Strategies from the ETA Culturally Inclusive Arts Education Workshop

Strategies from the ETA Culturally Inclusive Arts Education Workshop

On January 24, 2017 Exploring the Arts held a workshop on Culturally Inclusive Arts Education for teachers and administrators in our Partner School Network. Cultural strategist, Keonna Hendrick lead participants to consider new practices and attitudes for developing stronger relationships with diverse learners, artists and artworks, while improving cultural competency skills for multicultural art education.

From NYU's Research Alliance, an educators' guide to Culturally Relevant Education

From NYU's Research Alliance, an educators' guide to Culturally Relevant Education

The guides cover approaches that principals and teachers across ESI high schools have identified as important to helping young men of color reach—and be well prepared for—college. (Other topics include Early Exposure to and Preparation for College, Improving Academic Readiness for College, and Creating Supportive Bonds of Brotherhood).

Teaching Living Cultures Program of the Caribbean Cultural Center

Teaching Living Cultures Program of the Caribbean Cultural Center

Teaching Living Cultures (TLC) is a PreK-12 arts education program of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in Harlem that immerses students in the music, dance, theater, moving image, and the visual arts of the African Diaspora. Beyond providing high caliber arts-based educational programs that meet NY State Common Core Standards, TLC addresses the crisis of disengagement and exclusion amongst Black and Latino youth. 

Fender Music Instrument Donations

Fender Music Instrument Donations

The Fender Music Foundation awards instruments and equipment to eligible music instruction programs. These items are lightly used, blemished or otherwise imperfect and have been collected from manufacturers and retailers. Descriptions regarding the specific imperfections of each instrument will be available to selected programs.

Official USDOE guidance on ESSA Student Support and Enrichment Grants

Official USDOE guidance on ESSA Student Support and Enrichment Grants

The arts are now recognized as "official uses" in official USDOE guidance on Every Student Succeeds Act Student Support and Enrichment Grants and contribute to a well-rounded education! We'll stay tuned to how this guidance is resolved in actual legislation and state-level plans for 2017, and hope you will too. 

Roundabout Theatre's THEATRICAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Roundabout Theatre's THEATRICAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Roundabout Theatre Company is partnering with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.), which represents many of the behind-the-scenes workers in theatre and film, to deliver a new, three-year training program. Participants will work hands-on in multiple disciplines of technical theatre, training with some of the industry’s top professionals.

Grants for Arts Education though the Kinder Morgan Foundation

Grants for Arts Education though the Kinder Morgan Foundation

The Kinder Morgan Foundation's goal is to help today's science, math and music students become the engineers, educators and musicians who will support our diverse communities for many years to come. To accomplish this goal, they fund programs that promote the academic and artistic interests of young people in the many cities and towns across North America where Kinder Morgan operates.