ArtsEd Washington, an affiliate of the Kennedy Center, would like to welcome you to a forum designed especially for principals.

Every principal wants his or her school to be a place of active learning, with creative teachers and engaged students. With the many demands of accountability, it can be difficult to get the time to focus on creative learning, and yet, where this is targeted and intentionally nurtured, many benefits result.

According to research just released, 63% of principals are dissatisfied with the quantity of arts in their schools and 33% of elementary students receive less than an hour a week of arts learning.*

Attend this workshop and learn from peer principals the low or no cost ways you can immediately begin to foster creative learning in your school. Opening comments will be provided by Gary Kipp, Executive Director of the Association of Washington School Principals, with a keynote address by Deb Brzoska, national presenter for the Kennedy Center and founding principal of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. Peer discussion workshops will be facilitated by principals who have participated in ArtsEd Washington’s Principals Arts Leadership program.

Registration is restricted to principals, assistant principals and administrators only. The $45 registration fee will include lunch and the first 30 registrants will also receive a copy of Third Space: When Learning Matters, by Richard J. Deasy and Lauren M. Stevenson.

“Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies —will thrive. Therefore, we not only need a higher percentage of our kids graduating from high school and college — more education — but we need more of them with the right education.”
Thomas Friedman, October 2009 Op-Ed, The New York Times