Cluster+P&P

Leadership Cluster, Canadian Cluster, Residential Cluster
 * Cluster Programs: **

Arts Schools NETWORK's **Leadership Cluster** is an annual colloquium, begun in 1988, providing participants the benefit of small group interaction while meeting on site to examine a particular institution, visit with significant leaders in the field, and explore relationships with vital support organizations and community resources. The site for each year’s cluster mini-conference is selected by participants, and an agenda is crafted to gain insight into the host institution and its relationship to community, to focus on significant leaders with experience worth sharing, and to learn about relevant program support – all within an intensive meeting structure that provides for nearly continuous dialog among participants, thereby encouraging inquiry and comparison during their time together on site.

The Leadership Cluster is planned in coordination with NETWORK’s Canadian Cluster and Residential Cluster, keeping the three attuned with regard to calendar, location, specific mini-conference content and the potential for occasional joint ventures. //** Canadian Cluster **// is hosted by a NETWORK school located in Canada as a leadership colloquium available to all NETWORK members. Furthermore, as a service to arts education at large, any Canadian K-12 and post-secondary arts school is welcome to participate, and to discover the benefits of NETWORK membership. **Residential Cluster** addresses issues and practices specific to residential schools and summer programs. Its participants are primarily provider-level personnel – such as student life directors, counselors, residential assistants, school nurses, deans of students – as well as those interested in developing residential programs.