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March 21st, 2012

Any Given Child: A Progress Report

Michael Kaiser
President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

I have written before about the Kennedy Center’s comprehensive arts education program: Any Given Child. This program assesses the arts education opportunities in a given community (offered by schools, arts organizations, community groups and others) and designs a comprehensive kindergarten through eighth grade sequence that utilizes all of these opportunities in a format consistent with the school curriculum in that community. It is a new approach that is affordable and gives each student (any given child) a less haphazard arts education than is available in most communities.

This is a relatively new program. I developed the concept in 2008, with support from the Ford Foundation, and executives from my able Education Department–Darrell Ayers and Barbara Shepherd–took the concept and ran with it. They began implementation in Sacramento, California just two years ago. Since Kevin Johnson, the dynamic mayor of Sacramento, agreed to make his city the first Any Given Child site, six other communities have adopted the program: Springfield, Missouri; Portland, Oregon; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada and Sarasota, Florida.

Read the full article from The Huffington Post

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February 21st, 2012

Bold Commitments Aim for Dramatic Increase in STEM Teacher Corps

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2012
/PRNewswire via COMTEX/

In a dramatic response to the nation’s critical shortage of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers, more than 115 organizations gathered at Google’s Washington, D.C. offices have committed to bold, measurable plans to recruit, train, hire, develop, and retain 100,000 new, excellent STEM teachers in the next decade.

With the addition today of a $1.5 million pledge from CA Technologies, the partners’ commitments to STEM teachers are now backed by a $24 million fund pledged by 15 donors who also include: J.P. Morgan Chase, Google, The Dow Chemical Company, Carnegie Corporation of New York, NewSchools Venture Fund, and the S.D. Bechtel, Jr., Boston, Michael and Susan Dell, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, Bill & Melinda Gates, Greater Texas, Heising-Simons, William and Flora Hewlett and Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family foundations.

read the full article

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February 9th, 2012

Apply, Apply, Apply!

The Tulsa Lighthouse Charter School is accepting applications for students and teachers.

Student Applications are available at http://www.lighthouse-academies.org/schools/tlcs - click on the “Apply” tab! Applications are due April 6, 2012.

Applications, including job descriptions, for teaching positions PK-4th grade and Director of Instruction are available at www.lighthouse-academies.org/apply – look for jobs in the Tulsa region!

If you have any questions about either application, contact info-TLCS@lighthouse-academies.org or call 918.231.4212.

About Lighthouse:

At Lighthouse Academies, we believe that all children deserve access to excellent public schools. It is our vision that all students will be taught by an outstanding teacher in a nurturing environment and will achieve at high levels. Each student will develop the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for responsible citizenship and life-long learning. The impact of our collective efforts will fundamentally change public education.

We strongly believe that all children can and will achieve at high levels, and our model emphasizes strong academic engagement and rigor. However, we also recognize that values are also important for students to learn – not just knowledge and skills. As Dr. King once said, “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Thus, in addition to academics and arts, we focus on a curriculum to shape value-minded citizens.

Follow progress of Tulsa Lighthouse Charter School as the leaders prepare to welcome the inagural class in Fall 2012: http://lhatulsa.wordpress.com/

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February 6th, 2012

Teach for America Tulsa Institute

Dear friends,

In just five months, Tulsa will be on the national stage as we inaugurate the summer Institute in the company of nearly 1,000 inspiring young leaders who represent what is best about our nation. We share their optimism and drive to accelerate the pace of change in our country’s education system, and we are excited about what this program and Teach For America mean to our community. Read More »