ACE/FAAE Awards Programs

Providing Models of Excellence

All Awards Deadline: March 1, 2008

Awards are presented annually at the Summit in June to Floridians who demonstrate exemplary support for, and commitment to, quality arts education programs in the state. Honorees will be informed of their selection prior to the 2007 ACE/FAAE Leadership Summit, and will be invited to attend the Awards Event at the Summit.

Arts Achieve! Awards Program

Arts Achieve! is an extensive awards program to recognize exemplary school-based programs of arts education which will serve as models of excellence for all schools. To qualify for consideration for this award, the school must provide exemplary arts education programs in at least three of the four arts: Dance, Drama, Music, and Visual Arts.

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ACE/FAAE CREATIVE TICKET “Schools of Excellence”

The Creative Ticket “Schools of Excellence” Awards honor individual schools having exemplary arts education programs that provide a creative learning environment for outstanding student achievement. These awards are offered in collaboration with the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network. Recipients of the ACE/FAAE Florida Creative Ticket Award may be nominated by Florida for the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network’s National Schools of Distinction Award.

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INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

ACE/FAAE SCHOOL BOARD AWARD Download Application (PDF)

o This state-level award honors Florida School Boards that have implemented and sustained exemplary arts education programs that provide a creative learning environment for outstanding student achievement. A national award is offered in collaboration with the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network (KCAAEN) and the National School Board Association (NSBA). The Florida award-winning school board may serve as the Florida nominee for the National Award presented by the KCAAEN and NSBA.

INDIVIDUAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS

• ACE/FAAESCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR Download Application (PDF)
• This individual award provides recognition for leadership in advocacy and/or public awareness related to ensuring the role of arts education in basic education. The individual honored with this award must hold an administrative position with a Florida school.
  
• ACE/FAAE LEGISLATIVE LEADER Download Application (PDF)
• This award provides recognition for legislative leadership related to ensuring the role of arts education as part of a basic education for all children in Florida’s schools and communities. The individual honored with this award must be a member of the Florida Legislature.
  
• ACE/FAAE ARTS EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL Download Application (PDF)
• This individual award provides recognition for leadership in advocacy and/or public awareness related to ensuring the role of arts education in basic education. An individual who works within an educational institution or within the education program of a community-based arts organization or agency will be honored with this award.
  
• ACE/FAAE ARTIST/EDUCATOR DORIS LEEPER AWARD Download Application (PDF)
• This award, created in memory of artist, educator, and visionary, Doris Leeper (1929-2000) in 2001, honors an artist as educator for outstanding contributions to K-12 arts education in Florida via work which advances arts education through advocacy and arts education development efforts with students, teachers, and interested others. The award is presented to a Florida artist who has had a significant and unique impact on arts education in K-12 educational settings in Florida.
• Candidates for this award include such practitioners as artists-in-residence, lecturers, and professional artist-educators who have worked in, or contributed significantly to, K-12 arts education for at least five (5) years. Artists eligible for this award are those working to advance arts education-related programs, performances, and exhibitions; advocacy; promotion; or outreach to schools, youth centers, juvenile justice programs, or arts education in a K-12 school setting.
  
• ACE OF HEARTS Download Application (PDF)
• The President’s Choice Award honors an individual whose contributions to arts education in Florida have made a lasting impact on the quality of life in Florida.
  
• ACE/FAAE BUSINESS LEADER Download Application (PDF)
• This award will honor a business or an individual business person for leadership in, and support of, arts education. Outstanding partnership efforts; local and/or statewide advocacy for arts education; local ACE coalition support; and/or financial support of arts education will be recognized through this award.
  
• ACE/FAAE COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER Download Application (PDF)
• This award honors an individual who has provided significant support to arts education in Florida schools and communities. Work with schools, non-profit arts education programs, and/or ACE Coalitions is recognized through this award.