Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Chad Woolery, Deputy Superintendent for Dallas ISD. In regards of Janice Wiggins, Visual Arts Special, Dallas Public Schools and her contract with North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, hoping that she could be under an extended contract through June 14 - 25, 1993 to finish work she has started with three of her art specialists in planning the 1993 Dallas Institute. The Dallas Institute is a complex staff development experience for classroom teachers and art specialists in the district. Included in the letter is a detailed list of Wiggin's responsibility and her expected goals. At the end of the letter Davis and McCarter are excited to consider an interactive television connection with Dallas schools on June 21, 1993 and that Dr. Wilson, cross site evaluator for the Getty Center will be observing the distance learning project.

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Don R. Roberts, Superintendent for Forth Worth ISD. In discussion of Roberts supportive efforts to implement discipline-art based education, DBAE in Fort Worth. NTIEVA invites Roberts to a reception and dinner on June 29th, to thank him and other retiring superintendents from their consortium districts.

Photocopy of a letter from Julie Abel, Program Associate, Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In discussion about the remaining funds from the Getty Center Education Institute grant to the RIG consortium be awarded to the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts program. Abel makes a list of issues that need to be discussed and would like to meet up with Davis to discuss them.

Photocopy of a letter from Vicki Rosenberg, Program Officer of the Getty Center, to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In regards to having to cancel a planned site visit for April due to scheduling conflict with the Trust to work on the FY94 budget. Rosenberg writes that she'll make a planned site visit to the Fort Worth institute sometime in the summer and will let them know by May when those dates will be.

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Marilyn Ingram, Kimbell Art Museum. In regards to the Art-O-Gram art education newspaper series and that the Kimbell will be featured on specific days as followed, March 19, May 7, June 11 and June 18. Broadus also requests to include works from the Kimbell in another article or two for the summer months.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Gert K. Peck, Superintendent for Anthony ISD. Inviting Peck to attend the "Learning through Art: The Integration of Art Across the Curriculum" at El Paso ISD Professional Development Center, on March 31, 1994. The seminar is being presented by North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, and will address the correlation between art and Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, TAAS. The presentation will also focus on the discipline-based art education, DBAE. Davis, McCarter and Reynolds hope Peck can attend.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, Dean of the School of Visual Arts, to David Kesterson, Vice Provost for the University of North Texas. To request more space for North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts by wanting access to Rooms 305 & 303 B in Marquis Hall, UNT. Davis understands that the need for space is great, but NTIEVA has proven themselves to be a viable operation with consistent external funding for its program, along with a major outreach for UNT. Davis writes that in the last five years the Institute has generated more than 1,400,000 in grant funds and has only grown more steadily with each passing year. Thus with the expansion of the program, Davis requests more space to continue their operations as their previous space has become overly crowded.

Photocopy of a letter from Nancy Reynolds, Project Coordiantor of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Gail Davitt, Dallas Museum of Art. To discuss the teacher packet for the "Africa Explores" exhibit that Davitt has sent to Reynolds. As well as discuss the upcoming summer institute and other activities that Davitt will find informative. Enclosed in the letter is a schedule for the DMA summer institute that shows when the districts will be visiting the museum. The rest of the letter goes into details about how large the parties from each district will be and details about what the events should cover.

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Anne Sears, teacher at T.D. Marshall Learning Center. Broadus has given Sears lesson plans from Kay Alexander's Learning to Look and Create: The SPECTRA Series. Broadus writes that the art curriculum offers numerous ideas for correlating activities with concepts and addresses interdisciplinary curriculum ideas, highlighting some important introductory lesson plans that Broadus believes will be useful for Sears. Lesson plans are missing from letter.

Photocopy of a letter from Leilani Lattin Duke, Director for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to her colleagues. In regards to an invitation to a multi-year project sponsored by the Getty Center and the College Board, "The Role of the Arts in Unifying the High School Curriculum." The goal of the project is to expand the scope of school reform by demonstrating how the arts can strengthen the high school curriculum. Duke has provided a Request for Proposal, RFP, and encourages them to share the RFP with the schools who will have an interest with the program and to send their interest letter by March 20, 1995 and their submission by May 31, 1995.

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Melanie Wright, Dallas Museum of Art. Broadus requests the use of two or three permanent pieces from the DMA to use in "Art-O-Gram" and "Class Acts" an art education newspaper series in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. The articles are designed for children to give them something more than just an art project but to talk about and view work critically and develop better communication skills.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to John Clark, editor of Spirit Magazine, Southwest Airlines. In discussion of the articles in Spirit that focus on activities in the area that Southwest Airline serves and they thought that Clark would be interested in the discipline-based art education, DBAE implementation project. Davis and McCarter go into further details about what North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts does for educators and the districts in the Texas state as well as where their funding and grants come from. Davis and McCarter write about the success their institute is having with the children and how their reading and writing have improved with the visual art program. Attached to the letter for Clark, they've added more information regarding their program and hoping Clark will be able to feature an article about it.

Photocopy of a letter from Vicki Rosenberg, Program Officer for the Getty Center, to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In regards to Davis and McCarter's support in helping the Getty Center identify new DBAE leaders from around the country to participate in a studio audience teleconference. The leaders were selected from nominations made by directors of the Center and Regional Institutes and the Center has chosen four nominations from Davis and McCarter. Copied on the letter are, Julie Abel, Val Marmillion, Greg Chiemigo and Rachel Rosenthal.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to Gordon Dee Smith, President of InterCultra. Inviting him to be a advisory committee member of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Davis and McCarter writes that being a member of the advisory committee they will periodically review the activities of the Institute and serve as liaison between the community and the Institute, which serves as stepping stone towards comprehensive visual arts program being integrated in school districts. Included in the letter are details about what to expect from being a committee member and the types of meetings they hope to have during the following year. Davis and McCarter write that they are excited about the opportunity to improve the quality of visual arts for students and develop a more informed audience. Davis and McCarter look forward to Smith's response and will call upon him in a few days to confirm Smith's decision.

Photocopy of a letter from Nancy Reynolds, Project Coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Meg Wilson, Dallas Museum of Art. In discussion of an upcoming class trip from Plano students to the DMA for a video session. Reynolds writes that the expected trip will take place on March 31, at 10:00 am with a second grade class from Christie Elementary in Plano. The children will first view a video in the school taught by the classroom teacher and art specialist before the museum experience. The two video sessions will be part of a joint Texas/Nebraska teleworkshop that will be broadcast to 19 states on October 7 and 21.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Vicki Rosenberg, Program Officer of the Getty Center. In regards to a conversation they had regarding the NTIEVA newsletters and sale of advertisements. Davis writes that they could cover the cost of publishing the newsletter by the sale of advertisements as their mailing list exceeds one-thousand. Davis wants to further discuss the details with Marcus Foundation and the Amon Carter Foundation as well before making a decision. Copied on the letter are Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds.

Photocopy of a letter from Pamela K. Geiger-Stephens, graduate research assistant of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Leilani Lattin Duke, Director of the Getty Center. Stephens thanks Duke for inviting her to exhibit the North Texas Institute's art education program at the San Francisco conference as Stephens had met with other researchers with similar interests and had exchanged valuable information with others. Stephens requests that the Getty Institute sponsor a retreat for regional staff members which would help others network and research from others and develop areas for collaboration and ideas.

A memo from Vicki Rosenberg, program officer, for the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors. The memo is in regards to the attached copy of a join letter from Secretary of Education, Lamar Alexander and National Endowment for the Arts Chairman, John Frohnmayer, regarding the role of arts education in American 2000, the President's national education reform initiative.

Photocopy of the agenda from a NTIEVA Museum Educators Meeting. At the top of the paper is a handwritten note that can't be made out. There are six main points listed on the document, some have sub topics underneath them.

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, North Texas State University, to Edith O'Donnell, of the O'Donnell Foundation. In regards to Davis having completed the proposal for the Center for Study of Arts in Education at NTSU. Davis writes that the strong leadership of the arts education faculties at NTSU and the establishment of the Center will put them in a position to effect the quantity of the arts education programs they hope to implement. Davis ends the letter hoping that O'Donnell with review his proposal and get together to discuss any further ideas.

An information release document in regards to six metroplex elementary schools plus thirty other schools nationwide were selected to participate as Arts Partner Schools in a $15 million experiment to reform education. The six schools will work with art educators at the University of North Texas, announced this month by the Annenberg Foundation, the Getty Education Institute for the Arts and the National Arts Education Consortium.

A clipping from the newsletter In House, University of North Texas, written by Kelley Reese, titled "Graduate art education program cited as "tops" in North America. The article relays that a study conducted by Stanford University and Florida State University recently examined and critiqued the graduate level programs in art education in the United States and Canada and the University of North Texas was cited among the best.

A thesis, Assessing Student Achievement in Art, A Study of The Feasibility of Achievement Testing in Art. Submitted to: The Getty Center for Education in the Arts, The J. Paul Getty Trust by Ralph Hoepfner, Ph.D. The report on feasibility of developing curriculum-fair achievement tests the art on both positive and negative notes. During the 1983-84 school year an achievement test was developed to assess the school children's knowledge.

A memo from Vicki Rosenberg, program officer for the Getty Center for Education in the arts, to the Regional Institute Directors, Sheila Brown, Margaret DiBlasio, Edith Curtis Johnson, Anne Lindsey, Nancy MacGregor, Tom McMullen, Frances Thurber, Jack Davis, Virginia Gembica, Phyllis Scott Johnson, Jessie Lovano-Kerr, William McCarter, Nancy Roucher and Joyce Wright. The memo is in regards to the updated dates on the 1992 Regional Institute Director's Meeting, the meeting will begin on November 3, 1992 and conclude in the evening November 6.