Hello from Marion Coleman

Name	Marion Coleman
Date of conversation	Thursday, March 8, 2012
Conversation Participants	Kelley Faulkner, Kris Murray, Marion Coleman, Edna Cabcabin Moran, Michelline Magnatta
Meeting Topics?	How to collectively transform public education through the arts to create a better future together.
Where are we now? Share key takeaways	Concern regarding the barriers that keep us from working together: worrying about what’s in it for each stakeholder language that confuses and isolates us from others everyone needs to see themselves as an artist dissonance between art for art’s sake and art to serve another purpose
Where should we go, and why? Share key takeaways	We need to demystify the discussion about the arts We need to connect the terms of the new economy to the arts in a more concrete way. We need to articulate the place of the arts in the greater world
How Should we get there? Share key takeaways	Make it personal for everyone–how have the arts impacted them?
Next Steps?	Share the story with others.

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