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"Creative Solutions"
Transforming Schools NOW

Thursday, April 2, 2009
8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

MSU Riley Center for the Performing Arts
Meridian, MS

Sponsored by
The Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education
in partnership with
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Attention Educators:
 CEUs and SEMIs are offered for this event.

Consider this . . .

What will the future require of our children?
Creativity, Innovation, Imagination . . . and More
Are we ready?

Purpose of the Forum:

To recognize that a new economy based upon creativity and innovation is emerging and that we recognize the importance of reinventing our communities, schools, businesses and government to meet the challenges such shifts are bringing about.

Forum Goal:

To consider the administrative leadership skills, instructional decisions and economic policies
that will adequately prepare today’s students for life and work in the 21st Century.

Objectives:

1. Raise awareness and appreciation of the connections among cognition, 21st Century skills, creativity and the arts.
2. Gain new insights and understanding about how schools can prepare students for the 21st Century world.
3. Identify support networks in the business sector and instructional strategies for classrooms that will assist educators to raise the graduation rate through expanded skills and career paths.

The Age of Creation and Innovation

There is a trend, more a tsunami really, shaping our world and our work force. A new age requiring creativity and innovation is upon us. It is important that we recognize that a new economy based upon creativity and innovation is emerging and that we recognize the importance of reinventing our communities, schools, businesses and government to meet the challenges such shifts are bringing about. Those communities, placing a premium on cultural and ethnic diversity and reinventing their educational systems for the creative age, will likely burst with innovation and entrepreneurial fervor.

— John Eger in San Diego Business Journal          

Featured Speakers:

Ron Fine, Executive Director
Partners for Pearl River County

Blake A. Wilson, President & CEO
Mississippi Economic Council

Who should attend?
Higher Education Faculty and Administrators
K-12 Superintendents and Administrators
K-12 Arts Specialists and Teachers who infuse the arts
Arts and Education Employees from state agencies
Arts Education Professional Organization Leaders
Community Arts Organization/Cultural Institution Leaders
Arts Presenting Organizations and Teaching Artists
Teacher Education Students and High School Arts Students
Parent Organization Leaders, Parents and Citizens

Sample Forum Agenda:

8:30 Registration

9:00 General Session

• Welcome

• Performance

• MAAE Moment

• Keynote speaker

10:30 Break

10:45 Break Out Sessions

12:00 Forum Synthesis

• Reports from breakout sessions

• Evaluation

• Door Prizes

1:00 Awards Luncheon

• Presentation of awards

• Art Exhibit

Hotels in Meridian
La Quinta
Holiday Inn Express
Comfort Inn
Hampton Inn
Hilton Garden Inn

The Arts Front and Center Forum is partially funded by a grant from the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network

Registration for the Forum

Registration is due by March 25, 2009. All fees must be paid in advance. Registration fees include MAAE Awards Luncheon. Registration is not complete until fees have been paid.

Payment Method

• Check or cash only
• Please make check payable to MAAE.
• MAAE does not accept credit cards.

 Mail to:
Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education
Charlotte B. Tabereaux, Ph.D., Executive Director
1058 Windmill Drive
Meridian, MS 39305
e-mail: msartsed@comcast.net 

 Registration Fees

• $ 20 Student
• $ 40 Current member of MAAE
• $ 50 Individual

 REGISTRATION INFORMATION

To register on-line (preferred method), click here. (links now dormant, past event)

If you would like to print a mail-in registration form,
click here (Word format)  
               or
click here (pdf format)

REGISTRATION INFORMATION is comprised of the following:

Name____________________________________________________________________________
                            This name will appear on your nametag.
Title_____________________________________________________________________________
 

Organization (if applicable)________________________________________________________

Category or Type:      ___ School District  ___ Arts Council    ___ Cultural Organization 

___ Educational Organization  ___ College/University  ___ Arts Organization   ___ Individual

 ___ Artist/Teaching Artist  ___ Student  ___ Other, please specify

 Address_________________________________________________________________________

 City ____________________________________________ State _____ Zip __________________

 Telephone _________________________________________FAX__________________________

 Email____________________________________________________________________________

 Is this your first MAAE Forum?  Yes _____ No _____

 Are you a member of the MAAE?  Yes _____ No _____