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Strategies to comply with state law on arts education
2:15:45
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Council Member Rita Joseph presses for concrete strategies to meet state law requirements for arts education. Paul Thompson outlines the DOE's approaches to address compliance issues and improve arts education delivery.
- The DOE is working with principals and superintendents to emphasize the importance of arts education and its integration into core instructional missions.
- Efforts are being made to address the teacher pipeline issue through partnerships with programs like the Arnhold Graduate Education Program and the Arthur Miller Foundation Scholars Program.
- These programs aim to increase the number of dance and theater teachers in the system and provide ongoing support and professional development.
Rita Joseph
2:15:45
But how do we meet the law because we're not meeting the mandate of the law.
2:15:48
So how do we meet that law?
2:15:50
How do we comply with the state law?
Paul Thompson
2:15:52
Again, I think it's working with principals to understand the importance.
2:15:56
It's working with superintendents so that they understand the nature of what the law is requiring.
2:16:03
And I also think it's about us thinking through the teacher pipeline issue.
2:16:09
So, you know, one of the things that is super important for us and one of the things that that we work very closely in supporting is there are two organizations that are really exceptional at supporting people teacher pipeline work.
2:16:25
One is the Arnhold Graduate Education Program at Hunter College.
2:16:29
The other is the Arthur Miller Foundation Scholars Program at City College.
2:16:34
And these are both public private partnerships that have transformed the number of dance and theater teachers in our system.
2:16:44
And so not only are are teachers supported while they do their classwork, they're also supported once they graduate and land in a school with stipends and specific professional development that we work with these partners to help provide.
2:16:59
And so these are some strategies that we believe are concrete that obviously they don't live in our ability to mandate, but they they do speak to the rigor with which we're trying to align our office to how the culture of our bureaucracy actually works.
Dionne Figgins
2:17:26
Thank