- More than 130 arts administrators, educators, practitioners, and associations leaders have joined together to develop the strategies, plans, and solutions needed for arts instruction to be delivered to students in a way that addresses, first and foremost, the necessary health, safety, and well-being considerations for students, faculty and staff: September Ready: Fall 2020 Guidance for Arts Education
- 2020 New Jersey Student Learning Standard for Visual and Performing Arts (NJSLS-VPA) by the New Jersey State Board of Education, heightened attention is now being given by key stakeholders to the positive impact arts education has on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) among public-school students: New Jersey First in Nation to Provide Educators with Social and Emotional Framework tied to Arts Education
- The 2020 New Jersey Student Learning Standard for Visual and Performing Arts (NJSLS-VPA), adopted by The New Jersey State Board of Education on June 3, outlines what students must be taught in the arts and sets the foundation upon which school districts craft instruction: NJ Student Learning Standards for Visual and Performing Arts Overhauled to Refine How Arts are Taught in Schools
- The New Jersey Arts Integration Think and Do Workbook was created by New Jersey arts integration practitioners to guide teacher practitioners and teaching artists with tools and strategies to support the development of a robust arts integration practice. We harvested best practices from thought-leaders championing the arts integration movement across the state and nationally. The Workbook is a user- friendly companion piece to the New Jersey Arts Integration User Guide, a checklist that you may also want to use to advance your arts integration work: Newly Revised Arts Integration Think and Do Workbook Released!
- This document shares wellness and healing-centered school reopening recommendations. We share guidance for the first month of reopening and approaches and practices for the entire school year to center wellness and healing through a culturally responsive-sustaining lens. We encourage this new normal for all schools moving forward. Humanizing the School Reopening Process & Wellness & Healing-Centered Reopening recommendation
- The pages include resources that are applicable to everyone (technology platforms and services) as well as individual pages for each discipline: Arts Education & Covid19
- Live Virtual Program Inquiry – Whether students are learning at school or at home, Young Audiences is here to help! This site includes schedule, planning, and technical support: New Live Virtual Program Offerings and Discount from Young Audiences Arts for Learning: New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania
- Take an online tour of New Jersey’s art museums: New Jersey Monthly Magazine: Seven New Jersey museums you can visit virtually.
- NPR Music is compiling a list of live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: NPR: A full list of live virtual concerts by day.
- Website & App. Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more: Google Arts & Culture: Offers virtual tours of museum collections, heritage sites, and more.
- The marketplace of live online classes for K-12 learners. Outschool connects motivated learners, parents, and teachers together to create great learning experiences: OutSchool
- Bring dance, music, theater, and visual art into your classroom with these standards-aligned resources: PBS LearningMedia: The Arts
- Representatives from every NAEA division and our membership at large have collected, curated, and shared strategies, approaches, lessons, units, and tools to support you as we are faced with the challenges of and opportunities for distance learning and preparing for the 2020-21 school year: NAEA: Remote Learning Toolkit
- Visual arts at-home art activity videos led by Bren Bataclan, Boston-based artist.
- 120 Digital Resources for Home-Schooling: Special Education, Social and Emotional Learning, and More.
- Culturally responsive-sustaining remote education grounds the use of educational tools and arranges the educational experience in a cultural view of learning and human development in which multiple expressions of diversity are recognized and regarded as assets for teaching and learning. Guidance on Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Remote Education: Centering Equity, Access, and Educational Justice
- AEP Partner Resources for Serving the Arts Education Field in the Time of COVID-19 – COVID-19 Resources