INFORMATION & ORGANIZATIONS

Americans for the Arts

http://www.artsusa.org/  

American Alliance for Theatre Education

http://www.aate.com/

Arts Education Partnership

http://www.aep-arts.org/  

Ask the Secretary:  Teachers, do you have a question that you'd like to ask Secretary of Education Arne Duncan? The U.S. Department of Education has established "Teachers Ask the Secretary," a new feature of the Department's Web site. It's available at http://www.ed.gov (select "Teachers") or you may go directly to http://www.ed.gov/teachersask.  

Best of the Web - Education

http://botw.org/top/Arts/Education/

Federal Resources for Education Excellence (Arts Resources)

http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html

Keep Art in Schools

http://www.keepartsinschools.org/

Local Learning Network (For Folk Arts)

http://www.locallearningnetwork.org/

National Art Education Association

http://www.naea-reston.org/

National Dance Association

http://www.aahperd.org/nda/

National Dance Education Organization

http://www.ndeo.org/

National Association for Music Education

http://www.menc.org/

Southeastern Theatre Conference

http://www.setc.org/

Theatre Communications Group – Education

http://www.tcg.org/frames/education/fs_education.htm  

VSA Arts

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Association of Teaching Artists

http://www.teachingartists.com/

FUNDING

Grants from the National Education Foundation

http://www.neafoundation.org/grants.htm

Funding for field trips (available to museums, zoos and aquariums)

http://www.patronfoundation.org/  

Classics for Kids Foundation

http://www.classicsforkids.org

AWARDS

Nominate a teacher by April 15^th, 2006

https://www.t2tweb.us/AmStar/About.asp

Presidential Scholars in the Arts

http://www.artsawards.org/

CURRICULUM

Curriculum Design

Lesson Plans in Integrated Arts from the Kennedy Center

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/

Arts for Learning

http://www.artsforlearning.org/default.aspx

Artsplash

http://www.artsplash.pdx.edu/

Learning with the Brain in Mind

http://www.jensenlearning.com/

Poetry Out Loud

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/

The U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the newly remodeled and updated Federal Resources for Education Excellence (FREE) website. It now provides richer, more expansive resources to teachers and students alike. There are over 1500 resources to take advantage of at FREE, ranging from primary historical documents, lesson plans, science visualizations, math simulations and online challenges, paintings, photos, mapping tools, and more. This easily accessible information is provided by federal organizations and agencies such as the Library of Congress, National Archives, NEH, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian, NSF, and NASA.

Check it out today at http://www.free.ed.gov  

FIELD TRIPS

Birmingham Children's Theatre (Birmingham, Alabama):

http://www.bct123.org/

Playhouse in the Park (Mobile, Alabama):

http://www.playhouseinthepark.org/school-performance.html

Princess Theatre (Decautur, Alabama):

http://www.bct123.org/

OPPORTUNITIES

World Children’s Festival on the Mall in Washington D.C.

www.icaf.org  

Montalvo Arts Center invites teaching artists to apply for Fellowships at: www.montalvoarts.org/taf.html

Musical Theatre Camp at Auburn University. For more information, click here

Grand Canyon artist-in-residence opportunities. For more information, click here

RESEARCH

Critical Links

http://www.aep-arts.org/clhome.html

Champions of Change

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/champions/pdfs/ChampsReport.pdf

Third Space

http://www.aep-arts.org/ThirdSpacehome.htm