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FOCUS ON FLEXIBILITY AND RESOURCEFULNESS: Resources for Arts Education

FOCUS ON FLEXIBILITY AND RESOURCEFULNESS: Resources for Arts Education. What the Arts Do for Your School…. Improve student attendance Encourage enthusiasm for learning Support students in becoming “agents of their own learning”

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FOCUS ON FLEXIBILITY AND RESOURCEFULNESS: Resources for Arts Education

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  1. FOCUS ON FLEXIBILITY AND RESOURCEFULNESS: Resources for Arts Education

  2. What the Arts Do for Your School… • Improve student attendance • Encourage enthusiasm for learning • Support students in becoming “agents of their own learning” • Provide students with opportunities to develop their own voice • Present educators with a richer picture of their students • Benefit all students - particularly struggling learners • Demand active engagement in complex tasks that invoke cognitive, affective, kinesthetic skills

  3. Times are Challenging… • FOCUS • FLEXIBILITY • RESOURCES

  4. THE BIG PICTURE: What You Can Do... • Maintain commitment • Focus energy and time • Sustain and grow conversations with school leaders, colleagues, and parents • Keep the arts at the “table” • Connect with colleagues about arts learning and making connections to student learning

  5. Leadership in the Arts… • Connect with parents and colleagues • Advocate • Network • Build community around the arts • Collaborate • Innovate

  6. Advocacy • Promote the arts in your school community • Use the resources of your cultural community • Manage an Arts Newsletter or Bulletin Board with special events, highlight student and staff achievements in the arts • Work closely with Parent Coordinator • Solicit suggestions from school community • Publish student reviews and critiques • REMEMBER—RELATIONSHIPS COUNT!

  7. Critical Role of Arts Education Liaison • Understand ArtsCount and accountability for the arts • Support the principal as designated in preparation and completion of • Annual Arts Education Survey data • Review Annual Arts in Schools Report • Assist in demonstrating evidence of student arts learning for School Quality Review (3.1) • Serve as key communications person for the school • Advise principal about appropriate arts and cultural programs and services • Engage members of the school community • Advocate for students’ arts learning experiences • Support opportunities for student performances and exhibitions of student artwork; • Collaborate with parent coordinator regarding parent participation in arts events and programs; • Use the Cultural Pass

  8. What new ideas are you taking back to your schools about resources for the arts? • How can you use these resources to benefit your school and students?

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