VLS Arts

NGA/CCSSO Seeks Public Comment on Common Core State Standards by 4/2/10

NYSED — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers has issued for public comment the K-12 Common Core State Standards. Since spring 2009, New York State, along with 50 other states, territories, and the District of Columbia has been involved in the process of creating common core standards in English language arts and mathematics.

The New York State Education Department is seeking your feedback on the draft standards through an online survey (one for the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science and one for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics). To access the draft materials and respond to the surveys, please visit the NYSED Common Core State Standards toolkit at http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/toolkit.html . Your comments will be compiled and forwarded to NGA/CCSSO. If you would like to respond directly to NGA/CCSSO, please visit http://www.corestandards.org to access their survey. Please share with others as appropriate.

New York State Art Teachers Association 19th Annual Summer Institute

NYSED — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

A Sense of Wonder, Sunday, July 25th - Friday, July 30, 2010, Sagamore National Historic Landmark, Raquette Lake, NY. If you are making plans now for summer professional growth, don't miss the NYSATA Sagamore Summer Institute. It offers 48 hours of professional development with the option for 3 in-service credits, all completed in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains! For further information go to http://www.nysata.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=100506&orgId=nysata

New York State Summer School of the Arts Auditions

NYSED — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

If you know a New York State high school student who is considering a career in the arts or entertainment industries, the NYS Summer School of the Arts offers intensive pre-professional summer training programs that are exciting, challenging, and fun. The eight residential summer schools include Ballet, Choral Studies, Dance, Jazz Studies, Media Arts, Orchestral studies, Theatre and Visual Arts. The program is open to all NYS high school age students who qualify through regional auditions beginning February 2010. Tuition assistance is available based on financial need. To learn more visit http://emsc.nysed.gov/nysssa/ .

National Gallery of Art Teacher Summer Institutes

NYSED — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

The National Gallery of Art invites K-12 teachers to apply for two separate six-day seminars entitled: Crosscurrents of American Art: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. They explore American art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Individual sessions integrate art, social history, language arts, and learning theory through examination of the collections of the National Gallery. The application deadline is March 15, 2010. For information on fellowship funding and an online application, visit : http://www.nga.gov/education/teacinst.shtm

Second UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education Scheduled for May 2010

NYSED — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

The second UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education, the largest global event in the field, will take place in Seoul, South Korea, May 25–28, 2010, with some 2,000 participants coming from Korea and abroad. The meeting in Seoul will target the socio-cultural dimensions of arts education and reinforce the importance of research. The conference is expected to contribute to the development of new strategies and strengthen collaboration between its main participants, national authorities, local governments, teachers, artists, researchers, associations and to work together to reinforce the importance of arts education in schools as well as within society. For more information go to http://www.artsedu2010.kr/

CARTS: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students

NYSED — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

A clearinghouse of online resources pertaining to folklore, anthropology, traditional arts, oral history, and community-based education. Co-sponsored by the National Task Force on Folk Arts in Education and City Lore, CARTS is designed to serve the needs of K-12 educators, students, and community members interested in developing meaningful linkages between school curricula and local cultural traditions. Teachers will be interested in the folklorist mentoring project. A stipend is available for teachers to develop folklore-related projects in their classrooms. http://www.carts.org/

What Does "Quality" look like in Arts Education?

NYSED — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

In 'The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education', Harvard researchers at Project Zero explore what first-rate arts education entails and offer tools to help educators and others make smart choices about arts education in schools and communities. To read the report, go to http://cts.vresp.com/c/?TheWallaceFoundation/91a99db961/03f955ba05/bd6bb69351.

Museum Learning Initiative

NYSED — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The primary goal of Museum Learning Initiative (MLI) is to strengthen and expand the educational use of museum and cultural organization resources by schools of the Upper Hudson Valley Region. The Albany Institute of History & Art has taken this unique opportunity to encourage partnerships with over sixty area organizations whose educational offerings include options for school groups utilizing object-based learning strategies. For more information visit http://www.albanyinstitute.org/mli/

JFK Center for the Performing Arts' Any Given Child Initiative

NYSED — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The Any Given Child initiative, created by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is a program designed to bring Kennedy Center staff and consultants to work with community leaders and school administrators to develop a long-range plan for arts education that is tailor-made for the school district. For more information visit http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/anygivenchild/

NEA Foundation-Student Achievement Grants

NYSED — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The NEA Foundation provides funds to improve the academic achievement of students in U.S. public schools and public higher education institutions in any subject area. The proposed work should engage students in critical-thinking and problem solving that deepen their knowledge of standards-based subject matter. The grant amount is $5,000. Funds may be used for resource materials, supplies, equipment, transportation, software, or scholars-in-residence. Applications are reviewed three times per year, every year. For more information and guidelines for applying for this grant, visit http://www.neafoundation.org/pages/educators/grant-programs/grant-application/student-achievement-grants/

A Collaboration Between Schools and Cultural Organizations Through ESP

NYSED — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Empire State Partnerships (ESP) is dedicated to identifying, developing and nurturing promising practices in arts education through support of long-term collaborations between cultural organizations and schools. For more information visit http://www.espartsed.org/

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2008 Arts Results Released

NYSED — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in the Arts was administered to a nationally representative sample of 8th grade students in the United States for the first time in more than a decade. It measured student knowledge and skills in music and visual arts with moderate levels of achievement reported and suggested students have about the same access to music and art as in 1997. The NAEP Arts Assessment results reveal a significant achievement gap in student performance in music and the visual arts according to economic status, racial and ethnic identification, gender, and school type and location.

The responding questions in the music portion of the assessment asked students to analyze and describe aspects of music they heard, critique instrumental and vocal performances, and demonstrate their knowledge of standard musical notation and music’s role in society. For the visual arts portion, responding questions asked students to analyze and describe works of art and design. Creating questions required students to create original works of art and design, including a self-portrait that was scored for identifying detail, compositional elements, and use of materials.

While the NAEP gives valuable information about what students know and are able to do in the arts, it also points to the need for more a complete national picture about the status and condition of arts education in our nation’s schools.

More information available at: http://nationsreportcard.gov and http://www.aep-arts.org