CCSESA

The California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) Arts Initiative, through a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, funded six subgrant projects to support the goal of providing all students with a comprehensive and standards-based arts education, kindergarten through high school. The projects are grounded in the CCSESA Arts Initiative Visual and Performing Arts Vision and Core Principles focused on providing California students – from every culture, geographic region, and socio-economic level - quality arts learning in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts as part of the core curriculum.

Arts Learning Tools and Resources brochure

	K-6 Visual and Performing Arts Curriculum Guide: Examples of Integrated Lessons View Toolkit Region 11 Arts Lead: Geraldine Walkup, Los Angeles County Office of Education This curriculum guide for elementary classroom teachers includes integrated lessons at each grade level based on the content standards in the Visual and Performing Arts Framework for California Public Schools demonstrating how learning in the arts is an integral part of learning across the curriculum. The K-6 guide includes lessons in the dance, music, theatre, and visual arts integrated lessons developed by teams of teachers across subject areas. The process was facilitated by LACOE, LAUSD, and national arts integration consultant, Karen L. Erickson. A matrix lays out per grade level (K-6) the key arts standards and how they support content standards in other core curriculum areas. This guide should be helpful both in developing units of instruction for students and in designing professional development programs for teachers. After review, the document will be published and put on the CCSESA Arts Initiative website.
	Leading the Way to Arts Education: A Reference Guide for Educational Leaders View PDF Region 4 Arts Lead: Louise Music, Alameda County Office of Education This guide is a tool for school, district, and county administrators to assist in developing K-12 visual and performing arts programs. The guide includes information about key steps educational leaders can take to facilitate standards-based arts instruction and learning at each grade level aligned to the Visual and Performing Arts Framework for California Public Schools. The guide provides approaches and specific roles and resources to develop a coordinated leadership strategy, gleaned from successful programs in county offices, districts, and schools in California.
	Advocacy Toolkit for K-12 Arts Education in California Schools View Toolkit Region 5 Arts Lead: Hamish Tyler, Monterey County Office of Education This web based toolkit provides a wealth of resources to assist county offices in advocating for arts education. The toolkit includes video testimonials, articles, research studies, and practical advocacy-related information that educators can easily use and adapt. This advocacy toolkit can be tailored to specific county office and districts and contains useful information that can be used to promote the value and benefit of arts education for California students.
	A Guidebook for High Quality Professional Development in Arts Education View Toolkit Region 7 Arts Lead: Robert Bullwinkel, Fresno County Office of Education The Guidebook for High Quality Professional Development in Arts Education is a user-friendly toolkit for designing and implementing professional development in the visual and performing arts to meet needs identified through “big picture” planning by schools, districts and counties. This guide provides a review of practical, research-based approaches for professional development of K-12 educators and cites examples of how county offices of education and other organizations have created effective programs and strategies in various settings around the state, citing examples from urban, suburban, and rural counties. The guidebook builds knowledge of emerging best practices in professional development discovered through a survey of 46 county offices of education as well as focused interviews of county and regional VAPA leads and an extensive analysis of current literature.
	Arts Assessment Resource Guide View Toolkit Region 9 Arts Lead: Ron Jessee, San Diego County Office of Education This guide provides a review of literature on arts assessment and includes print and web-based references for educators to use when designing and implementing both classroom-based and district-level assessments. Through research and interviews, the writers have gleaned valuable resources with information that will help guide arts assessment efforts. The guide provides definitions, links to key tools and resources, and examples of district level standards-based arts assessment efforts in California and other states.
	The Arts in the Elementary Classroom: A Visual and Performing Arts Content and Program Guide View Toolkit Region 10 Arts Lead: Bonnie Tillotson, San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools This guide is intended for elementary classroom teachers to use to develop their arts lessons and units of study in terms of learner outcomes and achievement using the visual and performing arts content standards. The guide provides a variety of tools that will help teachers develop K-6 discrete and integrated lessons along with tools for curriculum mapping and program planning. A key feature of the guide is the many examples of how teachers can practically integrate the arts into the curriculum and sequentially plan for inclusion of the arts in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts based on the Visual and Performing Arts Framework for California Public Schools.

Vision and Core Principles-A Transformative Approach for Building the Foundation for Sustainable Student Success in the Arts--An Arts Education Planning Tool