Mission
Art is Education ensures that every child has equitable access to a quality education that includes the arts, preparing them for the 21st century.
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Art is Education Spring Best Practices
"Celebrating Success through Partnership"
Register now!
Art is Education will host our Spring Best Practices session for teaching artists, teachers, and administrators with a focus on sharing highlights from some of the most successful arts-infused residencies in each of the Art is Education schools. Presenters representing each school and their arts partners will share their accomplishments and demonstrate how students achieved artistically and academically.
Spring Best Practices will happen Thursday, May 23, 3:30-6:00pm at the Idea Center at PlayhouseSquare, 1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland.
This event is open to teachers from across the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. There is no cost to attend and this professional development is not paid. However, CMSD teachers are eligible to receive two hours of Voluntary Professional Development for their attendance.
Contact Kristan Rothman at 216-561-5005 ext. 17 to obtain more information and to register no later than Friday, May 17. Come be inspired and discover new ways of boosting student engagement through the arts!
What is Art is Education?
Through a partnership of 30+ arts, cultural, philanthropic and educational institutions and with support from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), the Art is Education initiative provides standards-based, integrated arts experiences to children. Art is Education schools have equitable access to local arts resources and educators are empowered to incorporate arts learning across the curriculum. By supporting a whole school model, Art is Education addresses important issues of academic achievement and school climate.
Art is Education is also about advocacy on behalf of arts education. The only way to ensure that students in Cleveland receive a truly equitable education is to mobilize the greater community to support the arts as a vital component in the education of all students.
Through shared goals for a quality education for all students in Cleveland, the Art is Education initiative supports the Cleveland Metropolitan School District in its goal to become a premier school district in the United States.
The Goals of
Art is Education
- Integrate the arts across the curriculum to improve academic achievement and enhance students’ cognitive, social, and personal development
- Develop the capacity of teachers and cultural organizations to design, implement, and assess the arts and arts integrated curriculum through regular professional development
- Support schools in developing standards-based arts-infused curriculum for all students and disseminate successful practices throughout CMSD
- Promote collaboration among teachers, and with community organizations to positively impact school culture
- Increase parent/family and community participation and engagement with the school
- Build public will in support of an equitable education that includes the arts for every student in Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Partners
The Art is Education Collaborative is made up of 30+ arts, cultural and educational organizations in the greater Cleveland area, all of which serve a number of programmatic, advisory, advocacy and administrative roles in the project.
