Mission
Art is Education ensures that every child has equitable access to a quality education that includes the arts, preparing them for the 21st century.
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Young Audiences-Art is Education is happy to announce its new cohort of partner schools for the 2010-2011 school year. We looking forward to engaging students, teachers, administrators and families through integrated arts programming provided by more than 30 community arts partners.
- Andrew J. Rickoff
- Captain Arthur Roth
- Fullerton
- Wade Park
We are also thrilled for the first cohort of Art is Education schools that have recently been designated as "Arts Infused" by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). These six schools form "PASS", the Premier Arts Specialty System. Young Audiences-Art is Education will work in partnership with the CMSD, Department of Arts Education to provide professional development and to support teachers in developing arts-infused curriculum for students. Congratulations to:
- Cleveland School of the Arts -Lower Campus
- Emile B. deSauze
- Luis Munoz Marin
- Newton D. Baker
- Riverside
- Wilbur Wright
What is Art is Education?
Through a partnership of 30+ arts, cultural, philanthropic and educational institutions and with support from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), the Art is Education initiative provides standards-based, integrated arts experiences to children. Art is Education schools have equitable access to local arts resources and educators are empowered to incorporate arts learning across the curriculum. By supporting a whole school model, Art is Education addresses important issues of academic achievement and school climate.
Art is Education is also about advocacy on behalf of arts education. The only way to ensure that students in Cleveland receive a truly equitable education is to mobilize the greater community to support the arts as a vital component in the education of all students.
Through shared goals for a quality education for all students in Cleveland, the Art is Education initiative supports the Cleveland Metropolitan School District in its goal to become a premier school district in the United States.
The Goals of
Art is Education
- Integrate the arts across the curriculum to improve academic achievement and enhance students’ cognitive, social, and personal development
- Develop the capacity of teachers and cultural organizations to design, implement, and assess the arts and arts integrated curriculum through regular professional development
- Support schools in developing standards-based arts-infused curriculum for all students and disseminate successful practices throughout CMSD
- Promote collaboration among teachers, and with community organizations to positively impact school culture
- Increase parent/family and community participation and engagement with the school
- Build public will in support of an equitable education that includes the arts for every student in Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Partners
The Art is Education Collaborative is made up of 30+ arts, cultural and educational organizations in the greater Cleveland area, all of which serve a number of programmatic, advisory, advocacy and administrative roles in the project.
