CCSESA

High-Quality Professional Preparation and Support

Provide coherent, comprehensive, and ongoing visual and performing arts professional preparation and support programs based on well-defined standards of practice. These programs are designed to create professional learning communities of administrators, teachers, and other staff to implement a powerful vision of excellent arts instruction for each group of students.

Overview of Principle 6: High-Quality Professional Preparation and Support

Planning Tool for Principle 6: High-Quality Professional Preparation and Support

Around the state of California, students and teachers, schools and communities, are rising to the challenge of creating high-quality arts education, often in very difficult circumstances. Below are some examples of high-quality professional preparation and support.

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School/District	Description	Online resource	Contact information
East Oakland School of the Arts	View work of the site-based professional learning community at this school in Oakland.	Click Here To View Action Research Examples Click HereTo View Unit Examples	Click Here for Team Contact Page
Walnut Canyon Elementary School	Through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Moorpark Unified School District is working to develop a model arts integration program where teachers utilize drama techniques as a teaching strategy in all subject areas.	Click Here To View Web site	Nema Pierce-Storino npierce@mrpk.org
West Palms Conservatory	Victor Elementary Teachers Association (VETA) members have made the arts a priority. They share the philosophy that everyone is good at something. And this includes teachers--who teach electives based on their expertise.	Click Here To View Story Click Here To View Web site	MelissaTheide MTheide@vesd.net
Walnut Elementary Education Center Turlock Unified	Short video highlighting how Walnut Elementary teacher-leaders work together with administrators to engage families and infuse the arts throughout all curriculum.	Click Here To View Video	Mark Holmes MHolmes@turlock.k12.ca.us
Chula Vista High School SCPA Sweetwater Unified	Short video in-depth description of an 800-student arts “school within a school” in an inner city setting.	Click Here To View Video	Ron Jessee ronarts@sdcoe.net
San Diego Unified	Short video description of standards-based professional development for teachers delivered by teaching artists.	Click Here To View Video	Ron Jessee ronarts@sdcoe.net
San Diego COE	Video tour of the San Diego Arts Network.	Click Here To View Video	Ron Jessee ronarts@sdcoe.net
Fresno COE	Keeping Score--resources and video clips describing standards-based arts integration professional development for teachers in partnership with the San Francisco Symphony.	Click Here To View Web site	Robert Bullwinkel bbullwinkel@fcoe.k12.ca.us

	Thorner Elementary School Thorner Elementary School's curriculum is based upon the California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards, as found in the Visual and Performing Arts Framework, 2004.
	Garfield Elementary School Garfield Elementary School is a rural, one-school district serving a total of 61 students in grades K-6. The school offers standards-based arts instruction in all four arts disciplines.
	Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Instructional Guide The Arts Education Branch of LAUSD has completed a draft of their K-6 Arts Instructional Guides (AIG), and is piloting the guidelines this year in their 310 elementary Arts Program Schools.
	Monson-Sultana In 1994, the new superintendent, Mr. Tom Giampietro, saw that the band program was less than satisfactory for this small school district.
	Capistrano Unified School District - The MITRE Project District middle school visual arts teachers met monthly for three hours after school throughout a year to create a standards-based curriculum for our students that would have clear goals.