From the Arts Education Collaborative
A synopsis of current issues and possible implications for arts educators.
In this issue:
The history of educator effectiveness.
Educator effectiveness in Pennsylvania.
Educator Effectiveness in Schools and Districts
Educator Effectiveness and the Arts
Summary of Talking Points Regarding Educator Effectiveness
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It's up and running, SLO Information, on the PDE SAS website. Time to investigate and get ready!
The Pennsylvania Department of Education has partnered with Research In Action ( RIA ) to provide the process, materials, and training for the creation and management of student learning objectives
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2014 National Art Education Association
Fusing Innovative Teaching and Emerging Technologies
March 29-31, 2014
San Diego, CA
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Youth Art Month is an annual observance each March to emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art programs.
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Art Education Technology (AET) is an issues group of the National Art Education Association. Our mission is to encourage and exchange knowledge and ideas related to new media technologies in the making of visual art, art teaching, and research in art education. We meet and hold events during each NAEA National Convention to create opportunities for networking with other art education professionals. Join our Facebook page.
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 Maya Penn
Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist
. She started her first company when she was 8 years old, and thinks deeply about how to be responsible both to her customers and to the planet. She shares her story, animations, designs, and some infectious energy in this charming talk.
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Looking for a community service for your art classes?
Spread the love by sending a card to an older adult in need.
Meals On Wheels Association of America
has teamed up with DoSomething.org,
a nationwide youth volunteer organization, to create the Love Letters campaign. The campaign is designed to make our programs' seniors feel special, knowing that someone is thinking about them on Valentine's Day.
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Learning Network Lesson Plan Unit
The Learning Network has developed lesson plan units that use recent New York Times articles as springboards for examining important curricular topics in interesting and exciting ways. Use these lessons in your classroom, or share them with teachers in other content areas and collaborate on interdisciplinary units.
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Check out the February issue of School Arts Magazine and the article
by PAEA member, Kris Fontes on Outsider Artist, Martin Ramirez. (see page 34) 
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First Time Conference Presenter
Mia DeCrescenzo, K-12 Art Educator
It was suggested to me by a friend and art educator that I submit a presentation proposal for the PAEA conference in October. I hadn't considered myself reputable enough to present at a conference.  What knowledge or wisdom did I have to share with art educators who most likely had been teaching for longer than me? Even so, I couldn't get the suggestion out of my mind and found myself flipping through the PAEA conference program from the prior year in Harrisburg. I looked through the presentations and read the titles and notes I had made in the margins. It didn't take me long to remember how I felt coming away from the conference in Harrisburg: enlightened, reinvigorated, excited, and filled to the brim with ideas. I decided to get in touch with a fellow art educator. We were familiar with working together and I trusted her and her ideas, so I pitched the idea of submitting a presentation proposal together. I was thrilled to be collaborating with a colleague. We quickly put together our proposal and submitted it just in time.
After the exciting news that our proposal was accepted, we met in mid August to lay down the groundwork of the presentation. We created an outline for our talk and came up with ways we could learn about and connect to our audience. The more we worked on putting the presentation together, the more confident I became. Previously, I had enjoyed being a part of PAEA and was a member who mostly listened and absorbed. I was excited about becoming a member who would contribute and share as well. I was anxious before the presentation but thirty seconds into talking, the shakiness in my voice disappeared and I realized I was talking about something I knew a lot about and I was talking to people who cared about the topic as much as I did. Sharing my ideas and speaking about my teaching feels just as personal as sharing artwork and I realize that is because I truly care about it. I am invested in it. Sharing anything you care about can leave you feeling vulnerable. My experience was that it made me feel at times vulnerable but more overwhelmingly valuable. I am so happy to have had the experience to participate fully in the conference and look forward to doing so in the future.
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National Core Arts Standards Final Public Review
The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) has scheduled afinal public review of the draft PK-12 arts standards in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts.
The review will open February 14, and close February 28. A draft reading copy will be available on January 30.
This is the third and concluding review in a series of new benchmarks for NCCAS, leading to a rolling "first-glance" version of the final standards beginning in March, and the web-based release of the standards in June 2014. To find out how to participate in the February review process and to view all public documents related to the arts standards, visit http://nccas.wikispaces.com/ NCCAS is the coalition of national arts and education organizations and media arts representatives that are developing the 2014 National Core Arts Standards. The new, voluntary grade-by-grade web-based standards emphasize "big ideas," philosophical foundations, enduring understandings/essential questions, and anchor/performance standards, all of which are intended to guide the curriculum development and instructional practices that leads to arts literacy for all students.
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Design Live
Marcy Bogdanich - Learning by Design committee member
What better way for a bunch of art teachers and students to spend an evening than in creative play! Under the direction of Amy Migliore and her overflowing tubs of cool stuff, that is exactly what the members of the PAEA backed Learning By Design group and others did during the PAEA October conference in Bethelem, Pennsylvania. 
This culminating experience, "Happening" , incorporated the applications of design, enthusiasm and that most important, but often forgotten component of play the Learning By Design initiative is promoting for students K-12. Each group created a stunning piece of wearable art in one hour.
The focus of the Learning By Design initiative is to house a bank of lesson ideas for use in the K-12 art classrooms using the theme of repurposing, recycling and reusing material to create wearable clothing. Learning By Design leaders presented workshops at the PAEA conference showing the many ways in which the repurposing theme could be applied to each grade level. We even included a workshop directed to engaging boys in this clothing design process.
We encourage all Pennsylvania art educators to submit lesson plans, sharing ideas or projects they have done in their classrooms related to the theme. We are an incredible group of art educators in Pennsylvania with much to offer each other. Go to paeablog.org, click on Learning by Design on the right and follow the prompts to submit your lesson ideas.
For the lesson plan starter go to:
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Sign Up for the PAEA Secondary Blog! Alyce Grunt - Secondary Division Director
 The site is designed for secondary-level art teachers who are members of PAEA and any others who may be interested. Current content includes links to various student shows along with the upcoming deadlines. I would like to invite members to visit the site and consider signing up for the email subscription by clicking the link on the top right column to "follow by email". Once you enter your email into this field, you will receive a message to confirm that you would like to receive this subscript ion. Then, when new posts are added, you will automatically receive email notification that links
The content on this site can be strengthened with your input. I would like to encourage you to let me know of other opportunities that you think may be useful to post here for members. My colleague, Kay Lord, who teaches ceramics, brought my attention to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) website, along with an upcoming K-12 ceramics show. I am sure there are many other such opportunities that could be posted for members- please share ideas with me. Further, I would like this site to be useful to those art teachers who are practicing artists. Hopefully those of you who are interested heard about the opportunity to exhibit your own work in a show for art-educators that will take place at Shippensburg University. I would like to promote other opportunities to exhibit the work of art educators. Do you have ideas about an exhibit? Pass them along!
Lastly, as this is a new site, I envision creating an approximate timeline of due dates for many popular arts exhibition/contest opportunities that come up during the year. This in part helps with planning and keeping track of the many opportunities available to showcase student work outside of our schools. Have any important dates that come up regularly for you as a secondary art teacher? Please pass them along as well! I would love to hear any other ideas for content that you would like to share with our membership and colleagues throughout the state. Please be in touch!
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On "Becoming" (An Artist)
Jackie Thomas - - Fiber Artist
Our paths toward becoming an artist are varied. In this short "hello," I explore memories of pavestones that led me to where I am now as an artist. Perhaps you can relate to some of these steps...
- Age five - Never selecting a single crayon from my box of 64, creating new shades and hues, enjoying wonderful textures and visual blends
- Age nine - Designing and sewing "elegant clothes" from tubular knit that I wore to school. Aunt Janet was my third grade art teacher, and she taught Saturday art classes in the basement of our house.
- Ages ten to twelve - Learned about clay from William Swallow (Smithsonian American Art Museum collection); technique painting classes at the Baum School of Art in Allentown (formula paintings - how to paint water, a rock, a tree, etc.). Tagged along with Aunt Janet on pen and ink sketching trips to draw from real farmland vistas. There was magic in making strong black marks on pristine paper.
- Teens - Painting classes in London County Council night school with Mr. Tuckwell who encouraged imagination paintings. I was permitted to paint murals on my bedroom walls (We lived in apartments).
- Age 19 - Art teacher college coursework began (learned "basics" of many media).
- Age 22 - With the birth of our son, I was home instead of working (a first and last for the next 40 years). I strung a warp between two wooden dowel rods and created my first major weaving.
- Age 26 - Began teaching; discovered the best way to learn is to teach - lots of practice and experimentation to prepare, but not much creating of art works.
- Age 40 - Became an administrator; little free time to pursue creative endeavors. I started making tiny fetishes and jewelry that could be worked sporadically and weren't ruined when put aside for indefinite periods of time.
- Age 62 - Retirement marked a new sense of total freedom to create what and when I want. Every day can offer joyous excitement about my new best art works in progress. I develop multiple works at the same time. I feel driven to create, create, create. And I celebrate what I learned and the meanings I made in each work of art.
In conclusion, being an artist is a state of existence and always a process of becoming.
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The Pennsylvania Art Education Association is committed to supporting the work of art educators across the state. We serve to support the work you do with students in the classroom, by providing ongoing recent curricular resources, and professional development opportunities year-round across the state. Check back often to see what is coming up in your region at: http://www.paeablog.org/
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