RESOURCES
FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES

THE
CENTER’S RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES

Parents
As Arts Partners Arts Education Resources for Parents and Schools

The
New York Philharmonic Kidzone is a creative and colorful interactive
site that allows children to learn about music on their own. It
has a step-by-step guide that explains how to create instruments
out of everyday items and features pop-up informational sections
with composer biographies and histories of instruments. There is
also a composition workshop where students can create their own
music!

The
Symphony: An Interactive Guide is a well-organized, comprehensive
online guide to the symphony, (created by two teenagers in Australia)
containing easy to browse information about composers, famous works,
orchestra seating charts, and forms of symphonies.

Young Audiences/New York
provides a Family
Guide to the Arts in New York City, which lists information
about cultural institutions and events appropriate for families
in all five boroughs.

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INFORMATION
AND EVENT RESOURCES

Alliance
for the Arts is the leading organization that gathers, analyzes
and publishes information about the arts in New York, promoting
New York’s cultural life and identifying the needs, contributions,
and issues facing members of the artistic community.

  • NYCkidsArts is a publication of the Alliance and a guide to more than 300
    New York City cultural offerings for kids, families, and schools.

Arts4AllPeople was launched by the Wallace
Foundation and a national advisory board of arts leaders and
funding partners dedicated to the quality, access, and health of
the arts for all people. The site is a resource for individuals
or groups committed to the arts and culture, who wish to share or
gain better insight into successful ways to build and enhance audience
participation. It was designed to facilitate the exchange of new
research, concrete ideas and "best practices" to promote
service to people as integral to the health of arts institutions
and to the life of their communities.

FamilyHaven features articles on raising children and includes, "The
Three Rs for the Nineties CHILDREN + PARENTS + ARTS", a
section designed to show parents practical ways to introduce their
children, both in school and at home, to creative writing theater,
music, dance and visual art. John Frohnmayer, former Chairman of
the National Endowment
for the Arts, wrote the preface.

High
5 Tickets to the Arts is a nonprofit organization dedicated
to making the arts affordable for teens. Through High 5, any teen,
ages 13 to 18 (or any student enrolled in a middle or high school
program), can buy $5 tickets to hundreds of New York City’s best
dance, music, theater, film, museum and spoken word events throughout
the year.

The
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally
supported system of 16 clearinghouses and supporting organizations
that makes various written materials about education accessible
to all who are interested. The ERIC system produces a computer-searchable
bibliographic database of the literature in education. Currently
the database describes nearly one million articles, reports, curriculum
guides, books, and other information resources. The ERIC system
is funded by the U.S.
Department of Education through its National
Library of Education.

The
National Art Education Association (NAEA) promotes art education
through Professional Development, Service, Advancement of Knowledge,
and Leadership.

  • Tips
    for Parent Advocacy     is a PDF flyer containing effective
    strategies and resources that parents can use to promote and advocate
    art education programs in their children’s schools.

United
States Department of Education reports on teaching initiatives,
promising practices, grant information, resources for the classroom,
and research studies.

  • Partnership
    for Family Involvement in Education (PFIE)     is a program that
    provides online resources to help involve parents in their children’s
    learning at school and home. PFIE emphasizes the use of family-school-community
    partnerships to strengthen schools and improve student achievement.

VSA
arts is an international, nonprofit organization founded in
1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where
all people with disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy
the arts. VSA arts showcases the accomplishments of artists with
disabilities and promotes increased access to the arts for people
with disabilities. It provides educators, parents, and artists with
resources and the tools to support arts programming in schools and
communities.

START WITH THE ARTS AT HOME is an educational resource that uses the arts to assist young children, including those with disabilities, in exploring themes commonly taught in early childhood classrooms in the home setting.

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AFTER
SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Afterschool.gov offers one-stop access to government resources that support after
school programs. It provides information on the issues that face
children and teens and resources, materials, and examples of effective
practices of after-school programs.

Partnership
for After School Education (PASE) was founded by a group of
after school practitioners and resource providers to promote exemplary
and innovative education programs. Membership is open to individuals
and organizations that show a commitment to their guiding principles.
PASE offers networking opportunities, staff training and development,
technical assistance, mentoring, advocacy, and resource sharing.
Projects include citywide conferences on after school education,
newsletters, quarterly general meetings to share innovative ideas,
workshops and institutes on a variety of topics relating to after
school education.

The
President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH), created
by a Presidential Executive Order in 1982, identifies issues and
develops initiatives in the arts and the humanities. PCAH bridges
the interests of federal agencies and the private sector, supports
special projects that increase participation, and helps to incorporate
the humanities and the arts into White House objectives.

United
States Department of Education reports on teaching initiatives,
promising practices, grant information, resources for the classroom,
research studies.

The
21st Century Community Learning Centers Program is a key component
of President Bush’s No
Child Left Behind Act. It is an opportunity for students and
their families to continue to learn new skills and discover new
abilities after the school day has ended. Tutorial services and
academic enrichment activities are designed to help students meet
local and state academic standards. In addition, 21st CCLC programs
provide youth development activities, drug and violence prevention
programs, technology education programs, art, music and recreation
programs, and counseling and character education, to enhance the
academic component of the program.

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