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Contact: PO Box 385
Oxon Hill, MD 20750-0385
Phone: 800-321-0789
Purpose: Promotes the art of dance and serving the needs of performers, choreo-graphers, teachers, and students through all stages of their development and careers.
Benefits: American Dance, a quarterly
Contact: Karen Deaver, President
31 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (212) 627-3790
Fax: (212) 675-9657
Purpose: To promote music educational approaches of Carl Orff in the United States
Benefits: Quarterly publication, mailings throughout year to members, resource library, job listings
Annual Conference: November
Contact: Executive Headquarters
PO Box 391089
Cleveland, OH 44139-8089
Phone: (216) 543-5366
Fax: (216) 543-2687
Email: HdqtrsAOSA@AOL.com
Purpose: To support the work of its 18 member aesthetic education institutes throughout the US and Australia by making the case for aesthetic education as a core educational experience for school children.
Contact: Michael Moore, Chair
57 College Park, Continuing Education
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Phone:(419) 372-8924
Fax: (419) 372-8667
E-mail: mikem@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Contact: Route 510
1775 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Purpose: To promote and strengthen theatre arts in the schools.
Benefits: Dramatics magazine and Teaching Theatre
Annual Conference: June
Affiliation:
Contact: Ronald Longstreth, Executive Director
3368 Central Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45225
Phone: (513) 559-1996
Fax: (513) 559-0012
Email:info@etassoc.org
Purpose: To develop innovative programs that enhance the quality and status of arts education.
Benefits: Professional development programs, publications, videos, Arts Education Net
Contact: 1875 Century Park East, #2300
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Purpose: Commitment to increasing opportunities for all people to participate in and understand the arts.
Benefits: "Performing Wonders, Kids and the Arts: A Broadcaster Guide to Teaching Children About the Arts," Kennedy Center Publication, and "Artists as Educators: Becoming Effective Workshop Leaders for Teachers"
Contact: Derek E. Gordon, President
Education Department
Washington, DC 20566-0001
Phone: (202) 416-8800
Fax: (202) 416-8802
Email: srob@tmn.com
Purpose: Addresses all aspects of music education and works to ensure that every student shall have access and exposure to a balanced, comprehensive, and high quality program of music instruction.
Benefits: The Music Educators Journal; Teaching Music; Journal of Research in Music Education; Journal of Music Teacher Education; General Music Today
Contact: John J. Mahlmann
1806 Robert Fulton Drive
Reston, VA 22091
Phone: (703)-860-4000
Fax: (703)-860-1531
Purpose: To advance art education through professional development, service, advancement of knowledge, and leadership
Benefits: Art Education, NAEA News, "Studies in Art Education", regional information, and assistance through division director, for each teaching level
Annual Conference: Spring
Contact: Thomas A. Hatfield, Executive Director
1916 Association Dr.
Reston, VA 22091-1590
Phone: (703) 860-8000
Fax: (703) 860-2960
Purpose: To establish high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to; to develop and operate a national voluntary system; to assess and certify teachers who meet these standards; and to advance related education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools
Benefits: What Teachers Should Know And Be Able To Do; Why America Needs the National Board For Professional Teaching Standards; How We Plan To Achieve Our Vision; Portfolio Newsletter; Teacher to Teacher Newsletter
Contact: James Kelly, President
300 River Place
Suite 3600
Detroit, MI 48207
Phone: (313) 259-0830
Fax: (313) 259-0973
Purpose: To promote the development and implementation of sound philosophies and policies in all forms of dance and in dance education at all levels. Promotes academic and professional preparation.
Benefits: catalog of publications (1-800-321-0789)
Annual Conference: March
Affiliation: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, & Dance
Contact: Rebecca Hutton
1900 Association Drive
Reston, VA 22091
Phone: (703) 476-3436
Fax: (703) 476-9527
Email: nda@aahperd-org
Purpose: Offer a variety of grant programs to non-profit organizations--educational institutions, arts organizations, and local arts agencies.
Contact: Nancy Hanks Center
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
Phone: (202) 682-5425
Purpose: To support work in all the disciplines of the humanities
Benefits: Aid, scholarship, and research, seminars, and lectures to improve the humanities in education
Contact: National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
Phone: (202) 606-8400
Fax: (202) 606-8240
Email: infoneh.fed.us
Purpose: To contribute to the appreciation art and to identify emerging artists in transitions through educational and professional development, provides arts manuals and teacher packets
Contact: Arts Recognition and Talent Search
100 N. Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132
Phone: (305) 377-1140
Fax: (305) 377-1149
Email:nfaa@artbank.com
Purpose: Advocates the full inclusion of folk and traditional arts and artists in our nation's education
Benefits: Folk arts and cultural contacts in the classroom: Changing the Relationship Between Schools and Communities
Contact: Paddy Bowman, Government Affairs Contact
609 Johnston Place
Alexandria, VA 22301-2511
Phone: (703) 836-7499
Fax: (703) 836-4820
Email: bowman@ix.netcom.com
Contact: 35th and R Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: (202) 966-2216
Purpose: Founded in 1967 by a group of writers and educators who believed that writers could make a unique contribution to the teaching of writing.
Benefits: Teachers and Writers magazine
Contact: Nancy Larson Shapiro, President
5 Union Square West
New York, NY 10003-3306
Phone: (212) 691-6590
Fax: (212) 675-0171
Email: infotwc.org
Purpose: Provide arts education programming and life long learning to persons with disabilities in mainstream settings.
Contact: Richard Russey, Programs Director
1300 Connecticut Ave. NW, Ste. 200
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 628-2800
Fax: (202) 737-0125
Email: http://www.usarts.org
Purpose: The purpose is to help make the arts an essential part of young people's education.
Benefits: Annual Report, YA NEWS, Program Development NEWS, Young Audiences Program Booklets (5), Project Manuals, Chapter Profile
Annual Conference: Late April
Affiliation: State chapters
Contact: Richard Bell
115 East 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
Phone: (212) 831-8110
Fax: (212) 289-1202
Email: ya4kids@aol.com
Name: Lisa Kjalich
Address: Joy Elementary School
24 Margaret St.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Offering: Creative movement and dramatics
Phone: (907) 456-5469
Fax: (907) 456-1477
Email: joyfljk@northstar.k12.ak.us
Name: Kathy Roberts
Address: Kodiak High School
722 Mill Bay Road
Kodiak AK 99615
Offering: middle school literature and visual arts
Phone: (907) 486-9211
Fax: (907) 486-9297
Email: fkrobats@pt,alaska.net
Name: Karen Stapf-Harris
Address: Anderson School
Box 3120
Anderson, AK 99744
Offering: Middle school literature and visual arts
Phone: (907) 582-2700
Fax: (907) 582-2000
E-mail: kharris@mail.denali,K12.ak.us
Name: Rona Mason
Address: PO Box 100066
Anchorage, AK 99510
Offering: Creative dance, all ages, all abilities
Phone: (907) 279-7662
Fax: (907) 272-2519
Name: Lisa Kjalich
Address: Joy Elementary School
24 Margaret St.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Offering: Creative movement and dramatics
Phone: (907) 456-5469
Fax: (907) 456-1477
E-mail: joyfljk@northstar.k12.ak.us
Name: Kathy Roberts
Address: Kodiak High School
722 Mill Bay Road
Kodiak AK 99615
Offering: Middle school literature and visual arts
Phone: (907) 486-9211
Fax: (907) 486-9297
E-mail: fkrobats@pt,alaska.net
Name: Amy Fautland, Director
Address: The Drama Project
POBox Box 73610
Fairbanks, AK 99707
Offering: Creative drama, grades K-12, grades 9-12
Phone: (907) 456-PLAY
Name: Carol Merritt
Address: West Valley High School
3800 Geist Street
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Offering: Drama, grades 9-12
Phone: (907) 479-4221
Fax: (907) 479-8371
Name: Tom Litecky
Address: Palmer High School
1170 W. Arctic Ave.
Palmer, AK 99645
Offering: Literary Arts, grades 9-12
Phone: (907) 745-3241
Fax: (907) 746-0597
Name: Jennifer Dalby
Address: Pioneer Peak Elementary School
HC01 Box 6493
Palmer, AK 99645
Offering: General music, elementary choir, band
Phone: (907) 745-0157
Fax: (907) 745-6113
Name: Rosemary Bird
Address: Kenai Middle School
201 Tinker Lane
Kenai, AK 99611
Offering: Middle school choir
Phone: (907) 283-4896
Fax: (907) 283-3180
Name: David Donaldson
Address: US Hanshew Middle School
8221 Upper Huffman
Anchorage, AK 99516
Offering: Band
Phone: (907) 349-1561
Fax: (907) 349-2825
Name: Mary Alice Donaldson
Address: US Hanshew Middle School
8221 Huffman
Anchorage, AK 99516
Offering: General music, elementary choir, band
Phone: (907) 349-1561
Fax: (907) 349-2835
Name: Betty Ellis
Address: Willard L.Bowman Elementary School
11700 Gregory Rd.
Anchorage, AK 99516
Offering: General music, elementary, special needs pre-school
Phone: (907) 345-8110
Fax: (907) 345-4324
Name: Renee Henderson
Address: Kenai Central High School
9583 Spur Highway
Kenai, AK 99611
Offering: Choral
Phone: (907) 283-2125
Fax: (907) 283-3230
E-mail: rhenderson@kpdsd.K12.ak.us
Name: Elaine Larson
Address: Sears Elementary School
549 N. Forest Drive
Kenai, AK 99611
Offering: Elementary music and creative movement, Orff-Schulwerk,integration of music and movement across the curriculum
Phone: (907) 283-4826
Fax: (907) 283-9198
E-mail: larsonm@alaska.net
Name: Ginny Packer
Address: Colony Senior High School
HCO1 Box 6048
Palmer, AK 99645
Offering: Instrumental and inter-disciplinary units middle school
Phone: (907) 746-9500
Fax: (907) 749-9509
Name: Michael Parker
Address: Colony Middle School
HCO1 Box 6064
Palmer, AK 99645
Offering: Instrumental and choral
Phone: (907) 746-9550
Fax: (907) 746-9559
Name: Vernel Schneider
Address: Soldotna Elementary School
162 Park Avenue
Soldotna, AK 99669
Offering: Instrumental-elementary and high school
Phone: (907) 262-4919
Fax: (907) 262-4962
Name: Janet Stiles, Director of Arctic Spirit Bell Choir
Address: 22335 Eagle River Road
Eagle River, AK 99577
Offering: Handbell choir
Name: Connie Lutz, President
Alaska Art Education Association
Address: Colony High School
HC01 Box 6048
Palmer, AK 99645
Offering: Visual arts, assessment, media adaptation for all populations, art therapy
Phone: (907) 746-9500x536
Fax: (907) 746-9509
Name: Kathy Schwartz, Director
Address: Alaska Center for Excellence in Arts Education
Kenai Peninsula College
34820 College Drive
Soldotna, AK 99669
Offering: Visual arts, general
Phone: (907) 262-0369
Fax: (907) 262-0358
E-mail: ifkas@uaa.alaska.edu
Name: Barbara Short, Director
Address: Arts Center FNBSD
520 Fifth Ave.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Offering: Visual Arts, general
Phone: (907) 456-2000x417
Fax: (907) 451-6160
E-mail: adctbls@northstar.k12.ak.us
Name: Cathleen Rolph, Art Educator
Address: Soldotna Middle School
425 W. Marydale Ave.
Soldotna, AK 99669
Offering: Visual Arts, general
Phone: (907) 262-4344
Fax: (907) 262-4288
Name: Shala Dobson, Art Educator
Address: US Hanshew Middle School
8221 Upper Huffman
Anchorage, AK 99516
Offering: Visual Arts, general
Phone: (907) 349-1561
Fax: (907) 349-2835
Name: Dan Newman, Art Educator
Address: Blatchley Middle School
601 Halibut Point Road
Sitka, AK 99835
Offering: Visual Arts, general
Phone: (907) 747-8672
Fax: (907) 747-3149
Name: Margaret Grogan, Art Educator
Address: 2934 Simpson Avenue
Juneau, AK 99801
Offering: Visual Arts, general
Phone: (907) 364-3508
Fax: (907) 364-3509
Name: Carla Stanley, Art Educator, High School
Address: Skyview High School
HC2 Box 301
Soldotna, AK 99669
Offering: Visual Arts, high school
Phone: (907) 262-7675
Fax: (907) 262-6555
Name: Diane Melms, Elementary Art Educator
Address: Anchorage School District
4600 DeBarr Road
POBOX Box 196614
Anchorage, AK 99519
Offering: Visual Arts, elementary
Phone: (907) 269-2271
Fax: (907) 269-2345
Name: Myrna B. Clark, Art Supervisor
Address: Anchorage School District
4600 DeBarr Road
PO BOX Box 196614
Anchorage, AK 99519
Offering: Visual Arts, general
Phone: (907) 269-2271
Fax: (907) 269-2345
Name: David Edlefsen, Museum Art Educator
Address: Anchorage Museum of History and Art
121 West 7th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Offering: Visual Arts, general
Phone: (907) 343-6185
Fax: (907) 343-6149