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10/13/16 Breakout Session III: The Role of Rural Education and Knowledge Systems
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Leveraging Change: Increasing Access to Rural Arts Education
What is Leveraging Change?
Our long-term goal is to increase access to arts education in rural areas.
What makes the Berkshires like other rural areas?
● Shrinking population● Small schools● Economic
disadvantages● Geographic barriers
What distinguishes the Berkshires?
● Significant cultural assets
● Higher education institutions
● Tourism industry
Research: Original Conception to New Reality
•Research to identify promising practices and exemplars
•Scan of literature •Shift to interviews with
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Creative Youth Development Convening April 2015
Issues for Arts Education Access in the Berkshires
Insufficient:
• communication mechanisms
• regional focused collaboration
• Public transportation
Themes from the Literature/InterviewsChallenges• Geographic distance (getting from place to place for opportunities, for
training, for access to programs)• Poverty and lack of economic opportunity• Lack of access to funders/funding• Lack of public transportation• Out migration of youth• Out migration of industry• Technology challenges (lack of broadband)
Assets
• Rural Areas also have assets that set them apart from more urban areas• Strong relationships• Space• Environmental beauty and features • Unique contextual features
Promising PracticesThe creation of networks• Collective Impact focused• Built on local contexts (cultural, etc.)• Cross sector collaboration• Innovative backbone organizations (higher education, business, state
agencies, collectives)• Professional development as a method of relationship and capacity building• Development of leadership as a catalysts• Strong communication mechanisms to relevance
Build on rural assets • Environmental features• Strong relationships• Cultural context• ,Area offeringsPromote the facility and comfort with collecting and analyzing dataUse of Data• Understand trends • Advocate• Engaging multiple stakeholders in reviewing, understanding data
Rethinking the backbone organization in rural areas:
• Identifying single organizations with capacity to serve in this role can be challenging
• Networks need to share the work and make the commitment to “collaboration of a different kind”
• Collaborating backbone partners Should emerge from the specific context
Local as Lever for Larger Impact
“The Berkshires have terrific
assets. We need alignment.”
-Jake Eberwein, Graduate Dean, MCLAFormer Superintendent, Pittsfield MA
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MCLA’s Important Role in Communication
• Convenings• Student involvement
(blogs, etc.)• Creation of training
participant network• Connecting to other
Berkshire initiatives
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Convening & Connecting Stakeholders
• Teaching artists (Upcoming)
• Creative Youth Development Providers
• Professional Learning Network
• Berkshire Arts Education NetworkM
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Short-term indicators•Identification of baseline data
• Increased cross-sector collaboration in support of arts education in Berkshires
• Increase in convenings and communication about arts education
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Long-term outcomes• Increase in access to arts education in
region• Increase in financial support for arts
education in the region.• Increased cross sector collaboration in
support of arts education.• Connect/share findings with rural arts
leaders
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IdentifyingPilot Participants
• Invited participants–District level–Regional
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Theoretical Frames
• Design Thinking• Collective Impact• Arts partnership stages
of development• Asset-based arts
development
We have invited a select group of participants, including yourself, to explore cross-sector collaboration as a tool for increasing access to arts education in rural Berkshire County. Representatives of arts organizations, educational districts, transportation, business, and social services in the Berkshires have been invited to participate in this cross-sector exploration based on their experience with rural arts education or commitment to the region.
We will tap your expertise to:• activate strategies and develop a plan of action to leverage cross-sector approaches at the district and
regional levels in the Berkshires.• invite and engage multiple perspectives to understand the opportunities/challenges for advancing arts
education in rural Berkshire County• identify a variety of mechanisms for creating greater access to arts education in the rural Berkshires.
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DESIGN THINKINGThe process:
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Nonprofit Collaborations • Berkshire Nonprofit Business Network • Berkshire Nonprofit Solutions • 1Berkshire • Berkshire Initiative for Growth (BIG) • Berkshire Innovation Center (BIC) • Berkshire Funders Roundtable Children Youth and Family Support • Berkshire Priorities (Pittsfield Promise, Chapter one, Our Towns, Our Kids, Our
Future):• Face the Facts: Reduce Teen Pregnancy • Berkshire Youth Development Project • Berkshire Bridges Transformational Movement/Working Cities
Berkshire Strategic Work Group Countywide Initiatives and Associations
Education • Berkshire County Education Task Force • Berkshire County Superintendents Roundtable Health • Berkshire Opioid Abuse Prevention Collaborative: • County Health Initiative/ Berkshire Partnership for Health: • Berkshire Public Health Alliance
Berkshire Strategic Work Group Countywide Initiatives and Associations
Next Steps•White paper summarizing results•Presentations at regional gatherings•Seeking continued funding for
expansion of program
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ReferencesBerkshire Population Declining Rapidlyhttp://www.iberkshires.com/story/45538/BRPC-Berkshire-Population-Declining-Rapidly.html
Collective Impact by John Kania & Mark Kramerhttp://www.uw.org/our-work/collective-impact-article.pdf
Local as Lever image of Berkshire County: http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22285Design Thinking Image: http://createdu.org/design-thinking/
Map of Berkshire, MA: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Map_of_Massachusetts_highlighting_Berkshire_County.svg/2976px-Map_of_Massachusetts_highlighting_Berkshire_County.svg.png
Change Just Ahead Image: https://rixxblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/change-is-inevitable/
Convening Stakeholders slide: http://www.artisteducators.org/
Collective Impact Images come from “Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work” Stanford Review.