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Arts Education Network

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Principal's Tool Kit

• Overview
• Definitions
  • What is arts education?
  • What is meant by the arts?
  • Why have arts in your school?
• Benefits and Beneficiaries
  • What are the benefits of, and who benefits from, an arts education
• Principal Testimonies
  • What's in it for me as a principal
• Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons from School Districts that Value Arts Education
  
• "Principals are 'head learners' at successful schools"

• Funding, Finance and Planning
  • Resources
  • Planning
    • Three Year Arts Plan - A Guide
    • Elements of a Comprehensive Arts Plan
  • Financial Support & Funding Options
    • State Funding
      • Arts in Education Program
      • Principal's Fellowship in Arts Education
    • School Funding - under construction
    • Community Funding & Partnerships - under construction
    • Business Funding & Partnerships - under construction
  • Funding Strategies
    • Grants & Proposals
      • Basic Grant Proposal Writing
    • Fund Raisers/Fund Raising
      • Examples
        • Concord Four Arts "Four Arts for Concord Schools"
        • Gilford Middle High School Superfund Program
          
        • Dover Middle School: Looking Beyond the Classroom: Fund Raising for a Seventh Grade Classroom
        • Rye Elementary School Arts Committee
        • Temple Elementary School
        • Spaulding Youth Center, Tilton, Annual Arts Festival

• Arts in the Curriculum
  • Submissions by New Hampshire Artists and Educators (models/projects/narratives/lessons/best practices/resources/contacts)
    • New Hampshire Music Festival, Gilford
    • Arts Based on Prevocational Training, Spaulding Youth Center, Tilton
    • Dance Program, Conant Elementary School, Concord
    • The Computer as "Just Another" Teaching Tool for the Arts, Timberlane Regional High School, Plaistow
    • Audience Education, Merrimack High School
  • Arts Integration
    
    • New Boston Central School
    • University of NH Lab for Interactive Thinking
      
    • Dance Program, Conant Elementary School
    • Arts Integration, Bow High School
      
  • Professional Development in Arts Education
    • New Hampshire Allstate Art Festival at the Currier Gallery of Art
      
    • Professional Development in Arts Education Resource List
      
  • Champions of the Arts
    
  • Working with Existing Curriculum
    • New Hampshire Music Festival, Gilford, Mostly Music Series
      
  • Quick Reference List

• Justification & Assessment
  • Arts Education Justification Resources
    • Making the Case to School Boards
      
    • Evidence of the Value of an Arts Education
      
  • National Arts Education Standards
  • New Hampshire Curriculum Framework
    • The New Hampshire Frameworks for the Arts and New Hampshire Teachers
      
  • Assessment and Evaluation of Arts Education
    • assessment and evaluation resources

• Principal's Tool Kit Resources
  • Resources and Links
  • Project Archive and Index
  • Project Submission Form
  • Acknowledgements
  • Project Assessment Form
  • An excerpt from: "How Leaders Influence the Culture of Schools"