PCA ARTIST IN RESIDENCE APPLICATIONS
FOR SCHOOL YEAR 2012-2013 NOW AVAILABLE!

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Arts Link Year 1 Catalogue

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LET ART FREEDOM RING LIBERTY BELLS DISPLAYED AT THE CAPITOL IN HARRISBURG January 8 - January 27, 2012

Comly Elementary School The Strength & Fragility of Freedom Artist Mentor: Marie Elcin Click here for larger image.	Grover Washington Jr. Middle School Infinities & Indivisibities Artist Mentor: Ben Volta Click here for larger image.	Julia de Burgos Elementary School The Dollar Bill of Rights Artist Mentor: Andres Gonzalez Click here for larger image.
		Watch for information on the Let Art Freedom Ring Program 2012!
Beeber Middle School Life and the Pursuit of Happiness Artist Mentor: Deborah Williams Click here for larger image.	Morton Elementary School We the Students Artist Mentor: Brian Elstein Click here for larger image.

Let Art Freedom Ring © is a program of the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP)

This program engaged students from participating schools in:

• A study of Philadelphia’s role in shaping our democracy
• Work with professional artists
• A city-wide art competition creating a “Let Art Freedom Ring” Liberty Bell.

Program Details:

• Students studied the concept of democracy, civic responsibility and art making techniques with a professional artist mentor.
• Students worked with an artist mentor for 12 sessions to create a 6 foot, 3-dimensional interpretation of the Liberty Bell.

Program Goals:

• Let Art Freedom Ring demonstrated the importance of the arts as a foundation for building future generations of leaders and creative thinkers.
• Building a Liberty Bell collaboratively promoted cooperation and tolerance among students.
• Students gained self-esteem and pride in community by participating in a learning experience focused on literacy, civics, and Philadelphia’s role in building our nation.
  
  

Arts Link: Building Mathematics and Science Competencies
Through an Arts Integration Model
Year One Pilot Program

The Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership began its U. S. Department of Education Office of Innovation Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination grant by working with the School District of Philadelphia to identify treatment and control schools needed to insure a quasi-experimental research design. The treatment schools will be implementing PAEP's model for skills alignment and arts integration in mathematics and science across grades 2 through 5. Art teachers from each of the four schools will lead cohort teams of teachers and teaching artists. Each school will have a resident visual artist for the school year and will also have opportunities to bring in other artists and art forms over the next three years of the program.

Schools that were randomly selected to be a part of the program:

Comly Elementary School
Decatur Elementary School
Lingelbach Elementary School
Morton Elementary School

These schools were matched to teaching artists:

Marie Elcin at Comly
Carol Royer at Decatur
Lisa Volta at Lingelbach
Ben Volta at Morton

The cohort teams of two teachers, each from 2nd through 5th grades, the art teacher, and the teaching artist received from 12 to 18 hours of professional development this spring in preparation for 10-12 session pilot projects. These projects focused on building mathematics skills through aligning art skills to a mathematics concept using visual arts. Year 2 will begin with a week of professional development in August. Projects will be ongoing throughout the school year.

PAEP Artist in Residence at Philadelphia Libraries After School

PAEP is proud to be a recipient of the Philadelphia Culture Fund Youth Empowerment Grant. This grant provided funds to develop an arts and literacy program in Philadelphia neighborhood libraries for students and their parents. PAEP worked with five artists to develop an art making residency program in six Philadelphia libraries across the city. Twice a week over a five week period beginning in May and running through the end of the second week in June, teaching artists engaged students from kindergarten through 8th grade in art making projects that related to books, reading, and/or literacy skill development. They were assisted by after school leaders and teens who work as part of the Leap after school program. Leap adult leaders and teens were also trained by PAEP to help the artists in using visual arts to support learning. In addition to the Artist in Residence program, PAEP participated in training sessions for Books Aloud!, a Free Library of Philadelphia program for pre-school and afters school educators, caregivers, and parents.

Library Artist Residency Program

Lynn Denton taught at both Independence Branch Library and Whitman Branch Library
Lisa Volta worked at the Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library
Cassandra Gunkel worked at the Bustleton Avenue Branch Library
Tremain Smith was at the Blanche Nixon Cobbs Creek Branch Library
Diane Pieri taught at the Overbrook Park Branch Library

PAEP HIGHLIGHTS PCA SPECIAL PROJECTS AT GROVER WASHINGTON JR. MIDDLE SCHOOL

With funding from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for special long term residencies, PAEP collaborated with Artist Benjamin Volta and Teacher Jerry Jackson on projects integrating art and science. Working with the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of the Sciences (CPNAS), Grover Washington's mentally gifted students studied African American scientist to create Historical Catalysts, a seventh month long project.

Click here to learn more. Click here to visit the blog.

PAEP PRESENTS ARTS BRIDGES YEAR 4 CATALOGUE OF STUDENT WORK

AND ARTS BRIDGES COLLABORATIVE MODEL TOOLKIT

The Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership is pleased to present along with The School District of Philadelphia the fourth year of Arts Bridges: Building Literacy Through an Arts Integrated Collaborative Model, a U. S. Department of Education Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination grant along. This student catalogue of grades 4, 5, and 6 reviews projects undertaken in 2009-2010 at Ethan Allen Elementary School, William Cullen Bryant Elementary School, Julia de Burgos Elementary School, and Solomon Solis-Cohen Elementary School.

This quasi-experimental, 4 year project has demonstrated that learning through an arts-integrated model does improve students' PSSA test scores. This improvement was especially significant in 4th and 6th grade boys in the participating schools when compared to non-participating, matched schools. There was also significant improvement in pro-social behavior as measured by non-excused absences and suspension rates. Again, the impact was greatest in 4th and 6th grade boys as compared to the control schools. A more detailed evaluation report will be produced in the near future.

Additionally, PAEP has created a toolkit of templates that have been developed over a four year period that will guide schools, teachers, arts organizations, and teaching artists to design and implement arts integrated curricula.

Click here for Year 4; Click here for theToolkit

Arts Bridges: Building Literacy Through an Integrated Arts Collaborative Model
is made possible by a grant of federal funds to The School District of Philadelphia by the
United States Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, under the
Arts in Education Model Development & Dissemination Grant Program

PAEP CONGRATULATES NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC WINNER

Central High School senior, Komrorng Bo, won the American Vision Award in national competition as part of the 2010-2011 Scholastic Young Artist and Writer's competition for his sculpture "Wolf". He is headed to New York City for the Awards Ceremony and National Exhibition May 31, 2011 at Carnegie Hall. Congratulations to Komrorng, his teacher Jude Saleet, and the Art Department at Central High School for producing more winners than any school in the five county region.

Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership Receives
Unparalleled Federal Grant of $1.1 Million

The Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP) was awarded an unprecedented grant for $1.1 million to work in collaboration with The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) to create a replicable arts integrated program. This unique program, Arts Link: Building Mathematics and Science Competencies through an Arts Integrated Model, will honor state standards in the arts and improve the mathematics, science, and reading skills of students in grades 2 through 5.

Only 33 grants were made across the entire country, and two were awarded in Pennsylvania. Both PAEP and ArtsErie are Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Arts in Education Partners.

"All of us at PAEP are thrilled and honored that the US Department of Education has selected our proposal for funding to work with The School District of Philadelphia," said PAEP Chief Executive Officer Pearl Schaeffer. "PAEP will design and implement an arts integration model that enhances student achievement in mathematics and science. Through the project's quasi-experimental design, we will measure the model's efficacy and share this research with the field."

This amazing project will span the course of four years and engage students at four randomly selected Philadelphia schools. The teaching and learning teams, comprised of classroom teachers, led by the school's visual art specialist, and a master teaching artist-in-residence will seamlessly integrate arts projects into critical grade-level math, science, and literacy curricula. A total of 32 classroom teachers, approximately 3,600 students, four art specialists, and four artists, as well as 2-3 visiting artists will be involved across The School District of Philadelphia region.

Not only will this project be beneficial for children, but it will also provide teachers with a greater variety of unique and exceptional strategies to enhance the learning of underachieving students. A scientifically-based research methodology will examine the impact of these teaching and learning models on: strengthening students' arts, math, and science competencies; improving standardized test scores, pro-social behavior, and attitudes toward school; and enhancing teacher pedagogy.

"PAEP looks forward to continuing the research we began four years ago in our first collaboration with The School District of Philadelphia on a US Department of Education grant," says Raye Cohen, Director of Education. "We have learned so much from that experience tht will inform and deepen our work on this project."

For more information on the Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant, please contact: paep@uarts.edu

PCA Artist in Residence Applications for 2011-2012

Click here for application. Click here for list of artists.

2010 Let Art Freedom Ring© Liberty Bells

PAEP and the National Liberty Museum are thrilled at the reception that the Let Art Freedom Ring Liberty Bell program has received. Congratulations to the students, teachers, and artists at Beeber Middle School, Hunter Elementary School, Kenderton School, Lingelbach Elementary School, and Sharswood Elementary School. Check out the attachment to see the bells and follow the link below to read about it in the Inquirer yesterday and

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Life...and the Pursuit of Happiness Beeber Middle School Artist: Deb Williams Click here for larger image		Dreaming is Believing Hunter Elementary School Artist: Diane Pieri Click here for larger image	Liberty is our Responsibility Kenderton School Artist: CosaCosa art at large - Click here for larger image	Piece by Piece We Become One Lingelbach Elementary School Artist: Lisa Volta - Click here for larger image	Bob: Birth of a Bell Sharswood Elementary School Artist: Steven Seese Click here for larger image

           

Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership, The University of the Arts, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Launch Nation’s First Teaching Artist Certification Program

PHILADELPHIA (May 3, 2010) – Recognizing artists as a vital component in Pre K – 12 educational reform, The University of the Arts and the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP), in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, has designed an unprecedented program that is inclusive of all the arts: visual, performing, literary, media, and crafts. This research-based certificate program builds the knowledge and capacity of artists to work alongside teachers and arts specialists in PreK-12 classrooms and community settings to create and implement best practices residency programs that support learning in and through the arts.

Click here for the 2010-2011 brochure. Click here for the 2010-2011 application.

Teaching Artists Information

Click here for information on clearances needed for residency work in schools