The Baltimore Arts Education Initiative and Arts Every Day will hold a Town Hall Meeting on Arts Education on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 6PM. Dr. Sonja Santelises and members of her staff will share updates on the implementation of the Fine Arts Strategic Plan, speak about plans for expanding arts education opportunities, and take questions from the audience. This event is free and open to the public.
WHAT: Baltimore City Public Schools Arts Education Town Hall
WHEN: November 19, 2024 at 6PM
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WHO: Featuring Dr. Sonja Santelises, CEO Baltimore City Public Schools, organized by the Baltimore Youth Arts Advocacy Council and featuring a performance by the Digital Harbor High School band, testimony from students, parents, and community members.
ABOUT: The Baltimore Arts Education Initiative (BAEI) was launched in fall 2017 to address the diminishing and inequitable access to arts education in Baltimore City Schools. The long-term goal of the initiative is to build, align, and operationalize arts education policies, procedures and resources in Baltimore so that all students in Baltimore City Schools will experience and benefit from a “sequential standards-based arts curriculum, deep expertise and professional experience, and standards-based connections between the arts and other content areas” (Americans for the Arts, 2014). Since Baltimore City Public School System’s adoption of the Fine Arts Strategic Plan in 2018, the total # of certified fine arts teachers has increased by 57%. As of school year 2024-25, 95% of students have access to visual art instruction and 73% of students have access to general music. Less than 15% of students have access to instrumental music, theater, or dance.
The Bmore Youth Arts Advocacy Council (BYAAC) is composed of Baltimore City youth creatives in grades 10 – 12 who attend Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPSS). As arts advocates, they work to raise public awareness about the benefits of an arts education, identify barriers to equitable access to the arts, and outreach to potential allies who would be in support of policies that make the arts accessible to every student in, every grade, in every school no matter where they live in the city.
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