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Kindergartners, Stage Fright, and Educator Effectiveness
Jamie Kasper Here in Pennsylvania, we are currently mired in educator effectiveness. Before I left the elementary music classroom in 2007, my effectiveness as a teacher was measured by variations on...
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Arts Teachers Respond to New Evaluation Systems
Scott Shuler Arts teachers across the country are currently scrambling to cope with new teacher evaluation systems. Teacher support and evaluation systems have long been recognized as important means...
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Arts Teacher Evaluation and Support in an Urban Reform Context
Brian Schneckenburger I serve as the Educational Specialist in Visual and Performing Arts for the Baltimore City Public Schools, where I oversee implementation of curriculum, assessment, and some...
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Three Recommendations for Art Educators Who Are Committed to Inquiry and...
Mary Elizabeth Meier In many of her lectures, Maxine Greene spoke about the processes of inquiry and imagination we experience when we are learning in and through the arts. We are concerned with...
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We Have a Perception Problem on our Hands…
Kristen Engebretsen This week I invited 20 very smart people to join me on ARTSblog for a discussion about arts education. We tried to tackle issues around the trifecta of education...
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What are critical success factors for arts schools today?
Kristy Callaway We are currently notifying the 2014 ASN Exemplary School applicants of their designation status. During our process, we conduct a peer review of the schools’ self-evaluations based on...
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Arts Education: Ten Things to Remember from 2014
Jeff Poulin I can now affirmatively say that I have been at Americans for the Arts for over a year! Woohoo! …And what a year it has been. Each month the Arts Education Advisory Council of Americans for...
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I’ve Got My Data, Now What?
Deb Vaughn True confession: I am not a strategic evaluator. Anyone else want to come clean? Try this easy quiz: Do you churn out Survey monkey questionnaires the day before your workshops begin? Do you...
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