Update on deadline

I am extending the deadline to apply for this first run of artist-educators through the weekend. So have your applications either to me or postmarked by Monday September 18, 2006.

Please call or email with questions.

Approximate Pay Rate for Residencies

Unlocking the Light

(pay rates for residencies)

While this is an incredibly complex system to navigate in and plan around, I wanted to be sure to give you some approximate numbers for you to work with in your applications. We have two main measures—how many teachers are served by residencies and how effectively the residencies address teaching creatively to the Massachusetts standards. From a planning aspect our main focus is by how many teachers receive a classroom residency.

We are aware of what the research tells us about the amount of coaching time associated with changing teacher practice and will consider proposals that may involve more classroom time than was envisioned in our original proposal for funding. With the help of our evaluator, we will be monitoring the first year for progress and make adjustments from there. It is my hopes that in our larger facilities, we will begin see a real change of culture by the continued presence of residencies with different teachers throughout the year.

You can expect the per diem rate to be approximately $250. There are a number of planning days and such built in that work out like this:

1 day of orientation and training

1 day of co-planning with classroom teacher

1 day of post-planning following the co-planning day

1 day of planning prior to beginning the residency

1 day of planning during the residency

1 day of documenting/follow-up post residency

10 residency days are required for any project.

A residency day will follow the schedule of the site, corresponding with student classes and scheduled teacher prep periods. Typically, a day will include 3-4 classes, 45 minutes to an hour in length, with virtually no break in between classes. The artists’ plan for the day should also include a debriefing time, approximately one to two hours, for meetings with the classroom teachers.

What this means to you is:

6 planning days and 10 residency days at $250 per diem = $4,000.

If an artist group decides to work with more than one teacher at the same facility then it would look like this.

1 day of orientation and training

2 days of co-planning with classroom teacher

2 days of post-planning following the co-planning day

2 days of planning prior to beginning the residency

2 days of planning during the residency

2 days of documenting/follow-up post residency

20 residency days (ten per classroom teacher)

What this means to you is:

11 planning days and 20 residency days at $250 per diem = 7,750.

I would ask that you not get hung up over the numbers I present here. We want to work with you, as we view this as a partnership. This is merely to give you an avenue of thought in preparing your initial applications to us.