A report summary in regards to the Getty Center for the Arts in Education supporting the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the University of North Texas, $570. Mentioned are co-directors Jack Davis and William McCarter.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the January 1991, Vol. 2 No. 1. The purpose of the newsletter published by North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts from the University of North Texas it to provide readers the art and art education accomplishments and news within the metroplex. Such news like, "Remington Sculpture At The Amon Carter," a bronze sculpture of the American West which will be displayed during their Cast and Recast: Sculpture by Frederic Remington in the Amon Carter Museum Collection.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring 1992, Vol. 3 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "1992 NTIEVA Institute Set For June 15 - 26," the summer institutes primary goal is to train public school and museum educators to be knowledgeable in discipline-based art education, a four tier discipline that is deemed fundamental for school curriculum. Over 200 educators will be trained during the summer institute which will include a focus on multicultural perspectives.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Winter 1996, Vol. 7 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Aesthetics: Questioning The Nature of Art," higher level of thinking through aesthetics. The newsletter states that students become involved in aesthetic inquiry when something puzzles them about works of art. The newsletter will go over the topics and questions of what defines aesthetics and how to determine such in works of art.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Summer 1995, Vol. 6 No. 3. The newsletter features an article, "Making Thematic Connections Through Human Commonalities," thematic connections. The newsletter states that the use of thematic connections in the curriculum offers invaluable opportunities for teacher collaboration to develop meaningful learning experiences, and provides some lesson summaries that relate the use of human commonalities as underlying themes.

An article featured in Arts & Activities newsletter, by Pamela Geiger Stephens and Michelle Mattoon. Pamela Geieger Stephens is a teaching fellow and graduate research assistant at the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, University of North Texas, and Michelle Mattoon is a pre-service art specialist at the University of North Texas. Their article, "Thinking like an Artist," is about a puzzle activity for school children to help develop their own original ideas and encourages careful observation of a work of art. Stephens and Mattoon have developed this puzzle activity to allow students to act like an art critic and aesthetician as they describe an image.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring 1993, Vol. 4 No. 2. The newsletter features an article,"1993 Summer Institute Set For June 14 - 25," the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts holds a summer institute to train more than 300 educators in discipline-based art education which purpose is to be implemented in the public school curriculum. Included in the newsletter is a structure of how the districts will be separated during the five separate but simultaneous institutes.

A report summary about the Getty Center for Arts in Education for North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Listed are co-directors Jack Davis, Associate Vice Provost and William "Bill" McCarter, Art Professor.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Fall 1993, Vol. 4 No. 3. The newsletter features an article, "NTIEVA Presents Five Simultaneous Institutes, June 14 - 25, 1993." A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring Semester, 1998, Vol. 9 No. 2. The newsletter features an article, will host nearly 250 educators attending the 1993 summer institute consisting of school districts and art museums across the Texas metroplex. The purpose of the institutes it to train educators to learn discipline-based art education which will then be implemented in the public curriculum.

A newsletter, Common Core of Learning Assessment Project, Compact Dialogue, Connecticut Multi-state Performance Assessment Collaborative Team in Math and Science. Compact Dialogue is a monthly publication of the Compact Project a multi-state collaborative effort funded by the National Science Foundation. The newsletter will keep up to date information on all the happenings within the project.

A page from the "In House" newsletter, published by the University of North Texas. This page details information of upcoming guest lecturers and achievements by professors and educators. Nancy W. Berry, assistant professor of Visual Arts and program director of the National Center for Art Museum / School Collaborations, conducted three focus groups of art museum and school educators. June 29, Dallas. July 27, Washington and August 17, Portland.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the September 1991, Vol. 2 No. 3. The newsletter features an article, "Museum Educator Named To UNT Staff." North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and the University of North Texas welcomes Nancy Berry, with a one-year appointment, who graduated with degrees in both art history and art education. Berry has a rich-background in museum education and will become an invaluable asset to the Art Department.

A page from the "In House" newsletter, published by the University of North Texas. This page details information of upcoming guest lectures, highlighted is a lecture by Dr. William McCarter, Regents Professor at the University. This lecture is over Dr. Albert C. Barnes, art collector, "Dr. Albert C. Barnes: The Education of an Educator."

An article published in Arts & Activities magazine in the Pixel Palette section, titled "Viewing History Through A Computer Window," by Berniece Patterson. Patterson is an art teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Denton Texas. Patterson writes in her article that in a technological society she wants her students to be competent in creating original artworks on the computer, and in her classroom she has twenty-eight Macintosh computers with the software ClarisWorks installed. Patterson believes that it is important for students to learn about artists, their styles and what has influenced them throughout history and with the combined technology it makes it more possible.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Summer 1994, Vol. 5 No. 3. The newsletter features an article, "Art Education: Creative Birthright," stating that human beings around the world all inherently inventive, reflect ideas, values and emotions to their respective environments. The newsletter will discuss why many lose the creative birthright once they reach adulthood.

A report summary in regards to the Getty Center for the Arts in Education in support of North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the University of North Texas for $601. Mentioned are co-directors Jack Davis and William McCarter. Also mentioned is the Marcus Foundation in support of NTIEVA for $60,000.

A report summary published by the University of North Texas, with a positive note that reads, "We wish you all a very happy and successful new year." Also on the report is the support from the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation, gifting North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts nearly $80,000 for art reproductions to be used as educational tools.

A newsletter, Teaching Thinking Skills To Distant Learners by Steven G. Sachs. The thinking skills project was a collaboration between three community colleges in Virginia, Blue Ridge, Germana and Northern Virginia. Steven G. Saches is an Associate Dean, Instructional Technologies and Extended Learning at Northern Virginia Community College and the newsletter discusses the approach to distant learning problems and how to over come them.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Winter 1995, Vol. 6 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Marcus Foundation Awards Collaborative Grants for Art Education in Texas," awarding the grant to the University of North Texas and the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The rest of the newsletters focuses on the relationship that quality art education has with the curriculum content and learning outcomes and discussing works of that that follows into the discipline-based art education.

A report summary regarding the Getty Center for Arts in Education supporting North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts for $1,360. Mentioned are Jack Davis and William McCarter, the co-directors of North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring Semester, 2000, Vol. 11 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Telling Stories of Immigration Through Art," American History as the Context for Art. This newsletter concentrates on the great wave of immigration to the United States in the late 19th century through symbolized works of art. The State of Liberty especially is vised as a patriotic symbol.

A newsletter, Educational Leadership, Opening Up Assessment by Dennie Palmer Wolf. From students' projects, portfolios, and interviews, Pittsburgh art teachers participating in Arts Propel are learning to "read" students' growth in learning. Arts Propel is a three-way collaborative project to look at what the arts teach and how the arts teachers examine their students. The newsletter is updated with information on the arts propel project and the research behind arts education.

A newsletter, Educational Leadership, Vol. 46, No. 7. Portfolio Assessment: Sampling Student Work, When students maintain portfolios of their work, they learn to assess their own progress as learners, and teachers gain new views of their accomplishments in teaching. A consortia of administrators, teachers and researchers in the Pittsburgh schools have been searching for alternatives to standardized assessments. A three-way collaborative project, Arts Propel, is composed of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, Educational Testing Services and Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education to demonstrate that it is possible to asses the thinking in arts and humanities.

A newsletter from the Foundation News, a philanthropy and nonprofit sector, with an article on Corporate CEOs actively supporting new efforts to improve elementary and secondary education. An increasing number of CEOs of American corporations are helping to take the risk of formulating new solutions to recognize the shortcomings that characterize K-12 education. A hand-written note on the newsletter reads, "FYI: Participants art the Getty Center for Education in the Arts RIG Director's MTG. South Seas Plantation, Florida. October 28-31, 1990."