Standards warm up…• What is a standard?• What is good about core arts

standards?• What is scary about core arts

standards?

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TOWN HALL MEETING NATIONAL CORE ARTS STANDARDShttp://nccas.wikispaces.com

Hosted by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards leadership team member Americans for the Arts

Facilitator – Kristen Engebretsen

Presenters – David Dik, Lynn Tuttle

Outline of the Town Hall

How are the National Core Arts Standards organized?

How can my voice be heard in the revision process?

What are the next steps?

• What is a standard?• What is good about core arts

standards?• What is scary about core arts

standards?

Give us your thoughts – write them in the chat!

National Coalition for Core Arts Standards

American Alliance for Theatre and Education Americans for the Arts The College Board Educational Theatre Association National Art Education Association National Association for Music Education National Dance Education Organization State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education NCCAS Media Arts Committee Young Audiences

Why core arts standards? Why now?

Revision of other content standards Additional research in arts education Technology – in the arts and in instruction Capture best practice from state revisions in

last 2 decades Meet challenges for today’s arts educators

Measurement of student learning in the arts Robust curricular design + flexibility

Building a web-based set of standards

Content area teams Teams of 10-12 writers, 5 disciplines

selected in December, 2011, from across the country

Organizational Structure: Framework Matrix

Organized by Arts Discipline

Artistic Processes

Processes Overview

Process Components

Anchor Standards

EU’s and EQ’s

Grade Level and Grade Bands

High School

Performance Standards

Cornerstone Assessments

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Responding Connecting

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How can my voice be heard in the revision

process?

July Review: by the numbers… More than 250,000 certified dance, music, theatre and visual arts

teachers work in our nation’s K-12 schools

21,000 arts educators, arts advocates, teaching artists and others viewed the draft revisions to the nation’s voluntary arts standards in the first two weeks of July

More than 3,000 of those interested in standards revision provided feedback on the standards via on-line surveys in July, representing all 50 states and 3 nations

61 selected writing team members combed through 1,056,000 responses and comments from the field on PreK-8 draft standards in early August.

July Review: Common Questions…

• How do we best balance the need for content within an artistic process framework? 

• How much content is the right balance for a set of standards, without dictating curriculum? 

• How can we simplify our language and still retain the essence of the artistic discipline we are describing? 

• What is the difference between “domain specific language” and jargon when trying to describe an artistic discipline? 

• Are there opportunities for increasing the commonality between the artistic disciplines while still distinguishing and honoring the differences

between them? 

July Review: the Needs

 • A glossary of terms for the standards. 

• A refined reader-friendly format for the standards themselves, and a complimentary web-based architecture which is both searchable and intuitive. 

• A “tagging” system that will identify performance standards in both Music and Visual Arts which meet the Conceptual Framework’s definition of Connecting, and therefore allow the web-based set of standards to reflect the underlying Connecting standards for each of these disciplines, along with those identified by Dance, Media Arts and Theatre. 

High School Standards Review DRAFT documents of standards

Each discipline = 1 document Online review process

Each discipline = own survey Review timeline – now until October 21st!

www.nccas.org – support Forum!

All are accessible via the web at http://nccas.wikispaces.com/NCCAS+September+30th+Public+Review

Reviewing draft document Dive in and read for your content area

Does the structure, format and sequence make sense? 

Do the standards progress from level to level appropriately?

Is there alignment between the key elements of the standards?

Are the standards measureable?   Can you see your teaching here? Can you find your students here?

What are the next steps?

What’s next? Writing teams are working on model cornerstone assessments

Your feedback from the surveys will be shared with the Writing Teams in November and December

Final Public Review of PreK-12 grade standards in early January!

Finalized in March, 2014

On to State by state adoption/adaptation

Support from Americans for the Arts and YOU!

What will web-based standards look like?

Multiple entry points Discipline specific view Process Components/Anchor

Standards/EU/EQ’s with corresponding standards across multiple grades

All Process Component Standards for a single grade

What will web-based standards look like?

Philosophical Understandings and Lifelong Goals viewed across multiple disciplines

Model Cornerstone Assessments mapped across multiple standards by grade band

Functionality PDF printout capability

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Additional questions from you…

What did we forget to cover?