Spring has officially sprung, bringing warmer weather, fresh blooms and a new round of updates to the ArtScan database! AEP […]
Jamie Kasper and Claus von Zastrow also recorded Talking About Arts Education Data, a corresponding podcast episode for the Arts […]
Since the release of the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) results, countless articles and analyses have revealed the same […]
AEP is committed to enhancing ArtScan to continuously meet the needs of our network as they utilize the database for […]
AEP is excited to launch the Juvenile Justice Series: Broadcasting Arts Experiences this month. Each blog post in the series […]
Did you know that of the 54 states and territories tracked by the National Association of State Boards of Education, […]
We were co-teachers of neo-traditional West African dance in an urban elementary school. Avalon, the classroom teacher, trained in the […]
As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and approach the end of a school year spent entirely […]
Each year, Education Commission of the States tracks and analyzes trends in education priorities from governors’ State of the State […]
Part of our mission at AEP is to research the latest policies and emerging conversations on arts education to provide […]
Over my years as an arts educator in California, I have learned that making significant changes in arts education policy […]
Last month, Arts Education Partnership hosted an Arts and Juvenile Justice Policy Briefing that gathered policy experts and practitioners from […]
“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. […]
The 2020 AEP Virtual Gathering may feel like it happened years ago, but it’s only been three months! At this […]
Schools across the country have made great strides to offer opportunities for dance education. Educators have pivoted from prioritizing dance […]
Becky Bailey, founder of Conscious Discipline, says, “No significant learning can occur without significant relationships. Connection is the key.” Students […]
In our uncertain times, it is critical for all students to have access to arts education — provided by a […]
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 […]
Did you know that Nevada has arts education instructional requirements for K-12 public schools, youth centers, state facilities and detention […]
Last month, Education Commission of the States President Jeremy Anderson shared six trending education policy topics we will likely see […]
On a given day 43,580 youths are held in residential placement facilities ― including any public or private out-of-home youth […]
News that the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the arts would fall victim to budget constraints raised a collective […]
A trip to a museum provides opportunities to experience the world at different points in time — to look back […]
Do schools in your community reflect the world in which we live, or are they steeped in tradition — doing […]
Research shows that students in schools with arts-rich learning environments academically outperform their peers in arts-poor schools. Of course, the […]
Dance — when taught by a qualified dance educator and integrated into the K-12 curriculum — keeps students engaged in […]
When the National Association of Colleges and Employers asked employers what skills they prioritize when recruiting, they unequivocally listed ability […]
As most students and educators around the nation return to school, supporters of the arts in education also gather together […]
In the 1981 French film, Diva, an opera singer refuses to be recorded because she believes that only live performance […]
The buzz of an alarm signifying a new day, the smell of freshly brewed coffee, the turning of a key […]
While the most recent federal data on inclusion show most students with disabilities spend the majority of their time in […]
Throughout March, in addition to brackets and basketballs, the Arts Education Partnership and AEP partner organizations will celebrate the arts […]
In the first round of state plans submitted under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last spring, 60 percent (eight states) […]
We all know that arts education is good, right? The vast majority of Americans (90 percent) believe that the arts […]
America’s future economic growth depends on the strength of our world-class education system. The Arts Education Partnership (AEP), a center […]
I wasn’t always the best at math and science. I tried hard, but they just weren’t my thing. Still aren’t. For a long time, I thought that meant I wasn’t smart. That’s what school seemed to teach: smart people were good at math and science. It wasn’t until I discovered art…
Since 1937, the National Guild for Community Arts Education (a partner organization of the Arts Education Partnership) has been committed […]
The California Alliance for Arts Education is in its fifth decade of making the arts a core part of every […]
The National Association for Music Education’s mission is to advance music education by promoting the understanding and making of music […]
Arts in education stakeholders know that learning in and through the arts can enhance the learning experience, deepen engagement with […]
The Arts Education Partnership (AEP), a national network of organizations, is a center within Education Commission of the States dedicated […]
To build on the Arts Education Partnership’s (AEP) work of aiding states in including the arts as they craft plans […]
With the adoption of ESSA in 2015, the term “core academic subjects” was replaced with a “well-rounded education,” which, as […]
As states around the country continue the process of implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a priority of the Arts […]
The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) became a center within Education Commission of the States late last year. As part of […]
By now the education community is well aware of the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). From the […]
When I was asked to create a work of art exploring literacy, I wanted to create a dance but I had no dancers or a studio, so I chose to use my own body in the space I had, my yard. Fluent Nature is video of micro-choreography that explores what cannot be expressed with words, how nature has its own language, and how placing the human body in nature changes the story.
Title: What Is Me and What Is Not Me | Artist: Alex Chadwell | Medium: Music
My thinking on arts and literacy centers around the concept of literacies and artmaking as both sense-making and meaning-making processes that organically and inevitably overlap, intersect, and reciprocate. Compositionally, What is me and what is not me is a sound collage of sorts (there is no notation for the piece, and I'd be hard pressed to recreate it accurately) that abstractly and aurally represents the relationships between literacies and artmaking.
Title: A Curious Honeybee | Artist: Gideon Young | Medium: Film
Offering welcome through traditional and digital elements of literacy, A Curious Honeybee provides an experiential learning environment by activating visual, musical, natural, and emotional literacies.
Title: Tercera Llamada | Artist: Karilú Forshee | Medium: Audio
La Carpa Theatre is a project that I am currently directing in the Detroit Latinx community. The project aims to strengthen and uplift youth voices through devised theatre, in the style of the Mexican Carpas. This audio was created in the theatrical environment envisioned for our project. The ways in which literacies are re-defined are at the heart of La Carpa Theatre's mission.
Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits
Title: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits
