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Arts Education

K-12 Educators

Overview

A key goal of Arts for All is to improve quality of teaching and learning.

K-12 educators are vital partners in this initiative, and Arts for All offers a number of resources that link teachers to quality arts education programming for their students and help strengthen professional development in the arts. LAArtsEd.org, an interactive website launched in 2004, provides a number of tools for educators interested in bringing the arts to their classroom:

• The Arts Education Program Directory allows teachers and administrators to find quality, standards-based, vetted K-12 arts education field trips, residencies, and workshops in LA County.
• Tools and Resources provides a searchable database of local and national resources on systemic arts education.
• Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners is a guide to designing arts education professional development and includes a searchable database of more than 50 arts learning communities.

What’s next

The generous support of The Wallace Foundation has made it possible for Arts for All to further develop its support of K-12 educators by expanding LAArtsEd.org with a directory of high-quality professional development providers. Arts for All will also be convening a Higher Education Think Tank to assess of the level of arts education included in teacher preparation and administrative credential programs, and develop models for minimum arts education requirements for pre-service credential programs.

More information

If you are a K-12 educator and would like to learn more about LAArtsEd.org, or about the Arts for All Higher Education Initiative, please contact Elisha Wilson Beach, Implementation Coordinator, by email or at (213)202-5858.

If you would like to learn more about how Arts for All can partner with your school district to support high quality, equitable, sequential K-12 arts education, please visit our school districts page.