Arts in Education Resources

Arts-in-Education Resources

Connect to a database of over 100+ sites that link to resources on the local, state and national levels. Sites include those for curricula integration, funding opportunities, complete NYS Learning Standards, evaluation and assessment.

Resources for Artists

Resources for Teachers

Abbreviated NYS Learning Standards

Foundation Grants for Education, Arts and Technology

On-Line Grant Tutorials

Project Arts

New York Public Library Teachers' Collection

Materials for the Arts

Teaching Artists Journal

UMass Learning Partnerships Planning and Evaluation Workbooks www.umass.edu/aes/learningpartners

SOURCES FOR MATCHING FUNDS

ARTISTS
RESOURCES FOR GRANTS, FUNDING, CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND RECYCLING GRANTS

ORGANIZATIONS FOR ALL DISCIPLINES
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA): NYFA has grant and fellowship programs FOR New York State artists and art organizations of all disciplines. Get yourself on their mailing list. Phone: 212.366.6900 or www.nyfa.org.

VISUAL ARTISTS
NYFA sponsors a Visual Artist's Hotline: 800.232.2789. This Hotline is a referral service for individual artists (not groups) for programs and services that are offered by numerous organizations at the national, state and local levels. Call for information about grants, fellowships, emergency funds, insurance, artist communities, public art programs, international opportunities, studio space, legal information, etc.

MUSICIANS
American Music Center. Funding opportunities for musicians. 212.366.5260. www.amc.net

PERFORMING ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS
The Field, 212.691.6969; www.thefield.org. The Field helps performing artists create, perform and produce their work, and manage and support their careers through various programs and workshops. They also publish a list of funding sources, performance and rehearsal spaces, self production resources, etc.

LITERARY ARTS
Poets & Writers, Inc. provides a wide range of services. 212.226.3586; www.pw.org

OTHER ON-LINE RESOURCES
www.artswire.org; www.artheals.org; www.nyfa.org; www.fdncenter.org; www.arts.endow.gov

EXCELLENT BOOK SOURCES
Available to order from the American Council for the Arts at 800.321.4510 or www.artsusa.org.

Money for Visual Artists, 2nd ed. Researched by Douglas Oxenhorn, ACA Books! Allworth Press, ISBN # 1-879903-05-9; 1993
Money for Film and Video Artists, 2nd ed. Researched by Douglas Oxenhorn, ACA Books/Allworth Press, ISBN #1-879903-09-1; 1993
Money for Performing Artists, edited by Suzanne Niemeyer, ACA Books! Allworth Press, ISBN # 0-915400-96-0, 1991
Money for International Exchange in the Arts, by Jane Gullog, ACA Books! Allworth Press, ISBN # 1-879903-01-6; 1992
The Writer's Resource Handbook, by Daniel Grant. Extensive listings. Allworth Press

EDUCATORS
TEACHER MAGAZINE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, FOUNDATION RESOURCES AND PROJECT ARTS MONEY

Teacher Magazine - includes a monthly list of grant opportunities.	www.edweek.org/tm
Project Arts Money
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION	www.ed.gov/funding.html
Grants and Contracts Information	www.ocfo.ed.gov/
Federal Register Documents	www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence	www.ed.gov/free

WHAT SHOULD I KNOW ABOUT ED GRANTS? September 1998

LETTER TO THE READER

The US Department of Education (ED) issued What Should I Know About ED Grants? for the first time in 1995 to inform its customers about the ED discretionary grants process. Since then, thousands of our customers have requested copies and advised us of the usefulness of the guide in their understanding of the process.

This second edition incorporates the changes the Department has made in the way it conducts business with its grantees. The most significant are the changes to grantees' authority in the administration of their discretionary grant projects. These changes are the result of recent regulatory amendments known as the Expanded Authorities.

Information about all ED grant programs is located under the "Funding Opportunities" section on the Department's Web site at www.ed.gov. You are invited to consult Guide to ED Programs on the Department's Web site or call 1-800-USA-LEARN (1-800-872-5327) for information about current ED discretionary grant programs.

In closing, I want to thank the members of the Grants Policy and Oversight Staff for their work in producing this updated version of the booklet. I trust their efforts will be of great assistance to anyone who is thinking about applying for a grant or who has just received one from the Department for the first time.

I welcome any suggestion you may have for improving this booklet in order to help us serve you better. Your response can be sent to the address listed on the last page.

Donald Rappaport - Chief Financial Officer
www.ed.gov/pubs/KnowAbtGrants/ltr.html

NEW YORK STATE ABBREVIATED LEARNING STANDARDS

THE ARTS

Standard I: Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts
Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the arts (dance, music, theater, and visual arts) and participate in various roles in the arts.

Standard II: Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources
Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.

Standard III: Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art
Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.

Standard IV: Understanding the Cultural Contributions of the Arts
Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Standard I: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts and ideas; discover relationships, concepts and generalizations; and use language generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply and transmit information.

Standard II: Language for Literary Use and Expression
Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances from American and world literature; relate texts and performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding of the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for self-expression and artistic creation.

Standard III: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Students will listen, speak, read and write for critical analysis and evaluation. As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to present, from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.

Standard IV: Language for Social Interaction
Students will listen, speak, read and write for social interaction. Students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views.

LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH

Standard I: Communication Skills
Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication.

Standard II: Cultural Understanding
Students will develop cross-cultural skills and understanding.

MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Standard I: Analysis, Inquiry and Design
Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

Standard II: Information Systems
Students will access, generate, process and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Standard III: Mathematics
Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.

Standard IV: Science
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environments and recognize the historical development of ideas and science.

Standard V: Technology
Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, AND FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES

Standard I: Personal Health and Fitness
Students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity, and maintain personal health.

Standard II: A Safe and Healthy Environment
Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.

Standard III: Resource Management
Students will understand and be able to manage their personal and community resources.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Standard I: History of the United States and New York
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

Standard II: World History
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Standard III: Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live- local, national, and global- including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth's surface.

Standard IV: Economics
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.

Standard V: Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATIONAL STUDIES

Standard I: Career Development
Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions.

Standard II: Integrated Learning
Students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings.

Standard IIIa: Universal Foundation Skills
Students will demonstrate mastery of the foundation skills and competencies essential for success in the workplace.

Standard IIIb: Career Majors
Students who choose a career major will acquire the career-specific technical knowledge/skills necessary to progress toward gainful employment, career advancement, and success in post-secondary programs.

FOUNDATION RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION, ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY GRANTS

Foundation Center - the source	www.fdncenter.org
National Science Foundation - science and technology	www.nsf.gov/home/grants.htm
Education World - educational grants	www.education-world.com/grants
Harmony Foundation - arts and education	www.harmonyfoundation.org
Annie E. Casey Foundation - children and families	www.aecf.org
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - multiple grant programs	www.sloan.org
Ford Foundation - multiple grant programs	www.fordfound.org
Heinz Endowments - multiple grant programs	www.heinz.org
Nobel Foundation - multiple grant programs	www.nobel.se/
State/Fed Programs for NYS Local Government Grants Action Newsletter	www.assembly.state.ny.us
Coleman Foundation - multiple grant programs	www.colemanfoundation.org/indexl.html
Carnegie Corporation of New York - multiple grant programs	www.carnegie.org
David and Lucille Packard Foundation - multiple grant programs	www.packard.org
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation - multiple grant programs	www.grdodge.org/main.htm
Charles A. Dana Foundation - school reform by means of grants and public education initiatives	www.dana.org
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - supports innovations in education, technology, world health	www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm
Broad Foundation - grants for urban school district leadership	www.broadfoundation.org/flash-int.html
Edward E. Ford Foundation - grants for independent secondary schools and associations	www.eeford.org
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation - promotes advancement and perpetuation of humanistic inquiry and artistic creativity, especially in the performing arts	www.delmas.org
Laura Jane Musser Fund - foundation's interest is children, music, fine arts, intercultural harmony	www.musserfund.org
Lawrence Foundation - supports educational, environmental and health causes	www.thelawrencefoundation.org
RGK Foundation - supports medical, community and educational programs and research	www.rgkfoundation.org
Schott Foundation - dedicated to promoting equity in education and child care	www.schottfoundation.org
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - supports, among other programs, those in education and the performing arts	www.hewlett.org

ON-LINE SITES FOR GRANT WRITING

Useful Links for Grants	www.nebo.edu/do/grants/useful_links.htm
e-Grants	www.unl.edu/nepscor/writing.html
A Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing	www.uvm.edu/~reshmpg/miners~1.htm
A Practical Guide to Writing Proposals	members/dca.net/areid/proposal.htm
Grant Glossary	www.ed.gov/pubs/KnowAbtGrants/glossary.html
Writing From the Winner's Circle	www.unl.edu/nepscor/writing.html

PROJECT ARTS
Arts Restoration Throughout the Schools

Project ARTS is a Chancellor's initiative designed to support and enhance instructional programs in art, music, dance and theatre, K -12. Each school receives a distinct Project ARTS allocation based on pupil enrollment. These funds are provided to supplement arts education.

As a unique allocation category, funds may only be used as indicated below:

Funds may be spent on direct services to students
Planning and/or professional development for school staff
Materials and supplies, curriculum resources and/or arts-related equipment
Arts and cultural services
Funds may not be used for cluster positions
Certified arts specialists are eligible to receive special training and equipment

For more information about Project ARTS, visit www.nycenet.edu/projectarts/

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY www.nypl.org

Access local branches of the NY Public Library at http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/index.cfm
Also of interest:
The TODT HILL BRANCH of the New York Public Library maintains a Teachers' Collection devoted to improving teachers' skills.

Includes hundreds of circulating books and professional journals with creative ideas for the classroom including: integrating literature across the curriculum, author study materials, school library activities, special education, Internet activities and more.
Also home to Field Trip and Program File, a collection of information about local field trip destinations, cultural organizations and performers who work with schools in the classroom.
Lesson plans are also part of these reference files.
Teachers are also invited to utilize the library's on-line catalog service that will allow you to search files and have books or publications you are interested in delivered to a more convenient branch for pick-up.
Staten Island on the Web includes local sources, books, cultural and educational information.
Has a picture collection of over 600,000 digital images at www.digital.nypl.org/mmpco

MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS
33-00 Northern Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Long Island City, NY 11101 Telephone: 718.729.3001 www.mfta.org

Operated by the City of New York, through the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Sanitation, Materials for the Arts provides public schools with FREE MATERIALS in their 21,000 sq. ft. warehouse. Here's how you can participate:

Your school must be registered with MFT A. Call us to check the status of your school. If you are not registered we will send your school a contract.
Shopping days are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 pm - 2:00 pm (year round). Shopping is by appointment only. You can have up to three representatives from your school to come to shop.
MFTA collects materials that would otherwise have gone to the landfill, as well as discards businesses and manufacturers throwaway. Your participation in our program furthers the process of reuse education.
Some of the items you will normally find in our warehouse include: latex paint, plastic sheets, fabric, matte board, beads, frames, buttons, cardboard, mailing tubes, yarn.

TEACHING ARTIST JOURNAL
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Order Department, 10 Industrial Avenue
Mahwah, NJ 07430-2262 www.erlbaum.com

The mission of the Teaching Artist Journal is to support and intensify the professional development of Teaching Artistry by advancing the practice of Teaching Artists; by increasing Teaching Artists' understanding of the background, contexts, and potentials of their work; and by expanding the recognition, appreciation and support of their contributions. TAJ also seeks to enhance collaboration between Teaching Artists and classroom teachers, school arts specialists and other arts providers; to develop a sense of identity and purpose, to foster common language; and to foster illuminating research in the field.

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