Resources

Fuel for the movement through research and advocacy.

The Seattle Arts Education Consortium

The Seattle Arts Education Consortium is a learning network and advocacy group of seven youth arts education organizations in King County:

Arts Corps (www.artscorps.org)
Coyote Central (www.coyotecentral.org)
Hugo House (www.hugohouse.org)
Powerful Schools (www.powerfulschools.org)
Seattle Center Academy (www.seattlecenter.com/academy)
The Nature Consortium (www.naturec.org)
Youth in Focus (www.youthinfocus.org)

Spearheaded by Arts Corps in September 2005, the group spent two years improving the quality and rigor of each member's evaluations, sharing best practices in arts education and piloting a successful, yearlong professional development and networking program for the region's growing pool of teaching artists.

In 2007, the Consortium released the film, "Powerful Learning through the Arts," the region's most potent communications tool to date about arts learning. The written counterpart, "Assessing Learning through the Arts," contains the Consortium's findings from its two-year project, contributing to the field of arts education overall, and also offering valuable knowledge to those curious or interested in arts assessment, practices and convening an advocacy group in their neighborhood.

The two-year Consortium project was made possible by generous grants from The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

Research Bibliography on Arts Education and Creative Habits of Mind

Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning. Edward B. Fiske, Ed. Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999.

Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development. Richard J. Deasy, Ed. Arts Education Partnership, 2002.

Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind. Costa, Arthur L. and Bena Kallick, Eds. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2000.

Florida, R. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. Perseus, 2002.

Handbook of Creativity. Robert J. Sternberg, Ed. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

MacKinnon, Donald W. In Search of Human Effectiveness: Identifying and Developing Creativity. The Creative Education Foundation, Inc., 1978.

Making the Case for the Arts: How and Why the Arts are Critical to Student Achievement and Better Schools. Arts Education Partnership, 2006.

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. J.D. Bransford and A.L. & R.R. Cocking. National Academy Press, 2000.

Pink, D. A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future. Penguin Books, 2005.

Robinson, K. Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative. Capstone, 2001.

Research and Advocacy Organizations

Americans for the Arts
www.americansforthearts.org

Arts Ed Washington
www.artsedwashington.org

Arts Education Partnership
www.aep-arts.org

California Alliance for Arts Education
www.artsed411.org/resources/index.stm

Center for Arts Education
www.cae-nyc.org

Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago
www2.colum.edu/center_for_arts_policy/

Harvard University's Project Zero
www.pz.harvard.edu

Keep Arts In Schools
www.keepartsinschools.org

National Art Education Association
www.naea-reston.org/research_advocacy.html

National Endowment for the Arts
www.nea.gov

New Horizons for Learning
www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/front_arts.htm