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SMARTS: BRING BACK THE ARTS

Advocacy Resources

Become informed about the arts and advocate effectively!

Recommendations to Maximize New Arts Funding
The California Arts Project shares strategies for teachers, administrators, parents, and others involved in decision making on the use of the new state funds. You can download and reproduce any document you find useful.

Art. Ask for More
California Alliance for Arts Education
Music Education Advocate's Tool Kit
Americans for the Arts
Art Advocacy Success Stories from Crayola
Music Advocacy Brochures
MENC: The National Association for Music Education
Support Music: A Public Service of the Music Coalition

Kick-Off the Community Arts Education Project in Your School.
The Community Arts Education Project is a unique strategy manual to support quality arts education in public schools.
Read all about it!!!
Download YOUR copy today!

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Community Resources

Programs and artists to bring into your schools

North
Sacramento Area Performing Arts

Bay Area
Young Audiences of Northern California
Cultural Initiatives of Silicon Valley
San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco Arts Resources for Children and Teens
Julia Morgan Center for the Arts
East Bay Center for the Arts
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County
Young Audiences of Kern County
Performances to Grow Ojai

Los Angeles Area
UCLA Live
LAArtsEd.org/
The Los Angeles Music Center
Orange County Arts

San Diego
Young Audiences of San Diego
San Diego Arts Education Partnership

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Teachers: Music, art and movement lessons online!

A selection of the best state and national resources for teachers

Jazz for Young People
Listen and learn about the Jazz for Young People Curriculum produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Lyrical Legacy: 400 Years of American Song and Poetry
Lyrical Legacy helps teachers explore eighteen American songs and poems from the digital collections of the Library of Congress.

Teaching the Art of Writing
Learn about an arts based approach for reluctant writers by Beth Olshansky, published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Off the Map
What is visionary art for the classroom? Visit an award winning website from PBS.

National Anthem Project: Teacher Resources
Resources help teach patriotic music and raise awareness of the importance of music education in preserving American musical traditions.

NEA Jazz in the Schools
This multi-media curriculum is designed to be as useful to high school history and social studies teachers as it is to music teachers.

Poetry Out Loud
Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation, this program encourages high school students to memorize and perform great poems.

I hear America Singing

National Gallery of Art Interactive Web Site
California On Line Arts Education Resource Center
Model Arts Program Network
Back to School with the Arts
The Arts in Every Classroom
The Art Teacher Connection
Lesson Plans from the Getty Museum
Crayola Educator Resources
Arts Education Page for K-12
San Francisco Fine Arts Museum on line resources for educators
Spark: Light Your Fire
Museum of the Humanities On Line Guide to the Arts
PBS Teacher Source
Cable in the Classroom
VH1 Music Studio
The Arts for Learning

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Parents: Activities to bring the arts home

More Art, Please! From the National PTA
Arts Education: Improving Student Academic Performance
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Sesame Street Parent Activity Planner
Talent Teacher

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The State of the Arts in California Public Schools

Why Did California Schools Get Arts Funding?
Listen to an interview on KALW radio featuring the PTA.

Sound of Music Returning to Schools
The San Francisco Chronicle takes a look at the new funding for arts education in California.

How the West Was Won: A Look at the California Budget Victory
Bob Morrison of the Music for All Foundation takes a look at the new arts funding for California schools.

Press Conference Video on Arts Funding

Quality, Equity and Access: A Report on Arts in California Schools
The briefing paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the status of arts education in California. Download your copy.

California Music Education Crisis: The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence: The Unprecedented Decline of Music Education in California Public Schools documents the impact of budget cuts, high-stakes testing, and the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act on student participation in music education programs.

Arts Work: A Call for Arts Education for All California Students
According to this 1997 Report of the California Superintendents Task Force on Visual and Performing Arts: Arts education in California has been in a state of crisis since the passage of Prop. 13 in 1978.

  • "In a majority of school districts, only 10 to 25 per cent of students participate in some form of arts education."
  • "No district in California has more than 50 per cent of its students involved in arts education."
Visual and Performing Arts: California Department of Education
California Arts Council
The California Arts Project

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Grants and Funding Sources

California Department of Education
California Alliance for Arts Education
National Endowment for the Arts
US Department of Education
Save the Music

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Arts and Education Research

Arts Training Linked to Better Literacy
Read a new study by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum about impact of arts education on critical thinking skills and literacy among elementary school children.
For more information about the Guggenheim Museum, go to:
http://www.guggenheim.org/

Facts About Arts Education from Americans for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts
Highlights from Key National Research on the Arts
The American Music Conference
Academic Achievement and Music
Current Research from CAAE
Arts Education in the Public Schools

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Museums Online

Online museum resources for parents, teachers and students

American Museum of Photography
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Image Consortium
Los Angeles County Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art New York
Museums of the UK
National Gallery of Art
The Tech Museum of Innovation
Web Museum, Paris
Van Gogh Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Online Exhibits from the Franklin Institute

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SMARTS Newsletters

Interactive Web Sites

Resources Online

PTA Reflections Program

Literature
Musical
Composition
Photography
Visual Arts
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California State PTA Mural

Picture Gallery


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