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   California State PTA Online Newsletter                             May 2009
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New Online Arts Education Handbook


California
Arts Education Fact Sheet


Rate Your Music Program


Core Subjects for the Creative Mind: California Arts Council


The Benefits of the Study of Music from MENC
 

Resources from the Arts Education Partnership

 
Keep Music Education Strong - Support Music


Reflections Gallery 


Drama and Dance


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Visual Arts


SMARTS is California PTA's program to encourage arts education. Please spread the word about the benefits of arts education.

 

PTA Arts Education Grant
Your Chance to Help!
 
  • As part of California State PTA's Arts Planning Grant from the Hewlett Foundation, we are compiling information about the range of different organized arts programs in California schools that include PARENTS in some way.

  • Parents can be involved as supporters, advocates, or participants; programs can be during school, after school, on-site or off-site. They can involve one or more of the four arts disciplines: music, theater, dance or visual arts.

  • These do not have to be programs that are sponsored by the PTA, as long as they involve parents in some way.

  • If you have an organized arts program with strong parent involvement at your school, please follow this LINK and fill out the form, and hit the "submit" button when you're through.

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An Unfinished Canvas: Local Partnerships in Support of Arts Education explores the role of partnerships between local arts organizations and schools and districts in supporting elementary arts education in California.
 
It also highlights case studies, illustrating how partners in six diverse California communities work together to increase access to arts education, and discusses benefits and limitations of those partnerships.
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