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If you aren't sure what professional learning event to attend this fall consider this your official sign to register for the 2024 Bright Starts International Conference in UCL East in Stratford, London (or online)! This event includes speakers from around the world on a wide range of topics in early learning. This years conference is organized into the following streams for participants. The New Voices of Children Pedagogy Authentic Assessment in ECE & Autism & Children 0 - 8 years You can count on seeing my familiar face in The New Voices of Children's Pedagogy stream if exploring the relationship between creative expression, emotional regulation, routines and learning portfolios is your thing! It is going to be an inspiring event with a little something for early learning professional - you can count on that! & if the event doesn't suit you this fall, I encourage you to explore the incredible online virtual exhibit "2024 Voices of Children Gallery" offered on the conference website where children's creative art and notes have been gathered from around the world. The online gallery offers valuable insight into global perspectives of children, what their wonderings are, what is important to them, what exists in their world and so much more. Over 1000 children contributed from 7 countries - it is well worth the time to look at! 👆 This would also be a great teaching tool for looking at pedagogical documentation & creative arts through the voice of the child as well as nurturing intercultural development & belonging among adult learners for my fellow ECE Faculty folks! 👀 Virtual field trip or search & find activity - I think so! Check it out for yourself here! - https://lnkd.in/e8M9U_J5 -- Is there an art piece that stood out to you in a particular way? 💬 For me, it's the picture featured from Japan that illustrates a child's experience creating a banner with their family to put up in their community on a national holiday set to celebrate children's healthy development. I wonder how a national holiday to celebrate children in Canada would influence the early learning landscape here? Let me know your favourite art piece in the comments! 💫 Link to conference - https://lnkd.in/eBnpMTmz Link to my session - https://lnkd.in/efGX2Hhh Link to virtual art exhibit - https://lnkd.in/e8M9U_J5

How can we make youth arts programs both engaging and educational, especially for young people from marginalized communities? UW Madison professor Erica Halverson has spent considerable time exploring this question. In a Q&A with The Wallace Foundation’s VP of Research, Bronwyn Bevan, Halverson highlights four key practices to boost engagement in youth arts programs. 📝 Dive into the full article to learn more about these insights and how they can shape more inclusive and impactful arts programs. https://lnkd.in/grpY8bkv

For the first time since the 2019-20 school year, school-level data from the Creative Schools Certification is now available on Ingenuity’s arts education data platform, artlook®. artlook® tracks school-level and arts partner data to help Chicago arts education stakeholders expand arts education access, quality, and equity in every CPS school. The data from the Creative Schools Certification, or CSC, identifies the level of arts access and quality in every CPS school using a five-point scoring rubric. This rating appears on each school’s artlook® profile, along with other arts education data. The Creative Schools Certification is designed to help school personnel develop plans and partnerships to address gaps in arts equity, sustain the arts in their school, and develop innovative arts education models that can be replicated across the District. Over 600, or 94% of Chicago Public Schools have provided in-depth data about their arts programming for the 2022-23 school year. Ratings from the Creative Schools Certification are also displayed on CPS school profiles. Chicago Public Schools and Ingenuity - Chicago updated its arts scoring rubric in 2019-20. Along with the updated Creative Schools Certification rubric, there are four new elements shared for the first time: school-level data on arts learning standards, arts inclusion in school governance, per-student arts expenditures, and arts instructional approaches. The following information will also be listed on school profiles: 🔹Overall rating on the Creative Schools Certification 🔹Creative Schools Roadmap 🔹Arts staffing ratio 🔹Average weekly minutes of arts instruction (elementary schools only) 🔹Percent of students enrolled in art least one arts course (elementary schools only) 🔹Arts disciplines offered 🔹Arts partnerships 🔹Staff participation in arts-specific professional development 🔹Family/community engagement All this information provided on artlook® aims to encourage school leaders to both showcase their school’s strengths and explore other schools’ arts offerings across the District, better support families and students making decisions based on CPS arts programming, and help arts organizations improve existing school partnerships and identify new partnership opportunities. Ingenuity is slated to publish the eleventh edition of the State of the Arts Report this April. The report will provide sector-wide analyses of 2022-23 data from the Creative Schools Certification across CPS schools. The data published on artlook® is publicly available and is the basis of the annual State of the Arts report for Chicago Public Schools. Access pur most current #artseducation #data here: https://lnkd.in/d9UV5GCv

The transformative impact of arts education on youth development takes center stage in our latest blog. Exploring insights presented during our webinar with the Afterschool Alliance in November 2023, Tiffany M. Walker highlights the key takeaways shared by researchers and panelists who discussed findings from their report commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, "Setting the Stage: Practical Ideas for Implementing High-Quality Afterschool Arts Programs." Discover Three Fundamental Elements of High-Quality Out-of-School Time Arts Programs: https://lnkd.in/eBUYUG6d

Reflecting on a year of insights and inspiration! 📚🎨 Wallace's top stories brought experts' perspectives to the forefront. From DEAI in museums to the power of arts in education, we've delved into the heart of meaningful conversations. Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/eNaNrZhk #YearInReview #ExpertPerspectives #WallaceStories

I think this article is interesting. it focuses on the benefits of art. Let's discuss it's pieces in more depth. https://lnkd.in/gYSt5FW7.

This article is on point to what is happening in my area and around the country. Admins need to note the data and the ESSA law. The arts are more important now then ever! Cutting the arts will not raise the test scores, but could result in lower attendance and lack of SEL support. In my opinion, art develops and reinforces concepts in both language and math, but how important is art for arts sake?

Art saved my life. I don't care if that sounds a bit woo-woo, it's true. I managed to survive what I survived by having access to creative arts. So I want other young people, all of them, to have the same opportunities. Lets get behind this: its Time for a National Youth Arts Trust says Joe Hallgarten. "declines of nearly 50% in GCSE arts entries, and nearly 30% at A level; fewer children and young people participating in cultural activities out of school, both before and since the pandemic; a 23% drop in arts teachers; and fewer hours of arts taught in primary schools. Social class and geographical inequalities have widened across all this data, including in the rising number of schools that have stopped offering certain arts GCSEs altogether. " How about you? What did art and creativity do for you? Even if you didn't end up in a traditionally creative role? We need to tell the stories of how art matters #artmatters https://lnkd.in/ehBVPN-B

Art finds you, which is why I still hold out hope that my boys will take an art course or two in college and continue to flex their creative muscle, even if they only ever consider it a hobby. Thinking globally, though, if creativity in kids is, as the 1958 National Child Development Study suggests, an important factor for success later in life, shouldn’t we all be doing more to support access to the arts for kids? In her April 2020 TEDx talk (https://lnkd.in/gYWwEKWS), Jane Werner, the director of the Pittsburg Children’s Museum, explained that children are constantly questioning their model of the world. Encouraging experimentation in kids is paramount and includes developing spaces with great design. Kids innately love design, she said, which is why they often enjoy the box their toy came in more than the toy. Joy, she added, also needs to be woven throughout kids’ experiences. Practical ways to Inspire Creativity Victoria Prowse, PhD. who wrote on this topic for Psychology Today, suggests adults can inspire creativity by encouraging independent thinking by asking questions with no right or wrong answer; giving kids challenges that can not be easily solved using the logical steps they’ve already mastered; and by supporting children when they are faced with resistance to their creative ideas. Not everything will be great, but recognizing originality should be encourage. The goal is to support the never ending flow of creativity. Here are some more easy ways to inspire. 🖍 Keep acrylic paint, crayons, brushes, paper, canvas, clay–anything tactile–on hand and available for kids to get into. 🤫 Less talk, more action. Skip the excessive instruction and, instead, let kids dive in and get dirty. 🖌 Jump in and demonstrate the pleasure in play and experimentation through the act of creating.  🤐 Don’t be critical of kids OR of your own attempts; there doesn’t have to be a right or wrong way.  🌟 Recognize and praise individuality.  😏 Before you offer help, encourage kids to experiment and discover on their own. The lego car or painting of a dog may not turn out anything like the diagram or photo–who cares? Art isn’t necessarily the end result; it’s the journey. 🎨 Let kids have messy spaces. This can be tough for folks who hate clutter, but for kids, it’s their sanctuary, a place where their imagination blossoms. BONUS POINTS for adults who let kids dress themselves; this is one way we can foster self-expression and confidence from an early age. Remember, kids are always watching grown ups; your actions and words communicate more than you know, so channel your inner Incurable Optimist, roll up your sleeves and get to play. For more articles on art and creativity, check out my blog on rosefredrick.com. Have a fabulously creative Friday!! #creativekids #fostercreativity #theincurableoptimist

I've been saying this for 27 years--Vindicator Editorial August 7, 2024--"Far too often, the arts have resembled the bastard stepchildren of academic disciplines in public schools in our Valley, state and nation. Many times over, they have been convenient targets for neglect and underfunding. Indeed, school districts throughout the state and nation have been forced to cut staff and financial support in recent years for programs in the visual arts, marching band, concert band, vocal music, drama and dance because of tight budgets, inflationary pressures and a greater state and national focus on other disciplines, particularly on the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Those trends are unfortunate as research has shown that education in the arts improves student social-emotional well-being, keeps students in school, increases the graduation rate, boosts academic performance, and adds to students’ ability to create, collaborate, think critically and communicate. In short, arts education in schools and community institutions enhances individual creativity and achievement in other more traditional school disciplines as well." See the entire article here.