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Final Public Review of NCCAS Arts Standards Underway

Feb 13, 2014 | marcus@ya.org

                    The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) has launched a final public review of the draft PreK-12 arts standards in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts. The review will open on February 14, 2014, and will close February 28, on the coalition’s wiki page at http://nccas.wikispaces.com/ This third and concluding review reflects NCCAS’s ongoing…

WYPR Radio Highlights YAMD's Commitment to the Common Core State Standards

Nov 6, 2013 | marcus@ya.org

On November 4, 2013, WYPR 88.1 FM featured a segment focused on Young Audiences Maryland’s (YA) efforts to align arts instruction with the new Common Core State Standards for math and English/language arts.  As the report by Gwendolyn Glenn describes, the Common Core is a set of educational standards that lay out what students need to learn in each grade in the areas of math, reading and…

NCCAS Town Hall Meeting on the National Standards for Arts Education

Sep 27, 2013 | marcus@ya.org

              The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards convened a town hall meeting on Tuesday, October 1 to discuss the standards revision project. The event was hosted by Americans for the Arts.  As America’s education system moves toward increased accountability measures, it is imperative that the arts have current standards as well as assessment and evaluation models that can inform…

Teaching Artist Institute Seminar 2013

Sep 11, 2013 | Meaghan@yamd.org

Transforming Education with STEAM is a seminar offered by the Teaching Artist Institute (TAI), a collaborative project between the Maryland affiliate of Young Audiences, the Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance (AEMS), and the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC). TAI brings artists and teachers together to rethink learning through arts integration. We believe we can create the best…

Young Audiences of Maryland Teaching Artist Institute

Aug 9, 2013 | marcus@ya.org

  The Teaching Artist Institute (TAI) is a comprehensive professional development program for teaching artists that builds artists’ capacity to contribute to student learning in and through the arts. The program trains teaching artists in the use and understanding of the state curriculum and the Common Core Standards, as well as arts integration strategies to assist the artist in engaging…

Young Audiences Arts for Learning Joins National Coalition for Core Arts Standards

May 21, 2013 | marcus@ya.org

         Young Audiences Arts for Learning has joined the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) as a leadership governance organization. NCCAS, a coalition of national arts and education organizations and other representatives, is committed to developing a next generation of voluntary, researched-based arts education standards. These arts education standards will build on the…

A Passion for Dance: An Interview with Sarah Haykel

May 10, 2013 | marcus@ya.org

                Sarah Haykel has been a professional dance instructor since 2003 and a teaching artist at Young Audiences of Western New York for more than four years. She specializes in salsa dancing and Latin music and dance, focusing not only on timing, technique, rhythm, footwork, and styling, but on the historical and cultural aspects of Latin music and dance. This past April, she…

Reading is Fundamental and STEAM article from Education News

Sep 19, 2012 | marcus@ya.org

As an arts-in-education organization that teaches across the disciplines, we are big advocates for STEAM. Education News recently published this article on how Reading is Fundamental is adding the arts into their latest initiative.  Click here to read the full article on RIF and STEAM.

Evaluation and Assessment: The Tail that Wags the Dog?

Aug 9, 2012 | marcus@ya.org

By Dr. Carol Fineberg, Evaluation & Assessment Consultant As the pressure to prove the worth and utility of the arts -- music, visual  art and design, dance, theater, media --  in the education of children and youth in this country and others continues, it is clear that issues regarding evaluation in general and assessment practices in specific will persist.    This…