Resources: Arts in Education
Arts educators nurture emerging artists from the grade school classroom to the senior center. Here are a number of national organizations that help resource the Arts in Education community.
BAC Professional Development Library
Arts Education is Community Care: How to Use Mutual Aid Practices in the Classroom
This BAC led workshop engages with core principles of mutual aid practice and offer ideas on how to incorporate them into the classroom.
Trauma Informed Teaching for D75 Populations
This BAC led workshop introduces teaching artists and educators to the concept of trauma informed teaching and offers practical strategies to incorporate this method into D75 classrooms.
Teaching Artist Entrepreneurship
This workshop is designed to share ideas and strategies about creating additional income opportunities for arts educators with the skills they already possess.
General Resources
Arts Education at Americans for the Arts
Useful resources on arts in the public schools including policy, research, professional development, and more.
Arts Education Partnership
AEP is a national coalition of more than 100 education, arts, business, cultural, government, and philanthropic organizations. AEP serves as the nation’s hub for individuals and organizations committed to making high-quality arts education accessible to all U.S. students.
American Alliance for Theatre & Education
The American Alliance for Theatre and Education works to ensure that every young person experiences quality theatre arts in their lives.
Association of Teaching Artists
This non-profit professional organization serves teaching artists from all disciplines in NYS and beyond. Their website includes a useful resources section and many tips and guidelines.
Experimental Television Center
The Center provides support and services to the media arts community.
Lifetime Arts
Fosters lifelong learning in and through the arts by providing training and connecting artists and organizations.
New York City Arts in Education Roundtable
The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable is a community of organizations that improves, advances, and advocates for arts education.
National Art Education Association & Foundation
This dynamic community is where visual arts teachers, scholars, researchers and professors, students, administrators, art museum educators, and artists come together around a shared belief in the power of the arts in developing human potential.
National Education Association
The NEA is the nation's largest professional employee organization with 3 million members working at every level of education—from pre-school to university graduate programs.
National Guild for Community Arts Education
The National Guild supports and advances access to lifelong learning opportunities in the arts by providing research and information resources, professional development, networking opportunities and funding, and by advocating on behalf of the field.
New York City Center for Arts Education
CAE is an arts education advocacy organization as well as a service provider of arts programming in schools and professional development for administrators, teachers, and teaching artists.
New York State Art Teachers Association
NYSATA advances the cause of arts education throughout NY state and includes educators of all age levels from preschool through college.
New York State School Music Association
NYSSMA advocates for and improves music education across New York State by promoting and producing appropriate activities and programs for its membership and students in member school music programs.
The Jim Henson Foundation
The place to find out what's happening in contemporary puppet theatre.
Theater Seat Store: Visual Arts Glossary
The visual arts have their own vocabulary. These terms are defined through the lens of the study of visual arts.
Government Resources
Art Works – National Endowment for the Arts
NEA is the largest annual national funder of the arts in the U.S. to support local individual artists and organizations.
New York City Department of Education
Through the ArtsCount initiative, which tracks student participation in arts education, annual Arts in School Report, and development of visual arts, music, theatre, and dance teachers, the New York City Department of Education hopes to provide high-quality arts education to all public schools.
New York City Department of Education
The New York City Department of Education is the largest system of public schools in New York, and they aim to provide information to parents and families to participate in the public schools’ programs and initiatives.
New York State Education Department
NYSED aims to raise the knowledge, skills, and opportunity of the people of New York through their program offices which cover a broad spectrum of arts education in New York.
New York State Learning Standards
These provide a list of the learning standards for the arts, career development, English language, and others.
Information & Professional Development
ArtsEdge – Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education
A free digital resource for teaching and learning in, through, and about the arts.
Community Word Project Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program
TATIP offers professional development opportunities for teaching artists with a variety of levels of experience.
Gotham Schools
Gotham Schools is a running conversation about what works and what doesn’t in NYC schools.
Schoolbook
The New York Times special site devoted to news, data, and conversation about schools in New York City.
The Eric Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
Provides information on educational assessment, evaluation, and research methodology.
Teaching Artists’ Source I – NYFA
Use this service to find information on grants, services, and publications specifically for teaching artists on the local, regional, state, and national level.
Art Blueprint
This free visual arts curriculum was developed by Studio in a School with the New York City Department of Education.
The Teaching Palette
Full of helpful articles, project ideas, and information to improve your art classroom experience.
Dewey 21C
Richard Kessler shares his thoughts on arts education, from large-scale policy to everyday inspiration.
Our Arts in Education Program
For over 25 years, BAC’s arts education programs have played a critical role in keeping the arts alive in NYC schools, and in senior and community centers. Our workshops, residencies, and performances ensure that rich arts experiences, and the life benefits they provide, are available for all New Yorkers.