Dwayne Taylor

Center for Creative Education, Florida

Mission Transforming teaching and learning through creativity and the arts. Vision CCE will be a leader in transforming educational environments and systems to better prepare students to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century with courage and confidence. History In the early 1990s a group of leaders at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County became concerned about the trend to cut back on arts education in schools. Visual arts, dance and music programs were being slashed to balance budgets. The Council commissioned a study, funded in part by the MacArthur Foundation and the Chastain Charitable Foundation, to find a way to help fill the void. In 1994, that countywide study led to the creation of the nonprofit Center for Creative Education. Its mission was to train teachers how to bring the arts back into schools by integrating art into other classroom studies. This "Arts Integration" is still the basis for what we do today. For more than two decades, CCE has been partnering with schools and after-school sites in Palm Beach County to provide quality, creative educational opportunities, using the arts as the foundation.