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1 Instructional Resources Fine Arts MDE Artserve Michigan Art USA Arts Education Partnership Music Education resources National Association for Music Education Support Music Anneburg Videos Teacher Vision K-12 Music Education Resources/Links Music in Schools Today Education World Music Art

2 Fairfax County Public Schools videos Utah Department of Education Maryland Performing Arts Series Arts in Education Visual Arts Education Canada Best Practice in Teaching the Arts Music Education resources Arts Education Music Worksheets

3 Curriculum Sources Lesson Plans Art History Adventure Computer Game Artist Toolkit Resources for Music TeachersGrades K - 12 A collection of links for every kind of music teacher there is. Whether your interest is band, orchestra, vocal music, or just an overall interest in music, this site will help you. This Day in Music HistoryGrades 5-12 A daily listing of what happened on this day in music history. Includes a search engine and calendar information. PlayMusic.orgGrades 3-8 This site introduces youngsters to the instruments of the orchestra in a fun way. Essentials of MusicGrades 9-12 A comprehensive music resource for casual listeners and serious students who want to gain a better understanding of music through the study of various periods in music history. Glossary of Theater TermsGrades K - 12 Get back on cue with this online dictionary. Americans for the Arts--leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. Arts Education Partnership--the issue of arts education has been in the news recently with the release of a new publication, Third Space: When Learning Matters.

4 Arts for Learning--developed by Young Audiences, Inc., Arts for Learning is a comprehensive education program connecting community arts resources to the K- 12 curriculum. Artslynx International Arts Resources Cable in the Classroom--the Classroom is a special initiative begun in 1989 by the cable industry to provide public and private schools in the United States with free access to educational television programs. Who's Dancin' Now?--A valuable tool for educators, artists, administrators, parents, and students to learn about arts education in an easy and effective way. Young Audiences, Inc--commending Young Audiences (YA) as the first nonprofit organization to receive the National Medal of Arts, President Clinton praised YA's achievements in working with educational systems, the arts community, and the private and public sectors to make the arts an essential part of all children's education. Encyclopedia Smithsonian Joy to Learn Web site Web Sites American Alliance for Theatre and Education The American Alliance for Theatre and Education is the leading national professional organization for theater educators, theater artists, and educators who use drama and theater in the classroom. Its growing visibility helps build partnerships with policy makers and institutions and represents a diverse membership. The mission of the American Alliance for Theater and Education is to promote standards of excellence in theater and theater education by connecting artists, educators, researchers, and scholars with one another and by providing opportunities to exchange, expand, and diversify their work, their audience, and their perspectives. American Association of Museums The mission of this not-for-profit association is to represent the museum community, address its needs, and enhance its ability to serve the public. American Symphony Orchestra League The American Symphony Orchestra League offers opportunities for professional development for those who staff symphony programs; highlights, researches, and reports on best practices; advocates for arts literacy on a national level; and brings the highest standards and latest research in arts education to the attention of orchestra education professionals. Americans for the Arts Americans for the Arts is a nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America.

5 With a 40-year record of service, it aims to represent and serve local communities and create opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. With offices in Washington, D.C., and New York and more than 5,000 organizational and individual members and stakeholders across the country, the organization focuses on increasing public and private sector support for the arts; ensuring that every American child has access to a high-quality arts education; and strengthening communities through the arts. To achieve these goals, it creates partnerships with local, state, and national arts organizations; government agencies; business leaders; individual philanthropists; educators; and funders throughout the country. It provides extensive arts industry research and information and professional development opportunities for community arts leaders via specialized programs and services, including a content-rich Web site and an annual national convention. Artslynx International Artslynx works to develop comprehensive guides in areas not already well developed by others. In general, Artslynx links to nonprofit resource libraries serving as master sites themselves. Examples of Artslynx-generated pages include pages devoted to journals and organizations, as well as specific areas of physical theater, fight direction, and African dance. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an Act of Congress, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center whose charge is to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education. The foundation is a major national and international center for research and policy studies about teaching. Its mission is to address the hardest problems faced in teaching in public schools, colleges, and universities that is, how to succeed in the classroom, how best to achieve lasting student learning, and how to assess the effect of teaching on students. The foundation is rooted in its original mission of strengthening the future of the profession of teaching and the calling of educator. The work of the Carnegie Foundation is focused on four major areas of concern: undergraduate education, professional and graduate education, K 12 and teacher education, and knowledge-sharing functions. Dance Education To strengthen the arts as a basic part of education, the Ohio Arts Council's Arts in Education Program led statewide efforts to develop the Dance Education Resource Guide, a resource handbook for teachers of prek 12 students. Initial support in 1990 from the National Endowment for the Arts ignited collaborative efforts with partners including the Ohio Department of Education, Ohio Dance, the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, and the Ohio State University Department of Dance. As technology continued to shape educational practice, the need to reconstitute the Dance Education Resource

6 Guide as a Web site invited in 1996 purposeful engagement in Dance on the Internet, a technology workshop cosponsored by the Ohio Arts Council and the Ohio State University Department of Dance. Future plans will expand this Web site to link CD- ROM and online texts, making the Dance Education Web an integral part of the World Wide Web. Global contributors are invited to link their Web sites to Dance Education Web. Educational Theatre Association The Educational Theatre Association (EdTA), founded in 1929, is the professional association for theater education. EdTA's mission is to make theater a part of lifelong learning. The Association's major areas of effort educational development, teacher training, and advocacy serve to accomplish this mission by helping to improve the learning environment in the theater arts. Eurydice Eurydice is an institutional network for gathering, monitoring, processing, and circulating reliable and readily comparable information on education systems and policies throughout Europe. Eurydice covers the education systems of the member states of the European Union; the three countries of the European Free Trade Association, which are members of the European Economic Area; and the European Union candidate countries involved in the Socrates Program. Getty ArtsEdNet The programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust focus on the visual arts in all of their dimensions, serving both general audiences and specialized professionals. Greek Society for Music Education The Greek Society for Music Education is a nonprofit scientific organization aiming to advance music education of people of any age in Greece, improve the role of music in education, and develop the field of music education and pedagogy. Hong Kong Arts Development Council The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (ADC) was established by the government in June 1995 to plan, promote, and support the broad development of the arts (including the literary, performing, visual, and film arts) and arts education. The ADC is dedicated to fostering artistic creativity and providing a more enriching life by enhancing the quality of living and artistic appreciation of the general public. MENC National Association for Music Education MENC developed the National Standards for Music Education and administered the

7 overall development of the National Standards for Arts Education (1994) under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The national standards represent the first comprehensive set of educational standards for K 12 arts instruction. MENC has since published more than 20 documents in instructional techniques for helping students accomplish the standards, dealing with such issues as staffing, scheduling, equipment, technology, and assessment. Music Education Resource Base The Music Education Resource Base is a bibliographic database of more than 31,000 resources in music and music education from 35 Canadian and international journals and other sources covering the period 1956 through the present. The journals are indexed by title, author, and subject. National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture is a national association of nonprofit organizations and individuals committed to furthering the independent media arts: film, video, audio, and digital, including education, production, exhibition, distribution, collection-building, preservation, criticism, and general advocacy. Members include media arts centers, production facilities, university-based programs, community technology centers, museums, film festivals, media distributors, film archives, afterschool programs, community-access TV stations, and individuals working in the field. Combined, these organizations serve approximately 400,000 artists and other media professionals nationwide. National Art Education Association The National Art Education Association was founded in 1947 with the merger of the Western, Pacific, Southeastern, and Eastern Region Art Associations, plus the art department of the National Education Association. It has more than 22,000 art educator members from different levels of instruction: early childhood, elementary, intermediate, secondary, college and university, administrative, museum education, and lifelong learning. The association also includes publishers, manufacturers and suppliers of art materials, parents, students, retired teachers, arts councils, and schools. National Arts Council Arts Education Programme The National Arts Council Arts Education Programme (NAC-AEP) develops initiatives that advocate the value and the importance of arts education in Singapore. It connects the arts community with the education sector and supports the professional development of arts educators. The NAC-AEP assesses and endorses arts education programs offered by Singapore arts groups and arts education providers for schools.

8 National Dance Education Organization The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) advances dance education centered in the arts. As a nonprofit organization, NDEO is dedicated to promoting standards of excellence in dance education through the development of quality education in the art of dance through professional development, service, and leadership. The organization holds public discussions and sponsors institutes, workshops, conferences, and programs. It also develops guidelines, promotes standards, and designs curricula. NDEO has forged alliances with approximately 150 federal and state agencies and arts associations in support of dance arts education. Partnerships with Opera in England Royal Opera House Education represents the work of the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera companies and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Each year the department works with around 93,000 people of all ages, backgrounds, and geographical locations. Rikskonsertene A key player in the musical life of Norway, the main goal of this organization is to make live music of high artistic quality accessible to everyone in the country. It highlights three important tasks: (1) produce quality concert programs and arrange tours of these programs throughout Norway, in close cooperation with local organizers; (2) administer Norway's national school concert scheme and ensure that it reflects both high artistic and educational quality and musical diversity; and (3) act as an advisor, coordinator, and operating agent in the implementation of Norway's international cultural policy. Singapore Education This Web site provides curriculum guides and resources for all disciplines, including the arts.