Secondary Adventures!: NAEA Southeastern Region Leadership Conference St. Petersburg, Florida July 25-27, 2019

I loved participating in the SE Region Leadership Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida! We began our time together with a Wowzer!Cultural Day! We toured murals (So many!) then on to the Museum of Fine Art, Lunch at Cafe Gala, Dali Museum, and finally The Chihuly Collection! It was an awesome day and we all just enjoyed being together. Spending this time together prepared us to work as a group the next couple of days as we listened and learned from SE state associations who presented advocacy tips, promoting membership and conference ideas. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: ED&I This session was led by our current NAEA President-Elect, James Haywood Rolling Jr. During the session we learned that we must move past the thought of race and cultural differences when thinking of ED & I. This is because ED & I includes disabilities, socioeconomic, belief systems and orientation. It takes a village of many diverse people to make our organization stronger. We need to reach out and invite all Art educators whether they are a regular classroom teacher who wants to know how to teach art better, a community artist who wants to collaborate or a certified teacher we need to invite all to the table that is KyAEA. This is a link on NAEA’s website to give you more info on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force: ttps://www.arteducators.org/community/national-task-force-on-equity-diversity-inclusion Currently, there is a call for nominations for the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Commission. If you are interested you can get more info at this link: https://www.arteducators.org/news/articles/559-call-for-nominations-naea-equity-diversity-inclusion-ed-i-commission Position Statements The following bulleted list are the Position Statements that the SE Leaders reviewed and commented on for further review and comments. We had 8 statements that have been under previous review and 2 new statements that are currently under development. POSITION STATEMENT ON COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE ART EDUCATOR AND THE TEACHING ARTIST POSITION STATEMENT ON BENEFITS OF ART MUSEUM LEARNING IN EDUCATION POSITION STATEMENT ON EQUITY FOR ALL STUDENTS POSITION STATEMENT ON EXCELLENCE IN ART MUSEUM TEACHING POSITION STATEMENT ON ART EDUCATORS WITH DISABILITIES POSITION STATEMENT ON SUPPORTING, SUSTAINING, AND RETAINING ART EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES POSITION STATEMENT ON THE USE OF IMAGERY, CULTURAL APPRECIATION AND SOCIALLY JUST PRACTICES POSITION STATEMENT ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF ART EDUCATORS TO DECISION-MAKERS New Position Statements NEW POSITION STATEMENT -- WORKING WITH LEARNERS WHO ARE DEALING WITH TRAUMA NEW POSITION STATEMENT ON QUALITY OF CURRICULUM INSPIRATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT If you would like to look more into these Position Statements or other Platform Statements you can review them on NAEA’s website. The link is listed below: https://www.arteducators.org/about/platform-and-position-statements Advocacy Advocacy is a word that now brings different connotations to different stakeholders with the arts. So instead of saying the word advocate we have opted to use Champion, because we all need to be a Champion for the Arts! If you would like more info on Advocacy from NAEA here is a link that will take you to other resources: https://www.arteducators.org/advocacy