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Mar
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- TCAPS
3/9/2009
Traverse City Area Public Schools & Harvard Project Zero: Artful Thinking is among 50 model professional development programs featured in the latest online tool to help drive arts education forward. Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Santa Clara Office of Education, the handbook, “Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners,” 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. The handbook, found at: http://handbook.laartsed.org, is designed to be used online but offers options to print out sections or the entire handbook.
The handbook, the first arts education professional development tool with a national perspective, draws on the experiences of arts education professional development programs from across the United States. Traverse City Area Public Schools & Harvard Project Zero: Artful Thinking is part of a searchable database of model programs from across the country. TCAPS’ Long lake Elementary School and Traverse City West Middle School have modeled the Artful Thinking Program in their schools since 2003.
The programs profiled in the handbook, which cover a wide range of partnership types, were selected because they
- address the scale, scope, or perspectives of school district
- 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
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, and responses from outstanding practices in the field as well as literature regarding professional development and arts education.
In addition to the handbook sponsors, the development of Designing the Arts Learning Community was supported by funding from Boeing, the Flora Family Foundation, Target Co., and The Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
Please contact TC West Middle School Principal Pam Alfieri at 933-8202 or Long Lake Elementary School Principal Terri Sheldon at 933-7802 for more information.
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