2. Tutorial
Welcome to Module 12: Leadership in the Arts and Common Core State Standards
This module is intended for school site administrators, district and program administrators, and superintendents

3. Tutorial
This module was developed in collaboration by three county office of education leaders:
Ray Cagan, formerly from Alameda County Office of Education
Shannon Wilkins, Los Angeles County Office of Education
Stephen Winlock, Sacramento County Office of Education

4. Overarching Goal
The intent of this professional learning module is to build leadership capacity for arts education.
The resources here will help you to adapt these resources to develop your own unique learning opportunity for leaders.

5. Learning Objectives Here are the intended outcomes for this module:
Administrators will gain a deeper understanding of the connection between the arts, engagement, student success, and college and career readiness.
Administrators will experience artistic practices (multiple disciplines) and identify a clear connection to Common Core Standards

6. Learning Objectives Additional outcomes for this module:
Administrators will acquire strategies for engagement in arts integration in the content area (i.e. Math, Language Arts, Science) to facilitate student mastery of the Common Core State Standards
Administrators will experience artistic practices (multiple disciplines) and identify a clear connection to Common Core Standards

7. Learning Objectives Additional outcomes for this module:
Administrators will build awareness of tools for assessing the arts (i.e. best practices, rubric, observation tools)
Administrators will develop leadership skills as it promotes integration (i.e. vision, resource development, partnerships, guiding instruction)

8. The Module Presentation Chart
Take a look at the presentation template which provides an overview of the learning module developed for your use.
This chart details key content, presentation methods, participant activities, evaluation possibilities, and key standards to be addressed in the professional learning module.
You will find this under the Downloads section on the right.

9. This is the Presentation Chart

10. Blocks of Learning You will notice key blocks of learning.
The content in this module can be adapted and delivered in many different configurations. Some use this in an all day workshop session; others break the blocks up in sessions over time.

11. Content Major Focus Areas
Leadership in the Arts and Common Core State Standards (2 hours)
Arts Education and the Common Core in Practice (2 hours)
Leadership Matters… in Arts Integration (2 hours)

12. Content Outline
The content outline explicitly addresses key learning outcomes and standards
See Content Outline under downloads

13. Experiential Learning
Interactive Learning
It is important to orchestrate interactive learning opportunities so that the participants don’t just merely hear about arts education and arts learning across the curriculum.
Engagement will bring more enthusiasm into your learning module and also invite more discourse and interaction.
Our experience has been that leaders find these sessions refreshing and invigorating. It is important to keep this element within the module so that leaders envision opportunities for the students they serve.

14. Setting the Context for Common Core and Arts
21st Century Skills
The next slide is in the presentation Power Point. This will help you in developing a context for why learning in the Arts and Common Core State Standards prepares our students for college and career.

15. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
21st
Century Skills
Creativity
Collaboration
Communication
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Now we have 21 Century skills that help us to deal with the massive amount of information that we can access anytime through the internet. The 21st Century skills are necessary to help us with work with the massive amount of information that we can receive by doing a Google search.
Collaboration is the skill to help us work together to organize our information needs.
Communication is the skill we need to facilitate the collaboration
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving is necessary to prioritize our focus and make decisions
Creativity, is what we do as the product of our labors.

16. Arts Integration for Deeper Learning in Middle School
The video featured in the Power Point will be a basis for understanding how the arts can transform schools by providing life long skills for students.
The URL can be accessed under Downloads.

17. The Power Point has specific section devoted to this subject.
Leadership
Leadership in the Arts is a Critical Part of the Module
Focus on what it means to provide leadership in the arts.
Develop knowledge around what is art integration, examples of what it looks like;
Build collaboration the importance of bringing all of the stakeholders i.e. teachers, parents together to assist with the implementation of arts;
Discuss the role of leadership in monitoring that art integration is happening
The Power Point has specific section devoted to this subject.

18. Arts Integration Defining Arts Integration
The Kennedy Center definition helps to define arts integration. During this module it is important to make clear how the arts connect to the anchor standards and how interdisciplinary learning meets objectives in more than one discipline.
Spend time discussion regarding the role arts integration plays within the current context of education.

19. Arts Integration - How to Do it?
Much of the Module provides information and suggestions on how to make this happen at the school and district level.
See Article on Integrate the Arts, Deepen the Learning which provides tips for administrators on how to transform

20. Arts Integration Tips for Administrators
Change the culture: The leadership must decide that the arts are essential for all children and be willing to make funding, scheduling, and hiring decisions accordingly.
Commit funding: Administrators have to put some funding into the arts. Grants can help to get arts integration started. The bulk of the grant money usually goes to professional development. Because the arts help build community awareness about the school through public performances and school- and community-based projects, donor campaigns for musical instruments and art supplies are generally successful.

21. Arts Integration Tips for Administrators
Adjust the schedule: Time must be built into the schedule to accommodate both PD and collaborative planning (PDF). At Bates, one hour every day is earmarked for collaborative planning, and teachers have PD sessions every other Thursday, at least one of which each month is about the arts.
Hire willing teachers: Most teachers will not have experience teaching with AI, so administrators need to hire people who are willing to take on the challenge of integrating the arts in their lessons and who want to learn to maximize art’s potential to engage their students. -Taken from Edutopia (Also available under Downloads)

22. Arts Integration Tips for Administrators
Leverage community resources: Bring in teaching artists and trainers from arts programs, or partner with community art organizations.

23. School-wide Arts Integration Checklist
Opportunities for Discussion:
Is there arts integration currently happening in your district or at your school?
There may be ways you can use these examples to help others integrate the arts in authentic ways
Does your school or district have a plan for arts integration across the curriculum?
This can start with a plan for developing common language and understanding of how the arts can support implementation of the common core
Are there opportunities for staff to learn or participate in professional development that is arts integrated?
You will find this as part of the Leadership Power point – slide 18.
Again, I find it useful to remind participants that schools are at varying levels of school-wide arts integration. It is important to build slowly into meaningful arts integration strategies that are well thought-out, otherwise, we risk falling into old patterns of arts experiences that are ONLY feel good experiences for students, and are not meeting evolving objectives in multiple subjects.

24. Defining Your Vision of Arts Integration
What is your Vision of Arts Integration?
What will be the Mission to support your Vision?
Do the strategies support and align to the vision and the mission?
A Template if provided to allow leaders to start mapping out a plan for arts education in their organizations. See Handout, Part 3-4.
With the use of the handout of VISION IMPLEMENTATION, use the concepts of the stating what does the art integration look like in your school, in the vision section, paint the picture of what art integration looks like, in the mission section what will be the work to meet the vision stated. The mission can be one area of focus to develop and would move to “other” areas that would assist in the vision. An example of the mission would be focus around the professional development needed to have art integration.

25. Planning Resources
One of the Tools in the Module is related to building and strengthening Partnerships.
The questions in the Handouts Part 3: 1 and 2 provide a great tool for having a deep discussion with current and potential partners. Defining roles, shared interests, and understanding how to build mutual support is a key component to helping build capacity for arts integration.

26. Preparing Students for the Next America
Benefits of Arts Education
This resource (available under Downloads) provides an overview of the benefits of arts education with research citations that support the claims. It is an excellent handout and can assist in your advocacy efforts.

27. We hope the materials and resources available in the Module will assist you in your professional learning.