Call for Applications for Pilot Cohort
NAEA Cultural Competency in Teaching and Leadership Certificate Program
Application Deadline: March 9, 2020
Notification Date: March 20, 2020 (Prior to NAEA Convention)
Eligible Applicants: The National Art Education Association (NAEA) invites School for Art Leaders (SAL) Alumni and those who expressed an interest in serving on the recently appointed Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) Commission to apply for this new opportunity.
NAEA is creating an NAEA Cultural Competency in Teaching and Leadership Certificate Program to support visual art educators in building leadership skills, executing vision, and developing capacity focused on equity, diversity and inclusion. NAEA will work with a cohort of seven members, including one visual arts educator from each membership division, and representatives from each geographic region to pilot this program.
Expenses: NAEA will cover travel and expenses for the face-to-face meeting. There are no registration fees.
Rationale
As NAEA is the professional association for visual arts educators, this initiative will explore equity, diversity, and inclusion within our profession, and their implications for culturally competent teaching and professional leadership in art education. The majority of educators serving in US schools are white women (83.5% of the 2007-2008 teaching force) charged with teaching an increasingly diverse student population. (In K-12 public schools: white students 58% in 2004; 45% projected 2026; black students 17% in 2004; 16% proj. 2026; Hispanic students 19% in 2004; 29% proj. 2026. Source: NCES).
Those they teach bring diverse histories, cultural perspectives, unique patterns of experience, and various styles and approaches to learning. As NAEA pilots a curriculum for this certificate program, the focus questions are:
- How and to what extent is NAEA able to advance diversity, equity and inclusion within the profession?
- What is the profession’s level of openness and readiness for tackling diversity, equity, and inclusion concerns explicitly?
- What are the implications of diversity, equity, and inclusion for culturally competent teaching and professional leadership in art education?
Participants
The Pilot will include a cohort of seven art educators, one from each of the seven NAEA membership divisions. Selected Participants will reflect all four NAEA geographic membership regions.
NAEA’s Advisory Council includes national leaders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the NAACP, and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.
Activities
Professional development in the implementation of the pilot curriculum content will be presented through highly interactive in-person and virtual sessions as follows:
Part 1:
Virtual Orientation
Mid-April - TBD
Face-to-Face
May 15-18, 2020
NAEA Studio & Gallery , 901 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
May 15: Travel-in Day, Informal Working Dinner Session
May 16: Session 1 (full day)
May 17: Session 2 (full day)
May 18: Travel-out Day, Working Breakfast and Cohort Development
Part 2:
Virtual Sessions
June-December, 2020
Monthly Virtual and Independent Cohort Sessions
The pilot program includes webinars, virtual discussion forums, journaling, individual, and small-group activities rounding out the cohort’s work. The curriculum includes the development of individual action plans to apply learning to teaching practice.
The Curriculum has been developed as a focus of a previous NEA grant with a Curriculum Development Team and a National Project Advisory Council. The role of the Pilot Cohort is to participate in professional development, “field test” the curriculum, and give reflective feedback.
The in-person and virtual meetings will be based on NAEA’s highly successful School for Art Leaders (SAL) professional learning model.
Interested?
Click here to apply.
Questions? Contact Dennis Inhulsen dinhulsen@arteducators.org
The Pilot of the NAEA Cultural Competency in Teaching and Leadership Certificate Program is supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Art Education Foundation.
