Addressing Student Needs in an Era of New Content Standards . Arts Education: Day 2

1. NCDPI Summer Institutes 2012 Addressing Student Needs in an Era of New Content Standards.Arts Education: Day 2

2. Opening

3. Housekeeping http://ances.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/ http://ances.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Arts+Education+Content+Sessions+2012

4. Facilitated Team Time • How does this content area prepare students to be future ready? • How does this area connect to other content areas? • What are the implications for meeting the needs of all learners as related to this content area?

5. Walk About Reflection

6. Future Directions in Arts Education State and National Data and Initiatives Implications

7. State of the Arts:North Carolina

8. Policy and Legislation • Basic Education Program (§ 115C-81) The NC Standard Course of Study Common Core State Standards NC Essential Standards

9. NC Legislation

10. • Arts Education (arts as core, academic subjects) Arts Integration (arts as a catalyst for learning across the curriculum) Arts Exposure (exposure to arts experiences) S66 Comprehensive Arts Education

11. Comprehensive Arts Education

12. NCDPI Alignment and Support: A+ Schools Program • Data Collection and Analysis • Monitoring and Collaboration • Professional Development

13. http://aplus-schools.ncdcr.gov/ Michelle Burrows | Director A+ Schools Programmichelle.burrows@ncdcr.gov tel: 919.807.6503

14. H758: Arts Education Commission • Duties • 3 Meetings (February – April 2012) • Final Report (May 1, 2012) • 5 Findings/Recommendations • 3 Legislative Proposals in Report

15. H758: Arts Education Commission • Importance of Arts Education • Comprehensive Arts Education Task Force (Legislative Proposal 1) • Arts Education Graduation Requirement (Legislative Proposal 2) • Professional Development and Education in Arts Integration • Locally Driven Comprehensive Arts Education (Legislative Proposal 3)

16. S724: An Act to Improve Public Education • requires that pre-service elementary teachers and lateral entry teachers are prepared to “integrate arts education across the curriculum”. • Wide-scale education legislation • signed into law by the Governor on June 26, 2012

17. Enrollment in Arts Education Courses, K-12 Dance 2.99% Music 59.85% Theatre Arts 5.44% Visual Arts 53.66% All Arts 122.09%

18. NC Statistical Profile 2009-2010

19. Licensed Arts Educators in NC 1,434,436 Students (ADM)

20. Local Arts Education Graduation Requirements * Pitt County has a Local School Board Policy (9.201) which calls for a comprehensive and sequential arts education, K-12, in addition to the local high school graduation requirement.

21. Arts Education: Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, Visual ArtsCourse Coding Updates

22. Highlights • Beginning, Intermediate, Proficient, Advanced courses in each discipline • Specialization by proficiency level in each discipline • AP and IB retain separate designations

23. High School Proficiency Levels

24. High School Sequencing

25. High School Options • Electives Requirements (Future-Ready Core) – 6 • Electives requirements (NC Scholars) • Interest or specializations • 4-unit Concentrations

26. Concentration Recommendations • Sequence of courses in an arts discipline with at least one advanced course (beyond intermediate level) • Culminating project or capstone experience to demonstrate advanced skills • producing a student-written play • choreographing a dance for a public performance • publishing and conducting a student-written musical composition • producing a student exhibition of original art

27. Proficiency: Arts Education

28. What does it mean to be proficient? “well advanced in an art, occupation, or branch of knowledge” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proficient • proficient, adept, skilled, skillful, expertmean having great knowledge and experience in a trade or profession

29. Proficiency • implies a thorough competence derived from training and practice • implies knowledge as well as technical skill

30. Suggested Student Profile • Upon entry to high school level study, it is suggested that each student be assessed via a student profile • This profile should be maintained throughout the high school career, so that each student has a history of his/her education, academic performance, and experiences in the arts.

31. Suggested Student Profile • The profile documents: • arts education and student academic performance in any of the four arts education disciplines at the K-8 levels, • arts studies that the student has completed outside of the school (private lessons, internships, studio classes, etc.).

32. Student Placement • Those students who have had limited or NO instruction in the arts discipline prior to the high school level will enter at a beginning level of study in any high school coursework. • Students may participate in a variety of electives from beginning through advanced levels in each of the arts disciplines.

33. Student Placement Practices • student profile • checklists and rubrics • pre-requisites • other criteria

34. Student Placement Resources • Arts Education Wiki • Other School Systems • LinguaFolio (ArtsFolio) • Future support: • Webinars, proficiency team 2012-13 SY • Formative and Summative Assessment Examples/Prototypes

35. State of the Arts:National

36. National Reports The Arts and Achievement in At-risk Youth: Findings From Four Longitudinal Studies (March 2012 – National Endowment for the Arts) • At-risk teenagers or young adults with a history of intensive arts experiences show achievement levels closer to, and in some cases exceeding, the levels shown by the general population studied.

37. National Reports Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 1999-2000 and 2009-2010 (April 2012 – US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics) • Contains Key Indicators for Arts Education in 2009-10 and comparisons with 1999-2000, where applicable.

38. US Instruction Available in Elementary Arts Education

39. US Instruction Available in Secondary Arts Education

40. http://www.artsedsearch.org • Available now: • Crosswalks • Unpacking the Standards • I Can Statements by Content Area In development: • Graphic Organizers (available February 20, 2012) • Assessments • Formative: NC FALCON, ArtsFolio/Student Profile • Assessment Examples • Measures of Student Learning • Learning Progressions/Learning Maps • Terminologies • Other Tools

41. National Standards • National Standards (1994) • National effort underway for re-conceptualization of the standards

42. National Standards

43. National Standards

44. National Standards • National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) Wiki: https://nccas.wikispaces.com/Home

45. MSL Updates Arts Education July 2012

46. MSL Updates • Educator Effectiveness website (soon) • linked from http://www.NCPublicSchools.org • Arts: More local control and less state direction

47. NCDPI Guide for Measuring Student Learning (Arts and other areas) Information for how teachers and principals can determine what student evidences demonstrate learning Teachers who assisted with MSLs in 2011-12 will inform process Local decisions to inform best process (student learning objectives; pre-/post-assessment)

48. Jennifer Preston Race to the Top Project Coordinator for Teacher and Leader Effectiveness jennifer.preston@dpi.nc.gov [P] 919.807.4187 [C] 845.797.2361 [F] 919.807.4000 MSL Contact

49. Teacher Evaluation Process “Teachers advocate for schools and students.” Standard I, Element D Teachers advocate for positive change in policies and practices affecting student learning. http://ances.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Agenda+-+Day+2 (Section G)