Equipping K-6 teachers with an understanding of Common Core and Dance Standards to promote Arts Integration.
Welcome to an exciting statewide program, Creativity at the Core. Here you will find a suite of professional learning modules focused on an array of key topics that support arts learning aligned with California State Standards. Regional Arts Leads from across California and key Arts Organization Partners collaborated on these materials for use in your own educational and arts settings. Check out these amazing modules!
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Providing district and school leaders and teachers of K-8 students an opportunity to explore integration of arts education through The Music Center's online Artsource.
Focusing on the 4 C's as they relate to the Common Core State Standards, text complexity and the value of teaching students to read closely in English Language Arts and the Arts.
Using Studio Thinking Frames to deepen student learning for our most at risk and underserved students, and providing concrete strategies for using the arts as an engagement and equity tool.
Offering powerful classroom instruction delivery model designed to increase student engagement and classroom participation at a 21st century level.
Bringing together classroom teachers and teaching artists to deepen their understanding of the arts disciplines, Common Core Standards, and 21st century skills to enhance instruction.
Developing standards-based arts integrated unit plans and materials for both teachers and artists.
Developing skills of inquiry to build disciplinary and arts knowledge in grades 3-8 through active inquiry.
Learning in and through theatre to support the development of 21st century skills, including creativity, innovation and creative thinking.
Refreshing and deepening dance content through curricular best practices, sharing ideas, and sharing resources to implement Dance Content Literacy and the Common Core for Technical Subjects.
Deepening understanding of arts integration and how it can work with Common Core through assessment strategies.
Module 12 will provide education leaders at every level practical skills and tools to establish sustainable arts education programming in schools.
Providing the theoretical basis and strategies for integrating theatre and literacy to strengthen skills in academic disciplines to create a strong balanced curriculum for English Learners.
Connecting the arts processes with the Visual and Performing Arts Standards and the Common Core State Standards.
Making connections between reading and the arts and Common Core English language texts.
Creating an innovative CTE Pathway in the video making process from pre-production, production, and post-production.
Focusing on introducing educators to the Arts & Media standards involved in Career Technical Education (CTE).
Exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) through the lens of creative reuse and the environment.
Using music as a lens through which we view the historical and cultural connections of people around the world and within our own communities
Expanding access to music education and integration for students in Grades TK-6 with diverse abilities through Universal Design for Learning.
Providing resources and tools to understand the unique landscape of rural areas and showcasing ways to promote high quality, standards-based arts education by linking students, families, and communities.
Providing educators with an introduction to the California Arts Standards structure and purpose as well as the opportunity to do a deep study into one or more arts disciplines.
Providing foundational skills and resources focused on various media art forms through arts integration professional learning for elementary and integrated classrooms.
Providing a model for integrating Visual Arts and History Social Science including six integrated units and resources meeting the rigor of Visual Arts and History/Social Science standards.
Using the Arts as a lens through which we view the importance of cultural and linguistic connections and providing strategies and resources to deepen instructional practices connecting ELD and Arts standards-based learning
