The Arts Education Partnership believes that partnerships involving public education, higher education, and the arts and cultural sectors are highly effective, even essential, in providing quality arts education to students of all ages in schools and other settings. AEP has published materials on the effectiveness of such partnerships. The materials provide guidance on how to develop and sustain partnerships.
AEP also seeks to identify outstanding partnerships and learn the lessons and promising practices they embody. A specific interest of AEP has been to identify partnerships that engage higher education institutions in providing quality undergraduate and continuing professional development in the arts to those who teach the arts to young people pre-school through high school, including certified arts teachers, classroom teachers, and artists from the community who teach in schools. Descriptions of exemplary partnerships of this type are posted in this section.
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Arts for Learning
AEP is pleased to join the Arts for Learning website as a Nexus location for systemic partnerships. Arts for Learning (A4L) is a professional development resource for teachers and artists. It consists of a website and companion CD-ROM that gives teachers and educators access to model programs, research, lesson plans, advocacy, and discussion groups. A4L is a permanent, self-sustaining program that seeks to improve teaching and learning. Featured partnerships include: The ArtsLiteracy Project at Brown University in Providence, RI; Dallas ArtsPartners, in Dallas, TX; and Tucson Unified School District in Tucson, AZ. |
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Learning Partnerships: Improving Learning in Schools with Arts Partners in the Community
This 1999 publication outlines the major impacts on school policy and practices and presents the principles of effectiveness and key questions to be addressed at each stage of development of successful arts education partnerships. Please visit the Publications page for ordering information. |
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Teaching Partnerships: Report of a National Forum on Partnerships Improving Teaching on the Arts
At AEP's first National Forum, 13 exemplary partnerships convened at Lincoln Center, New York to determine best policies and actions needed to insure that the arts are being well taught in America's education system. This 2003 report examines collaboration between colleges and universities, public education system at the state and local level and arts and cultural organizations. Please visit the Publications page for ordering information. |
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Teaching Partnerships: 2nd National Forum
AEP's second National Forum took place on March 30-31, 2003 at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA co-hosted by the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership. Of the 18 partnerships that participated in that forum, seven were veteran partnerships that participated in the 2001 forum. The following materials are available in MS Word: the 2003 National Forum Report, Resources for Partnerships Improving Teaching of the Arts, and also descriptions of participating partnerships from both teaching partnership forums. |
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Strengthening State-Level Arts Education Partnerships
AEP, in cooperation with four of its national partners, convened arts education consultants from state departments of education across the country on April 12 -13, 2000 in Washington, DC. Please visit the Publications page for ordering information. |
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Working Partnerships: Professional Development of the Arts Teaching Workforce (Feb 2007)
The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) created a Task Force on Higher Education to identify and document promising practices for engaging higher education institutions in partnership with the schools and arts communities in the pre-service and in-service professional development of the arts teaching workforce. |
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Working Partnerships Addendum: Professional Development Partnership Profiles (Feb 2007)
These eleven profiles focus on higher education’s role in professional development and illustrate the multiple paths for developing the partnerships. The promising practices and recommended action steps for higher education leaders were drawn from the experience of the eleven successful higher education partnerships. Each of the promising practices discussed in the following pages will reference various partnerships as models. |
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