Seidel,+Steve

ABSTRACT This report describes the challenges of building capacity to survive and thrive in an arts education partnership, how a number of partnerships have met these challenges, and some lessons drawn from the collective experiences of the partnerships of the study. (art education partnership is defined as: a collaborative educational effort between a school or school district and professional artists or arts organizations to provide in-depth arts experiences for children) Five major key findings from the study: Complete study can be downloaded from Project Zero Website.
 * Arts Survive: A Study of Sustainability in Arts Education Partnerships. July 2000. Principal Investigator, Steve Seidel, Ed.D, Harvard University** [|www.espartsed.org/.../Arts%20Survive%20Exec%20Summary.pdf]
 * 1) Surviving partnerships place needs of students and schools at the center of their mission
 * 2) Deep personal commitments to the educational power of arts experiences fuel surviving partnerships
 * 3) In surviving partnerships, multiple dimensions of the work receive regular attention.
 * 4) Surviving partnerships embrace the need to listen, to learn, and to change
 * 5) Surviving partnerships require a broad base of ownership and investment.