Nina Woodruff-Walker, Executive Director of MOCHA, gave a recap of the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area (AEABA) Policy Roundtable on Nov. 4th. Mika Lemoine (Destiny Arts Center) and Sheba Aaberg (SF Jazz) shared their experience from attending the National Guild for Community Arts Education Conference in Austin. Indi McCasey (OUSD Visual and Performing Arts) shared the Letter to the City of Oakland's Funding Advisory Committee regarding their interest in placing the Art-in-the-Schools grant on hiatus.

Our group talked about shifting our annual Collaborative Professional Learning Community event from March to August to kick off the next program year. Instead, there has been interest in a Teaching Artist Series, designed and for Bay Area teaching artists. Aimee Espiritu (OUSD Visual and Performing Arts) then led the group through a series of generative activities around issues that we would like the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area (AEABA) to address at their first East Bay Policy Roundtable happening on Nov. 4th from 10-11:30am at Pro Arts.

Some ideas that surfaced:

• Shift from funding projects to funding partnerships
• Sharing resources
• Policy advocacy: Who to partner with that advocates in Sacramento since policy can directly affect how we’re funded
• Shared Nuts & Bolts PD: Taxes for teaching artists, mandatory reporting, sexual harassment training, CPR, etc.