Posts Tagged ‘arts education resources’
June 14, 2019
Americans for the Arts
AFTA has tons of resources on their website. Like many outstanding sites there are too many resources to locate. Over the next few weeks I will provide resources on the blog that you can include in your summer independent learning or perhaps use when coming together with colleagues for collaborative learning. I encourage you to share them with others. And don’t hesitate to email me at meartsed@gmail.com with resources that you find useful so I can share them with others on the Maine Arts Education blog.
AFTA has a collection of videos called “Encourage Creativity: Teach the Arts”. Who to use each video ‘with’ and ‘what for’ is included with each description to help you determine if they will work for you. They provide the length of each video and they are each downloadable. The four videos range from 42 minutes to a documentary that is 7 hours and 19 minutes long. They are filled with stories, facts and figures to use for advocacy, and voices of learners of all ages.
They are creative documents that are very well put together. Please check them out at THIS LINK.
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August 30, 2018
Research, ideas, videos, suggestions from others all wrapped in one
A collection of items that will provide some food for thought for you or your students. There’s information, serious and fun, for all of the arts education disciplines. Have fun and don’t be surprised if you learn some things to use starting off the school year with students and/or staff.
- Cambridge Public Schools in Massachusetts is working to incorporate yoga and mindfulness into classrooms to help both students and teachers manage their stress and regulate their emotions. This is happening district wide and they see that it is making a difference (June 7, 2017) Yoga and Mindfulness
- Amazing website with a blog, podcasts, video, and a store. Subscribe and have access to many learning materials. Cult of Pedagogy
- Start off the school year by focusing building relationships, making connections with students, and telling your story. Article in Ed Week (August 15, 2018) Build Student Trust by Sharing Stories on the First Day
- What do Employers Want in a New Hire? Strong speaking skills, but they have a tough time finding candidates who are good at it, according to a survey released Tuesday. Good oral communication skills got the #1 slot among the 15 job skills that executives and hiring managers identified as very important in new hires. (August 28, 2018) READ EDUCATION WEEK ARTICLE.
- Setting up your classroom for a new year can be fun or stressful. (August 27, 2018) Teachers, How Did You Set Up Your Classroom This Year?
- Peter DeWitt keeps a blog called: Finding COMMON Ground and he had a superintendent write a post recently called “Kids Need Play and Recess. Their Mental Health May Depend on It”. He talks about the facts on the topic of anxiety, depression and suicide. (August 1, 2018) READ THE POST.
- Flight of the Bumblebee performed A Capella style by Team Lachey on the television show Clash of the Choirs. FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE
- Musician and conductor André Rieu performing Amazing Grace live in the Amsterdam Arena with His Johann Strauss Orchestra and a contingent of bagpipes. AMAZING GRACE
- The Spotlight Dance performed by Jackie and Charlie at the summer workshop of ShagAtlanta 2013. DANCING
- Lead with an Open Heart. Are you a teacher leader or taking on a leadership role in your school/district this year? The author starts with “leadership is hard work”. (August 22, 2018)
- Do.Reflect.Do Better. That’s the motivation for the author of the blog called Project 180, Monte Syrie. He just posted his first day of school blog post BUILDING BETTER: PROJECT 180, DAY 1. Good food for thought!
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August 8, 2016
Web resources
Americans for the Arts has many resources on their website that I recommend. They envision that arts education as an integral part of everyone’s lives. From their web page on arts education…
Americans for the Arts envisions a country where everyone has access to—and takes part in—high quality and lifelong learning experiences in the arts, both in school and in the community. What can we do together to ensure that the next generation receives a well-rounded education that includes the arts?
Below is one chart that they’ve made available. Access American for the Arts education material by CLICKING HERE.
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September 10, 2015
Biennial statewide conference – October 9 – Early-bird registration deadline is today, September 10!
GO DIRECTLY TO REGISTRATION https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1726177
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/Biennial-Statewide-Register
The photo below is from a zoom meeting where some of the workshop presenters for the October 9 statewide biennial arts education conference The Measure of Success were engaged in learning more about how to put together the best format for the morning sessions. We are calling the sessions 5 X 5.
What does that mean?
Nine workshops are being offered during the PM sessions. Each conference participant selects from two of them (they are repeated) to attend when they register. During the AM session each workshop presenter will have 5 minutes and 5-8 images to provide a glimpse of their afternoon session that is scheduled for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
What if you see/hear something in the AM that you must attend?
You can change your mind and attend a different session in the PM than you registered for before the conference.
If they look serious it is because they were working to bring you the BEST learning opportunities possible!
THE TOPICS
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Studio Habits of Mind: Using the “Hidden Curriculum” to Encourage Student Autonomy with Visual Arts Teachers Theresa Cerceo from Dr. Levesque Elementary, Wisdom Middle/High School and Janie Snider from Hancock Grammar School
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Making Maine and ME with Visual Arts Teacher Jennie Driscoll from Brunswick High School
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Evaluating Individual Proficiency within the Large Ensemble with Music Teacher Jen Etter from York Middle School
- Dancing with the Creative Process: How to incorporate standards-based dance and movement activities in classroom learning and assessment with Dancer, Educator, and Teaching Artist John Morris
- In the Midst of Madness with Music Teacher Jen Nash from Sabasticook Valley Middle School, Dance Teacher MaryEllen Schaper from Bonny Eagle Middle School, and Associate Professor, Educational Leadership from USM Jeff Beaudry, Ph.D.
- Empathy, Kindness and Wonder, Arts Integration at Work with the Director and Founder of Sweet Tree Arts Lindsay Pinchbeck
- Brains on Fire: How Research on the Brain Can Inform Arts Education with the Executive Director of the New England Institute for Teacher Education Catherine Ring
- From Cool to Tool: Technology Integration with Student Learning in Mind with Music Teacher Kate Smith from Central School in South Berwick, Mountain Valley High School in Rumford Teacher Jeff Bailey, and Mt. Blue High School in Farmington Teacher Dan Ryder
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Proficiency Based Learning: An Advocacy Story Music Teacher Rob Westerberg from York High School
What else are these workshop presenters providing?
An amazing collection of resources that will go live on the day of the conference, October 9. You will be blown away by what they’ve put together for conference attendees. You won’t want to miss it just for the resources alone!
Deadline for the Early-bird registration of $90 is today, September 9!
The conference is sponsored by the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI), a program of the Maine Arts Commission. To learn more please go to http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI#
Please note: On August 3, 2015, MAAI, the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative, announced its new name, MALI, the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative. You can read about it at https://meartsed.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/maai-goes-to-mali/. Please email Argy Nestor if you have any questions at argy.nestor@maine.gov.
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December 31, 2012
Interesting “Stuff”
A great way to end 2012 with some interesting resources including links to articles, research on arts education, podcasts and other types of resources. Enjoy!
- Make a Difference – an old story but worth seeing over and over. http://www.makeadifferencemovie.com/.
- Art (& Science) Talk with Kerry Tribe by Whitney Dail, December 4, 2012 from Art Works Podcast. http://artworks.arts.gov/?p=15592
- Dear Mr. President: Children Invited to Offer Obama Advice by Erik Robelen, Education Week, November 27, 2012. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/11/if_president_barack_obama_had.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
- Podcast: Pete Seeger remembers his good friend and fellow folk icon Woody Guthrie.
- A site devoted to providing resources and tools for those working with students with disabilities. There is a segment devoted to integrating the arts and technology which covers a lot of really outstanding information that you can access by clicking here.
- Art for the Elementary School Teacher Workshop. Online course, next one starts January 7, 2013. FMI: http://www.artmuseums.com/teach.htm
- RSAnimate- Sir Ken Robinson talk, animates through drawing what he is talking about so you get both aural and a visual experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&feature=youtu.be
- National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announces a new strategy for arts education at the NEA at the national forum of the Arts Education Partnership. His speech is here http://www.arts.gov/news/news12/Chattanooga-speech.html.
- Art Works blog: Taking Note: Skills + Knowledge = 21st-Century Competencies http://artworks.arts.gov/?p=14236.
- The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies http://www.arts.gov/research/Arts-At-Risk-Youth.pdf.
This report examines arts-related variables from four large datasets — three maintained by the U.S. Department of Education and one by the Department of Labor — to understand the relationship between arts engagement and positive academic and social outcomes in children and young adults of low socioeconomic status (SES).
- The NEA published The Arts and Human Development: Framing a National Research Agenda for the Arts, Lifelong Learning, and Individual Well-Being http://www.arts.gov/pub/TheArtsAndHumanDev.pdf in November 2011. Over the next year, the NEA convened a series of webinars including: Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development: September 19, 2012 Webinar http://www.arts.gov/research/TaskForce/Sept19-2012.html.
The September 19, 2012, Task Force webinar focused on the question “Can the arts play a role in transforming struggling schools and improving student outcomes?”
Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development: August 1, 2012 Webinar http://www.nea.gov/research/TaskForce/August1-2012.html.
The August 1, 2012, Task Force webinar focused on how arts educators can reach youth who are immersed in today’s interconnected, multimedia environment.
- 1-to-1 Computing Movement Suffers Recent Setbacks by Mike Bock from Education Week, Nov. 16, 2012. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2012/11/la_tablets_rejected.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
- Art Works
- Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-wide Communication. The link will lead you to this Rand research written by Susan J. Bodilly Catherine H. Augustine with Laura Zakaras and can be found by clicking here w.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG702.pdf.
- Website with “box” information: http://www.auntannie.com.
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Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts for some of the above language.
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AFTA has tons of resources on their website. Like many outstanding sites there are too many resources to locate. Over the next few weeks I will provide resources on the blog that you can include in your summer independent learning or perhaps use when coming together with colleagues for collaborative learning. I encourage you to share them with others. And don’t hesitate to email me at meartsed@gmail.com with resources that you find useful so I can share them with others on the Maine Arts Education blog.
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