their live...
  1. Program Coordinator

    Seattle, Washington United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Path with Art recognizes the creative potential in all of us and its power to heal and inform in times of crisis and transition. It is our mission to provide arts programming to previously homeless and economically disadvantaged adults, using the creativ...
  1. Children's Film Program Director

    Chicago, Illinois United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Facets Multi-Media, a leading national non-profit media arts organization, seeks an exceptional individual to spearhead growth of Facets’ children’s media programs. Responsibilities include the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, the nation’s ...
  1. Director of Development/Grants

    Boston, Massachusetts United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Reports To: Executive Director, BAA Foundation Job Description: Director of Development/Grants The Boston Arts Academy, a public high school for the visual and performing arts, is currently in its 12th year with 440 students in Grades 9-12. It is a ...
  1. Activity Specialist

    Woodside, New York United States
    Last updated on: December 30, 2009
    Description: Our Academic, Activities and Sports Specialists are responsible for creating lessons, projects and objectives that meet the individual students’ needs. We have vacancies throughout the 5 boroughs. We are seeking part time staff for our after-school prog...
  1. Visual Arts Consultant

    Roxbury, Massachusetts United States
    Last updated on: December 28, 2009
    Description: Visual Arts Consultant For over thirty years the mission of Sociedad Latina has been to enhance the overall health and well-being of the Latino community by delivering programs that encourage community leadership through educational attainment, cultura...
  1. Program Director

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: December 23, 2009
    Description: Creative Arts Workshops for Kids (CAW) seeks a full-time, inspiring and experienced Program Director to plan and lead the organization’s youth arts programs in Northern Manhattan (Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood) and work with its Executive Director...
  1. Teaching artist

    San Francisco, California United States
    Last updated on: December 17, 2009
    Description: The Out of Site Youth Arts Center is seeking experienced teacing artists to become a part of our vibrant non-profit arts center in San Francisco’s Ingleside/Excelsior neighborhood. We are particularly interested in teaching artists for the following class...
  1. Group Leader- Art

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: December 17, 2009
    Description: Program Name: Phipps After School at the Plazas Qualifications: The candidate must have a BA Degree or be currently enrolled in college. Must have strong classroom management skills. Previous work experience teaching in a community based or school ag...
  1. CAMP DIRECTOR

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: December 17, 2009
    Description: The Harlem School of the Arts, Inc. The Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) is a nonprofit, community-based school of the arts that offers instruction in dance, music, theater and the visual arts to over 3,000 students annually. Founded in 1964, our missio...
  1. PROGRAM ADMINSTRATOR

    Seattle, Washington United States
    Last updated on: December 14, 2009
    Description: The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not...
  1. Ceramics Instructor

    Los Angeles, California United States
    Last updated on: December 1, 2009
    Description: Inner-City Arts is dedicated to bringing the best of creative experiences to the thousands of children who live in the downtown area, and attend public schools in Los Angeles Unified School District. Working with LAUSD and community partners, we offer com...

Keyword: "Arts Education" brings up 197 hits!

Here are the first few, or thirty:

  1. Become a Teacher in Prince George's County.

    Upper Marlboro, Maryland United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Become a Teacher in Prince George's County! Prince George's County Teaching Fellows The Prince George’s County Teaching Fellows is looking for talented, motivated recent college graduates and career-changers dedicated to joining us in changing the qua...
  1. Theater Manager

    Los Angeles, California United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Theater Manager - Position Available Inner-City Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts campus located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, serving over 8,000 children, youth, teachers and families during the school day, after school and on weekends. We belie...
  1. Social Studies Teacher

    Brooklyn, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Mission Statement Believe High Schools unite youth, families, staff, teachers, and the community at large in providing young people with the tools necessary to make sense of the world and prepares them in their journey to become successful and literate c...
  1. Math Teacher

    Brooklyn, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Mission Statement Believe High Schools unite youth, families, staff, teachers, and the community at large in providing young people with the tools necessary to make sense of the world and prepares them in their journey to become successful and literate c...
  1. Development Manager

    Woodside, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Career-making opportunity to help expand the revenue base of the largest school-based after-school organization in New York City - Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation (SASF: www.sasfny.org) which served 50,000 young people in 2008-09. The organization has...
  1. Senior Editor & Literary Programs Manager

    San Francisco, California United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: TWO LINES SENIOR EDITOR & LITERARY PROGRAMS MANAGER The Center for the Art of Translation is a San Francisco-based non profit promoting international literature and translation through programs in publishing, education, and public events. The Center is...
  1. Senior Programs Officer, Africa -- Washington, D.C.

    Washington, District of Columbia United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Freedom House, founded in 1941, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes an engaged U.S. foreign policy; evaluates human rights conditions; sponsors public education campaigns; facilitates training and other assistance to promote democracy a...
  1. After-School Program Director

    Queens, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: After-School Program Director Want a job that you can feel passionate about? Want to make a real difference in someone’s life? If you love to work with youth and are a fun and engaging person that treats’ others with the utmost respect then consider j...
  1. Queens Family Court Education & Information Site Coordinator

    Queens, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: LIFT offers one-of-a-kind services to some of the City’s most vulnerable families as they navigate through the Court system. We seek a one-of-a-kind Site Coordinator to join our team. Working from our Queens Family Court-based Education & Information ...
  1. After-School Instructor - Wilson Community School

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Program Description: Wilson Community School is a partnership between Alexander Wilson Elementary School and the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson Community School (WCS) is responsible for developing and o...
  1. Program Coordinator

    Seattle, Washington United States
    Last updated on: January 7, 2010
    Description: Path with Art recognizes the creative potential in all of us and its power to heal and inform in times of crisis and transition. It is our mission to provide arts programming to previously homeless and economically disadvantaged adults, using the creativ...
  1. Teacher

    Baltimore, Maryland United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Afya is seeking experienced, enthusiastic educators to join our middle school teaching team. Applicants should be fully certified and experienced in their content area and experts at working with early adolescents “Afya” means health in Swahili. Our scho...
  1. Children's Film Program Director

    Chicago, Illinois United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Facets Multi-Media, a leading national non-profit media arts organization, seeks an exceptional individual to spearhead growth of Facets’ children’s media programs. Responsibilities include the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, the nation’s ...
  1. Programming/Communications Position

    Los Angeles, California United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: PROGRAMMING/COMMUNICATIONS POSITION (Creative configurations are possible, from full-time to part-time, from programming to communications) MISSION Yiddishkayt strives to ensure the survival of the endangered thousand-year legacy of Yiddish langu...
  1. Middle School Language Arts Teacher

    Washington, District of Columbia United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Two Rivers Public Charter School is looking for a dynamic, dedicated, flexible middle school language arts teacher to become part of a vibrant educational community. The position is available immediately. Background Two Rivers Public Charter School...
  1. Community Education Coordinator

    Portland, Oregon United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette is in search of a Community Education and Outreach Coordinator to work in our Education and Training Department. Our business is providing, promoting, and protecting access to reproductive and sexual health ca...
  1. Director of Development/Grants

    Boston, Massachusetts United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Reports To: Executive Director, BAA Foundation Job Description: Director of Development/Grants The Boston Arts Academy, a public high school for the visual and performing arts, is currently in its 12th year with 440 students in Grades 9-12. It is a ...
  1. Business Development Manager

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Business Development for Museum Lover Do you have solid marketing and sales experience, with a strong interest in working with museums and cultural arts centers? Are you an excellent writer and communicator who has developed sales plans, proposals and...
  1. ART CENTER DIRECTOR

    Englewood, New Jersey United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Arts Horizons, a well respected arts education organization, seeks a Director for our Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center (LNAC) in Harlem. The Center’s mission is to provide students PreK-12, families and adults with quality art experiences, primarily ...
  1. Program Coordinator Population and Development Program

    Amherst, Massachusetts United States
    Last updated on: January 6, 2010
    Description: Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts college, is seeking a program coordinator for the Population and Development Program, a research, advocacy and educational program on reproductive rights, women’s health, international development...
  1. Manager of Individuals & Major Gifts

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 5, 2010
    Description: 1.With a thorough understanding of Free Arts NYC programs, develop and implement a strategic fund development plan to acquire major gift contributions from individuals, corporations and private foundations, including planned giving and bequests. 2.Manage...
  1. Executive Assistant/Research Assistant #3141

    San Francisco, California United States
    Last updated on: January 5, 2010
    Description: WestEd’s Assessment and Standards Development Services (ASDS) program is involved extensively at the state and national levels in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating standards and assessment tools, methods, and systems. ASDS serves as the t...
  1. Director, Finance & Administration

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 5, 2010
    Description: Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, widely recognized as one of New York’s premier human services providers, is a 115-year-old settlement house that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated evidence-based programs--social, educational, legal, ho...
  1. KIPP NYC Operations Manager

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 5, 2010
    Description: About KIPP NYC KIPP NYC is the family of KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) charter schools and related services in New York City, all dedicated to teaching students the academic and character skills necessary for success in high school, college, and beyo...
  1. Instructional Development Assistant

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 4, 2010
    Description: Join our movement Success Charter Network is an ambitious charter management network of four high-performing charter schools in New York City, is actively seeking an Instructional Development Assistant to support curriculum and professional development i...
  1. Public Relations & Marketing Coordinator

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 4, 2010
    Description: DATES: March 1- October 15, 2010 The City Parks Foundation (CPF) is an independent, non-profit organization that produces arts, sports and educational programs, largely free of charge, for over 600,000 kids and adults in 750 parks throughout New York C...
  1. Vice President, Finance & Administration

    United States
    Last updated on: January 4, 2010
    Description: School Leaders Network, an emerging leader in the education reform space that is dedicated to providing the structure, time, space, collaboration and skills that principals need to systemically understand and solve problems of practice related to student ...
  1. Assistant to the President & CEO

    New York, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 4, 2010
    Description: The All Stars Project, Inc., a cutting edge, independent youth development and performing arts institution dedicated to promoting human development through a performance-based educational model seeks an Assistant to the President and CEO. This person wil...
  1. Become an Inspired Teacher in Washington, DC.

    Washington, District of Columbia United States
    Last updated on: January 4, 2010
    Description: Become a teacher in Washington, DC! You've heard about the problems with education in Washington, DC. Now you can be a part of the solution. Inspire. Teach. Change. Become an Inspired Teacher in our Nation's Capital. Program Description Cen...
  1. Head Teacher, Staten Island Children's Center

    Staten Island, New York United States
    Last updated on: January 4, 2010
    Description: The Head Teacher position provides a structured, educational, day care support to children of adults involved in court proceedings, and is responsible for the overall management of the center. The ages of the children can range from infancy to 12 years o...

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