Artful Thinking
2009 Artful Thinking in the news with TCAPS
I am pleased to announce the official launch of Designing the Arts Learning Community: A Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners in whichTraverse City Area Public Schools & Harvard Project Zero: Artful Thinking is featured for its work in the professional development of educators. We are excited to introduce this valuable tool to the greater arts education community.
Subject: Traverse City Area Public Schools & Harvard Project Zero: Artful Thinking featured in pioneering arts education handbook
Traverse City Area Public Schools & Harvard Project Zero: Artful Thinking is one of 50 model professional development programs featured in the latest online tool to help drive arts education forward. The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, San Francisco Arts Commission and Santa Clara County Office of Education have launched “Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners.” The handbook 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, 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. The handbook is designed to be used online but offers options to print out sections or the entire handbook.
Please take a look at the handbook: http://handbook.laartsed.org We are very proud to be part of this pioneering professional development tool. I hope you will pass on this message to your colleagues.
Elisha Wilson Beach Arts Education Coordinator Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Megan Kirkpatrick Professional Development & Resource Manager Los Angeles County Arts Commission
About Artful Thinking at Long Lake
In 2003 TCAPS (Long Lake and West Jr. High) received a grant through Project Zero at Harvard University. Project Zero created "Artful Thinking"...a way of using art and music to help students think about curriculum. The thinking routines are utilized by every teacher in every classroom at Long Lake -- PreK through 6th grade. The advantages of thinking routines are incredible for children as they become more observant in their learning process.
I see....I think...I wonder...
the way of thought at Long Lake. Long Lake Elementary has had many visitors from all over the country and the world to see how thinking routines are utilized in the classroom. Long Lake is one of a handful of elementary schools in the nation to have this program.
Use the following links to see selected projects in many of Project Zero's research areas below.
Current Research Projects Selected Early Projects ArtsProjects
Assessment Projects Learning in Out-of-School Settings Projects
Multiple Intelligences Projects
School Change/School Improvement Projects
Thinking Projects Understanding Projects Visible Thinking Projects
