Alina Campana is the Program Director for Turnaround Arts: Minnesota at the Perpich Center for Arts Education, whose mission is to work with low-performing schools using the arts to affect a positive transformation.
Her focus is on shifting the teacher’s perspective of their students by engaging with them through the arts and thereby gaining a deeper understanding of the individual child through their imagination and creativity. Alina is an advocate for teaching the arts as an essential part of a standard curriculum and not as just an after-school activity.
The arts have played an impactful role in Alina’s life, touring Europe as a member of her high school youth orchestra and continuing her commitment into her adult pursuits. She understands all kids need to be engaged in school and supports the Turnaround Arts philosophy of exploring varying ways that creative content can take hold.
About Alina Campana
Alina Campana is the Program Director for Turnaround Arts: Minnesota, working with low-performing schools to use the arts as a key tool in school transformation. Previously, she managed the Perpich Arts Integration Network of Teachers, a rural K-12 teacher professional development project.
She has also worked in education, youth development, communications, and development in a variety of arts organizations in the US and abroad. She has taught in Mongolia, and at the college level in the U.S. Alina holds a Master’s degree in Art and Visual Culture Education from the University of Arizona, and a Bachelor's degree from Wellesley College.
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Further Reading:
Providence Journal - Singer Valerie June pays visit to Providence middle school
Education Week - Turnaround Arts Program Is Expanding
Voice of America - Arts Program in Poor Performing Schools Helping Students
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Thought leaders bringing professional music composition to schools
Educators helping students and battling for the arts
Learning how to engage students in music education
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