Here you will find information about...

• Local, regional and state professional development opportunities
• Resources aligned to the California Visual and Performing Arts Framework and Content Standards
• VAPA initiatives sponsored by the Fresno County Office of Education
• • Fresno County Youth Choir (for all singers ages 16-26)
  • Fresno Arts Network (for K-12 VAPA administrators)
  • Keeping Score (for all teachers)
  • Arts Every Day (for K-6 general classroom teachers)

Our Fourth Annual Arts Education Summit:

Arts 4 All: A celebration of community!

Click here to register.

Click here to download the flyer.

Invitation, front and back

Invitation, inside

For more information: click here.

Or, contact Robert Bullwinkel at bbullwinkel@fcoe.org

Sacramento chosen for Kennedy Center's "Any Given Child" initiative

     "Kennedy Center Plans Arts Education Program in Schools" read the New York Times headline. And the city chosen for the program? Sacramento. "After a six-month evaluation of existing arts education resources, the Kennedy Center -- along with Sacramento's school system and local arts organizations -- will design a plan for arts education specific to the area," noted a quick story in the New York Times. (See further details in an Entertainment Daily story.) The program, titled "Any Given Child," is currently accepting applications from other areas -- see website for details.

The US Department of Education has just released a comprehensive study of what American 8th graders know and can do in music and visual arts.

     "These results are important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the arts are a core academic subject and part of a complete education for all students. The arts are also important to American students gaining the 21st century skills they will need to succeed in higher education and the global marketplace -- skills that increasingly demand creativity, perseverance, and problem solving combined with performing well as part of a team. The results also remind us that learning in the arts can and should be rigorous and based on high standards, and that it can be evaluated objectively, using well-designed measures. This Arts Report Card should challenge all of us to make K-12 arts programs more available to America's children and youth. Such programs not only engage students' creativity and academic commitment today, but they uniquely equip them for future success and fulfillment. We can and should do better for America's students."

.....U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

Download the complete report: Arts 2008, Music and Visual Arts: National assessment of progress at grade 8