by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description Join us for our closing plenary session centered on applying the key takeaways from the AEP Virtual Gathering to actionable policy recommendations developed by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With a focus on turning the experience, knowledge...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description Can the arts education sector be a leader in implementing trauma-informed and healing-centered strategies and principles? This session offers insight into Ingenuity’s Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Training Program Through the Arts and explores a...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description The pandemic required arts organizations to pivot swiftly from “in-person” arts education programming to “virtual.” Many discovered that even in a time of great social isolation, the arts are a conduit for meaningful connection and...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description Participants in this session will have an opportunity to interrogate traditional narratives in arts education by positioning Hip Hop education as an abolitionist pedagogy. The session explores the question of how to incorporate Hip Hop education into arts...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description Presenters introduce participants to a professional development program, supported by a U.S. Department of Education grant, that promotes STEM-integrated visual arts classes. With increased STEM confidence and new technical skills, art teachers develop...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description Today’s discussions around diversity, equity and inclusion frequently leave out disability. We believe that the arts and education community is ready for a discussion on the intersectionality of disability with other marginalized communities and that...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description Earlier this year, The Lewis Prize for Music published a white paper, “Midcasting Toward Just Futures: Creative Youth Development’s Waymaking to Systems Change Through and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic”. This white paper emerged from The Lewis Prize’s focus...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description The shift to virtual learning for many young people during the past two years impacted the connection between classrooms and communities in an unprecedented way. While the two learning environments have always been inextricably linked, the shift in...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description In what ways can young people draw connections between their lives today and oral traditions or culturally rooted poetry traditions that span generations? How can technology be employed to make traditional arts accessible in a remote learning environment?...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description This session shares a range of media and theater exercises, including storytelling, scenes and interviews, to bring participants on a journey of emotional exploration, as seen through the lens of justice-involved youth. From witnessing the work of a youth...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description The Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs began convening a leadership network in 2018 to foster dialogue and advance the work of individuals supporting arts education for students with disabilities across the country. Out of this work,...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description What were your first arts internships or jobs like? How old were you when they happened? What have you carried with you from those experiences — as a best practice or as something from which to learn and grow? This session engages participants to actively...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description What steps are you taking to lead change and assist equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) efforts within your organization? A critical element in change making and ED&I work is strong and courageous leadership. At the 2019 National Art Education...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description This is different from other exhibitions in the museum. It is about NOW. It is also unfinished, because we are in the middle of the story. What happens when a history museum takes on immediate local events through the arts? The Greensboro History Museum...
by Arts Education Partnership | Oct 14, 2021
Description The education landscape has changed dramatically over the past two years due to national and global events, and these shifts brought new and increased awareness about supporting young people not only in their learning but also for their social and...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 17, 2020
Led by Jeff Poulin, Amir Whitaker and Quanice Floyd, this sharing session unpacks how leaders can frame arts education as a fundamental civil and human right. The facilitators explore international frameworks, American public policy and two state-based examples so...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 17, 2020
During this plenary session, Janel George, senior policy advisor at the Learning Policy Institute, offers a keynote and conversation on education as a civil right and shares examples of anti-racist actions and policy changes — or those that are needed — to achieve a...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 17, 2020
In this framing video, National Art Education Association Executive Director Mario Rossero and President-elect and Chair of NAEA’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Commission James Haywood Rolling Jr. share a conversation on anti-racism in arts education. Learn...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 15, 2020
In the face of the collective trauma related to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools need to pivot quickly to ensure all personnel follow trauma-informed approaches. During this sharing session, a licensed art therapist draws upon research in the value of a STEAM education...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 15, 2020
This sharing session is a facilitated conversation on the strategies different communities are taking to maximize the role of the arts in reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Facilitators and participants share and listen to become stronger actors in their...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 15, 2020
In this framing video, presenters Dr. AnnRene Joseph, Cheyenne Gillett and Tracy Fortune discuss how arts educators are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Access additional 2020 AEP Virtual Gathering resources here.
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 15, 2020
In this asynchronous session, StageWrite presents the ADAPTS (Autism & Drama with Artists, Parents, Teachers & Students) program, which uses theatre to connect artists with students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their typically developing peer...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 15, 2020
During this plenary session, Paul Siefken shares a keynote and conversation on the role of public television in ensuring that students have access to high-quality arts and media programming during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Presenter Bio Paul Siefken, president...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 11, 2020
This sharing session explores learning curves, best practices and benefits of artmaking based on new Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) education standards that are specifically implemented in an art teacher preparation program. The presenter shares ways to...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 11, 2020
Education Commission of the States President Jeremy Anderson welcomes attendees and shares education trends and policies, as well as school reopening plans.
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 11, 2020
Led by the ArtsMatter team from LA Promise Fund, this asynchronous session explores the field of media arts education and presents findings from various school-based programs implemented within Los Angeles classrooms. On-the-ground implementation strategies from...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 11, 2020
On a given day, more than 43,000 youth are held in residential placement facilities because of involvement with the juvenile justice system. Shine Global’s film “Virtually Free” follows teens detained in a Richmond detention center as they write and record poetry,...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 9, 2020
Can systems change really happen? What key strategies and messaging can bring it about? The Illinois ESSA arts indicator process provides a specific case study in how strategic advocacy can bring about meaningful change to advance arts education. Come to learn...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 9, 2020
Facilitated by youth leaders of the National Youth Network (NYN) as part of the Creative Youth Development movement, participants at this sharing session engage in a visual showcase, an interactive self-assessment tool and guiding principles to co-design spaces with...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 9, 2020
The U.S. public education system is not providing a high-quality, equitable education for young people in our country. The opportunity gap among black and white students has remained unchanged for the past 50 years, and the U.S. currently ranks #36 in the world for...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 9, 2020
In this framing video, National Endowment for the Arts Chairperson Mary Anne Carter welcomes attendees and discusses the importance of arts education and AEP.
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 9, 2020
AEP Director Jamie Kasper welcomes attendees to the 2020 Virtual Gathering and provides a programming overview.
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 9, 2020
For the past two school years, the NAMM Foundation — in partnership with the National Association for Music Education, and with an expanded partnership this year that includes the Educational Theatre Association and National Dance Education Organization — reached out...
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 9, 2020
In this framing video, Christopher Rinkus, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementray and Secondary Education at U.S. Department of Education, welcomes attendees to the Virtual Gathering and talks about arts education during challenging times.
by Arts Education Partnership | Sep 9, 2020
This plenary session takes a trip down memory lane in recognition of AEP’s 25th Anniversary. Featuring speakers who paved the way for AEP alongside individuals who are blazing a trail for the next 25 years of arts education, they share the biggest successes of...
