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Americans for the Arts Resources (8) more

• Resource Guide for Arts Education
  This guide covers arts education funding sources in various federal agencies.
• Community Schoools of the Arts: An Arts Education Resource for your Community
  This Monograph provides an overview of community schools of the arts and their potential benefits to your community, as well as ways local arts agencies and other community organizations can tap these vibrant resources.
• National Arts Education Public Awareness Campaign Survey
  Findings illustrate a need for a public awareness campaign to raise questions and to compel parents to take action and affect change in their schools and communities.

News Articles (15) more

• WFP supporting Wyclef Jean festival to promote development in Haiti
  In collaboration with the United Nations Food Programme (WFP) hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean uses art and culture to explore sustainable development in Haiti.
• SAN FRANCISCO Visual, performing arts to be reborn in schools as city frees funding
  San Francisco educators will raise the curtain today on a new, multimillion-dollar plan to bring visual and performing arts back into every city school beginning this year. The new Arts Education Master Plan has been two years in the making -- but has been percolating for more than 25 years in the minds of arts educators who saw their programs dry up in the wake of Proposition 13, passed in 1978. With city money available at last, the new plan is intended to transform the district's spotty arts offerings into a creative program available to every student in every school.
• Teaching the Art of Writing
  These models have proven effective in raising the writing and reading skills of all students, but particularly of those students who face steep learning challenges.

Project Profile (19) more

• The Voices Project
  The Voices Project was a multimedia arts project that combined poetry, creative writing, documentary film, music and theatre to explore the diversity and complexity of teen experiences. Supported by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, Bess O’Brien and Abby Paige of Kingdom County Productions led this project, collecting youth stories and transforming them into a stage production.
• Expanding Horizons through Art
  In partnership with The Krause Children’s Treatment Center, Katy ARTreach is bringing the therapeutic arts and art-related activities to boys and girls who are suffering from behavioral and emotional problems, often as the result of abuse and neglect.
• In a New Land: Stories of Russian Refugee Youth
  In a New Land (completed April 2005), taught Russian immigrant and refugee teens living in the City of West Hollywood to tell their stories through the lens of a camera.

Research Abstract (25) more

• Freedom’s Orphans: Raising Youth in a Changing World
  Children's personal skills are increasingly likely to influence their future earning potential, not just exam results, a think-tank suggests. Failure to teach key skills such as communication is widening the gap between rich and poor, says the Institute for Public Policy Research.
• HEROES AREN’T HARD TO FIND: PLAYBACK THEATRE AND CHARACTER EDUCATION
  Dissertation study of an improvisational theatre program and its impact on character education in elementary school students.
• Resource Guide for Arts Education
  This guide covers arts education funding sources in various federal agencies.

Sample Documents (2) more

• Kennedy Center Arts Education Leadership Kit
  The Kennedy Center Arts Education Leadership Kit provides a framework for supporting the arts education leadership development needs of cultural organizations, school district leaders, teaching artists, arts management students, and other individuals interested in their own continued professional development.
• Arts Education Project Designer's Toolbook
  The Arts Education Project Designer's Toolbook has been developed to help plan and evaluate programs. For artists and community members working in an educational setting, it will provide an introduction to educational planning and related terms. For teachers, it will provide a helpful review. Using the Toolbook will help you develop superior programs and competitive grant applications for local, national, or private funding.