Artificial Intelligence and Arts Ed: A Recap From AEP’s Quarterly Partnership Meeting
During AEP’s August quarterly partnership meeting, we discussed the positives, challenges and questions revolving around the use of artificial intelligence […]
We CAN Make a Difference in Student Learning!
The Origin Story The Connected Arts Networks (CAN) is a 5-year grant initiative funded by the U.S. Department of […]
Challenges in Undergraduate Art Education
The university environment creates a unique intersection of financial, social and academic stressors. Within our research, students identified specific personal […]
Finding Balance Within Creative Expression and Life as a Student
Through qualitative interview analysis, our research team uncovered several common themes across participant interviews. “Perfectionism. Burn-out. Alone or in front […]
Creative Expression and Well-Being Among Undergraduate Students
In the spring of 2023, Researchers Sofia Pineda-Velez, Jasmin Storer, Grace Chavez and Sam Searfoss conducted a qualitative, human-based research […]
Cultural Democracy in the Classroom
The first time I encountered the concept of cultural democracy was on a 2 train in Brooklyn. I was on […]
Creative Healing
When choosing to go into battle, one must choose precision weapons. To fight anxiety and depression my weapons of choice […]
Transforming a Traditional School into an Immersive Arts Integration School
How do we make school improvement efforts impactful and lasting? Traditionally, school improvement efforts only address academic improvement and fall […]
A State Policy Vision for Arts Literacies Integration
The journey of a child through making meaning was one of the foundational learnings from the Arts Education Partnership’s work […]
Interdisciplinary Meaning Making: Linking Literacies and the Arts
Individuals navigate the world through the senses and textures of life, grounding us in our common humanity. Linking literacies and […]
Exploring the Convergence Between Arts and Sciences, One Month at a Time
My name is Sloka, and I am a neuroscientist and classical Indian dancer from Ahmedabad, India, and I now live […]
A Music Educator’s Top Tips for Interdisciplinary Instruction in the Classroom
My first encounter with interdisciplinary instruction did not happen voluntarily. During my first year of teaching music, I was responsible […]
What do personalized, competency-based learning and arts education have in common?
A powerful arts education, as defined by the Hewlett Foundation, inspires students to bring their full selves and their communities […]
Creating Space for Students to Make
My work as a teaching artist and arts administrator centers student artmaking. I have not always approached teaching and curriculum […]
Curating a Promising Future through Artistic Literacy
“In curatorial practice, attending to decisions made in selecting, organizing, analyzing, and documenting content, as well as reviewing the evidence […]
Three Simple Steps to Support Children’s Emotional Intelligence and Creativity in Museums
Have you ever listened to children discuss an emotive work of art inside a museum? By visiting an art museum, […]
Literacy in Visual Art Education: Art as Text
Literacy as it relates to reading and writing has been a passion of mine since I was an elementary art […]
Prince and the Power of the Arts
Arts Education Partnership had a conversation with Prince Nwankwo about his arts experiences with Everett: Company Stage & School while […]
How Working in Arts Education Blew Up My Hat Collection
I love hats. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve enjoyed wearing them, from fitted baseball caps to vintage snap-backs […]
Connecting, Decoding and Experiencing Arts Education and Literacies
Background In late 2020, the Arts Education Partnership began exploring intersections of arts education and literacy. While connections between the […]
Dreaming of a Future Through the Arts
On August 2nd, Performing Statistics, a partner of Arts Education Partnership (AEP), announced the release of Freedom Constellations. This interactive […]
Theatre Counts for Everyone
The educator and playwright Timothy McDonald once described theatre as “the superfood of the arts.” He was speaking to a […]
For-Credit Arts Programs in Juvenile Justice
In 2010, Austin Classical Guitar (ACG) expanded our 20-year school-based guitar education program to the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center, […]
