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A series of resources created by visual arts and design educators, for visual arts and design educators as the 2020-21 school year progresses.

View the recording of the Oct. 20 Town Hall: Navigating Remote Learning, Hybrid Learning, and In-Person Instruction in the COVID-19 Landscape.

Access the archived recording of the April 20 Town Hall Conversation, Lessons Learned and Looking Forward: School Years 2020–2021 and 2021–2022.

View the recording of the January 26 Town Hall Conversation: Art Education and School Year 2020-21: From Skills to Concepts—Working Across the Curriculum in a New Environment.

We wish a safe, smooth reentry to school and work to each of you! Read the open letter here.

As the new school year has officially begun across the country, I feel a renewed sense of possibility for the role the arts can play in learning, in all subjects, in the year ahead. Even greater, I feel a new sense of opportunity for the role the arts can play in cultivating new awareness and understandings for students of all ages, across our communities.

AEP celebrates the many ways to meaningfully incorporate the arts into education, from arts instruction to after-school programs and beyond. In this new report, AEP explores successful practices for arts integration, with a focus on educator and school leader professional development. This resource also provides an overview of research highlighting the impact of instructor preparation and professional development on student outcomes.

The arts and education sectors must collaborate more deeply to ensure parents value arts subjects and encourage their children to take them, or take up will continue to decline, Global Teacher of the Year Andria Zafirakou has warned. She urged the creative industries to come into schools to discuss their work and called for society to develop strong answers to the question: ‘What is art gonna get you’?