Today was the Massachusetts Arts Education Consortium Leadership Symposium at the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford. I really enjoyed having the opportunity to see many of my colleagues and meet many arts advocates who are working really hard to advance the arts agenda in our state, nationally and internationally. I had the privilege to interview our keynote speaker Ms. Karen L. Erickson. To hear the interview go to the podcast box and click on the play button. The podcast is at the right hand side of this posting. If you attended this symposium, have any thoughts you wish to share about the podcast or the idea of arts advocacy, leave your comments. Click on the comments link to share your thoughts with us.
I enjoyed meeting many of you from the BPS team at the MAEC Leadership Symposium. I especially appreciated working with the group that decided to work together to promote reading and discussing Daniel Pink's book A WHOLE NEW MIND. Your readers can check it out at
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Thanks for the link! Charlie. We also enjoyed the opportunity to meet. It was a great way to explore many ways we could get organized and advocate for the arts. Thanks for your comment!
ReplyDeleteOur work group dedicated to each other that we would read Daniel Pink's book A WHOLE NEW MIND. And maybe some of us might be bold enough to gift it to our Administrators, with the hope they might think it valuable enough to share it with their staff.
ReplyDeleteThe master plan is based on the premise that when the conversation born of the book about the learner's we SHOULD be creating arises; we the Arts community can say, "Well, we do that. We ALWAYS have."
It is time to report out:
I have read the book, and I fond it insightful and provocative. It has a huge list of resources at the end of each chapter to foster further investigation, or support any inspiration the chapter may engender.
To be truthful the book peters out in the last two chapters. Still there is too much great to complain about the average.
I bought five copies of the book from Amazon with my original purchase. I purchased one for me, three for my administrators, and one for my mentor Dr. Kenneth Phillips.
My intention was to gift the copies for Christmas. With this years snow days (And my Christmas Celebration split between primary and elementary; between December and January) I gifted them, instead, on the last day of school.
I gifted them with the story I am telling you, and I am hoping for the best.
The best part is this! My mentor Dr. Phillips is internationally renown for his methodology TEACHING KIDS TO SING. He is the administrator of the summer Masters in Music Education at Gordon College. (I highly recommend the program. It changed everything about the way I teach, just abut everything. )
Each summer Dr. Phillips assigns an interesting/inspiring book as a small component of our lab practicum. My intention was to gift PINK hoping Dr. Phillips would consider assigning it to his Masters Music Teacher Students next semester.
I drove up to Wenham, to visit with Dr. Phillips. I waited till we were at lunch, so I could tell him the whole story. We had a good laugh, as Daniel Pinks’ A WHOLE NEW MIND is what his Masters students are reading this semester.
As I reported out for our group so many months ago…
THINK PINK!
Happy Summer,
PK