Resources for Partnerships

The Arts Education Partnership believes that partnerships involving public education, higher education, and the arts and cultural sectors are highly effective, even essential, in providing quality arts education to students of all ages in schools and other settings. AEP has published materials on the effectiveness of such partnerships. The materials provide guidance on how to develop and sustain partnerships.

AEP also seeks to identify outstanding partnerships and learn the lessons and promising practices they embody. A specific interest of AEP has been to identify partnerships that engage higher education institutions in providing quality undergraduate and continuing professional development in the arts to those who teach the arts to young people pre-school through high school, including certified arts teachers, classroom teachers, and artists from the community who teach in schools. Descriptions of exemplary partnerships of this type are posted in this section.