Arts Education in Seattle Schools, Part One
I recently had good conversations with both Carri Campbell, Visual&Performing Arts Program Manager for SPS, and Calandra Childers, Communication and Outreach Manager for the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs about what is happening in arts education for Seattle Public Schools. I want to thank them both for their time and efforts. Both conversations were enlightening and heartening. (After speaking with Ms. Campbell, I now live in the fear that, like many other really good people who join SPS, she'll leave. I hope not because she's a gem.) Part One is about what has happened with the planning. Part Two will be about what is to come. Background: SPS has had a five-year partnership with the City of Seattle - called the Arts Education Partnership - to help build a system and share resources to put arts in all our schools with the understanding that arts are not just a creative outlet but can develop life/job skills. They have had so...