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 Julia Murphy | Mar 1, 2022
by Julia Murphy | Feb 23, 2022
by Cassandra Quillen | Feb 23, 2022
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 Cassandra Quillen | Feb 9, 2022
by Julia Murphy | Feb 2, 2022
by Cassandra Quillen | Jan 26, 2022
by Cassandra Quillen | Jan 26, 2022
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 Cassandra Quillen | Jan 12, 2022
by Cassandra Quillen | Dec 15, 2021
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 Cassandra Quillen | Dec 7, 2021
This interactive and adaptive resource captures the insights and reflections of attendees who joined AEP’s Arts and Literacies Thinkers Meeting Series. It incorporates art and text to support different experiences and interactions as visitors explore the...
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 Cassandra Quillen | Dec 6, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Nov 24, 2021
An arts education organization asked about states that named the arts in their approved state ESSER plans and their proposed arts-related activities. Our response includes an overview of the the states that included arts in their plans, the states with plans that have...
by Cassandra Quillen | Nov 24, 2021
by Nate Marcarelli | Nov 22, 2021
by Nate Marcarelli | Nov 22, 2021
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 10, 2021
by Nate Marcarelli | Nov 5, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Nov 4, 2021
by Nate Marcarelli | Nov 2, 2021
by Nate Marcarelli | Nov 2, 2021
Prepares...
by Nate Marcarelli | Nov 2, 2021
How Theatre Education Transforms Student’s...
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 28, 2021
by Nate Marcarelli | Oct 28, 2021
by Nate Marcarelli | Oct 28, 2021
The Arts and...
by Nate Marcarelli | Oct 28, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
by Cassandra Quillen | Oct 13, 2021
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 Gwynne Middleton | Oct 7, 2021
This photo is taken outdoors in the Norwegian countryside and is a landscape-style image. The photographer chose to focus on a large, partially rusted tin barn. On the front of the barn and centered in the photograph, a street artist painted a mural of a young person...
by Gwynne Middleton | Oct 7, 2021
This photo was taken indoors and includes a blank, white backdrop and a white floor. The focus of the photo is a series of colorful musical instruments and colorful bells strewn across the floor along with confetti. Image Credit: Fifth House...
by Gwynne Middleton | Oct 7, 2021
This photo was taken indoors and includes a blank, white backdrop and a white floor. The focus of the photo is a series of colorful musical instruments and colorful bells strewn across the floor along with confetti. Image Credit: Fifth House...
by Gwynne Middleton | Oct 1, 2021
by Gwynne Middleton | Sep 29, 2021
by Martha McKenna | Sep 28, 2021 | Practice
Like many district leaders across the country, in recent years Lawrence Public Schools administrators in Massachusetts moved to create more culturally responsive curriculum to better serve their school district, which is comprised of a BIPOC majority student...
by Gwynne Middleton | Sep 27, 2021
This photo of a classroom is taken indoors and includes a teacher with close-cropped dark hair and in a short-sleeved plaid shirt in the background. The teacher stands near a projector at the front of the class and speaks to students. Students are seated at desks that...
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 Gwynne Middleton | Sep 20, 2021
This photo is taken outdoors in the Norwegian countryside and is a landscape-style image. The photographer chose to focus on a large partially rusted tin barn. On the front of the barn and centered in the photograph, a street artist painted a mural of a young person...
by Cate Bechtold | Sep 9, 2021 | Outreach, Practice
Educating amid the pandemic has been a whirlwind for teachers, who have faced a myriad of challenges — from technology to student engagement. At Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, throughout the pandemic we have been actively collaborating with our...
by Gwynne Middleton | Sep 8, 2021
Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Natasha Mirny performs “Moving and Learning Through the Rainforest,” an installment in Wolf Trap’s “Field Trip Fridays” web series, created as a resource to help encourage at-home learning during the pandemic. Photo Courtesy of Wolf Trap...
by Gwynne Middleton | Sep 1, 2021
by Gwynne Middleton | Aug 31, 2021
The photo was taken indoors. A silver laptop takes up most of the photo and is open on a wooden table. The computer screen shows a virtual meeting underway with many meeting attendees represented. To the left of the computer, someone has set a ceramic drinking mug...
by Gwynne Middleton | Aug 27, 2021
Our Shared Future: A New Landscape for Teaching...
by Gwynne Middleton | Aug 23, 2021
The photo is taken indoors in a room with natural lighting filtering in from the background of the photo. Viewers will notice in the blurred background a two-level plant stand with plants in the center and a yellow chair or sofa at the right side of the frame. The...
by Gwynne Middleton | Aug 23, 2021
The photo is taken indoors in a room with natural lighting filtering in from the background of the photo. Viewers will notice in the blurred background a two-level plant stand with plants and a yellow chair or sofa at the right side of the frame. The main subject of...
by Gwynne Middleton | Aug 18, 2021
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 Gwynne Middleton | Aug 10, 2021
A child with shoulder-length sandy blond hair sits alone on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed and plays clarinet. The bed is unmade, and the child is wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt and denim jeans and is alone in the room. The child is in the center of the photo, with...
by Gwynne Middleton | Jul 28, 2021
by Gwynne Middleton | Jul 23, 2021
Virtual Gathering Branded...
by Gwynne Middleton | Jul 21, 2021
by Gwynne Middleton | Jul 7, 2021
by Nate Marcarelli | Jul 6, 2021
by Gwynne Middleton | Jul 1, 2021
by Casey Maddock | Jun 22, 2021 | Policy
Did you know that of the 54 states and territories tracked by the National Association of State Boards of Education, 50 have boards of education (BOE) responsible for setting education policy? And 24 of those include student representatives as members of their state...
by Gwynne Middleton | Jun 21, 2021
by Gwynne Middleton | Jun 21, 2021
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 Gwynne Middleton | Jun 14, 2021
This photograph features a youth string orchestra performing outdoors in a covered park amphitheater. The background of the photograph shows the park’s greenspace with manicured lawns and trimmed trees. In the amphitheater, youth are positioned in rows based on...
by Gwynne Middleton | Jun 14, 2021
This photograph features a youth string orchestra performing outdoors in a covered park amphitheater. The background of the photograph shows the park’s greenspace with manicured lawns and trimmed trees. In the amphitheater, youth are positioned in rows based on...
by Gwynne Middleton | Jun 9, 2021
by Gwynne Middleton | May 26, 2021
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 24, 2021
by Gwynne Middleton | May 20, 2021
This photo includes three women seated at a wood table in what appears to be a modern meeting room. The women are in conversation, and on the table, the woman on the left has a purple computer tablet in front of her, and the other two women are seated near a shared...
by JoAnne Wilkins | May 12, 2021
by Gwynne Middleton | 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 Gwynne Middleton | May 7, 2021
Zeke Perez is a policy analyst at Education Commission of the...
by Gwynne Middleton | May 6, 2021
The photo captures an outdoor mural in the Las Vegas, Nevada, Arts District during a bright, sunny day. The artist painted the mural on the side of what appears to be an apartment complex. The mural depicts a headshot of woman against a rainbow-striped background. The...
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 Gwynne Middleton | May 3, 2021