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=Welcome to the Art in Action Wiki, an Art in Education Project of ArtsErie=

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Background
Art in Action proposes to engage 900 students annually in arts-infused classroom-based learning through the implementation of an Artist in Residence program in each of the partnering schools. Pennsylvania Council on the Arts-approved residency artists will be randomly-assigned to up to thirty-six classrooms of students in grades PK-6 each project year. Residencies will be nine weeks in duration, and designed to infuse arts-based instruction into the broad curriculum in ways that boost student achievement and student engagement in the learning process.

Art in Action proposes to improve lesson planning and develop a more active, engaging style of teaching by using professional development and ongoing art lessons to improve the quality of the relationship between the classroom teacher and the teaching artist.

More than 60 elementary education professionals will participate in the following training programs:
 * Language, Movement and Music in the Elementary Classroom, a 3-credit graduate course offered through Edinboro University of Pennsylvania;
 * Two artist/teacher retreats per project year; and
 * Two “In-Art” trainings per project year, which are 3-hour sessions instructed by art specialists representing each of the four major art disciplines, music, dance, drama and visual arts.

The Art in Action project of ArtsErie was one of two projects funded in 2010 in Pennsylvania through the Department of Education Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant (AEMDD).

The second project awarded in Pennsylvania went to the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP). The PAEP project, "Arts Link: Building Mathematics and Science Competencies Through an Arts Integration Model," works with the School District of Philadelphia to implement a model for skills alignment and arts integration in mathematics and science across grades 2 through 5.

The US Department of Education AEMDD grant program funds innovative models that:
 * Integrate the arts into the core elementary and middle school curricula by strengthening the use of high-quality arts in academic instruction and strengthening the place of arts as a core academic subject in the school curricula;
 * Strengthen arts instruction ; and
 * Improve students' academic performance, including their skills in creating, performing and responding to the arts.

Wiki Overview
This wiki houses resources and information in 7 broad categories: Partners, Arts Residencies, Arts Resources, Documentation, Professional Development, Technology, and 21st Century Teaching and Learning.

Contact Us
Art in Action can be reached in the following ways:

c/o ArtsErie 3 East 4th Street, Suite 10 Erie, PA 16507 T: 814-452-3427 E: info@artserie.org
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