February 2004 Newsletter

SMARTS: BRING BACK THE ARTS

CALIFORNIA STATE PTA ONLINE NEWSLETTER

February 2004

In this issue:

1) Advocacy for the Arts

Arts Learning in Action
The PTA Supports March as Arts Education Month
Advocacy Resources

2) Interactive Web sites for parents, teachers, and students

Vision and Art
Shakespeare for Kids
Invention at Play
PBS TeacherSource
Geometry through Art

3) Announcements

Visual and Performing Arts Frameworks for California Schools
Creative Ticket Awards
Arts Work Conference

1) Advocacy for the Arts

Get Ready to Celebrate Arts Education Month
Join the Arts Learning in Action campaign to raise awareness among state, county and local elected officials about the essential value of arts education in our schools.
http://www.artsed411.org/involved/toolkit.stm

The PTA Supports March as Arts Education Month
Find out about Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 174 "Arts Education Month," introduced by Assembly member Christine Kehoe, on the California State PTA Web site under Search For Legislation. Just type in "ACR 174."

Advocacy Resources
Find key advocacy resources on the Arts Education Partnership Web page.
http://www.aep-arts.org/Advocacy.html

2) Interactive Web sites for parents, teachers, and students

Vision and Art
Tutorials demonstrate how visual information is used in art: depth perception, color perception, form perception and more.
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/art/

Shakespeare for Kids
This site contains activities for children and parents.
Play music from Shakespeare's time (click on Folger Treasures).
http://www.folger.edu/education/kids/kidshome.asp

Invention at Play
Use an inventor's sketchbook. This site is about Invention at Play, a national traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center.
http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/iap/index.html

PBS TeacherSource
The site offers lesson plans and activities in arts and literature.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm

Geometry through Art
Explore geometry through drawing.
http://mathforum.org/~sarah/shapiro/

3) Announcements

Visual and Performing Arts Frameworks for California Schools
View the draft as approved by the State Board of Education on January 7, 2004.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/cfir/vpa/

Creative Ticket Awards 2004
The Creative Ticket Awards program honors schools that have done an outstanding job of making the arts essential to the education of their students. Deadline is
March 1, 2004. To download an application go to http://www.artsed411.org/projects/creativeticket.stm

Arts Work Conference 2004
The 5th annual Arts Work Professional Development Conference, hosted by the Model Arts Program Network, will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento on May 20-22, 2004. An early registration/reservation package is available on the CAAE Web site at http://www.artsed411.org. Click on the "Register for Arts Work Conference" link in the Action Updates.

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