Teaching Artist Project
The goal of the Teaching Artist Project is twofold: 1) to provide children with high quality arts instruction; 2) to provide hands-on professional development opportunities for teachers who have limited experience with visual and performing arts instruction.
San Diego Improving Teacher Quality Project
Dana Project
Mapping the Beat
CLtA has received funding from the National Geographic Education Foundation to conduct a three-year project that incorporates music and geography instruction into fifth grade classrooms in collaboration with five ArtsBridge America universities. The project will be carried out in three U.S. geographic regions: Midwest, High Plains, and West Coast.
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Mapping the Beat Website
ArtsBridge America
ArtsBridge America is a 10-state network of 19 public universities and their surrounding schools that confronts the problem of the elimination of the arts from K-12 schools. ArtsBridge works to create partnerships between universities and public school, using college students in the arts to keep arts education in K-12 education.
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ArtsBridge America Website
UCI Poetry Academy
University students carry out school-day fieldwork in UCI-instructed poetry workshops in bi-lingual 3rd and 4th grade classrooms. On campus lectures are designed to support weekly fieldwork instruction. The fieldwork takes place during the school day in 3rd and 4th grade classrooms at El Sol Academy of Arts and Sciences in Santa Ana. During fieldwork instruction, undergraduates receive instruction and modeling from the course instructor and assist the instructor by leading small groups in writing, discussion, revision, and keyboarding during Writing Lab sessions.
ArtsCore
ArtsCore is a professional development program with the overall goal of developing new knowledge and strategies that, when employed in the visual and performing arts, will lead to improvements in student academic achievement.