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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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The Jeffrey Ahn, Jr. Fellowship is an annual award for young artists to produce extraordinary independent projects. In providing creative capital to young people, the Fellowship seeks to foster a positive educational and creative process that empowers them to be working artists for a summer, and to experience the freedom and the responsibility that such trust entails. The Fellowship is open to applicants up to 21 years of age; the maximum awarded amount in 2019 is $10,000 and may be shared between more than one winner. The deadline for phase one applications is December 15, 2018 at 5 PM ET.

VANS Custom Culture Grants are available to public high schools (including charter schools) serving students in grades 9-12 or community based nonprofit organizations/governmental agencies serving as a fiscal agent for arts programming at a qualifying school. The grants are intended to encourage the inclusion of the arts as an integral component of an excellent education, and to support activities that are consistent with local and national learning standards for arts education. Ten schools across the country will each receive a $2,000 grant to support their work in providing high-quality dance, media arts, music, theatre and/or visual arts instruction for students.

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NAEF helps provide professional development for art educators, classroom supplies for innovative projects, curriculum development for art classrooms, and ground-breaking research in visual arts education.

The Milk It! Video Competition from Fresh Films invites students ages 8-16 to create a short video sharing the activities, skills, or hobbies that they're passionately pursuing for a chance to win a Go Pro Hero 6 bundle and cash for themselves and their school! Learn more & enter by October 15.