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From Hip-Hop to Shakespeare: Dallas Blazes “Coordinated” Trail in Arts Education for City Young People
From Hip-Hop to Shakespeare: Dallas Blazes “Coordinated” Trail in Arts Education for City Young People
(July 2008) This “Story from the Field” explores how Dallas’s Thriving Minds initiative is expanding and improving arts learning opportunities both inside and outside of school for that city’s children.
An Initiative to Help Principals Focus on Instruction
Out of the Office and Into the Classroom: An Initiative to Help Principals Focus on Instruction
(January 2008) For school principals under pressure to improve instruction, time is often the scarcest commodity. This article shows how a new position, the School Administration Manager, is being tested with Wallace support in nine states as a promising new way to free principals to concentrate much more time on teaching and learning.
Stories from the Field - Making State Accountability Count: How New Mexico Supports Principals with Data Tools
Making State Accountability Count: How New Mexico Supports Principals with Data Tools
(November 2007) For principals to meet tough state mandates, the right data in useful form is a must to improve instruction and chart student progress. This article vividly describes how New Mexico is taking steps to supply more useful information to its school and district leaders. 
Voices from the 2005 Wallace Foundation Symposium: Building a Framework for the Future
Voices from the 2005 Wallace Foundation Symposium: Building a Framework for the Future
(September 2005) This video captures the key issues facing the field as discussed by OST leaders including funders, practitioners, advocates and policymakers. The video is hosted by Mrs. Margaret Daley, first Lady of the City of Chicago and leading OST advocate.
Building a Framework for the Future: A Wallace Symposium on Out of School Time
Building a Framework for the Future: A Wallace Symposium on Out-of-School Time
(April 2005) The Wallace Foundation sponsored a gathering of providers, policymakers, foundations and intermediaries to discuss how best to deliver high-quality learning opportunities during non-school hours.
Actual Costs of Salaries Figures Into Budgets for Oakland's Schools
Oakland, Calif., now counts actual teacher salaries when figuring a school’s budget, a move proponents say will help balance resources among schools in high-poverty areas and those with more veteran, and thus more highly paid, teachers.
State Arts Agencies at a Crossroads: The Search for Public Benefit
(June 2004) State arts agencies are developing innovative ways to refocus their efforts from supporting arts providers through grant-giving to the larger public benefits of their work.
Redefining the Asia Society
(March 2004) Through innovative programming and extensive outreach efforts, the Asia Society has successfully attracted a new, young, culturally aware, Asian and Asian American audience.
AS220: The Art Community in Providence Where All Are Welcome By Christopher Connell
(January 2004) AS220 is an "open unjuried forum for the arts" where all are welcome. Unique opportunities are provided to musicians and performers to present their work.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theater: New Work, New Audiences, New Expectations
(September 2003) Pittsburgh Ballet Theater's innovative production, Indigo in Motion, attracts new audiences with a blend of Pittsburgh's jazz heritage and classical ballet.
The Loft Literary Center: Developing Audiences for Literature
(June 2003) The mission of the Loft is to foster a writing community, the artistic community, the artistic development of individual writers, and an audience for literature.
Going Toward the Light: Philadelphia's Village of Arts and Humanities
(March 2003) Kujenga Pamoja! Together We Build! The Village of Arts and Humanities offers a unique blend of neighborhood development, creative arts, festivals and more to help rebuild a North Philadelphia community.
A Place of Their Own: Teens Make Programs Come Alive at the Walker Art Center
(December 2002) "Bucking the Notion of Elitism," providing area teens with creative opportunities through an outreach program that now serves as a model for America's cultural institutions.
Something Old, Something New: In Galleries Filled with Masterpieces and Parks Brightened By Children's Murals, Houston's Museum of Fine Arts Brings Art to the People - and People to the Arts
(October 2002) "A Place for All People," working directly with targeted neighborhoods to involve broader, more diverse audiences in the life and work of the museum, with profound immediate and long-term benefits.
Bringing Life Back to the Lady, Artists Create New Work at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

(August 2002) Since opening its doors almost 100 years ago, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum presented its curators, staff and leaders with a unique challenge: how to keep new life flowing through a world-renowned, historic collection and specially designed building that are the result of one individual's creative vision, but with a unique legacy.

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