• Local Kennedy Center Workshops

    Allied Arts and the Hamilton County Department of Education (HCDE) collaborate as one of 112 partnerships teams across the country participating in the Partners in Education Program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

    Through this program, eight workshops attended by more than 150 Hamilton County elementary school teachers were presented, connecting the arts to literacy instruction.

    The workshops are funded through grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Kennedy Center.

    • All Allied Arts professional development workshops have been provided at no cost to the teachers or HCDE

    • Workshops are led by nationally recognized arts education leaders. The workshops provided engaging instruction concepts that connect art to literacy.

    • Allied Arts invested $70,000 in professional development for HCDE teachers during the 2006-2007 school year.

    • The workshops provided by Allied Arts have been rated as excellent and highly effective by over 90 percent of the participants

    • 26 area teachers have participated in a nationally recognized research project funded by the Kennedy Center. The projects studied the effectiveness of teacher study groups to support the implementation of arts instruction in the classroom. The findings were released in a national publication of the Kennedy Center.

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