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Join us on March 29 for a FREE, virtual policy briefing for researchers and funders in arts and education! Explore existing gaps in arts education research and focus on creating a deeper dialogue among funders, researchers and practitioners during the policy briefing....
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This literature review includes a historical overview, definitions and theoretical frameworks for arts integration, research and evaluation studies, methods and practices for each of the art forms.
by Nate Marcarelli | Dec 1, 2004
This report proposes opportunities for future research on the arts and education based on a survey of the significant body of research in the field.
by Mitra Chamanbahar | Apr 17, 2024 | General
Addressing the arts educator workforce requires an acknowledgement of the multifaceted challenges that are tethered to it, such as turnover, accessibility and funding. This year, the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) began collecting information on improving the...
by Daizha Brown | Apr 3, 2024 | General
We hope the anticipation has subsided as this year’s updates to the ArtScan database have finally been released! ArtScan is a comparison of 13 arts education policy areas across all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Department of Defense Education Activity....
by Mary Dell’Erba | Feb 12, 2024 | General
Only a month into the new year, education decisionmakers are at a critical juncture with the looming 2024 deadline for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) III funds. These funds provided approximately $190 billion to states, districts and...
by Lindsay Stewart | Jan 30, 2024 | General
As an elementary teacher and doctoral student, I am wildly interested in how my students think and feel about learning. I wonder how I can support my students to engage with ideas, share findings with others and engage deeply to experience the joy and embrace the...
by Jenny Crawford | Jan 16, 2024 | General
How can a collaborative artwork using teacher evaluation surveys be used to address gaps in research? Over the past few years, I have been exploring the use of arts-based research methods to examine the effects of the teacher evaluation model on Colorado arts...
by Zechen Su | Dec 10, 2023 | General
China’s Sundance: A Closer Look at the First International Film Festival The First International Film Festival, often likened to China’s version of Sundance, holds a prominent position in discovering and nurturing new filmmaking talent. Its Chinese...
by Amy Appleton | Oct 11, 2023 | General
The Origin Story The Connected Arts Networks (CAN) is a 5-year grant initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to create nationwide virtual Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with educators in visual and media arts, dance, music and theatre....
by Sam Searfoss | Oct 8, 2023 | General
The university environment creates a unique intersection of financial, social and academic stressors. Within our research, students identified specific personal and structural issues in their undergraduate experiences. These issues are often exacerbated within arts...
by Grace Chavez | Oct 4, 2023 | General
Through qualitative interview analysis, our research team uncovered several common themes across participant interviews. “Perfectionism. Burn-out. Alone or in front an Audience. Versatility. “We all struggle with creative expression sometimes. Or as artists we...
by Asif Majid | Aug 16, 2023 | General
In 2015, I took a job fresh out of grad school as the inaugural director of ASO Sympatico, the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra’s El Sistema-inspired music education program. I anticipated being responsible for overseeing music educators, developing branding, building...
by Sofia Pineda-Velez | Aug 2, 2023 | General
Why don’t more students pursue art in higher education? For many students, art is more of an outlet rather than profession, and in a world where student’s lives revolve around academics, art gets sidelined. For our research, I interviewed Liam, an international...
by Jasmin Storer | Jul 17, 2023 | General
In the spring of 2023, Researchers Sofia Pineda-Velez, Jasmin Storer, Grace Chavez and Sam Searfoss conducted a qualitative, human-based research study. The research was in collaboration with the Arts Education Partnership, the Leadership Department at the University...
by Mary Dell’Erba | Jul 4, 2023 | Practice
This post was first published on Ed Note, Education Commission of the States’ education policy blog. Over the past two years, the Arts Education Partnership and Education Commission of the States have collaboratively led a preschool through fifth grade STEAM...
by Brady Smith | Jun 15, 2023
In May 2018, the Arts Education Partnership published Music Matters. This was the first in a four-part series of special reports that used ArtsEdSearch to illustrate the many benefits of arts education. The Arts Counts series went on to publish Visual Arts Matters,...
by Ella Rosewood | May 15, 2023 | General
How should a teacher pass on an embodied art form like dance to their students when they are not experts in certain dance styles? It’s complicated. On one hand, teachers are professionals at teaching. With proper preparation they can scaffold a lesson or unit on...
by Brady Smith | Apr 28, 2023
by Krystal Johnson | Mar 30, 2023 | Policy
Spring has officially sprung, bringing warmer weather, fresh blooms and a new round of updates to the ArtScan database! AEP collaborates with the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education and Education Commission of the States to update this resource to equip...
by Mary Dell’Erba | Nov 23, 2022 | Policy
Since the release of the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) results, countless articles and analyses have revealed the same troubling trend: reading and math scores declined at an alarming rate for fourth and eighth grade students in the 2021-22...
by Wincey Terry-Bryant | Nov 8, 2022 | General
This post was first published on Ed Note, Education Commission of the States’ education policy blog. It was guest authored by Wincey Terry-Bryant, master teaching artist at Wolf Trap. My parents noticed early in my life that I had an inclination for memorizing...
by Brady Smith | Aug 23, 2022
by Brady Smith | Jun 22, 2022
ArtsEd Digest Archive Here you will find all past issues of ArtsEd Digest, AEP’s bi-monthly newsletter highlighting news from AEP partner organizations and the field, including reports, research and job opportunities. Hidden 2024 April 17, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest |...
by Gwynne Middleton | Jun 17, 2022
Our Shared Future: Imagining a New Landscape for Teaching Artists On April 5-7, 2022, we hosted a virtual event in support of teaching artists across the country. Our Shared Future: Imagining a New Landscape for Teaching Artists featured sessions that dug into the...
by Alexandra Etscovitz | Apr 8, 2022 | General
Remember when teaching was “only” about high achievement, standardized testing, active shooter drills and differentiating our instruction? All kidding aside, the fact that educators have been juggling those demands with the new educational landscape of...
by Krystal Johnson | Apr 1, 2022 | Policy
AEP is committed to enhancing ArtScan to continuously meet the needs of our network as they utilize the database for their respective work. We are excited about this year’s update…or upgrade as some may consider it. Our goals with the changes this year are to make the...
by Sloka Iyengar | Mar 14, 2022 | General
My name is Sloka, and I am a neuroscientist and classical Indian dancer from Ahmedabad, India, and I now live in New York. I started learning Bharatanatyam — a form of classical Indian dance — when I was five years old. Bharatanatyam is rich in facial and hand...
by Suzanne Hall | Mar 7, 2022 | General
My first encounter with interdisciplinary instruction did not happen voluntarily. During my first year of teaching music, I was responsible for implementing the Drop Everything And Read program during my class time. My lack of expertise as a reading teacher made me...
by Mary Dell’Erba | Mar 2, 2022 | General
A powerful arts education, as defined by the Hewlett Foundation, inspires students to bring their full selves and their communities to the learning space and invites students to make choices about the kinds of art they create and the stories they tell, as well as to...
by Clare Murray | Feb 15, 2022 | General
Have you ever listened to children discuss an emotive work of art inside a museum? By visiting an art museum, young children can learn to slow down, lean into simple thinking routines that they may seemingly “carry in their back pockets” and engage in thoughtful...
by Elizabeth Stuart Whitehead | Feb 14, 2022 | General
Literacy as it relates to reading and writing has been a passion of mine since I was an elementary art teacher early in my career. In my current role as a visual art supervisor for Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) in Maryland, literacy is a focus in every...
by Prince Nwankwo | Jan 25, 2022 | General
Arts Education Partnership had a conversation with Prince Nwankwo about his arts experiences with Everett: Company Stage & School while in the care of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) and the continued arts support as he made his transition...
by Gene Diaz | Jan 12, 2022 | Outreach, Practice
How do partnerships for professional development in arts integration take shape? In this posting we’ll look at the avenue down which one organization has traveled in forming partnerships over several years. Side-by-Side (SxS) in Portland, ME has made connections...
by Stevey Jones | Dec 13, 2021 | General
I love hats. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve enjoyed wearing them, from fitted baseball caps to vintage snap-backs to dad hats. You name it, I wear it. But I never considered wearing them all at the same time. Not only would it look strange, but it would be hard keeping...
by Cassandra Quillen | Dec 9, 2021 | General
Background In late 2020, the Arts Education Partnership began exploring intersections of arts education and literacy. While connections between the two topics have been researched and discussed, they often focus narrowly on the impacts of arts learning on reading and...
by Ta’Dreama McBride | Dec 7, 2021 | General
On August 2nd, Performing Statistics, a partner of Arts Education Partnership (AEP), announced the release of Freedom Constellations. This interactive public art project represents a new monument that asks youth to illustrate a road map toward freedom for all young...
by James Palmarini | Dec 6, 2021 | General
The educator and playwright Timothy McDonald once described theatre as “the superfood of the arts.” He was speaking to a boisterous audience of middle schoolers and adults awaiting the performance of their school’s musical theatre play — produced through the...
by Travis Marcum | Nov 16, 2021 | General
In 2010, Austin Classical Guitar (ACG) expanded our 20-year school-based guitar education program to the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center, a residential facility that houses a school within the Austin Independent School District (ISD)for middle and high school...
by Cassandra Quillen | Nov 12, 2021
AEP Affiliates AEP affiliates are a diverse group of organizations and individuals that conduct arts education-related work at the local, state, regional, or direct-service level. # 3Looms Creative Education Consulting A The Acadia Foundation A Child’s...
by Mary Dell’Erba | Nov 2, 2021 | General
Happy National STEM/STEAM Day from your friends at the Arts Education Partnership and Education Commission of the States! For those who may not be familiar, when science, technology, engineering and math include the arts as an equal partner, STEM shifts to STEAM. This...
by Nate Marcarelli | Nov 2, 2021
How Theatre Education Transforms Students' Lives On stage, the audience sees a young person bow at the end of a theatre production. What the audience may not see: the hours of rehearsal spent preparing for this moment; their classmates poised on the catwalk shining...
by Nate Marcarelli | Oct 28, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 12, 2021
In September 2021, AEP welcomed more than 550 participants to the AEP Virtual Gathering. This page includes all available resources from this online event. Session Video Recordings All Session Resources Invisible TUESDAY, SEPT. 14 Building a Holistic Narrative About...
by Parker Nelson | Oct 12, 2021 | Practice
Fifth House Ensemble has been refining the design of our educational programming since our founding in 2005. With a mission of “tapping the collaborative spirit of chamber music” and years of experience building arts-integrated programming in public school classrooms,...
by Krystal Johnson | Sep 21, 2021 | Outreach, Policy, Practice
AEP is excited to launch the Juvenile Justice Series: Broadcasting Arts Experiences this month. Each blog post in the series will focus on arts learning impact stories from youth in the care of juvenile justice facilities or those directly providing services to youth....
by Emily Barclay | Aug 12, 2021 | Practice
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the educational landscape dramatically as teachers quickly transitioned to instructing, guiding and assessing in a digital landscape. The realities of assessment practices in the online music classroom are significantly different than...
by Ruth Mercado-Zizzo | Jun 16, 2021 | Research
As a theatre artist, no one needs to convince me that the arts have a powerful impact on youth. I have personally experienced and witnessed how the arts transform students’ learning experiences by fostering positive creative youth development outcomes such as...
by Jeannine Osayande | May 25, 2021 | Policy, Practice
We were co-teachers of neo-traditional West African dance in an urban elementary school. Avalon, the classroom teacher, trained in the academy. Ms. Jeannine, the cultural expert, learned traditionally and trained in the academy. Recently, we wrote about our...
by Gwynne Middleton | May 20, 2021
Jeannine Osayande is an anthropologist, choreographer, dancer and cultural expert of Diasporic West African dance and drum traditions for over 38 years. She is founder and director of Dunya Performing Arts Company, specializing in arts integration programming,...
by JoAnne Wilkins | May 12, 2021
by Jamie Kasper | May 11, 2021 | Policy
As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and approach the end of a school year spent entirely within the pandemic’s shadow, we find ourselves questioning what impact changes in the education landscape will have on arts education throughout the United...
by Jamison White | May 4, 2021 | Research
In the 2018-19 school year, nearly 175,000 pre-K-12 students attended a charter school with a curricular focus in the arts. These charter schools offer a variety of course tracks across arts disciplines (dance, media arts, music, theatre and visual arts), as well as...
by Laurie T. Schell | Apr 27, 2021 | Practice
The impact of Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem was undeniable. The visual effect of red headband, yellow coat, updo with gold mini-cuffs. The hypnotic meter and rhyme delivered with authority and precision. The floating, choreographed hand gestures. The powerful word...
by Gwynne Middleton | Apr 22, 2021
Jamison White is the senior manager of data and research for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Before joining the National Alliance, Jamison worked as a data analyst and freelance consultant in Boston and the greater New York...
by Mary Dell’Erba | Apr 22, 2021 | Policy
Each year, Education Commission of the States tracks and analyzes trends in education priorities from governors’ State of the State addresses. In 2021, the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic were a common refrain among governors. Of the 42 states included in this...
by Krystal Johnson | Apr 5, 2021 | Policy
Part of our mission at AEP is to research the latest policies and emerging conversations on arts education to provide a one-stop shop for readers. To that end, following last year’s ArtScan release, we got to work gathering feedback from our partners at the State...
by Eric Engdahl | Mar 23, 2021 | Policy, Practice
Over my years as an arts educator in California, I have learned that making significant changes in arts education policy is a long game that depends on the work of a diverse, collaborative group with perseverance, timing and ongoing communication. Arts and arts...
by Lucinda Presley | Mar 2, 2021 | Practice
Since remote and hybrid learning are dominant modes of teaching for the foreseeable future, educators and students alike can benefit from STEAM learning strategies to promote engagement and learning across settings. Research suggests that STEAM (the integration of...
by Krystal Johnson | Feb 22, 2021 | Policy
Last month, Arts Education Partnership hosted an Arts and Juvenile Justice Policy Briefing that gathered policy experts and practitioners from the field to discuss ways to emphasize youth-centered approaches in policymaking for justice-involved youth. A central theme...
by Jamie Hipp | Feb 1, 2021 | Policy
“My 1st graders pantomimed today to illustrate understanding of vocabulary. Pantomime pairs well with a current science unit about animals and the structures they use to defend themselves. They loved it. I’m so thankful I took the arts integration class!” As...
by Cassandra Quillen | Dec 9, 2020 | Research
In 2012, the Arts Education Partnership curated an extensive collection of research on arts education in one place: ArtsEdSearch. Eight years later, this online clearinghouse of research continues to support practitioners, researchers, policymakers and other...
by Gwynne Middleton | Nov 16, 2020
An Arts Education Partnership partner asked about the impact of arts instruction on student engagement in other subjects within distance learning models. Our response includes multiple research studies (published on ArtsEdSearch and elsewhere) that look at the role of...
by Adrienne Lundell | Oct 25, 2020
Search Results for: research reports How Dance Education Helps Students LEARN, GROW and CONNECT With Community Photo courtesy of NDI-NM. Dance education provides powerful opportunities for students to create, perform and understand movement as a means of artistic...
by Martha McKenna | Sep 8, 2020 | Policy, Practice
In our uncertain times, it is critical for all students to have access to arts education — provided by a highly qualified arts-teaching workforce — including classroom teachers, arts specialists, teaching artists, higher education faculty or members of arts and...
by Gwynne Middleton | Jul 29, 2020
Partner With AEP AEP partners work in arts education at the national level or focus on systems change. Which Category is a Better Fit? AEP Partner The Partner category is designed to create a network of organizations working at the national or systems level and...
by Gwynne Middleton | Jul 20, 2020
AEP Equity Working Group Resources A Learning Community for AEP Partners and Affiliates Overview of AEP Equity Working Group AEP working groups convene partner and affiliate organizations to generate and disseminate knowledge, effective practices and policy and...
by Cassandra Quillen | May 13, 2020
What We Do Learn more about AEP’s work and how to get involved. STRATEGIC MISSION AEP’s updated strategic mission focuses our work on building leadership capacity for arts and education leaders. Through research, reports, convenings and counsel, leaders gain...
by Jamie Kasper | Apr 29, 2020 | Outreach, Policy
A major part of the Arts Education Partnership’s work in the past six months has been focused on its new strategic mission and engagement strategy. These documents articulate how AEP — including its 114 partner organizations — can add value to the work of Education...
by Krystal Johnson | Apr 13, 2020 | Policy
Did you know that Nevada has arts education instructional requirements for K-12 public schools, youth centers, state facilities and detention centers? Neither did I, until I joined the team at the Arts Education Partnership and began working on ArtScan. As part of...
by Gwynne Middleton | Apr 1, 2020
A nonprofit organization requested information on K-12 arts education offerings. Our response includes a suite of resources that expand on arts education access, state data collection, research and policy information.
by Gwynne Middleton | Mar 31, 2020
This Special Report explores research and programs that employ the arts along the juvenile justice continuum: in prevention, intervention, transition and healing.
by Cassandra Quillen | Mar 2, 2020
In response to COVID-19, AEP is actively working with organizations involved in the arts and juvenile justice to share resources and insights on best supporting youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system, including youth in detention centers, during these...
by Mary Dell’Erba | Feb 19, 2020 | Policy
Last month, Education Commission of the States President Jeremy Anderson shared six trending education policy topics we will likely see in 2020. Arts education stakeholders and advocates may not be surprised to see that the arts were not listed among the top education...
by Krystal Johnson | Dec 18, 2019 | Policy
On a given day 43,580 youths are held in residential placement facilities ― including any public or private out-of-home youth placement facility. Of the youths in residential placement, 1 in 3 do not attend school, and 1 in 2 participate in less than six hours of...
by Cassandra Quillen | Nov 6, 2019 | Policy, Practice
A trip to a museum provides opportunities to experience the world at different points in time — to look back at the past to see a world that may seem unimaginable now, to engage with current events and culture, and to think far into the future and about things that...
by Cassandra Quillen | Sep 24, 2019
In September 2020, AEP welcomed more than 600 participants to the Virtual Gathering. THIS PAGE INCLUDES ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES FROM THIS ONLINE EVENT. Session Video Recordings 25 Years of AEP All Session Resources Invisible WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9 Looking Back and Looking...
by Cassandra Quillen | Sep 24, 2019
2019 AEP Annual Convening Concurrent Sessions Invisible CONCURRENT SESSIONS: A A Youth Development Framework for High Impact: High School Internships in the ArtsPriority Area: Raise Student Achievement and SuccessPowerPoint PresentationLeaders from Exploring the Arts...
by Robin Berlinsky | Sep 11, 2019 | Policy
Do schools in your community reflect the world in which we live, or are they steeped in tradition — doing things the way they’ve always been done? The world has changed a lot over the past 50 years, but many of our school systems have not. While some schools use...
by JoAnne Wilkins | Sep 4, 2019
This Policy Brief shares insights from a recent Thinkers Meeting that looked beyond existing state policies and explored new pathways to guide future practice, research and policy work to support access to STEAM education for all students.
by JoAnne Wilkins | Sep 3, 2019
ArtScan State Profiles Click on a state below to view arts policies in your state. Click here to view the Department of Defense Education Activity Schools...
