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November 1, 2018
external resource from The Association of Art Musuem Directors, Upcoming Exhibition at U.S. Department of Education Puts Creative Spotlight On Collaborations between Nation’s Art Museums & Partnerships With SchoolsBeginning November 5, 2018, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) will present an exhibition of works by children from across the country, produced as a part of their participation in art education programs organized collaboratively by art museums and their local schools or youth programs.
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September 12, 2018
external resource from The New York Times, Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning?Students are continuing to see teachers who are a different gender than they are, and a different skin color. Does it matter? Yes, according to a significant body of research: Students tend to benefit from having teachers who look like them, especially nonwhite students.
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July 23, 2018
external resource from The Hechinger Report, A Summer Program Uses the Arts to Combat the Achievement GapWhile students of all socioeconomic classes tend to learn at about the same pace during the school year, the impact of summer learning loss is cumulative, and low-income kids can be as many as three years behind their peers by fifth grade. Baltimore is combating that trend.
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December 7, 2018
external resource from The Wallace Foundation, Review of Evidence: Arts Education Research through the Lens of the Every Student Succeeds Act
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research scoured through hundreds of reports to find arts education interventions that meet the standards of evidence that ESSA requires. This report explains ESSA standards and cites 88 studies that make a range of arts-education activities eligible for ESSA. These activities focus on art forms such as visual arts, music, dance and drama. Among them are arts courses, supplies, professional development for teachers, supports for English learners and extended-learning-time programs. All of the studies cited by the report’s authors show improvements in student outcomes, such as reading, writing, math and social and emotional learning.
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November 30, 2018
external resource from Daily Herald, BYU’s McKay School helps to foster an arts rich environment in local schools
One of the many initiatives made possible through the BYU ARTS Partnership is the Arts Bridge Program, which engages Brigham Young University students with teachers in local elementary schools. Through this program, BYU students are able to provide elementary classrooms with instruction in dance, drama, visual arts and music.
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November 29, 2018
external resource from Artsy, Looking at Art Could Help Med Students Become Better Doctors
New research shows that looking at artworks can help future doctors hone their observation skills, maintain objectivity, and cope with moments of uncertainty.
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November 28, 2018
external resource from cape, Boeing awards CAPE $40,000 for STEM+Arts in Chicago Public Schools
Boeing has announced that Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) will receive $40,000 to support its ongoing work to integrate the visual, digital, and performing arts into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) classrooms at in Chicago Public Schools.
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November 20, 2018
external resource from NPR, NPR Launches Podcast Challenge To Amplify Student Voices
Beginning January 1, 2019, teachers and students across the country — with help from the audio experts at NPR — will be able to turn their classrooms into production studios, their assignments into scripts, and their ideas into sound. NPR's Education Team is providing training materials and resources — how to use a smartphone to record audio, how to conduct an interview, audio storytelling tips and tricks — for both teachers and students. To help classrooms get started, NPR will also share suggested, but not required prompts, along with a set of criteria that judges will use to pick winning podcasts.
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November 9, 2018
external resource from NAEA, NAEA School for Art Leaders: Apply now!
The NAEA School for Art Leaders at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art provides a transformative experience for art educators that both inspires and prepares them to become active leaders of positive change in the field of art education. Apply now to be a part of the School for Art Leaders Class of 2019!
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October 29, 2018
external resource from The New York Times, The Library of Congress Lets You Stream Hundreds of Free Films
The Library of Congress has unveiled its new National Screening Room, a free collection of digitized historical films, commercials, newsreels and other clips. According to the library, most of the movies are in the public domain and are available for downloading; others are only available to stream.
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October 26, 2018
external resource from National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Are You Ready to Take the Next Step in Your Professional Career?
National Board Certification is the most respected professional certification available in K-12 education. Board certification is available in 25 certificate areas spanning 16 disciplines from Pre-K through 12th grade. For Art educators this means you will continue to develop your knowledge and skills and specifically around the education of early and middle childhood student‘s learning or with early adolescent and young adult student’s learning and social emotional needs as well as your practice as a whole.
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