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FOCUS ON FLEXIBILITY

AND RESOURCEFULNESS:

Resources for Arts Education

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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

Times are Challenging…

FOCUS

FLEXIBILITY

RESOURCES

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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

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Leadership in the Arts…•Connect with parents and colleagues

•Advocate

•Network

•Build community around the arts

•Collaborate

•Innovate

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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!

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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

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1. What new ideas are you taking back to your

schools about resources for the arts?

2. How can you use these resources to benefit your

school and students?