Conversation Leaders

Marna Stalcup
Program Manager
Right Brain Initiative

Martha Richards
Executive Director,
James F. & Marion L.
Miller Foundation

Guests at the May 11, 2009 AGOG Dinner & Discussion considered
The Necessity of the Arts in Education

Our conversation leaders prepared the following reading materials.

Report Summaries: Arts & Academic Achievement

  Learning, Arts and the Brain by John Frohnmayer

  Sir Ken Robinson -National Forum of Education Policy Address

  Did You Know? Video by Karl Fisch (approximately 5 minutes)

 Did You Know? Transcript of Video by Karl Fisch
 

Guests considered the following questions:

• How can communities improve on selling/marketing the arts as an indispensable
  part of education that continues to yield benefits to the whole of one’s life?

• If admitted to the curriculum at all, why are the arts purposely considered extracurricular and how can they be meaningfully integrated into the core curriculum?

• What are the most convincing reasons for professionally taught art programs to be considered an essential part of every child’s education from K-12?