Hire the Best People

The following self-assessment is meant to serve as indicators in the development of an arts rich school. The questions are based on our 12-year history of work with school-university partnerships, a history marked by notable successes in fostering powerful arts education infrastructure, curriculum, teacher practice, and student achievement.

Build Capacity in Your Teachers

Learn what organizations provide free and subsidized opportunities for teacher development in arts skills and pedagogy. Find workshops for your teachers that celebrate ways to improve classroom practice in and through the arts.
 

• Organizations Professional Development
• Conferences with an Arts Education Focus
• Online Arts Resources for Teachers
• Among other Resources

Exhibit Student Work

Celebrate students learning. Attending to the details of an exhibition can significantly impact the experience, whether the showing is intended for peers, the entire school, the community, or students' families. Find ideas on how choose a venue, implement a plan, or even publicize the exhibition and invite an audience.

Connect with Arts Organizations

The commitment of Utah’s professional arts companies is to the students of our state. They tour, they send teams to schools as visiting artists, they provide teaching residencies, and their performances are powerful aesthetic experiences and models of complementary arts instruction. And they provide free and reduced-cost tickets to their performances in some of the finest venues in America.

We compiled a start list in the E-Book to help you select professional arts experiences for your students, teachers, and community.

Funding & Resources

Arts-rich schools provide their arts specialists and classroom teachers with ready access to needed supplies, materials, and space. Arts supplies and equipment need to be a part of your school’s annual budget. But it is also important to look for ancillary sources of materials and supplies that don’t tax your school’s budget.