arts schools network awards exemplary schools program

Apply for ASN Awards and Exemplary Schools Designation 
Deadline: March 15, 2017

Each year, ASN designates Exemplary Schools, schools that demonstrate excellence in evaluating, strategizing, and improving areas such as administration, finance, recruitment and admissions, resources, community involvement, parent relations, planning, projects, and more. ASN's guidelines for this process are invaluable. The designation distinguishes your school and enhances recruitment and fundraising efforts. And working together with your administration, teachers, and other school staff can not only steer your school in the right direction, but it can also have you working as a team as never before. See the current Exemplary Schools designees.

Learn how to apply for Exemplary School Status.
Don't delay, start the multi-step process now. Deadline: March 15 


ASN's Awards  program rewards and spotlights outstanding member arts schools and their administrators, teachers, alums, and community partners. View categories. 

Deadline: March 15


"I think the ASN Exemplary School process serves many purposes. It is a helpful tool to gather information in a format that can be used for accreditation, grants, publicity materials, District reports and annual reports, just to name a few. It can also, if used correctly, energize your community around key issues like fund-raising, event production and especially in crafting new mission and vision statements. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, as a living document the Exemplary School write-ups can become a powerful vehicle for comprehensive school improvement and continuous growth."
Mr Donn Harris_ Oakland School for the Arts_ Oakland_ CA
~Donn K. Harris,
Executive Director of the Institute for Creativity and the Arts,
San Francisco Unified School District, CA; 
Chairman, California Arts Council



"Thank you to ASN for this wonderful award, I have just put the beautiful Jeffrey Lawrence Award medallion on my bookcase. To receive the recognition of one's peers for a lifetime of work in the arts and arts education is indeed an honor that I will remember with affection. Thank you all for the role you played in giving me this honor.ASN is a vital resource for arts education and our arts schools in the U.S. and around the globe."
Mr Jeffrey Kimble

Jeffrey Kimpton President
Interlochen Center for the Arts,  MI
Jeffrey Lawrence Award Winner