The 'Lessons from the Workshop' publication represents the Workshop's longstanding commitment to providing age and culturally appropriate arts education programming in the schools, as well in the community. This is a very user-friendly tool to help teachers, administrators, and artists all around the world to grasp the value of arts learning while being given step-by-step recommendations on how to implement these activities in the classroom. |
The study gave us convincing empirical evidence of what we have been seeing directly in our work for decades now. There has never been any doubt for us that arts education - whether in or out of the school setting - has deep and lasting beneficial effects for young people. Those receiving this type of programming consistently show marked improvements not only in their creative talents, but also in their self-esteem, ability to collaborate with others, and performance in other areas of their education. Simply put: Arts instruction works. |
We are absolutely thrilled to be going to the UNESCO Conference in Lisbon. This is one of the highest honors we could imagine: the chance to share the fruits of our labors, our best practices, with colleagues from all over the world. Not to mention that amazing opportunity to interact with people from so many different cultures and thereby better our own understanding of how young people can come of age through so many disparate types of arts education. |