The Getty Center for Education in the Arts' Regional Institute Directors' Meeting Draft Agenda for the days, November 3 - 6, 1992. The conference meetings will be held at the Four Season Biltmore, Santa Barbara, California. Also attached with the agenda are a list of restaurants in Santa Barbara where the directors can go during their stay. A small group assignments and information document is also enclosed, it divides the regional institute directors with Getty Center advisory committee members.

Photocopy of a memo from Julie Abel, Program Associate, Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Sheila Brown, Jessie Lovano-Kerr, William McCarter, Joyce Wright, Anne Lindsey, Nancy MacGregor and Susan Rotilie. The memo is in regards to information and instructions regarding the regional institute directors exhibit booth and assistant at the Center's fifth national conference. Also included in the memo is further information on the upcoming conference, exhibition schedules, floor plans and guidelines.

The National Education Goals Panel Report, 1997 sent through email. The report and summary highlights what progress the National Education has made towards education in the public system.

A newsletter, The Social Studies, featuring an article, "Images of American Business: Integrating Art and Economics," by James D. Laney and Patricia A. Moseley. The article mentions art education and the role of arts in human education and development as an essential academic subject area. Comprehensive arts education programs have been developed in recent years and the programs have been implemented in school systems across the United States through collaborative efforts. Included in the article is a discipline-based art education diagram drawn by the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to describe the four basic principals of DBAE. The model illustrates the complexity of the connections and relations about the various art disciplines.

Photocopy of a memo from Leilani Lattin Duke, director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors. The memo is in regards to how the states are proceeding with the planning of the implementation of Goals 2000. Duke is enclosing copies of a recent mailing from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, with the intent to the the RIGs more involved and mainstreamed with state education reform efforts and that the Federal U.S. Department of Education funds are given to states .

A newsletter from North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, discussing the achievements, plans and activities conducted by the Institute during the period of July through November of 1995.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about the University of North Texas' education reform program, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, was awarded $4,422 by the Texas Commission on the Arts. The following article details other art organizations receiving their own sums of awarded money.

A newspaper clipping featuring a photograph of elementary school boys Nathan Wood (flexing), and Joel Grimm during the "Living Paintings" program at Sam Houston Elementary School. The program was presented by third graders of historical events, people and places.

Photocopy of a letter from Vicki J. Rosenberg to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter about the first year report from the North Texas Institute of Educators on the Visual Arts and Discipline Based Art Education being introduced in Dallas ISD. There is a stamp at the top of the document that marks the Received date as November 18, 1990.

A newsletter, Education Week, American Education's Newspaper of Record, Editorial Projects in Education, Vol. 8, No. 11. Featuring an article, "In Pittsburgh: New Approaches to Testing Track Arts 'Footprints'." 7th grade violinist listen to two versions of "Chop Sticks" and are asked to write about what was good or bad about the performances, what could be better and how the ensemble can improve it. The exercise is part of an experiment research program in music, visual arts and creative writing by Harvard University's Project Zero, the Educational Testing Services and Pittsburgh Public Schools known as Arts Propel.

The guidelines for expense reporting, sent to the Regional Institute Director's during the director's meeting in Santa Barbara, California. In order to be reimbursed for expenses during / fulling the terms of their contract they must follow the guidelines, such examples as having original receipts and not photocopies. Attached to the end of the guidelines is a filled out travel expense report from William McCarter for the dates of the conference.

A memo from Vicki Rosenberg, program officer of Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors, Sheila Brown, Maggie DiBlasio, Jessie Lovano-Kerr, Bill McCarter, Jeffery Patchen, Frances Thurber, Jack Davis, Anne Lindsey, Nancy MacGregor, Tom McMullen, Nancy Roucher and Brent Wilson. The memo is in regrads to prior correspondence on the Regional institute directors' meeting taking place on January 23, 1991 in Los Angeles. Rosenberg writes that the Center will cover the cost of their lodging for five nights and to make reservations as soon as possible.

A scanned newspaper clipping featuring an article about teacher, Georiga Blaydes and her fifth-grade class room of students undergoing the experimental discipline-based art education program. The students have become as serious about art criticism as professional critics. Changes in art curriculum are being implemented statewide as part of a package of sweeping education reforms approved by the Texas Legislature in 1981. In the article, Ms. Blaydes has been working with the University of North Texas administrators as they plan for a regional center for the visual arts that will promote new art education programs.

The 1992 Regional Institute Director's Meeting published by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. A report with the summaries remarks and discussions from the 1992 Regional Institute Director's Meeting, held from November 3 - 4, 1992, in Santa Barbara, California. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the findings, questions and research in regards to the Center's goals of education reformation through arts and arts education.

Photocopy of a letter from Vicki J. Rosenberg to D. Jack Davis and R. William McCarter about the proposed budget for the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. She focuses on two main issues, paying stipends with grant money and covering travel and meal expenses with grant money.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on North Hi Mount Elementary school, where art is taking a deeper meaning for students at this Fort Worth school near the cultural district of town. The school was awarded a special five-year Annenburg grant. Headed by art teacher Cynthia Riddle, students are learning about art history, art criticism, art production and art aesthetics.

An abstract for the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, with the intention of inviting corporations and private foundations in North Texas to join with the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, the University of North Texas to innovate and implement a education reform for discipline-based arts. The abstract goes into details about what NTIEVA hopes to achieve through their program, wanting to tackle visual literacy, critical criticism and language among elementary and secondary students. Further details about budgeting and proposed planning are incorporated at the end of the abstract.

Photocopy of a document produced by Nancy W. Berry and Nancy W. Reynolds that lists examples of student and class activities involving the ArtLinks program. There are four projects listed in total. At the bottom of the page is contact information for the NTIEVA program at UNT.

A memo from Thandiwee Michael Kendall, Getty Center for Education in the Arts to the Regional Institute Directors. The memo is in regards to the Getty Center for Education in the Arts announcing the publication of the second set of posters in Multicultural Art Print Series (MAPS II). The project is a collaborative effort between The Center, The National Museum of American Art that the Smithsonian Institution, The Southwest Museum, The J. Paul Getty Museum and Crystal Productions Inc, designed to promote understanding, knowledge and appreciation of the many cultures and people with arts created by artists from diverse cultural backgrounds.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on how art is an essential element of education. Jay Gates, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art is contributing in a collaborative project to build art education computer software for schoolchildren. The collaborative effort is a funded project by the Edward and Betty Marcus foundation where the Dallas Museum of Art will be working with the University of North Texas to develop this program.

A memo from Vicki Rosenberg, program officer of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Regional Institute Directors, Sheila Brown, Jack Davis, Margaret DiBlasio, Anne Lindsey, Jessie Lovano-Kerr, Nancy MacGregor, Bill McCarter, Tom McMullen and Nancy Roucher. The memo is in regards to a draft agenda for the Chattanooga meeting, however, the agenda does not include one-on-one meetings with Ann Swartzberg and the project directors to discuss development plans. Rosenberg asks before making final decisions about the agenda if she could leave it as it or extend the meetings to allow this discussion.

Photocopy of a worksheet from Denton ISD that has been filled out with the salaries granted to the Art Specialist teachers at various elementary schools in Denton ISD. At the top of the first paper is the date and time of the record and the phone number of the UNT offices.

Photocopy of a letter from Leilani Lattin Duke, Director of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to the Getty Center Regional Institute Directors. The letter is in regards to the Center's fifth national conference, "Beyond the 3Rs: Transforming Education with the Arts," to be held January 12 - 14, 1995 in Washington, D.C. The letter details hotel reservations, travel arrangements and pre-conference events.

A newspaper clipping featuring a article about Sam Houston Elementary school having a pizza party where pizza will be on sale for $1.50 for a slice of $12 for a whole box. The entire proceeds will go towards the purchase of new materials for the third graders reading and writing program. After the dinner the third-graders will present "Living Paintings," a program about the lives of artists and influences.