For Schools & Classrooms

Arts education moves from moral imperative to classroom reality

All Arts for All goals feed into improving the classroom experience for students. The policy and plan provide a roadmap. Tools and training give educators the means to deliver quality arts education. Community support for arts education and funding streams help to insure forward progress. But, in the end, classroom teachers and principals make the arts come alive for students in the classroom.

Arts for All Tools and Resources designed to help teachers and principals include:

The searchable online Arts Education Programs for Students directory features more than 250 field trips, performances, residencies, and workshops, all standards-based, high quality and available during the school day.

The Programs for Educators directory offers a searchable database of high quality arts education professional development sources for teachers, teaching artists and administrators.

Designing the Arts Learning Community is a handbook for K-12 professional development designers that reflects national best practices and features 50 model programs from across the country.

In addition, Arts for All is launching a regional arts education professional development series for teams of assistant superintendents and principals across the County. Developed in close partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the quarterly series, Teaching Creativity with Common Core Standards, begins June 22, 2011 at the Huntington Library and Gardens. Subsequent sessions will be held at three regional centers to encourage the formation of regional learning communities: Huntington Library and Gardens, Pasadena (East Region), Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach (South-West Region) and Cal State Northridge (North Region).