Arts Education Advocacy Research and Resources
Building on its foundation of three decades of experience, the collaborative work of IAAE continues to grow and to benefit Iowans despite new political, fiscal, and organizational challenges.
Members of the Executive Board are available to advise and support member organizations and individual members in the formation of an Advocacy Plan. The following scholarly articles serve to support your practice and collaboration: Your Advocacy.
Contact Patrick Kearney, the Advocacy Chair of IAAE at pkearney@johnston.k12.ia.us
Youth Arts Transforms Lives – FACT!
This resource provides evidence to demonstrate how youth arts can transform young people’s lives through a collection of case studies.
http://artswork.org.uk/domains/artswork.org.uk/local/artswork-flipbook/index.html
Engaging Adolescents: Building Youth Participation in the Arts
This guide outlines a holistic approach that integrates arts learning with principles of youth development. It is designed to help staff and faculty develop new programs and services for teens or to rethink and strengthen programs they already offer.
http://www.nationalguild.org/documents/EngagingAdolescentsGuide.pdf
What School Leaders Can Do To Increase Arts Education
School principals and other leaders interested in increasing arts education in America's schools can adopt any of these easy actions and strategies one at a time or implement several at once.
http://www.aep-arts.org/files/publications/AEP_Principals-brochure-final.pdf
Share this proclamation with your school board, administration, students and parent groups.
Here is a pdf version...
Bloom's Taxonomy
In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. During the 1990's a new group of cognitive psychologist, lead by Lorin Anderson (a former student of Bloom's), updated the taxonomy reflecting relevance to 21st century work. The graphic is a representation of the NEW verbage associated with the long familiar Bloom's Taxonomy. Note the change from Nouns to Verbs to describe the different levels of the taxonomy.
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Ten Ways to Guide the Creative Process in your Classroom
1/8/2011 Lynne B. Silverstein and Sean Layne, Kennedy Center for Arts Education
Teaching for Creativity through the Arts: Why, What, and How
"Creativity is now as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status."--Sir Ken Robinson
Our world is rapidly changing and the future is largely unknowable. What kind of people will thrive? What skills will they need? Certainly they'll need more than subject area knowledge....
How the Arts Lay a Foundation for Learning
An article from ED Week, 12/2010 by Kathran Siegel
Children develop from the inside out. They must learn skills for dealing with the challenges they face at the same time they are gathering information about the world around them. We tell ourselves a lie of convenience when we support the belief that schildren who can score well on standardized math and reading exams are being equipped for life...
Charting Creativity: Signposts of a Hazy Territory
An Article in the New York Times, May 7, 2010
creativity: the ability to combine novelty and usefulness in a particular social context
As the study of creativity has expanded to include brain neurology, however, some scientists question whether this standard definition and the tests for it still make sense. John Kounios, a psychologist at Drexel University, argues that the standard “has outlived its usefulness.”
Arts Education Promotes Emotional Intelligence
An article from the Miller-McCune Magazine, January 7,2010
As arts education is pushed further to the margins by the current emphasis on standardized testing, a tool for nurturing children’s social and emotional development is being lost.
This is Your Brain on Art
Neuro-ed researchers say creativity can set kids' minds on fire.
by Deborah Rudacille in Urbanite Magazine Online
Americans for the Arts provides highlights from key national research on arts education. This is the 50th. anniversary of Americans for the Arts. Check out the 50 State/ 50 Days initiative.
Maryland study finds a correlation between music instruction in grades six to eight and success at algebra.
Our affiliation with the Kennedy Center offers several resources, including the Advocacy Tool Kit.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills is the leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education. A fresh approach to United States education that closes national and international achievement gaps is critical to the future of the United States.
The Wallace Foundation provides insights that can be used to build and sustain participation in the arts in education
The Quadrant philosophy comprises four interconnected quadrants: Research informs Advocacy, Advocacy informs Public Policy, Public Policy creates Change, Change creates more Arts Education for students.
The National Association of Art Educators provides a terrific flier to share with parents and collegues: The Visual Arts: So Much More Than You Can See