Arts-in-Education Resources

Research

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

• 21st Century Skills Map for the Arts, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

• 21st Century Skills Map for the Arts Supplementary Document, the Arts Education Partnership.

• Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art, Arts Education Partnership

• How Music Heals the Injured Brain, by Michael Thaut, Ph.D., and Gerald McIntosh, M.D., The Dana Foundation.

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

• National Report Card on the Arts, United States Department of Education  

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

• Staying in School – Arts Education and New York City High School Graduation Rates, The Center for Arts Education

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

Best Practices

• Americans for the Arts/Youth Arts Definition of Best Practices for Programs Serving Youth At Risk

• Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education

• Kansas Department of Education Curricular Standards in the Arts

• Creative and Mental Growth by Viktor Lowenfeld and Betty Edwards

• National Guild of Community Schools in the Arts’ Code of Best Practices

• Program Planning and Evaluation / Successful Arts-in-Education Strategies

• Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections

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

Planning & Evaluation Resources

• A Guide to Curriculum Guides and Lesson Plans

• Program Planning and Evaluation / Successful Arts-in-Education Strategies

• National Guild of Community Schools in the Arts’ Code of Best Practices

• Americans for the Arts/Youth Arts Definition of Best Practices for Programs Serving Youth At Risk

• Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections

• Children's Developmental Benchmarks and Stages: A Summary Guide to Appropriate Arts Activities

• Kansas Department of Education
  Curricular Standards

• Logic Model Webinar

Web Based Tools and Resources

• ArtsEdge: lesson plans and teacher tools

• Art Education 2.0: arts education social network

• Art Snacks: an arts learning community and environment

• Artsonia: online student art museum and gallery

• Arts Days: important days in the history of the arts

• Audactiy: free sound recording and podcast software

• IncredibleArt.org: resources clearinghouse

• Moodle: free whiteboard sourceware

• National Gallery of Art: classroom resources

• Ning: subject-based social networking

• School of Everything: online classes and demonstrations

• Teacher Tube: online classes, lectures and demonstrations

• Ustream free live broadcasting

• Wiz IQ: free educational web-conferencing

Arts Education Advocacy

• Americans for the Arts -- Public Awareness

• Arts Education Partnership: Making a Case for the Arts

• Imagination Nation Poll

Other Helpful Links and Resources

• Accessible Arts

• American Music Therapy Association

• Americans for the Arts

• Arts Education Partnership

• Arts Partners

• Getty Center

• Kansas Art Education Association

• Kansas Art Therapy Association

• Kansas Association for Teachers of English

• Kansas Music Educators Association

• Kansas State Department of Education

• Kansas Department of Education, Fine Arts Consultant:
  Joyce Huser
  120 S.E. 10th Ave.
  Topeka, KS 66612-1182
  785/296-4932
  jhuser@ksbe.org

• Kansas Thespians

• Keep Arts In Schools

• Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education

• Music for All Foundation

• National Association for Drama Therapy

• New Horizons for Learning

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills

• Perpich Center for Arts Education

• VSA Arts

Announcements & Opportunities

Arts Education Resources

Grants & Fellowships

Workshops and Conferences

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