This special collection of Arts Education case studies and evaluations reveals the lessons, benefits, and pitfalls of existing and past projects, providing vital information for program staff at organizations running their own Arts Education projects.
These reports also serve as a valuable complement to existing collections of position and policy papers on the subject, available through sources like PubHub, who has shared some of their own collection on the topic with us for this CloseUp.
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Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning
Contributing Organization(s): Arts Education Partnership
Publication date: 1999-10-22
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This report compiles seven major studies that provide new evidence of enhanced learning and achievement when students are involved in a variety of arts experiences. Complete listing and access info » |
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Community Schools of the Arts: An Arts Education Resource for your Community
Contributing Organization(s): Americans for the Arts
Publication date: 2003-10-01
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Community schools of the arts have long provided high quality arts education to members of their communities--regardless of age, artistic aptitude, or ability to pay. This Monograph provides an overview of community schools of the arts and their potential benefits to your community, as well as ways local arts agencies and other community organizations can tap these vibrant resources.
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Creating Quality Integrated and Interdisciplinary Arts Programs
Contributing Organization(s): Arts Education Partnership
Publication date: 2003-09-04
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The report offers some reflection on arts integration while examining a diverse group of partnerships and a set of new important tools to aid efforts in improving arts teaching and learning across the classroom. Complete listing and access info » |
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Creative Communities Initiative Summary Report: Community Schools of the Arts and Public Housing -- Findings, Lessons Learned, and Strategies for Successful Partnerships
Contributing Organization(s): National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
Publication date: 2007-01-04
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This 53-page report summarizes an independent, comprehensive evaluation of Creative Communities, a three-year collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. Creative Communities funded twenty community schools of the arts to partner with public housing authorities in twenty cities across the country. The report describes the initiative; summarizes its impact on students, teaching artists, partnering organizations, and communities; lays out successes and challenges; and offers strategies for sustaining such programs. Complete listing and access info » |
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Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit
Contributing Organization(s): National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
Publication date: 2007-01-01
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Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit is a first-of-its-kind resource, offering the arts and aging fields detailed advice on the design, implementation and evaluation of professionally-led participatory arts programs for older adults. Such programs have been shown to produce significant general and mental health benefits for participants, and to strengthen community connections.
The Toolkit describes
- the benefits of art programs for older people;
- the existing services and organizations for arts and aging;
- best practices in designing, funding, implementing, sustaining and evaluating art programs for older people; and
- case studies of outstanding programs
The Toolkit is a joint project of the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA), the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC).
The Tookit is available in English and Spanish. It may be downloaded online at artsandaging.org. Hard copies are also available for purchase through the National Guild at (212) 268-3337 ext. 16.
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Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development
Contributing Organization(s): Arts Education Partnership
Publication date: 2002-05-22
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This Compendium summarizes and discusses 62 research studies that examine the effects of arts learning on students' social and academic skills. The research studies cover each of the art forms and have been widely used to help make the case that learning in the arts is academic, basic, and comprehensive. Complete listing and access info » |
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Deconstructing Engagement: A First Generation Report on the ArtsSmarts Student Engagement Questionnaire
Contributing Organization(s): ArtsSmarts
Publication date: 2007-10-12
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During the school year 2006-2007, ArtsSmarts representatives collaborated with Karen Hume to design a questionnaire to measure students' engagement before and after ArtsSmarts programs. The questionnaire was administered to a large number of students who were being taught by an ArtsSmarts team comprised of an artist and a teacher. ArtsSmarts uses an innovative approach to arts integration, by allowing the self construction of programming in classrooms; and by acting as a facilitator in providing resources for artists and teachers teams develop programming for students in their classrooms. This programming develops a context where student learning and engagement in tasks and activities can take place. ArtsSmarts does not dictate this creative process; rather, it plays a supportive role in acting as a reference point for the teacher-artist teams to rely on. This approach not only allows for the innovation to evolve organically from the generation of the artist-teacher teams to student interaction, but also excites the creative learning process within the classroom. This report is a summary of the results from this first administration of the ArtsSmarts Student Engagement Questionnaire (i.e., first generation). The overall purpose of this report is firstly to examine student engagement, and secondly to examine the quality of the questionnaire, for further refinements. This report has three areas of focus: - 1. To summarize the responses of students who completed the questionnaire.
- 2. To compare student engagement before and after intervention.
- 3. To identify strengths and weakness in the questionnaire for further revisions.
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Designing the Arts Learning Community: Model Professional Development Programs
Contributing Organization(s): Arts for All: Los Angeles Regional Blueprint for Arts Education
Publication date: 2009-02-03
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Dawn Ellis and her team scoured the country for exemplary professional development programs in arts education to inform the content of the handbook and create a searchable database of 50 model programs. The handbook is both a guide and a reference resource for arts coordinators, principals, superintendents of instruction and anyone who designs professional development for K-12 arts education. It synthesizes documents, interviews, responses from outstanding practices in the field as well as literature regarding professional development and arts education. The programs profiled, which cover a wide range of partnership types, were selected because they - Address the scale, scope, or perspectives of school districts
- Provide evidence of evaluation, research, and/or reflective practice
- Provide insights into approaches relevant to a variety of communities, students, and arts disciplines, or
- Involve education reform that includes a strong arts component
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Developing Early Literacy through the Arts: A Final Report
Contributing Organization(s): Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Publication date: 2007-05-21
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The Developing Early Literacies Through the Arts (DELTA) project, made possible by an Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant from the U. S. Department of Education, consisted of a three-year collaboration between the Chicago Public Schools and CAPE, focusing on the contribution of arts integration to text literacy development in grades 1, 2 and 3. The DELTA study demonstrates how arts learning promotes multiple literacy learning processes that depend more on creative response, imagination, experimentation and aesthetic experience than do methods of learning that emphasize formulaic responses to rule-based literacy instruction. Complete listing and access info » |
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Doing the Arts Justice: A Review of Research Literature, Practice and Theory
Contributing Organization(s): Anne Peaker Centre
Publication date: 2005-05-09
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Researched and written by Jenny Hughes, this review of research literature, practice and theory is a must for anyone working on evaluation and research within the arts in social inclusion. It is full of useful examples of the methodologies of recent arts projects that have taken place within criminal justice and social inclusion settings, and packed with statistics and findings relating to the impact of the arts in areas such as prevention of offending and within custodial and community sentencing. Complete listing and access info » |
