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Learn to Play Recorder

Colburn Teaching Artists, Leeav Sofer and Gina Luciani teaches you how to play the recorder and read basic music notation. These activities/lessons are perfect for learning how to play the recorder and teaching your students foundational elements of music.

Arts Integration Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources

The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena

Educational outreach is a major part of the Armory’s ongoing work. The Armory offers popular online art and mathematics integrated lessons to educators, in addition to rich professional development opportunities.

Arts Edge - Kennedy Center Education

Arts Edge is a leading advocate for the arts and arts integration, now fully integrated with the Kennedy Center Education. The resources and lessons housed on their site are searchable by keyword, by visual and performing arts integrated with other subject areas, as well as grade level. The lessons include the state, national and Common Core standards that are addressed.

Arts Every Day

From Baltimore City Schools, Arts Every Day supports arts education with resources for educators, students and families, teaching artists, and cultural organizations.

Education Closet

Education Closet is a rich resource for arts integration for educators at all stages of the practice. The website provides a wide array educational tools and resources for arts integration, STEAM, and project based learning, including a large compilation of lesson plans and implementation guidance that span grades K-12.

Edutopia

The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) publishes Edutopia, one of the most extensive sites for teaching and learning. The Foundation "celebrates and encourages innovation" in K-12 schools. As a notable advocate for arts education, Edutopia offers lesson plans, articles, implementation tools, and many more resources for arts integration.

Fine Arts Educational Resources

From the U.S. Department of Defense Education Agency. This is a large collection of digital resources for the Fine Arts, including the Visual Arts, Music, Drama, and the Humanities.

The Getty Museum Educational Resources

The Getty Museum website has a searchable list of lesson plans for all grade levels, along with numerous resources to use in lesson design and implementation. In addition, the Getty Museum website is a rich cultural resource, offering exploration and discovery in the awe-inspiring world of the visual arts.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

The abundance of educational offerings and opportunities that LACMA provides, both online and on site, is astonishing. An encyclopedic online art collection, e-news, K-12 grade level and thematic curriculum, Evenings for Educators, and workshops are only some of the valuable resources this world-class museum offers.

Los Angeles Area Arts Organizations

The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
The Armory builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities through creating, teaching and presenting the arts. By working in partnerships with schools, libraries, parks, neighborhood groups, community centers and city agencies, the museum’s programs brought the arts to new audiences – a trend that continues to this day.

The Los Angeles County Arts Education Collective
The Los Angeles County Arts Education Collective is dedicated to making the arts part of every child’s growth and development. In 2002 the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors launched the Los Angeles County Arts Education Collective (Arts Ed Collective, formerly known as Arts for All) as a regional effort to restore the arts in public education. The Arts Ed Collective is coordinated by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, is implemented in partnership with the LA County Office of Education, and is recognized as a national model of collective impact in arts education. Starting with just one school district in each Supervisorial District nearly two decades ago, the Arts Ed Collective now includes a robust coalition of partners – that represent more than 74 school districts, 5 charter school networks and hundreds of community-based arts organizations, teaching artists, educators, philanthropists, and advocates – all working toward the shared goal that every young person in LA County engages in the arts all year, every year, because the arts are fundamental to human growth and development.

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture
The mission of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is to advance arts, culture, and creativity throughout Los Angeles County. It provides leadership, services, and support in areas including grants and technical assistance for nonprofit organizations, countywide arts education initiatives, commissioning and care for civic art collections, research and evaluation, access to creative pathways, professional development, free community programs, and cross-sector creative strategies that address civic issues.

The California Arts Project
The California Arts Project (TCAP) is a collaborative, statewide network of classroom teachers and university scholars with the mission of improving teaching and learning in dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and in arts, media, and entertainment.

Arts Education Advocacy

Arts in Education – General Topic

Americans for the Arts urges individuals, informal groups, and organizations to advocate for the arts and provides many resources for this purpose.

Dance in Education

The Nation Dance Education Organization (NDEO) maintains a website with a wide range of materials for educators and dancers, including recommendations for advocacy. Videos, research reports, and articles about the positive impact of arts and dance education in the lives of students are available in the NDEO Advocacy Tools section.

Media Arts in Education

The Consortium for Media Literacy online publication, Connections, contains some insights into how to extend the media arts in schools.

Music in Education

The National Association of Music Merchants’ (NAMM) site contains a wealth of advocacy information, including this video and article focused on how school leadership can create the culture and climate for music education that also teaches life skills.

Theatre in Education

The American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) offers “Advocacy Basics”, the What, When, Who, Where, and How of advocacy in general and Theatre Education, specifically.

Visual Arts in Education

National Arts Education Association (NAEA) – as the leading professional member organization for visual arts educators, the NAEA maintains a website with tools and multiple learning resources, an abundance of advocacy materials, even an online store for advocacy merchandise.