Arts Education

Arts Education includes Music, Visual Arts, Dance and Theatre.

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Staff members:
Marcia McCaffrey, 603 271-3193, mmccaffrey@ed.state.nh.us

New Hampshire Arts Education Survey Use the linked documents below to assist you in collecting data about your school's opportunities for student learning in dance, music, theatre, visual arts and film/media. The online data entry system will go live March 2, 2009.  At that time, you can enter your data as a contribution to the statewide arts program data analysis. Data collection is scheduled to close May 15, 2009. Log-in Procedures for the Arts Education Survey   User's Guide - a critical reference for gaining access to and completing the online survey  Elementary School Survey Instrument including all questions and fields   High School and Middle School Survey Instrument including all questions and fields   Definitions document - for common interpretation of survey language   Top Ten Reasons to Do The Arts Education Survey Today!  Why Data-driven Decision-making is Important to Arts Education  This is New Hampshire's first statewide school-by-school data collection and analysis project of arts opportunities. Project partners include the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and Quadrant Arts Education Research.  Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity!

Arts Assessment (pdf) (ppt) (doc) Arts Assessment Handbook   Guidelines for Arts Assessment   Characteristics of Sound Classroom Assessment   Teach with the End in Mind   Thinking about Standards, Performance, Rubrics, and Grades   SCASS Arts Item Pool   Arts Assessment in New England

Course Competency Resources NH Music Educators Association Miami-Dade County Competency Based Curriculum Dance Music Theatre Arts Visual Arts

	Arts Advocacy
	"The Arts Are Vital to Young People’s Success in School and in Life" Education Commission of the States Steering Committee Meeting, May 7, 2005 - Susan Sclafani, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, US ED New Hampshire Alliance for Arts Education Makes Arts Education $en$ible  The Arts Make Cent$  Education Commission of the States - Arts in Education policy  Art for our sake

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Arts Integration

Explanation of Integrated Learning Project  The Integrated Learning Project Research Consultant's Final Report            At the conclusion of the grant period for the Integrated Learning Project (ILP) and to capture the group outcomes           from the ILP, a new entity was formed, Systemic Arts Integration and Learning (SAIL).  SAIL is housed at           Antioch New England University, the Center for School Renewal. SAIL Outcomes http://www.antiochne.edu/acsr/edventures/sail_home.cfm

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Joy2Learn presents world-class visual and performing artists in e-Presentations available to schools free of charge. These are the first in an ongoing series of interactive presentations created for classroom use. Students can navigate through an exiting array of videos including performances, insight, history and quiz games. Additionally, the presentations include interactive multimedia elements such as entertaining quiz games, animated navigation, images and text operating in tandem for a comprehensive learning experience. http://joy2learn.com/index.html

Homepage http://www.currier.org Currier Collections Online http://collections.currier.org Online Curriculum http://curriculum.currier.org

General Information

Events: Click on titles for more details.

Other Resources:

For more information contact:

Marcia McCaffrey @ 603-271-3193 / mmccaffrey@ed.state.nh.us

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Activities pertinent to arts education in New Hampshire:

Identifying best practices in arts education

Distributing the New Hampshire K-12 Curriculum Framework for the Arts. The New Hampshire K-12 Curriculum Framework for the Arts is also available in Adobe PDF or CD format. Please contact Skip Haley at dhaley@ed.state.nh.us for the CD.

Providing professional development in aligning curriculum, instruction and assessment with the state arts framework

Providing professional development in arts assessment to districts (upon request)

Building partnerships with the NH Alliance for Arts Education and the NH State Council of the Arts

Defining best practices in arts integration

Networking with New Hampshire’s professional teachers organizations (see Arts Education More Information for details)

Developing professional relationships and activities with the New England Arts Assessment Network (NEAAN)

Participating as a member of Alternative III certification boards for music, theatre and visual arts candidates

Member of program approval committee for teacher preparation in music, theatre and the visual arts

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Associations
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts (artist residencies, grant information): Catherine O’Brian, Arts in Education Coordinator, 603- 271-0795 or catherine.r.o’brian@dcr.nh.gov

New Hampshire Art Educators’ Association (NHAEA): Martha Rives, President, Home: 603-772-0281, Work: 603-673-9940, mrives@surprise.com

New Hampshire Music Educator’s Association (NHMEA): Carole Blake, membership chair, 603-632-4308, carole.i.blake@valley.net

New Hampshire Alliance for Arts Education (NHAAE): Laura Hutchins, President, hutchmuch@aol.com

New Hampshire Educational Theatre Guild (NHETG): Lee Mannion, president, 603-497-4841 ext 455, tcmannion@hotmail.com

New Hampshire Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NHAHPERD): Dianne Rappa, Executive Director, D.Rappa@connriver.net

Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire (AANNH): Frumie Selchen, Executive Director, 603-323-7302, ArtsAllianceNNH@cs.com

New Hampshire Music Teacher's Association (NHMTA), the NH affiliate of Music Teacher's National Association (MTNA) Jack Balcom, President (term ends July 2009), 603-424-8422, MusicRSA@aol.com

Arts Assessment Information: NAGB@EROLS.COM

Arts Education Partnership: www.aep-arts.org

American Alliance for Theatre and Education: www.aate.com

Educational Theatre Association:  www.edta.org

Music Educators National Conference (MENC): 1-800-336-3768: www.menc.org

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): nces.ed.gov/NAEP/

National Art Educators Association (NAEA) 1-703-860-2960: www.naea-reston.org

National Dance Education Organization (NDEO): www.ndeo.org

National Endowment of the Arts: www.arts.org

State Collaboration for Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS)/Arts: www.ccsso.org

updated October 2, 2009 jr