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Welcome to Arts Education

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Overview of Arts Education

The Arts – Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual, and Media Arts – are essential components of a complete and well-rounded education. Through the Arts, we share and celebrate humanity’s highest achievements and develop enduring historical and cultural understandings of ourselves and the world around us. A balanced, comprehensive, and sequential program of study in the Arts allows Arizona’s students to learn and practice 21st-Century skills and behaviors that foster critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creative problem solving. The Arts seamlessly integrate with other disciplines and subject areas to create engaging and rigorous learning opportunities for all students. Instruction in the Arts builds discipline, enhances self-esteem, inspires creativity, fosters linguistic, numeric, and aesthetic literacy, and encourages students to make and reach personal and academic goals. Preparing students with the skills to thrive in the 21st century and to pursue a future in the creative industries, if they choose, is the goal of a high-quality arts education. As of 2016, Arizona employs 91,878 people in arts related jobs. Explore the diverse career possibilities of an arts education!

  

The mission of the Arizona Department of Education Arts Education is to provide support to Arts educators, classroom teachers, school and district administrators, and Arts stakeholders – including Arts and education organizations, community groups, and service organizations – so that every student has the opportunity to experience the power and beauty of the Arts, and the joy, creativity, and intellectual stimulation that instruction in the Arts provides.

     

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    From the Arts Education Blog

    January Arts Education Newsletter Thu, Dec 29 2022 Spotlight

    Dear Arts Educators,

    Welcome to 2023! Congratulations on completing the first semester of this

    school year. Thank you for inspiring a love of the arts in Arizona students

    every day. Teaching can be challenging in many ways, but we thank you for

    persevering and making an impact on a daily basis.

    "...if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they

    possess, then my monument will be in their work."

    -Augusta Savage

     

    Thank you for preparing the musicians, artists, dancers, actors and creative

    collaborators of tomorrow. You are doing great work and we thank you!

    Yours in collaboration,

    ADE Arts Education

    December Arts Education Newsletter Wed, Nov 23 2022 What's New In The Arts?

    Dear Arts Educators,

    There are many exciting things happening in the arts during the month of December and we wish all of our arts teachers much luck on upcoming performances and presentations! First, we would like to congratulate the art students of Ms. Lorenia Gutierrez-Casaus in Yuma Union High School District for representing Arizona at the America Celebrates Ornament Display! These ornaments are on display at the President's Park in Washington, DC. We are thankful to them for sharing their talent with the nation! We hope that you have a restful winter break and take some time to make some beautiful art, music, drama or dance solely for yourself. Arts participation is self-care!

    Yours in collaboration,

    ADE Arts Education

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