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Name: Talia Gibas

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Web Site: http://www.lacountyarts.org/

Bio: Talia Gibas is Associate Manager, Arts for All at the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Arts for All is a dynamic, county-wide collaboration working to ensure each of the County’s 1.6 million public school students receives a high quality K-12 education of which the arts are an intrinsic part of the core curriculum. Talia is responsible for supporting district leaders through professional development that equips them to make strategic decisions regarding arts education. In 2009-2010 she helped develop and implement Arts for All’s Leadership Fellows Program. The first of its kind in the country, it engaged teams of district leaders to better recognize and support quality arts education in the face of budget cuts. Talia subsequently developed a grant program requiring the Leadership Fellows districts to apply quantitative school-level data on quality, access and equity of arts education in proposing use of grant resources. With the LA County Office of Education, she manages quarterly professional development and a newsletter for arts coordinators, and the “Teaching Creativity with Common Core Standards” series, equipping arts educators and district leaders to think and plan ahead by framing the arts around the Common Core and impending changes to student assessment. Before joining the Arts Commission she was Program Assistant at the Getty Foundation, where she helped manage professional development grants including the Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program. Talia earned her A.B. in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago, and Ed.M in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.