Cultural organizations were asked to complete a survey about the types of cultural education they provided both during and outside of the school day to students and teachers in the Distr
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Arts and Cultural Education Snapshot 1.0
A Pilot Project to Advance Arts and Cultural Education
in Palm Beach County
October 22, 2018
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Cultural organizations were asked to complete a survey about the types of cultural education they provided both during and outside of the school day to students and teachers in the District and other learning locations, as well as instructional time, budgets, and staffing dedicated to education.
This pilot study provides a record of education delivered by 47 Palm Beach County nonprofit
cultural organizations that responded to the survey in 2018 of their PreK‐12 education activities during the 2016‐2017 school year. This sample represents roughly 60% of all Palm Beach County cultural organizations providing education services. It is a first step toward better understanding the relationship between the cultural sector and the District and how to strengthen that relationship for the benefit of all students and educators.
The results of this research were discussed during an October 9, 2018 workshop led by the Council with representative from the participating organizations and the District. The group focused on their discussion on three questions:
1 Source: Cultural Council of Palm Beach County and Americans for the Arts.
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Provided education in 90% of District schools and 299 other county learning locations.
Contributed $11,835,157 in educational programming at an average of $263,003 per organization
Provided 432,765 educational experiences and
32,385 instructional hours to students.
Provided 69% of District schools with education from four or more cultural organizations.
Offered 628 different educational experiences in
20 arts and cultural disciplines.
Provided 17,603 professional development experiences to teachers.
Tracked 53,094 volunteer hours to deliver cultural education programs.
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Students who have access to arts‐enabled curriculums score higher on standardized tests, have higher GPAs, and lower drop‐out rates.
leaders say that creativity is the number one skill they are seeking when hiring.
Community‐driven efforts to engage with arts result in higher civic engagement and lower crime and poverty rates. Students involved in the arts are 3 times more likely to be
elected to class office and to win awards for attendance.
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Arts education has been in steady decline nationally since 2001, partly as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act and its 2015 replacement, the Every Student Succeeds Act. While the arts are recognized as a core academic subject under the federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act and 48 states, including Florida, have adopted standards for learning in the arts, arts education has ever less time in classrooms. Palm Beach County nonprofit arts and cultural organizations have been picking up the slack.
For 2017‐2018 Palm Beach County is among the top strata statewide in overall fine arts student enrollment (60‐79%) according to the Florida Alliance for Arts Education. The School District of Palm Beach County has the highest graduation rate of Florida’s largest school districts and two high schools are on the list of the top 100 national high schools in 2018, the Alexander W.
Florida Alliance for Arts Education for its Florida Arts Model School UB Kinsey/Palm View
Elementary and for Arts Achieve! Schools between 2010 and 2017 including Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Bak Middle School of the Arts, and Boca Raton Community High School.
PBCedu.org cites eight private and faith‐based schools as points of pride in the area of
Workforce Readiness, all of which receive arts and cultural education from Palm Beach County nonprofits. In addition, PBCedu.org points to the fact that more than 90% of Palm Beach County public schools receive arts and cultural education and arts programs are found in all school levels.
Trang 8According to the 2014 South Arts study, less than half of Florida schools receive arts education funding from their district. According to the District, FY18 School Appropriations by Function and Program within the FY 2018 district budget, fine arts (including art, music, and PE) make up
less than 3% of the $9.5 million core allocation within the $2.9 billion budget. From FY17 to FY19 both fine arts funding and the core allocation increased, however the percentage of that
To counter historical declines in arts and cultural education, the county’s nonprofit arts and cultural organizations expanded their role in delivering arts and cultural experiences to
students. But, these services may be in jeopardy.
The vital arts and cultural education services that help to make Palm Beach County’s
education a point of pride need stronger and more balanced support and engagement from
the District.
This year, the Florida Legislature cut cultural funding by 90% in the 2018‐2019 budget. Florida will now rank 48th in per capita
Trang 9The Palm Beach County Arts and Cultural Education Snapshot Pilot Report brings forth many
conclusions and the data behind those conclusions can be used to communicate the impact of these programs to the education community and serve as a baseline for monitoring, trend analysis, and advocacy for arts and cultural education.
Cultural Council
Continue to collect this data from more cultural organizations.
Continue to convene discussions about how the Cultural Council can better support arts and educational in the county.
Continue research to align with the needs of legislators, superintendents, school
principals, classroom teachers, arts specialists, and teaching artists.
Provide more detailed breakdowns of data by district and school level.
Consider a survey of school leaders to identify needs, interests, and ways to remove barriers to participation.
Convene micro groups around specific schools or geographic areas where there is a lot of activity to explore the climate and uncover what’s making these connections successful.
Create a simple tool that shows how each cultural education program fits into district priorities.
Trang 10The Cultural Council is the county’s local arts agency; thus, it has the unique role of supporting the cultural sector through education, advocacy, services, marketing and grants. By understanding this impact, the agency, as liaison to the District, can identify opportunities to inform policy and
practices, improve educational partnerships between and among cultural organizations, schools and the District, and ensure all students experience cultural education.
This study was a great start. But it is only a start. With great enthusiasm from participants this process will continue and expand with more strategic focus and planning in the coming years.
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A request for information was sent to upwards of 75 cultural organizations in Palm Beach County. A total of 47 organizations responded.
Trang 12Close to 90% of organizations provided out‐of‐school programs such as field trips, tours, and lessons. Between 28% and 74% provided programs during the school day and half provided after‐school programs. More than half of organizations provided student performance
opportunities and professional development for teachers. Roughly a third of organizations provided both short‐ and long‐term instruction. In addition to the program types listed (above)
on the survey, organizations mentioned providing other types of cultural education in the form
of student exhibitions, cultural/arts scout badges, instrument donations, internships, festivals, private instruction, scholarships, virtual learning workshops, master classes, and arts/cultural volunteer hours.
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The types of cultural education provided by organizations is very diverse with 20 different disciplines or categories mentioned. The most common experiences were theater, dance, literary and language arts, history or heritage programs. These were followed closely by visual arts or crafts, environmental awareness, conservation or preservation, science or horticulture, and instrumental music.
Trang 14Organizations offered a total of 628 different program types. For example, a program type might be field trips, which would be one way an organization might deliver education.
Organizations averaged 13 different types of program offerings. Some organizations offered one type of program and some as many as 80.
Organizations were asked to tally the number of specific events, experiences or activities they provided within these program types. For example, and organization that offered field trips may have provided 25 field trips. From these different program types, organizations provided more than 8,000 unique educational experiences, events, or activities from a single offering to more than 1,000. Cultural organizations provided an average of 171 education events.
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Of 184 District schools, 90% received education programming from cultural organizations. In addition, 33 charter schools in the District received these services, as did 98 private schools, 18 home schools or home school groups, and 150 other learning locations such as community organizations and early learning centers.
With virtually every school in the county receiving education from these cultural organizations, this report looked at the volume of education provided to schools by type of school. Of the 47 cultural organizations studied, 85% (40 organizations) provided 947 education experiences to public pre‐K through elementary level schools. This was the highest level of service by school type. Thirty eight organizations (81%) provided 439 education experiences to private schools in the county. The next highest level of service was to other learning locations to which 74% of organizations provided 395 education experiences. Sixty eight percent of organizations
provided 175 education experiences to District high schools and 68% of organizations provided
171 education experience to District middle schools. Charter schools in the District were
provided with 138 education experiences by 60% of the cultural organizations, and schools designated as ESE schools were served by 32% of organizations with 38 education experiences.
3 This data was compiled from reporting by the cultural organizations and compared with a database of District schools. District records included school type and included 184 records. This list was matched to school and learning location names provided by the organizations. Each was asked to list the locations where their
organization provided education during the 2016‐2017 school year, including summer 2017. Many other
schools/learning locations were added to the database resulting in a total of 483 schools/learning locations. This database includes 184 District schools, 33 charter schools (in the District), 98 private schools, 18 home
school/groups, and 150 other learning locations (primarily community organizations and early learning centers/day care centers).
Number of School Types Organizations are
Serving with Arts and Cultural Education
Programs
Number of Organizations Providing Service
Percentage of Organizations Providing Service
Programs Provided in School Type
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education programs. It is not possible to know the number of individuals receiving these
services or what percentage of the school population participated. For example, one student in
a school may benefit from education programs of multiple organizations. That student may participate in a school field trip to a museum, have arts‐integrated curriculum in the classroom, take music lessons after school, and may have enrolled in a science summer camp.
Organizations track the schools and learning locations they serve and the number of students in these programs, but not individual students. However, reporting the “direct service totals” of the 47 cultural organizations in the study sheds some light on impact.
Cultural organizations in Palm Beach County provided 432,765 direct student education
was 9,208. Reporting included a minimum of 50 students served to a maximum of 127,000 students served. In addition to students, these organizations provided 17,603 direct teacher services, with an average of 375 teachers receiving education services per organization. Per teacher education services ranged from a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 4,500.
In total, these organizations provided 32,385 hours of cultural education to schools in Palm Beach County.
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The 47 cultural organizations spent a total of $11,835,157 on education to Palm Beach County schools in the 2016‐2017 school year. These organizations had operating budgets that year of between $29,000 and $25.5 million. Their education spending ranged from a minimum of
$1,000 to $1,202,302, with average education spending of $263,003.
Overall, 9% of the total operating budgets of cultural organizations was spent on education. 51% of these organizations dedicated less than 10% of their budget to education, 34%
ARTS/CULTURAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMING EXPENSES
Minimum arts/cultural education programming expenses reported $ 1,000Maximum arts/cultural education programming expenses reported $ 1,202,302Total arts/cultural education programming expenses reported $ 11,835,157Percentage of total operating budgets reported 9%Average arts/cultural education programming expenses reported $ 263,003Average percentage of budget reported (range <1% to 100%) 23%
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Total FTE (full‐time equivalency) staffing positions for education during the 2016‐2017 school year was 423, including employees, contracted artists, teaching artists, and other education specialists. In addition, these organizations reported 53,094 hours in volunteer hours to deliver
Trang 19Table 9. Which schools are receiving education services from cultural organizations?
Organizations were asked to provide the names of schools and learning locations where their organization provided education during the 2016‐2017 school year, including summer 2017. A database of schools was obtained from the District. Each school was tagged by the
organizations that reported serving the school that year. Many schools and learning locations named by the cultural organizations were not on the District database so they were added, tagged, and coded by school type and grade level (if known). Learning locations not listed on the District database included community organizations, early learning centers, camps, and after‐school programs that take place at alternative venues. With the addition of other learning locations the database resulted in 483 unique locations where cultural education takes place.
District schools made up 38% of all learning locations to which cultural organizations are
providing education. Other learning locations made up 31%, followed by private schools (20%), charter schools (7%), and homeschools (4%). Ninety percent of District schools and 100% of charter schools received education from the 47 cultural organizations in this study.
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Cultural organizations often provide educational services to multiple schools and in different areas of the county. Individual schools are served by an average of 3.8 organizations, and some schools received educational programming from as many as 15 different organizations. 53% of schools received education services from between one and three organizations, 38% received services from between four and nine organizations, and 5% received services from more than
5.7
Average Number of Organizations Providing Education
5.8 3.7 2.5
5.2
Average Number of Organizations
2.0 6.6 4.1
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District schools are served, on average, by more cultural organizations than other school types. 69% of District schools receive education from more than four cultural organizations, with 10% receiving education by more than 10 organizations.
Table 12. How many cultural organizations are providing
education in schools by region?
Education services to District schools by region show that schools in the central part of the county are served, on average, by more organizations, and alternative schools and schools in the glades area of the county are served by the fewest. For example, District schools in the central parts of the county are served on average by 6.56 organizations compared with 4.18 organizations on average for schools in the glades. “Unknown” regions in the chart above are almost exclusively other learning location, not District schools.
Schools served by 10 or more organizations 19 10% 1 3% ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 3 3%
DISTRICT SCHOOLS (n=184)
CHARTER SCHOOLS (n=33)
HOME SCHOOL/GROUPS (n=18)
OTHER LEARNING LOCATIONS (n=150)
PRIVATE SCHOOLS (n=98)
OTHER LEARNING LOCATIONS (n=150)
1
7 2.1
PRIVATE SCHOOLS (n=98)
1
15 3.4
HOME SCHOOL/GROUPS (n=18)
1
7 2.5
DISTRICT SCHOOLS (n=166)
1
15 5.8
CHARTER SCHOOLS (n=33)
1
15 3.7
(n=12)
NORTH (n=43) SOUTH (n=56) ALTERNATIVE
(n=1)
UNKNOWN (n=300)
1
15 2
1 1 1 2
CENTRAL (n=54) GLADES (n=11)
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