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Schools that are focusing on the arts are seeing benefits across the board! For over a decade, credible research has demonstrated that the inclusion of arts in school has a highly positive impact on students’ motivation, engagement and development of creative competencies—highly prized in today’s world. Help your students gain the arts advantage by enrolling as a School Member today.

School Memberships feature these benefits ($50):

  • The exclusive opportunity to have your events and public programs listed on our website’s powerful new calendar
  • Invitations to all our events and special programs
  • Regular eNews updates and online access to our website resources
  • Opportunities to connect with schools and other arts providers in order to share ideas, collaborate on programs, and build your audience
  • Access to a compendium of the latest research on arts education to help support your advocacy and fundraising efforts
  • Networking Opportunities & Year Round Support from ArtsEd WA Staff
  • Access to pre-screened grant and award opportunities
  • Quarterly Issues of The Spark eNewsletter (Available to all your teachers)
  • Discounts on select Principals’ Arts Leadership gatherings and trainings

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  • Check out Art Lessons in the Classroom

    ArtsEd Washington developed Art Lessons in the Classroom to provide visual art curriculum for elementary schools that is aligned with Washington state standards.This comprehensive and sequential visual arts curriculum provides an excellent foundation in visual arts concepts.

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    • ArtsEd Washington is excited to introduce our new group of principals participating in the Principals’ Arts Leadership (PAL) program this year. Through this program, the principals will be positioned as the instruction leaders in the arts, empowering them in a role to effectively guide the expectations for teachers and providing them with tools to help them increase their schools’capacity for bringing the arts to every student.

    Please join us in welcoming the following principals and their schools:

    If one of these schools is in your community, we encourage you to stop by to congratulate the principal and offer your support.

    Since their acceptance into the PAL program, principals have been busy creating their Arts Teams – the leadership group comprised of teachers from their school, and the community (parents, artists, business and civic leaders). The team brings together multiple talents that will work with the principal in developing a School Arts Vision and Arts Plan. We look forward to meeting these teams at their first PAL Schools Workshop in late January.

    We would like to extend a thank you to our PAL program funders including the Clowes Fund, 4Culture, The Robert B. McMillen Foundation, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation. We would also like to thank the Seattle Asian Art Museum for hosting our January workshop training.

    About Principals Arts Leadership

    The central role of the principal as instructional leader in the arts is a core tenet of the PAL program and is based on national research findings. The Arts Education Partnership’s 1999 study, Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons from School Districts that Value Arts Education, highlights the role of the principal as the primary instructional leader at the school level. The findings showed that principals create the expectations and climate within the school building and their support for arts education is essential, if it is to flourish. Through the PAL program, ArtsEd Washington uniquely positions the principal as the central figure in advancement of arts learning. Learn more about our PAL program.

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