| Local leaders in arts education gathered at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 to celebrate this year's winners of The Music Center Bravo Awards. The 25th annual event honored exemplary arts educators in three categories; a school, an arts specialist working directly in an arts field and a general classroom teacher who integrates the arts in all subject areas.
View video coverage of the 2007 BRAVO Finalists in their classrooms:
2007 BRAVO Award School Finalists
2007 BRAVO Award Specialist Teacher Finalists
2007 BRAVO Award Generalist Teacher Finalists
Acclaimed producer and director, Garry Marshall hosted the evening and announced the winners. Coeur D'Alene School in Venice won for the School Award and received a $10,000 cash award. Carla K. Bartlett, a teacher from Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra won the Arts Specialist Award and Linda Candib, a teacher from Charles Helmers Elementary School won the Generalist Award. Each teacher received $4,000 to be used to further arts education in the classroom and a special $1,000 cash award designated for arts field trips. All winners received a Bravo sculpture designed by artist Bill Crutchfield.
2007 School Winner
Garry Marshall & Rex O. Patton Coeur d'Alene School - Grades: Pre-K to 5 Los Angeles USD
"The Music Center's Bravo Award process gave me and the entire Coeur d'Alene community an incredible opportunity to spend almost a year focusing on our vision for arts integration within our school community. An education that encompasses and respects the wonderful diversity of people and cultures in the nation is possible only when it includes the arts." The winning of the Music Center's Bravo Award in the school category became a powerful public awareness process that helped the entire Coeur d'Alene community focus more and create a long-term community vision for arts integration - while at the same time helping us in education focus more on assessment and interdisciplinary approaches."
Rex O. Patton, Principal
2007 Generalist Winner
Garry Marshall & Linda Candib Charles Helmers Elementary School - Saugus USD "Winning the 2007 Bravo Award is the most rewarding affirmation of what I do in the classroom. It confirms my belief that if we follow our passions, we will succeed. What I have discovered for my students is that the arts inspire and open us to new experiences and ways to see the world. Our students find new ways to learn and to express themselves and learn to be free and open, accepting, and aware. The Bravo experience has allowed me the chance to reflect on these experiences and expand my teaching in new and inspiring ways. Thanks for this amazing opportunity."
Linda Candib
2007 Arts Specialist Winner
 Carla Bartlett & Garry Marshall
Mark Keppel High School - Grades: 9-12, Alhambra USD
"Receiving the Bravo Award has been one of the highlights of my teaching career. It has had personal and professional repercussions too many to include, but here are a few:
It has solidified my standing in my community and validated people's trust in me as an exemplary arts educator. It has fortified my resolve to advocate for arts education, to continue to refine my teaching and ground my instructional units in the music standards, and to deepen my connection to my colleagues. I am honored and humbled to have been this year's Bravo recipient, and I am grateful for all the good people behind it!"
Carla Bartlett
BRAVO AWARD
Established in 1982, The BRAVO Award recognizes teachers and schools for excellence in the arts. Each year, the Music Center presents three BRAVO Awards — one to a general classroom teacher, one to an arts specialist and one to a school. Winners receive a cash award along with a specially-created sculpture. The BRAVO is awarded at a gala dinner sponsored by Club 100 of the Music Center and hosted by celebrity writer/director/producer Garry Marshall.
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