The Los Angeles County Arts Commission will accept applications for arts education programs to be listed on LAArtsEd.org starting July 15, 2009.

Application Deadline is August 26, 2009.

Visit http://laartsed.org/application for application and guidelines.

LAArtsED.org Applicant Workshop

Wednesday, July 29

10:00am – 12:00pm

at the Arts Commission

1055 Wilshire Blvd. Ste. 800

Los Angeles , CA 90017

RSVP by July 24 th (link to http://laartsedworkshop.eventbrite.com/)

Access the full application announcement. (link to http://laartsed.org/docs/09ApplicationAnnouncement.pdf)

A strategy of Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education, LAArtsEd is an interactive website designed to support the needs of educators, community stakeholders and policy makers by providing centralized access to the tools and information necessary to achieve sequential K-12 arts education. The website is comprised of the Arts Education Program Directory that provides educators with quality, vetted, k-12 arts education programs and Tools and Resources that provides a searchable database of local and national resources for arts education now featuring, Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners

Program Directory
The Arts Education Program Directory centralizes access to quality, vetted, K-12 arts education programs that meet the Content Standards for California Public Schools, which include the Visual and Performing Arts Standards.  The Program Directory enables educators to strategically search for arts education programs by arts discipline, subject area, grade level, program type, and cultural origin. The site contains streaming video, photographs, and an electronic booking form. For artists and organizations, the online Program Directory offers a free marketing opportunity to reach the 94,000 teachers and administrators in Los Angeles County.

In order to be listed on the site, all arts education providers must complete an electronic application form demonstrating how the program meets the Content Standards for California Schools, which include the Visual and Performing Arts Standards, and be approved by a peer review panel comprised of artists, arts organizations, curriculum specialists, teachers, and parents. The site currently features 244 programs from 94 providers. Applications for arts education providers open each fall.

Tools and Resources
Tools and Resources provides a searchable database for local and national resources for systemic arts education. Educators can find examples of school district arts policies and long range plans and resources for strategic planning, as well as, models from which they can learn. Whether the local and national resources are directly emulated or provide a starting point for engaging in a conversation for beginning the work towards systemic arts education, each serve to highlight successful school districts, teachers, organizations, and their excellent work.

Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners
Featured in Tools and Resources, Designing the Arts Learning Community synthesizes extensive research of arts education practice across the United States. Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, San Francisco Arts Commission and Santa Clara County Office of Education, the handbook is a both a guide and reference resource for designing arts education professional development for K-12 classroom teachers and provides a searchable database of 50 arts learning communities. Designed to be used online, but offering options to print out sections of the entire publication, the handbook represents a move away from the one-day workshop or summer course to a systemic, ongoing collaborative approach that yields powerful results for students’ learning in the arts. It demonstrates how to establish, grow and sustain a learning community that comes together to improve arts instruction.