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Topic: Arts Education: Professional Development

Arts education is a vast, diverse, and complex field—from disciplines to practitioners, to populations served. Associations across the country are dedicated to providing high-quality professional development for arts educators, teaching artists, and arts education administrators.

The following professional associations represent practitioners and scholars working in theater, music, visual art, and dance education. These national associations also have active state affiliate chapters:

Additional organizations dedicated to the professional development of those working in the field of arts education:

Americans for the Arts Resources (3) more

News Articles (28) more

Project Profile (24) more

  • Milwaukee Public Schools pARTnership for the Arts
    Arts @ Large is a local arts education organization that develops partnerships between artists, arts organizations, and education institutions to enhance students’ opportunities for creativity.
  • Common Core of Data
    The Common Core of Data (CCD) is the Department of Education's primary database on public elementary and secondary education in the United States.
  • 2006 Conference for Community Arts Education
    Contains documents and presentations from the National Guild of Community Schools in the Arts' 2006 Conference. Most are handouts provided to the attendees but also contains PPT presentations.

Research Abstract (83) more

  • Resource Guide for Arts Education
    This guide covers arts education funding sources in various federal agencies.
  • Lessons from the Workshop: A guide to best practices in performing arts education
    From the introduction: If you are a school administrator, teacher, artist, parent, or arts organization, we hope this guide will help you facilitate an artist residency program. This guide explains arts education within the framework of educational policy and practice in California, but the model can be adapted for many communities. In this guide you will learn about the residency model, the history of Performing Arts Workshop’s residency model and what 40 years of experience have shown to be the best practices for artists and teachers.
  • Arts at the Core: Every School, Every Student
    The research provides information never before available to form the basis of statewide policy initiatives and priorities for arts education. It also creates a baseline for tracking and measuring progress in our state. http://www.artsalliance.org/ed_research.shtml

Sample Documents (3) more

  • Issue Brief: Arts Instruction of Public School Students in the First and Third Grades
    Few national studies have been conducted on students’ receipt of arts instruction, particularly in the early grades. To address this gap in the literature, this Issue Brief provides a descriptive look at the prevalence of arts instruction received by first and third grade public school students in their schools.
  • Kennedy Center Arts Education Leadership Kit
    The Kennedy Center Arts Education Leadership Kit provides a framework for supporting the arts education leadership development needs of cultural organizations, school district leaders, teaching artists, arts management students, and other individuals interested in their own continued professional development.
  • Arts Education Project Designer's Toolbook
    The Arts Education Project Designer's Toolbook has been developed to help plan and evaluate programs. For artists and community members working in an educational setting, it will provide an introduction to educational planning and related terms. For teachers, it will provide a helpful review. Using the Toolbook will help you develop superior programs and competitive grant applications for local, national, or private funding.