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February 1, 2010 • 7:27 pm 0

Excellence in Arts Education Award Nominations

Do you know a music teacher who is an “unsung hero”? Do you know a visual art teacher who has gone above and beyond, yet people haven’t acknowledged the “true colors” of his/her work? Or do your school/district arts teachers have amazing support from a curriculum coordinator, principal or superintendent that makes them want to “dance for joy and shout from the stage”? Anyone, including teachers, may submit nominations.

This is your opportunity! The Board of Directors of the Vermont Alliance for Arts Education seeks nominations for Excellence in Arts Education at the teacher, principal and superintendent level. Nominees will have demonstrated leadership and dedication to the teaching of music, visual art, theatre and dance to Vermont students.

Awards will be presented at a dinner celebration at ArtSpa – The VAAE Spring Conference – on Thursday March 11, 2010 at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. Deadline for nominations is Friday, February 26, 2010.

Submit your nomination on-line! Three easy steps to nominate:

  1. A requirement of the nomination is that your submission is supported by the principal or superintendent of the person being nominated. Please make sure the administrator endorses your nomination before you complete the form.
  2. Go to the Excellence in Arts Education Nomination Form. Complete the form and click “Submit”.
  3. Follow up your nomination with a 200 word or less statement of why your nominee should receive the 2009-2010 Excellence in Arts Education Award. Send this statement in a separate email attachment to conference@vaae.org by Friday, February 26, 2010.

The VAAE Award Committee will choose up to 10 nominees to receive the award. Awards will be announced by March 5, 2010.

Questions? Email these to conference@vaae.org or call (802) 828-6560.

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August 5, 2009 • 11:24 pm 0

VAAE Receives ARRA Money!

 

Tom and Walter pose with Governor Douglas and Alex Aldrich

Tom and Walter pose with Governor Douglas and Alex Aldrich

We were notified early this week that VAAE has received an ARRA Arts Job grant, as administered by the Vermont Arts Council.  We are extremely glad to receive these funds, which can be used for salary for the organization as it relates to the Fall Conference.  These funds will help our planning proceed a lot more smoothly, knowing there is a mechanism to continue our planning.  Board member Walter Judge accompanied me to the press conference today and this photo was the result, along with the grant!

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July 7, 2009 • 12:45 pm 3

Fall Conference: Mark Your Calendar

Please mark your calendar for October 29 & 30, 2009.  We will be holding our fall conference at Goddard College those days.  Information and workshop listings to follow!

Our theme this year is “Serious Play: Bringing the Arts into the Classroom”.

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June 29, 2009 • 7:57 pm 0

Welcome to Our New Site

Welcome to VAAE’s new website.  This is a temporary place — it is technically a “blog” — but I switched over to this site in order to be able to put out fresh information in a very timely way.  Depending on how this new concept works, funding, and other factors, I’ll be using this site to get out the word about VAAE as best I can.  In the future, the site may get shinier and a bit bigger, but for the time being, I’m pretty excited just to write about what’s happening with VAAE.

Websites are funny things. . .the way many are constructed require a many-handed technical approach.  Someone to do the writing, editing and soliciting of information.  Someone to do the input to the site.  Someone to keep up  the back office.  Each of these tasks takes time and skills that are not necessarily related.  I am not a technical genius, and the needs of our organization requires more contact than I have been able to manage by trying to reach out to our former web designer, who lives many miles from me.

So with some help from my friends at Found Line, I put our old site to sleep and brought this one forward.  There are a number of advantages to utilizing WordPress, the foremost being its simplicity of use.  Which, for me, is paramount.  Much of the information I receive is timely and has a deadline.  Posting it immediately, and using our email to notify you of updates, will allow you to see more information more quickly than I have been able to provide for the past year.

Keeping with the theme of simplicity, I will be reaching out to anyone who would like to write for this site, add their thoughts via comments or posts, or who would like to input information they would like to see disseminated.  Adding a representative from each of our partner organizations is simple and will allow for you to have direct contact with VAAE and everyone who is connected with the organization.

I will be adding information to this site over the next several weeks, including running information about our conference in October.  As it is shaping up, we will be having an exciting two days at Goddard College.

Again, welcome, and come again!

Tom

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