ALL ELEVEN EAST BRUNSWICK SCHOOLS IN TOP 10% OF ALL
NEW JERSEY SCHOOLS IN THE NJ ARTS EDUCATION CENSUS
The widely anticipated report Keeping the Promise - Arts Education for Every Child: The Distance Traveled - The Journey Remaining was released May 10, 2012 at the historic Patriots Theater in the War Memorial in Trenton. This is the follow-up study to the 2006 New Jersey Arts Education Census report WIthin Our Power. The New Jersey Arts Education Census Project (NJAECP) is a partnership of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey Department of Education, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey Arts Education Partnership, ArtPride New Jersey Foundation and Quadrant Arts Education Research
All eleven of East Brunswick's schools placed in the top 10% of all New Jersey Schools and our District Factor Group (DFG). Data measured included diversity and quantity of course offerings in Music, Art, Theatre Arts, and Dance, as well as budgeting, teacher/student ratio, enrollment, and community involvement.
To see East Brunswick's results and to compare them to other schools you are invited to click on http://digportfolio.com/njarts/
Congratulations to students, parents, teachers, and educational leaders for believing in
the power of Arts Education!
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT EBPAC
East Brunswick Public Schools has reached an agreement with the NJSO, Jacques LaCombe, Music Director, to perform at the East Brunswick Performing Arts Center at Hammarskjold Middle School. The event will be part of the Arts Education Concert Series and will feature a high school orchestra festival during the afternoon with adjudicators from the NJSO critiquing and working with students. A quartet festival will also take place concurrently. The festival will conclude with performances by the exemplary quartet and orchestra to precede the concert by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra performing an all Tchaikovsky program. More information on ticket sales will be available in the fall. Reserve the date now: Friday, April 26, 2013 at 8:00 PM!
EAST BRUNSWICK HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
TO PERFORM IN RHODE ISLAND
Congratulations to Michael Berry and the members of the EBHS Orchestra program. Mr. Berry received word that they had been accepted to perform in the National Orchestra Festival, February 28, March 1 and 2, 2013 in Providence, Rhode Island next year. This is truly an honor and a testament to the continued level of achievement in the orchestra program.ART IN THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING ROOM
June 25 through September: District Honors Display (two student artworks from each teacher in each school)
JUNE CONCERTS AND SHOWS
Monday, June 4
Hammarskjold Middle School Bands, 7:00 PM, EBPAC
Tuesday, June 5
Churchill Pops Concert, 7:00 PM, CJHS Cafetorium
Thursday, June 7
All District Elementary Band, 7:00 PM, EBPAC at Hammarskjold
Saturday, June 9
Hammarskjold Art Department at the East Brunswick Fine Arts Festival, 10-2
