Why Your Board needs Term Limits
Is your board reluctant to enforce term limits? If so, the board is in danger of becoming stale and set in its ways. And when that happens, your entire organization Continue Reading →
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The Weekly round up
Vancouver Kiwanis Music FestivalThe Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival wraps up this week with the final classes of this year’s festival taking place today. Congratulations to all of our students that Continue Reading →
Art of Science and Technological Innovations
I’ve just published a study that shows that almost all Nobel laureates in the sciences are actively engaged in arts as adults. They are twenty-five times as likely as average Continue Reading →
BC Arts and Culture Week
BC Arts and Culture Week is taking place April 10th to 16th, 2011 presented by ArtStarts and the Assembly of BC Arts Councils. Arts and Culture Week BCNow in its Continue Reading →
The weekly round up
A potpourri of weekly musings thoughts and ideas collected from the blogsphere. The Future of classical musicI am wondering out loud these days about the future of classical music, especially Continue Reading →
Restoration of BC Gaming funds for some arts education organizations
In the past week many community arts education nonprofits for children in BC, including several of our member schools have had some of their support from the BC Government Gaming Continue Reading →
Royal Conservatory of Music’s exam system to become standard for U.S. music schools
From the Globe and Mail Saturday March 26 When New York’s famed Carnegie Hall decided the United States’ patchwork of state music programs should have a national system to unite Continue Reading →
Sistema in Scotland
Venezuela’s El Sistema project is now being exported around the world. The concept is to give free music lessons to students in very impoverished neighborhoods to give the children a Continue Reading →
Canadian students do well in International Survey
It seems our students in Canada are fairing much better than our friends to the south in the US. Recent results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) show Continue Reading →
Spring Break is almost here!
Spring Break is almost upon us, and for some school districts it may already indeed be upon us. Many school districts are now engaging (or perhaps I should say disengaging) Continue Reading →