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Culturally Responsive Arts Education OverviewCRAE in the NewsThe Culturally Responsive Arts Education (CRAE) Program presents: A Black History Month Celebration on Monday, February 27th. This free event will feature the bright stars, CRAE teaching artist, and District teachers from Pittsburgh Lincoln K-8, Pittsburgh Montessori PreK-8, Pittsburgh Sunnyside K-8, and Pittsburgh Westinghouse 6-12. The day will include drum and dance performances, choreo-poetry and spoken word performances, and visual arts. A Black History Educational Forum will take place at 4:30 PM. the event will be held at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theatre located in East Liberty at 5941 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206. For more information please contact Sister IAsia Eybers at eybers.crae@gmail.com . Get shots for next school year out of the way and enjoy the Summer! Immunize now and become eligible for a buy-one-get-one pass for County Pools this Summer. The Allegheny County Health Department is holding a special free vaccination clinic on Tuesday, June 8, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., for children who need to get caught up with the vaccines that will be required when they return to school in the fall. The clinic, to be held at the Health Department’s office at 3441 Forbes Avenue in Oakland, will provide free parking after 4:30 p.m. in the lot behind 3333 Forbes Avenue. No appointment is necessary and parents should bring their child’s vaccination records to the clinic. The Friends of Art Collection has been incorporated into all PPS schools over the last 100 years- come join us for a closer look at this fine collection of artwork. This Open House is available to everyone. Open House & Reception: Meet the Artists and Art Ambassadors On Wednesday, February 24th the Pittsburgh Public Schools in partnership with the August Wilson Center celebrated Black History Month across the District by unveiling its new African-American Literature Course. The event also featured an update on the District’s Culturally Responsive Arts Education (CRAE) program with works and performances by students currently in the program. On Wednesday September 30, parents at Pittsburgh Sunnyside got to view first hand what the school’s fourth graders were learning as a part of the District’s Culturally Responsive Arts Education Initiative (CRAE). Students at Pittsburgh Lincoln K-8 will be the first to experience the District’s new Culturally Responsive Arts Education (CRAE) program. The students will have the opportunity to work with three local teaching artists as part of the school’s Summer Regional Extended Learning Camp. The Board approved the appointment of Dr. Rhonda Taliaferro as Assistant to the Deputy Superintendent, effective May 18, 2009. A new Culturally Responsive Arts program is being launched at Pittsburgh Lincoln K-8, Pittsburgh Montessori PreK-8, and Pittsburgh Sunnyside K-8. It will pair students with resident Teaching Artists. Additionally, an college-preparatory African American History course will be offered at the High School level. Learn more about this exciting new offering [PDF] Thursday, February 5, close to 100 District staff, students and community members gathered at the Senator John Heinz History Center to kick off Black History Month with the unveiling of the District’s dynamic new African American History Course. The event additionally included the announcement of the District’s Culturally Responsive Arts Education (CRAE) Teaching Artist Roster, as well as the three schools selected to participate in the CRAE program. Those three schools are: Pittsburgh Lincoln K-8, Pittsburgh Montessori PreK-8 and Pittsburgh Sunnyside K-8. Read the Post-gazette Article about the new course | OverviewCulturally Responsive Arts Education (CRAE) uses the best practices of arts instruction and arts integration to work toward creation of a responsive and healthy school environment. This project engages the arts of the African Diaspora and incorporates the culture of the students to stimulate student interest, develop ownership of learning, and inspire achievement. CRAE enlists teaching artists and arts specialists in bringing to life its central principles-- principles that focus on the unique power of the arts in education, viewing race and culture as an asset, educating about the impacts of racism and models to overcome it, and the role that artists can play in building relationships between children, schools, and communities. Artists facilitate a process in which children, by the work of their own hands, can develop an internal narrative to counter a pervasive notion that their academic potential is somehow predetermined. Whether the drum, spirituals, capoeira, quilting, painting, jazz, spoken word, rapping or b-boying, the arts of the Diaspora exhibit the richness of Black culture and demonstrate the resilience of its people . Through both stand-alone arts instruction and arts integration, CRAE asks learners and teachers to see one another and academic subjects anew. In this setting, it is hoped that children and teachers might co-create a world in which they experience, discuss and gain insight on issues pertaining to art, racism, ethnicity, and citizenry.
CRAE incorporates the following themes as core elements:
This emerging definition of Culturally Responsive Arts Education is drawn directly from “Culture, Racial Identity and Success: A Report to The Heinz Endowments” by Mary Stone Hanley, Ph.D. George Mason University and George W. Noblit, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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