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Creat CA Arts Resources
Find lesson plans and other resources to assist in bringing your learning to life in the classroom.
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Getty Museum Resources-Lessons
Lessons designed for various grade levels available to teachers and the community.
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PBS Learning Media
A vast site with videos, lesson plans, articles, and other media related to a large number of subject areas including the arts and accessible by discipline and grade level.
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Music Educators National Conference Music in our Schools Month
Information on music in the schools and in the classroom
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Luna Dance Institute
Luna Dance Institute is a nationally-acclaimed dance education organization based in Berkeley, CA. Established in 1992, our mission aims to bring creativity, equity and community to every child’s life through the art of dance. Luna uses active inquiry to deepen the learning experience of children and adults, improve teaching practice and build high quality arts programs. As we bring all children to dance, we develop future leaders, choreographers and visionaries
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Ultimate Common Core Arts Resources - Educationcloset.com
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Arts and the Common Core
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“The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) is currently spearheading the revision of the national standards for arts education for the first time since their creation in 1994, and this presents a significant opportunity to highlight the overlap between the Common Core’s objectives and the practices of arts-based learning. Given the central role that the Common Core standards are playing in education and school reform initiatives nationwide, it is a priority of the Coalition to ensure that the goals and objectives of the Core Arts Standards relate clearly, directly, and meaningfully to the Common Core, and that these connections are actively considered as a part of the standards writing process.” -
Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum
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The research is clear: discipline-based instruction in reading
and writing enhances student achievement in all
subjects. Studies show that reading and writing across
the curriculum are essential to learning. Without strategies
for reading course material and opportunities to write
thoughtfully about it, students have difficulty mastering
concepts