The following are suggestions for engaging community partners in Visual and/or
Performing Arts enrichment activities.
Although the research to support method/approach may be targeted at one or more grade levels/spans, please consider enacting any/all of these approaches in your school and/or community, as appropriate.
| CONCEPT/IDEA | ACTIVITY/RATIONALE | RESEARCH TO SUPPORT METHOD/APPROACH |
FREE WEB-BASED RELATED RESOURCES |
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| Contact your local art museum/performing arts venue | Many community art museums/performing arts venues have infrastructure to support Summer learning/enrichment. | ||
| Contact your local Community Center/Library | Explore their capacity to offer programming that could explore arts integration into other areas (science, technology, mathematics, engineering, ELA, Social Studies, Languages, etc.) | ||
| Contact your local park/ecology partner | There are many positive links to arts education/development of empathy with connections to nature as inspiration. | ||
| Contact The Maine Arts Commission for assistance in finding teaching artists in your region | The Maine Arts Commission has a robust directory of vetted teaching artists who could potentially provide Summer programming to student groups. | ||
| Ask your staff to provide cross-content/interdisciplinary learning experiences for your students | There is a great deal of research to suggest that integrating opportunities for arts exploration into learning experiences of other content areas benefit students in a holistic way. |
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| Consider incorporating arts educator-led arts activities coupled with other content areas to increase student engagement | Research suggests that incorporating routine arts activities into a variety of learning environments with all varieties of population (traditional, special services, ELL, etc.) can greatly increase student engagement. | ||
| Explore offering concentrated arts enrichment opportunities to students of special populations (special services, ELL, lower socio-economic status, etc.) | Improvements in speech processing, vocabulary building, etc. can be enhanced through arts-specific and arts-related opportunities. |
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Schools are also encouraged to direct students to the asynchronous learning modules found on the MOOSE platform. There are many arts-integrated learning pathways to be explored at all grade spans.