[BHS etree] SUPT: WHY IS ARTS EDUCATION IMPORTANT? - Tueday, Jan 10

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WHY IS ARTS EDUCATION IMPORTANT?
WHAT ARE OTHER COMMUNITIES DOING? WHAT CAN WE IN BERKE LEY DO?

A Community Forum featuring
LOIS HETLAND, Ed. D.
Harvard Graduate School of Education
and Co-Director, VALUES Project

Tuesday, January 10, 2006
7:00 p.m.
Longfellow Middle School Auditorium-1500 Derby Street 

A Research Associate with Harvard's Project Zero, Lois Hetland's work
on the effects of arts education on student achievement has been
widely discussed in forums including the New York Times, National
Public Radio,and Education Week. The VALUES (Visual Arts Learning for
Understanding Education in the Schools) Project, a local
collaboration with the Alameda County Office of Education and the
California College of the Arts, is piloting curricula that both
integrate arts across a wide array of academic subjects, and honor
the arts as a distinct area of study.

The community is invited to submit questions in advance for Professor
Hetland to address (questions will also be taken from the audience
after the presentation).

Sponsored by the Berkeley Public Education Foundation in support of
the Quality Schools Initiative launched by Superintendent Michele
Lawrence, aimed at identifying the essentials of a quality education,
and mobilizing the resources that will enable us to meet these needs.

For more information: BUSD Office of Public Information .
510.644.6320 . publicinfo at berkeley.k12.ca.us

NOTE: Previous forums are available on DVD at all five branches of
the Berkeley Public Library including:
"First Five of California: Good Schools Need Good Pre-schools"
(November event) and
"Lunch Lessons: Changing the way America feeds it's children"
(December event)

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Mark A. Coplan
Public Information Officer, BUSD
510-644-6320
Mark_Coplan at berkeley.k12.ca.us
Berkeley Unified School District
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, Ca 94704-1180