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Arts Education Partnership is a national network of more than 100 organizations dedicated to advancing arts education.

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Doubling Down on What AI Cannot Do
Sep 11, 2026 · original
Educators are in the business of cultivating intelligence. Howard Gardner challenged our institutional tendency to narrow our focus toward verbal and mathematical-logical smarts with his theory of multiple intelligences: all of us have varying degrees of seven or eight different kinds of intelligence. And then along comes a new kind of intelligence to challenge our education systems: artificial intelligence. As you know, AI is everywhere in our thinking and practice these days, evolving fast, partly helpful and partly harmful, never holistic. AI disrupts the settled norms of arts education. It can write fifty poems and compose twenty songs in ten minutes; they aren’t bad, and with some clever guidance, they can get better and sometimes all the way to good. In the face of this faceless new reality, I’ve felt an urgency, as a lifelong arts educator, to clarify what artists can do that AI c
Executive Function in Early Childhood Music Education
Aug 13, 2026 · original
Imagine a room full of four-year-olds holding tiny violins. Now imagine that the teachers who spend all day with those children are noticing something they didn’t expect: when a rule changes, kids concentrate longer, wait more patiently for a turn and recover faster. That is the idea at the center of ongoing research unfolding at Little Strings of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. Little Strings brings specialist-led violin and cello instruction to children enrolled in pre-K programs. But the research behind the program looks beyond standardized test scores. It asks something different: What do the classroom teachers who spend every day with these children actually observe, and how do they make sense of it? What Is Executive Function, and Why Does It Matter? Executive function refers to a cluster of cognitive skills—working memory, inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility—that
States Cutting Arts Degree Programs
Jul 29, 2026 · original
New federal law , emerging from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, made significant changes to federal funding for higher education. Most colleges and universities across the country must meet a new accountability standard to receive federal funds. Federal funds will now be administered based on earnings data for graduates alone, rather than a ratio of student debt to earnings used previously. The earnings metric must meet a specific threshold compared to earnings for those with a high school diploma. In alignment with federal priorities, some states have introduced and enacted laws to prohibit funding for “low earning” or “underperforming” degrees as a part of workforce development and institutional efficiency goals. Most states that have introduced these types of policies are justifying program cuts with claims of aligning workforce demands and degree offerings. Arts educators and leaders
From Mystery to Mastery: Why Standards-Based Grading is a Game-Changer for Arts Education
Mar 16, 2026 · original
Think back to your own arts education. Whether it was choir, drama or visual art, how was your grade determined? For many of us, it was a mysterious blend of “participation,” showing up to the concert or a teacher’s general perception of our talent. We often viewed grading as a bureaucratic afterthought—something to “fill a grade” once the performance was over or the project was turned in. But how do we effectively evaluate artistry, growth and skill in a performance-based classroom? Traditional methods often collapse individual accountability into the success of the ensemble or the craftsmanship of a final product. Standards-Based Grading (SBG) offers a clear path forward, shifting the focus from vague percentages to a roadmap for individual student improvement. What is Standards-Based Grading? SBG measures how well students master specific standards separate from effort or behavior. In
Celebrate America’s 250 Anniversary at the 2026 World Children’s Festival
Feb 27, 2026 · original
The 7th World Children’s Festival (WCF) on the National Mall across from the U.S. Capitol from July 25 to July 27, 2026, will also serve as a national children’s celebration of America’s 250th Anniversary. Produced every four years by the International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) as the “Olympics” of children’s imagination, the WCF offers students a transformative experience that sharpens their creativity and instills mutual empathy. The WCF kicks off on July 25 with Health & Environment Day , so that common interests and shared visions can scaffold mutual empathy. On the following Creativity & Imagination Day , young artists will imagine the unimaginable by co-producing an artwork for NASA’s first human mission to Mars. The artwork will be titled “Children’s Earth Flag.” On the final Peace & Leadership Day , young artists will collaborate to create a large mural as a tribute to America
Building Engagement in the Visual Art Classroom
Feb 6, 2026 · original
We are Dria and Blake Jackson, and we created Twinimation Studios to inspire and teach aspiring artists how to start their own journey in animation and numerous other digital arts. We provide workshops, online courses and workbooks to help teach young artists how to navigate their own art careers. In our time in the field, we have heard from many educators about the struggle to keep students engaged in visual art classrooms. Many teachers face student apathy and a lack of student interest . This led us to come up with three strategies to help inspire student engagement in the classroom. 1. Consider Open Ended Assignments People tend to lack motivation when doing something they have to do vs. something they actually want to do. Instead of requiring all students to execute the exact same tasks to show their understanding of art concepts, perhaps consider allowing students to design their o
Arts Education at the Frontier of Human-Machine Collaboration
Dec 18, 2025 · original
As robots become more integrated into our daily lives—from healthcare to hospitality, from classrooms to concert halls—the question is no longer if we will coexist, but how . For arts education leaders, this moment presents a profound opportunity to shape the emotional intelligence of our future robotic collaborators through the arts and educational technologies. Empathy, long considered a uniquely human trait, is now a frontier in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). While machines can process data at quantum speeds, they lack the intuitive understanding of human emotion that underpins meaningful communication, collaboration and creativity. This is where arts education becomes essential—not just for students, but for the machines they will one day teach, train and perform alongside. Why Empathy Matters in Human–Robot Collaboration In dance, theater and music, timing, gesture and e
Entangling Arts and Literacy in Education
Dec 9, 2025 · original
“…an activity consisting in producing relationships with the world with the help of signs, forms, actions and objects” I came across this definition a few years ago when I was first beginning a graduate program in literacy education. It is not, however, a definition from a literacy textbook. It’s Nicolas Bourriaud’s definition of art from his book, Relational Aesthetics . I highlight this quotation because for me it helped bridge the concepts of arts and literacy in a way that I had not considered before. Viewing both arts and literacy as relationship-producing activities (and I would add “meaning-producing” as well) helped me consider how profoundly they overlap, intersect and commingle and what that might mean for arts and literacy education. Contemporary understandings of literacy extend well beyond the commonly understood definition as the ability to read and write. In its broadest u
Introducing Accessible Arts Education: Principles, Habits and Strategies to Unleash Every Student’s Creativity and Learning
Nov 3, 2025 · original
How can arts educators ensure that all of their students – no matter how they learn best – can engage, participate and learn meaningfully? It requires engaging an interdisciplinary approach that breaks down the silos between arts education, arts therapy, general education and special education. By leveraging evidence-based practices from all of these areas and diving deeper into areas of connection among them, we can develop and utilize strategies and approaches that make arts education truly accessible for all. For over twenty years, I have worked tirelessly to provide access to the arts and arts education for people with disabilities. My organization, the Berklee Institute for Accessible Arts Education provides arts education programs for people with disabilities of all ages in music, dance and theater; graduate programs in accessible music education; and a wide range of professional d
Educator Growth Through NETServe
Aug 13, 2025 · original
My name is Autumn “AJ” Jackson and I am an artist, researcher and teacher. I was beyond nervous to begin my new career, but it was a good type of nervous. It was the type of nervousness you usually feel as a new teacher, but with some added stressors. I missed the first week of school. When I joined the classroom, I was getting numerous messages – some good and some bad – of how the first week in art went. All of this made me even more nervous to step into my classroom that first day. I administered diagnostic tests, learned my duties, started to learn names, but then came Hurricane Debby. Not even two hours into the start of the day, moments before I can meet my class, they send us home and we go to e-learning for the rest of the week. Although the situation was bad, this did give me more time to plan and get my new teacher nerves under wraps. But it was short lived. It felt like we jus

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