The Northern California Arts Education Forum

The Northern California Arts Education Forum which was originally set to take place on December 12th has been rescheduled for February 1st . We hope that you will be able to join us on this day as we have a great lineup of inspiring arts education leaders who will be presenting on three panel discussions.

In addition, we are excited to have Susan Stauter as our keynote 

speaker! Arts educator and advocate Susan Stauter is currently the Artistic Director for the San Francisco Unified School District and was instrumental in the creation of SFUSD's internationally recognized /Arts Education Master Plan/. An award winning credentialed teacher of Theatre and English, she was the founding Chair of the Department of Theatre for the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, and went on to serve as Conservatory Director for the Tony Award winning American Conservatory Theater, (A.C.T.), in San Francisco, where she oversaw all educational programs. Ms. Stauter also works throughout the U.S. and internationally as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, teacher, writer and trainer in the area of arts education. She has consulted for the North Carolina School for the Arts, Great River Shakespeare Festival in Minnesota, the Grammy Foundation, and the Leonard Bernstein Center for Education at Gettysburg College.

Please also help us spread the word by forwarding the invitation below
to your mailing lists and posting this on your website. We hope to see
as many of as possible on February 1st !

For those of you in the Central Valley, we do plan to hold an Arts
Education Forum in Fresno on April 24th . Please save the date!


The Northern California Arts Education Forum - February 1, 2012
9:00 a.m. -- 1p.m.
(Registration and coffee will begin at 8:30am)

Where:
San Mateo County Office of Education
101 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065-1064

This event is free for anyone who wants to learn more about arts.  Attendees will learn about the importance of arts education for all children, school district arts plans, and how to advocate for arts in California schools.

A light lunch will be served.

Limited seating; please R.S.V.P. to arts@capta.org
<mailto:arts@capta.org>by January 27th.

Questions:
Janelle Davila
Arts Education Project Manager
California State PTA
(916) 440-1985, Ext 119