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Golden
Administrator Award
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 The
Association of Teaching Artists created The Golden
Administrator Award in 2003 to encourage and to support
excellence in the
Arts In Education field. The Award recognizes an Arts In
Education professional whose talent, dedication, and
administrative skills actively strengthen and support the
role of Teaching Artists and the arts in the schools. The
recipient of the The Association of Teaching Artists’
2004 Golden Administrator Award is Susan Lesser.
Susan Lesser, has been blending arts with learning since
1973. A graduate of Skidmore College, and as an elementary
and special-ed teacher in the Scotia-Glenville and
Wappingers School Districts, the arts have always played a
central role in her personal and professional philosophy
of education. Since 1989 she has held the position of
Arts-in-Education Coordinator for the Arlington Central
School District in Poughkeepsie. She has been instrumental
in supporting the role of Teaching Artists in the schools
by developing and facilitating many long term, curriculum
based AIE residencies, as well as obtaining external
funding to support these projects. Each year she
voluntarily organizes the Taconic Region PTA's
Performing Arts Showcase, bringing together Teaching
Artists and school representatives. As a result of her
exemplary efforts in the past ten years, individuals and
specific schools from the Arlington Central School
District have won the prestigious Dutchess County
Executive's Arts Award in the AIE category on four
separate occasions. Sue, also, seeks funding from numerous
public, private, and corporate sources to provide venues
for musicians, storytellers, visual and other artists.
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