National Overture in Ohio
2005 - 06

Overview
The Institute is organizing the National Overture of Education and the Arts in Ohio, in partnership with the State Department of Public Education and the Ohio Arts Council, and in close cooperation with local educators, arts and cultural organizations, business and civic leaders and public officials. Planning and research are now underway for a multi-phased program in 2005.

The National Overture in Ohio is designed to demonstrate multiple ways that schools and communities can help meet local standards and needs; to generate professional development programs for educators and artists; to develop broad community support for sustained use of this teaching approach; and to help marshall local, regional and national expertise and resources in support of high quality education.

The National Overture of Education and the Arts in Ohio was formally announced in October 2004 and will include a pilot programs in the communities of Stark County and Columbus.

The Institute for Education and the Arts hired a local coordinator in each of the two initial communities working in partnership with IEA. These local coordinators assisted IEA in identifying the key groups, organizations and individuals of each community and to assure that all sectors of the community were involved from the outset and helped establish advisory groups for each community.

View the Institute's partnership activities in Columbus

View the Institute's partnership activities in Stark County