RECOGNITION PROGRAMS: FAAE LEADERSHIP RECOGNITION

FAAE Leadership awards recognize Florida’s distinguished leaders in arts education.
If you know an outstanding arts education leader, click here for nominating information.

Arts Education Professional

This individual award provides recognition for leadership in advocacy and/or public awareness related to ensuring the role of arts education in basic education. An individual who works within an educational institution or within the education program of a community-based arts organization or agency will be honored with this award.

This award will honor a business or an individual businessperson for leadership in, and support of, arts education. Outstanding partnership efforts; local and/or statewide advocacy for arts education; local ACE coalition support; and/or financial support of arts education will be recognized through this award.

This award honors an individual who has provided significant support to arts education in Florida schools and communities. Work with schools, non-profit arts education programs, and/or ACE Coalitions is recognized through this award.

Legislative Leader

This award provides recognition for legislative leadership related to ensuring the role of arts education as part of a basic education for all children in Florida’s schools and communities. The individual honored with this award must be a member of the Florida Legislature.

School Administrator

This individual award provides recognition for leadership in advocacy and/or public awareness related to ensuring the role of arts education in basic education. The individual honored with this award must hold an administrative position with a Florida school.

Superintendent Award

This award recognizes the impact that strong leadership from a superintendent can have in developing and maintaining strong arts education programs in a school district.

School Board Award

This state-level award honors Florida School Boards that have implemented and sustained exemplary arts education programs that provide a creative learning environment for outstanding student achievement. A national award is offered in collaboration with the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network (KCAAEN) and the National School Board Association (NSBA). The Florida award-winning school board may serve as the Florida nominee for the National Award presented by the KCAAEN and NSBA. School Boards compete for this award through an application process.

ACE of Hearts

The President's Choice Award honors an individual whose contributions to arts education in Florida have made a lasting impact on the quality of life in Florida.

Doris Leeper Award

This award, created in memory of artist, educator, and visionary, Doris Leeper (1929-2000) in 2001, honors an artist as educator for outstanding contributions to K-12 arts education in Florida via work which advances arts education through advocacy and arts education development efforts with students, teachers, and interested others. The award is presented to a Florida artist who has had a significant and unique impact on arts education in K-12 educational settings in Florida. Candidates for this award include such practitioners as artists-in-residence, lecturers, and professional artist-educators who have worked in, or contributed significantly to, K-12 arts education for at least five (5) years. Artists eligible for this award are those working to advance arts education-related programs, performances, and exhibitions; advocacy; promotion; or outreach to schools, youth centers, juvenile justice programs, or arts education in a K-12 school setting.