Arts Educators

The Kansas Arts Commission's Arts in Education programs support educational partnerships between artists, arts organizations, schools, after school and community organizations to enhance the availability of arts education in Kansas communities and to support efforts to integrate the arts into the everyday lives of Kansas children.

The Kansas Arts Commission believes the arts are a vital component to education. We understand that the arts are a core component to teaching the 21st century workplace skills of global awareness, creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem-solving, self direction and self-motivation, team-building and collaboration, as well as communication and literacy skills. The Kansas Arts Commission uses the following resources to guide arts in education initiatives:

• Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education, The Wallace Foundation

• Studio Thinking: Eight Habits of Mind, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero

• Kansas Department of Education Curricular Standards in the Arts

• 21st Century Skills, a Framework for 21st Century Learning, Partnership for 21st Century Skills

• Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, Arts Education Partnership

• Learning, Arts and the Brain, The Dana Foundation Dana Consortium Report

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