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The Alameda County Office of Education's Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership is a broad-based community network of classroom teachers, school administrators, parents, artists, arts organizations, higher education and community members working together to ensure a high quality education through arts learning for every child, in every school, every day. To reach this goal for the more than 200,000 students in Alameda County, the Alliance focuses its work simultaneously on three areas:
Teaching and Learning: The Alliance supports systemic professional development that honors teachers and addresses their arts learning needs, so they can teach and integrate the arts to improve student success. To create a common language across 18 school districts for the multi-layered learning that happens in the arts, the Alliance uses three research-based frameworks developed by Project Zero and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Community: The Alliance invites the entire community – including parents, policymakers, and business leaders – to learn about, share and advocate for the powerful learning that happens through the arts. An online calendar of student arts events and professional development events provides a way for everyone to post their events and find out about new opportunities to participate.
Action: While actively working to affect educational policy on a local, state and national level, the Alliance creates opportunities for everyone to become involved and make their voice heard in the policymaking process. The Alliance recently launched a letter writing campaign to maintain on-going funding for arts learning in the state budget during California's 18 billion dollar deficit crisis.
The Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership
At-A-Glance
Population Served:
Public school students in Alameda County, California.
Main Projects:
- District Arts Network provides districts with mentoring, facilitation and technical assistance in the areas of planning, professional development, advocacy, policy and resource development as they move towards sustainable high quality arts learning for every child.
- Arts Learning Anchor School Initiative creates arts integrative professional development networks and school-based arts integrative collaborations focused on bringing arts learning to every child, in every school, every day.
- Art IS Education presents a showcase of exhibitions and performances of student learning through the arts that begins annually in March during national arts education month and continues year-round.
- The Arts Active Parent Project unites Arts Active Parents across school and district lines to create a regional voice that can help change all schools for the better.
Funding Partners:
Regional and National Arts Education Partners
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