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Plans for developing a new online platform for arts education information
2:19:21
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Paul Thompson and Hannah Burson discuss plans for developing a new online platform to replace the ACE guide, aiming to provide more comprehensive information about arts education in NYC public schools.
- The DOE is in early stages of developing an online platform that would include a heat map of arts education activities.
- The new platform is part of a public-private partnership, currently being negotiated through legal channels.
- The platform aims to provide information on arts programs in schools, connected pathways from elementary to high school, and audition tracks.
- This transition is causing temporary issues with updating the current ACE guide while focusing resources on the new model.
Paul Thompson
2:19:21
Yes.
2:19:22
We share the frustration of our friends in the arts partner community.
2:19:28
We're dedicated to working with DIT to help rectify some of these issues.
2:19:34
I I hope I'm also not talking out of school, but we are also in the beginning conversations of developing an online platform that would provide a heat map.
2:19:49
We have a public and private partnership that would enable us to do this.
2:19:54
Right now, it is being negotiated through legal to make sure that the capacity for us to do this is actually there.
2:20:01
But we are hoping as part of the reimagining of the office that this kind of a platform will again change the face of how families, teacher how we all understand what are the arts that are happening in our schools and how do we make the kinds of decisions that we want to make for our children in in us supporting school leaders and teachers and parents just making educated decisions around where they they want to have their kids.
Rita Joseph
2:20:31
Thank you.
2:20:33
The Art World wants to know what can the arts community expect for the tool to be back online?
2:20:38
When are you going to be back online?
Paul Thompson
2:20:41
We'll have to get back to you on that after reaching out to DIIT.
Rita Joseph
2:20:45
Okay and can the arts community update their profile or be added to the platform?
2:20:52
The people want to know.
Hannah Burson
2:20:53
I know they do, we do too.
2:20:55
But as we're in this kind of transition moment where we hope to be pivoting from the traditional ACES guide into this new kind of twenty first century version which is the online map platform that Paul just spoke to, We are just thinking through kind of what we can have as an interim resource for everyone that is accurate and up to date while not putting so much of the time and resource into that while we're trying to pivot to this new model.
Rita Joseph
2:21:22
Were the partners notified of this change or it was a surprise?
Hannah Burson
2:21:27
It should not have been a surprise.
2:21:28
It was announced at our Arts in Schools report release in December of twenty twenty four.
Rita Joseph
2:21:34
What is New York City's plan for ensuring that the list is more representative of the 700 plus arts and cultural organizations that it says partners with schools last year?
Paul Thompson
2:21:48
So I think again, the answer to that question really lies at the core of how we're trying to reimagine building this heat map.
2:21:57
Because building the heat map would completely transform the ways in which arts partners are included in being represented in that ecosystem along with schools, being able to represent what schools have from the DOE perspective, what courses are they offering, what kind of connected pathways from, you know, elementary to middle to high.
2:22:24
You know, if if you wanna be able to go for an audition track, that will be able to be articulated for you if you wanna be able to stay in your home community.
2:22:34
And so all of that is at the core stages of the things that we're beginning to plan right now.