Joint Arts Administrators Institute

A Professional Learning Opportunity for District Arts Coordinators and Administrators of Schools Utilizing an Arts-focused Curriculum

​Twice a year, the Joint Arts Administrators Institute offers an opportunity for administrators to focus on their unique needs and demands in delivering quality arts education to their students. Meeting for two days in late winter and one in mid-summer, the institute has proven to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and strategies among peers as well a conduit for current, relevant information directly affecting administrators. 

The original institute in 2004 was conceived as a means for district arts coordinators to form a support network, learning from not only from experts, but from one another as well. The resulting network, the South Carolina District Arts Coordinators (SCDAC), was then housed under the umbrella of PSAE. Among the first items that the network undertook was the development of a document that would help define standards for quality arts programs. The resulting document is the Essential Elements of a Quality Visual and Performing Arts Program, which provides a model for a quality, standards-based arts education program along with an accompanying checklist that serves as a diagnostic tool for evaluating and improving school and district programs. In 2013, the decision was made to expand the institute to include school-based administrators of schools with an arts-focus.
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The PSAE Joint Art Administrators Institute is a joint project of PSAE with its partners, the Arts in Basic Curriculum Project, and the South Carolina Department of Education.
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Mark Your Calendars!
The next Joint Arts Administrators Institute is coming!
June 12, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 
Kershaw County School District
2029 West DeKalb Street
Camden, SC 29020

9:30 AM - Registration
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM 
​Fee: $10 (lunch provided)
Palmetto State Arts Education is hosting an Arts Administrators Day to provide professional development and support for individuals who provide a leadership role and coordinate arts programs for their district and schools.

Concurrent Sessions

​South Carolina District Arts Coordinators:
  • This session will focus on strategic planning for the 2018-2019 year for the SCDAC to help develop and strengthen a professional learning community of arts coordinators to assist in problem-solving current topics and needs relevant to arts education programing .
Peer-to-Peer Principals Network: 
Incorporating Arts Strategies for Leadership Goals
  • Arts are for adults too! Discover how using arts experiences and arts-integration strategies with faculty can provide modeled instructional leadership for classroom practices while simultaneously develop an environment for leading powerful conversations about collaboration, communication, and critical thinking among your team. The session’s featured art form will be creative writing and will be highly interactive. Participants will not only experience the creative writing activity but engage in reflective conversation about implementation, followed by collaborative design-thinking ideation about future possibilities.

Culminating Joint Session for the Day:
  • We will close out the day with a session  on Mindfulness, presented by Kara Lee-Foster of Greenville County Schools.  Kara will guide us through exploration of how to incorporate mindfulness into our daily work and how to take this back to our teachers.