Dance artists across the country are collaborating to reimagine a more equitable and ethical dance world. Be a part of the conversation! Join the Creating New Futures facebook group, check out their in-progress working document and watch their Real Talk forum reflecting on their process.
The Rights of Students to Equity in Arts Learning
If you are part of a California organization or school district, consider encouraging your administrators to adopt the Declaration of the Rights of Students to Equity in Arts Learning. Stating that all children deserve to have access to high-quality arts education, this Declaration asks for the dedication of appropriate resources to implement strategic arts plans that allow ALL students to participate in visual and performing arts learning. It also asks for a commitment to promoting arts learning that honors all cultures and languages by developing staff capacities, identifying community resources and creating opportunities for students to contribute to the design of their education. Find out more through Create CA.
Bay Area Arts Advocacy Reports
The Bay Area is known for its rich arts ecosystem, and for its history of activism and advocacy – but what about arts advocacy? What is our legacy & our future in speaking up for the arts?
Check out Jessica Mele’s blog on “The Promise of Arts Advocacy” as she shares & reflects on two reports commissioned by the Hewlett Foundation: Current Perspectives on Arts Advocacy & How to Better Support It in the Bay Area and Bay Area Arts Advocacy: A Historical Overview. These reports are visual & easy to read – and they feature Luna’s Director of Creativity & Policy Nancy Ng!
Need easy access to the new CA Dance Standards? There’s an app for that!
Now you can have the new CA Dance Standards in the palm of your hand! The CA Department of Ed has launched a new mobile app that allows teachers to search, filter, and sort standards to isolate specific content, identify standards common across disciplines, and inform decisions around instruction and assessment. Currently available for handy access to the Arts (including Dance), Computer Science, Health Education, History–Social Science, and Mathematics content standards. Forthcoming updates will add standards from additional content areas, such as English Language Development and English Language Arts, and will provide additional features to enhance the usefulness of the application to California educators.
More information about this free mobile download here.
Plus, you can now export the arts standards to Excel by choosing the “Download These Results” option. While this feature is available on any device, you will find the best results appear when using this on a computer with a web browser, specifically Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. Users can download all content standards or simply what was located in the filtered search.
How to do it:
Visit the Search the California Content Standard page
Select “Individual Standards” drop-down menu
Select “Arts”
Without adding any filters, select “Download These Results”
If your web browser prompts, choose “Save”
An Excel worksheet of all Arts Content Standards will be in your downloads folder