Middle Level Division

The ArtEffect Project, a creative arts initiative of the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes, harnesses this power through a platform showcasing high quality student projects that imaginatively interpret and celebrate the extraordinary legacies of Unsung Heroes from history. The international student competition is open to middle and high school students with cash prizes of $20,000. The final deadline to submit is February 15, 2018.

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This study is an evaluation of The Arts in the Classroom Program which engaged 91 Kindergarten through sixth grade classroom teachers from a single school district in order to build their capacity to deliver standards-based interdisciplinary arts instruction to their students.

Have you ever considered sponsoring a National Art Honor Society at your school? If you don’t have a chapter at your school yet, I highly recommend considering sponsoring one this school year! I absolutely love ours and have enjoyed watching it grow over the years.

The US Department of Education has asked officials in Colorado to rework some parts of the state's Every Student Succeeds Act plan. So far, 16 states and Washington, D.C., have received feedback on their plans.

The public-school district in Nashville, Tenn., has launched a three-year middle-school science, technology, engineering, art and math initiative to bring a more interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to learning. Nearly all of the district's 450 middle-school teachers took part in STEAM workshops to prepare.

IES is accepting applications for its 2018 special topics grant in Arts in Education. Grants awarded in Arts in Education support research assessing K-12 programs and policies to help improve education outcomes for students and potentially increase their success in other academic areas through the arts. The deadline to submit proposals is Aug. 17, 2017.

The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and its cultural partners – the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services – are proud to recognize 50 outstanding programs in the field of Creative Youth Development across the country for their work in providing excellent arts and humanities learning opportunities to young people. From big cities to small towns, the 2017 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Finalists reflect the diversity of disciplines and settings of these exceptional creative youth development programs that are taking place from coast to coast.

The Teaching Residency program at Fallingwater is for K-12 Teachers and Museum Education Professionals. The week-long program offers teachers an opportunity to develop programs that integrate STEAM learning with architectural and design methods. We have a few spots open for the July 8-15 session. The price is $1,000 and includes meals, housing, and all materials. Scholarships are available.