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Council Member Dinowitz recommends including arts in student outcome measures
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Council Member Dinowitz concludes the discussion by recommending that the DOE include arts education in measures of student outcomes, similar to math and English, to incentivize greater investment in arts programs.
- Dinowitz emphasizes that principals and teachers respond to incentives, suggesting that including arts in outcome measures would lead to more investment in arts education.
- He reiterates the connection between arts education and improved performance in other academic subjects.
- Council Member Joseph acknowledges the importance of arts in helping students find their voice and suggests further exploration of integrating arts with other subjects for better outcomes.
Eric Dinowitz
1:42:31
I recommend because the principles like teachers, like students, like any human is gonna go based off on incentives.
1:42:39
And if you include the arts in your measures of student outcome, just like the ELA and math credits are, I think you're gonna see a lot more investment in the arts and you're gonna see a lot more principals like you who incorporate the arts into their curriculum which I can tell you having been a teacher, you can tell me after teaching or being a principal for eighteen years bolsters the academics.
1:43:03
It makes them better in every subject.
1:43:06
But it sounds like there is still not movement being made to include the arts in the measures of student outcome just like we measure math and English and other academic subjects.
1:43:20
If I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong, but with that I want to thank the chairs and hand it back to them.
Rita Joseph
1:43:26
Thank you Chair Dinowitz.
1:43:28
As you mentioned, arts is a way that we found students found their voices as well, and you mentioned that.
1:43:33
Students will come and say, I can't read.
1:43:35
But through that medium, they were able to find their voice.
1:43:40
So I think there's something there for us to explore.
1:43:42
How do we continue to integrate them together so we can have better outcomes?
1:43:48
Council member Ressler.