Magnet Office
Under the leadership of Jane Grandusky, the Magnet Office at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts holds a multitude of institutional responsibilities. The primary functions of the Magnet Office are to:
- Market the school to prospective students and their families
- Recruit middle school students with the greatest level of, or potential for success in, the arts
- Run a fair and equitable audition process
- Serve as the public relations specialists of the school
- Provide artistic guidance to each of the nine artistic disciplines
- Develop academic and artistic programs
- Supervise the Dreyfoos Artist-in-Residence and Guest Artist programs
- Produce schoolwide special events
Jane Grandusky
Magnet Coordinator
Jane Grandusky is a visual art educator with over thirty years of experience. She studied painting at Wesleyan College and the University of Georgia before receiving a Bachelors in Art Education from Florida Atlantic University. She has been an art instructor in the School District of Palm Beach County from 1976 to 2012. Jane was the founding dean of the Visual Arts department at the Palm Beach County School of the Arts, the predecesor of the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. Jane was twice named a finalist in the Dwyer Award for Excellence in Teaching, a Nationally Board Certified Teacher for Early Adolesence/Young Adulthood Art in 1999, and Florida Art Education Association's Florida Art Teacher of the Year in 2002. Mrs. Grandusky was appointed to both the State of Florida Visual Art Textbook Adoption Committee in 2001, and the State of Florida Visual Art Accomodations and Modifications for Students with Disabilities Resource Team in 2003.
