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Parents As Arts Partners

Digital Photography with Parens As Arts Partners“[Parents As Arts Partners] . . . opened up a new world for many of our parents and kids.” MS 172Q

The Center for Arts Education’s Parents As Arts Partners program is a unique school-based arts education program that engages parents and families in hands-on, interactive arts education activities with their children. The program seeks to increase parent engagement and involvement in city public schools and in their child’s education, creating shared, high quality arts experiences that align with classroom curriculum.

Parents As Arts Partners was created in response to research that indicates that parental involvement in their child’s education positively impacts his or her academic success. The arts are an effective way to cultivate this type of engagement.

Students teaching students with Parents As Arts PartnersThis year, for the first time ever, CAE will now be matching our own experienced teaching artists specializing in music, dance, theater, visual arts and digital media with participating schools in order to ensure a higher quality program and reduce overhead costs. 

Each Parents As Arts Partners program is unique – designed in collaboration with school personnel, teaching artists and parents.
Each partnership:

  • Includes 1 planning session with the teaching artist, 5 family arts workshops and a skills-based, family engagement workshop for school and parent leaders;
  • Directly involves students and their families in interactive arts education activities that build a collective understanding of the importance of the arts;
  • Is aligned with family engagement goals, Common Core Learning Standards and addresses at least one of the NYS Learning Standards for the Arts;
  • Is eligible to be funded through Title I, Title III and Contracts for Excellence fund;Music instrument-making with Parents As Arts Partners
  • Connects to the school’s arts and education programs;
  • Provides experiences with and information about NYC arts and cultural organizations;
  • Empowers parents and school communities to build sustainable school arts programs and be effective advocates for a well-rounded education that includes the arts.

 

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