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PAEP achieves its primary goal of advancing student learning by promoting best practices in arts in education programming. PAEP offers professional development to teachers, artists, and arts organization managers. We conduct research into using the arts to improve student learning and disseminate those results through a variety of publications.


 

 

PA Council on the Arts - Arts in Education Programs

---> PCA Artist in Residence
------>Residency Request
--->---Forms(
pdf)

Professional Development
------>Explore the Arts (pdf)




 

Artist Residencies

PAEP designs, implements, and provides management and financial support for residencies. PAEP brokers long-term relationships between artists and schools. PAEP trains artists who teach 10-60 visual and performing arts-making sessions per residency with students in preK-12 classrooms and community sites.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) - Arts in Education Partner, Southeastern Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA), Arts in Education Division (AIE) provides funding for arts in education programs. The purpose of the AIE Division is to develop and support quality arts education programs in schools and community settings for all Pennsylvanians. The Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP) was selected to partner with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Arts in Education Division in February 2004. As the PCA regional partner for the Philadelphia, southeastern Chester, Montgomery, Delaware, and Bucks counties, PAEP facilitates the process of selecting artists for inclusion in the Directory of Pennsylvania Artists in Education, publishes the directory, and sponsors artist residencies in school and community sites.

PAEP/PCA Residencies – Artists teach in classrooms integrating the arts with academic curricula.

SDP/PCA Residencies – PAEP manages this program for School District of Philadelphia (SDP).
Teacher Artist Partner Program – 60 session residencies, teacher/artist summer training institute, and on-going supervision by PAEP.

Long Term Residencies – 60 sessions.

U. S. Department of Education

Arts Link: Building Mathematics and Science Competencies through an Arts Integration Model, 2010-2014 - a quasi-experimental, research program that places artists in year long residencies in 4 elementary schools to work with 2-5 grade teachers and the art teacher to build mathematics and science skills using visual art.

Arts Bridges: Building Literacy through an Integrated Arts Collaborative Model, 2006-2010 - a quasi-experimental, research program in which selected arts organizations and artists representing two different art forms worked in residencies to support literacy acquisition and fluency in four schools, grades 4-6.

School District of Philadelphia

Summer Learning And More (SLAM) - teaching artist residencies as part of the School District of Philadelphia's summer enrichment program, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

 

Professional Development

Teaching Artist Certificate Program - Teaching artist credentialing program in collaboration with the University of the Arts and PCA. 
      
Artist Intensives – Short term training sessions for southeastern PA artists.

PreK-12 Teacher Training – Classes in arts integration, assessment, program management, teacher pedagogy, arts and humanity standards, classroom management, collaboration, and working with special needs and culturally diverse populations.

Explore the Arts - A unique opportunity for southeastern PA teachers to attend cultural events and receive Act 48 Credit. This program allows teachers to attend visual or performing arts venues, write a 1-2 page paper, and receive Act 48 credit hours. Tickets are tax deductible.

Teaching Artist Training - Classes in arts integration, student assessment, program management and assessment, teacher pedagogy, core curriculum, arts and humanity standards, collaboration, and working with special needs and culturally diverse populations.

Business of the Arts - Workshops in documenting work, artist statements, grant writing, and professional practices for artists.
       
Conferences – Develop and produce arts-based conferences for the School District of       Philadelphia; topics include: arts integration; literacy and the arts; core curriculum and     the arts.  

Roundtables - PAEP hosts informal discussions among arts educators, teachers, and teaching artists on issues of concern in K-12 education.

Partner Forums - PAEP presents a yearly forum on topics of interest to PAEP participating arts and cultural organizations, teachers, and teaching artists.

Young Artist Development

Let Art Freedom Ring© An art-making and civics program in collaboration with the National Liberty Museum for grades 5-8.

Poetry Out Loud - National recitation competition program produced for the National       Endowment for the Arts with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for high school students.

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards - National competition for middle school and high school students produced in collaboration with the Philadelphia Writing Project, University of Pennsylvania: adjudicate student work, produce regional award ceremony and exhibition,   and host national touring exhibit of gold key awardees.

 

Special Programs – Out of School Time

School District of Philadelphia Summer Learning and More – Administrate and staff summer program for three years (2009, 2010, and 2011) in visual arts and performing arts with more than 600 artists for nearly 90,000 students.

School District of Philadelphia Talent Centers – Administrate after school and Saturday programs at Martin Luther King High School, Vare Middle School, and Audenried High School.

Philadelphia Department of Recreation – Design and implement performing arts program at recreation sites.

Free Library of Philadelphia – LEAP and Books Aloud Programs, train teen leaders,          parents, and caregivers to build early literacy acquisition through the arts; produce artist   residencies in library branches thoughout the City of Philadelphia.

 

Research, Model Development, and Evaluation

United States Department of Education Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination 4-year grants:

Arts Link: Building Mathematics and Science Competencies through an Arts Integration Model, 2010-2014; a quasi-experimental, research program of the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership to work with the School District of Philadelphia to test out an arts integration model to support mathematics and science skill acquisition in four schools, grades 2-5.

Arts Bridges: Building Literacy through an Integrated Arts Collaborative Model, 2006-2010; a quasi-experimental, research program of the School District of Philadelphia to test out an arts integration model to support literacy acquisition and fluency in four schools, grades 4-6.

Arts Integration Development and Implementation (AIDI) Model –a model for collaboration between artists, arts organizations, and preK-12 schools to guide in the development, implementation, and assessment of best practices in arts integrated programs. 

Skills Alignment Model –a model that builds literacy competency through aligning arts skill sets to literacy learning.

Co-Teaching Model – a model that guides the collaborative process between a classroom teacher and a teaching artist to facilitate the design, implementation, and co-teaching of an arts integrated program.

Publications

Documents for the dissemination of research on arts integration best practices

Arts Bridges Publications

Arts Bridges: Building Literacy through an Integrated Arts Collaborative Model Toolkit, 2009-2010

Arts Bridges: Building Literacy through an Integrated Arts Collaborative Model,
Year 4, 2009-2010

Arts Bridges: Building Literacy through an Integrated Arts Collaborative Model,
Year3, 2008-2009

Arts Bridges: Building Literacy through an Integrated Arts Collaborative Model Toolkit, 2008-2009

Arts Bridges: Building Literacy through an Integrated Arts Collaborative Model,
Year 2, 2007-2008

Arts Bridges: Building Literacy through an Integrated Arts Collaborative Model,
Year 1, 2006-2007

Evaluation Reports

For the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Arts in Education Program Assessment Report, 2009-2010
Artist in Residence Program Handbook, 2008-2009
Arts in Education Program Assessment Report, 2006-2008

For the School District of Philadelphia

Artist in Residence Program, Program Assessment Report 2007
Artist in Residence Program, Program Assessment Report 2006

For PAEP

On Teaching the Arts: The Writings of Eric Booth, 2010
Affirming the Value of the Arts in the Education of our Children: An Arts-Integrated Residency Handbook, 2008
PAEP Program and Assessment Report, 2002-2005
Arts Based Collaborative Partnership Projects, 2004-2005

 

 

 

 

 
       
 

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