TUSD Fine Arts / OMA
The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) has released the conceptual framework for arts standards. The document gives the background for arts standards and covers the goals, structures, and outcomes that shape student achievement. Most states, including Arizona, recognize that arts education provides essential skills. The Conceptual Framework is a first step in creating the necessary detailed standards. The best statement of the work being done is in the introduction to a just-released College Board review of the alignment of the arts standards to the Common Core State Standards. "Given the central role that the Common Core standards are playing in education and school reform initiatives nationwide, it is a priority of the National Coalition of Core Arts Standards to ensure that the goals and objectives of the Next Generation Arts Standards relate clearly and directly to the Common Core, and that these connections are actively considered as a part of the standards writing process." You can always find the most recent information about the ongoing work on arts standards at the NCCAS wikispace.
There is still space available for the March 7, 2013 (SambaDa! ) and May 2, 2013 (Chad Michael Hall Dance) UApresents Student Matinees. To reserve, e-mail carole.marlowe@tusd1.org or call 225-4911.
Fine Arts / OMA is currently developing the next ARTSmobile, The American Experience through Art. The ARTSmobile will feature art forms that are particularly American. Jazz music and tap dance are both strongly associated with America. Musical theater has roots in Europe and Great Britain but Broadway and Hollywood combined dance, popular music, plot, drama and comedy to create something distinctively American. The ARTSmobile features Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! as the first of these. In the visual arts, New York and San Francisco were centers for the development of Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism with artists like Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollack and Roy Lichtenstein.
There is still space available for the March 7, 2013 (SambaDa! ) and May 2, 2013 (Chad Michael Hall Dance) UApresents Student Matinees. To reserve, e-mail carole.marlowe@tusd1.org or call 225-4911.
Arts and Activities has been a great resource for K-12 teachers since 1932. The magazine is chock full of activities that are compelling and fun while meeting educational objectives. Most of the activities and lessons are from classroom teachers so they've been field-tested. Educational Materials Center maintained a subscription to the magazine until budget cuts in 2012. However, this is a magazine where back issues are still a great current resource. And the magazine is now offering FREE digital subscriptions. This is a magazine we definitely have warm fuzzy feelings about. They not only have FREE digital subscriptions and the current issue online, free, they also have any sold out back issues online. Since they sell back issues, understandably only the sold out back issues are online. The wonderful self-portrait to the left is a student work from the October 2009 issue which highlights a high school advanced visual art lesson on photorealism, using newspapers.
There is still space available for the March 7, 2013 (SambaDa! ) and May 2, 2013 (Chad Michael Hall Dance) UApresents Student Matinees. To reserve, e-mail carole.marlowe@tusd1.org or call 225-4911.
thisiscolossal.com is an art blog curated by web designer Christopher Jobson, who makes it his mission to search out and highlight art, design, and craft that the greater World Wide Web hasn't yet noticed. The photo to the left is a beach design done by environmental artist Tony Plant using a garden rake. Check out thisiscolossal to see some of the coolest pictures around. You can read more about Christopher Jobson at lifehacker. Christopher posts new pictures every week and they are always worth seeing.
There is still space available for the March 7, 2013 (SambaDa! ) and May 2, 2013 (Chad Michael Hall Dance) UApresents Student Matinees. To reserve, e-mail carole.marlowe@tusd1.org or call 225-4911.
Don't forget Fine Arts / OMA Colloquium!
Opening Minds through the Arts (OMA) & Tucson Unified School District announces:
OMA Colloquium: making learning visible
March 13, 2013 – 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
at
The University of Arizona School of Music
1017 Olive Road Tucson, AZ
Fifteen of the leading schools from Opening Minds through the Arts will present dynamic demonstrations of integrating creativity with curriculum at the OMA Colloquium. Students will explain, through videotaped interviews, how they learn the core content of reading, writing, and math through arts integration. The impact of OMA on their critical thinking and creative problem solving skills will be evident as they explain their personal artistic process. The morning will culminate with a live performance by OMA students. This great event is open to everyone interested in how OMA works. For further information, call TUSD Fine Arts/OMA at 225-4900.
The first annual Tucson Desert Song Festival, February 8 - 17, 2013, was the highlight of a Lineweaver student's year. For a recital at the University of Arizona, renowned soloist Maria Jette sang a song composed by a Lineweaver student for the Tucson Desert Song Festival Song Contest. Audience members said the 4th grader positively glowed on hearing her own music sung for a public performance by a professional musician.
There is still space available for the March 7, 2013 (SambaDa! ) and May 2, 2013 (Chad Michael Hall Dance) UApresents Student Matinees. To reserve, e-mail carole.marlowe@tusd1.org or call 225-4911.
We mentioned the Tucson High Illustration Exhibit in the Curriculum 
Connection of 1/15/2013. We've now posted some great pictures from the exhibit and from the opening November 29, 2012.
There is still space available for the March 7, 2013 (SambaDa! ) and May 2, 2013 (Chad Michael Hall Dance) UApresents Student Matinees. To reserve, e-mail carole.marlowe@tusd1.org or call 225-4911.
We told you about the new Mansfeld Cultural Discovery Museum in the Curriculum Connection of 9/25/2012. The experience has been wonderful for the classes that visit the Museum. Unfortunately, due to space issues, this will be the Museum's last year. It's fully booked for the rest of the year. Classes that visit the Museum are immersed in culture of India for 2 hours. They hear Indian music, try Indian crafts and then write about what they've seen and learned. You can see some of the student work from classes that have visited the Museum. The Mansfeld Museum is an great example of collaboration between Fine Arts / OMA and one of TUSD's schools. Previously Fine Arts / OMA has worked with Van Buskirk to create a museum and curatorial experience for that school. If your school is interested in this kind of collaborative project, contact Fine Arts / OMA at 225-4900.
There is still space available for the March 7, 2013 (SambaDa! ) and May 2, 2013 (Chad Michael Hall Dance) UApresents Student Matinees. To reserve, e-mail carole.marlowe@tusd1.org or call 225-4911.
We told you last Curriculum Connection about Common Curriculum, a website for creating and manage lesson plans linked to the Common Core State Standards. Common Curriculum has just made some changes to the classroom website features. Now your students can see both past and future assignments on your class website. This makes it super easy to plan in advance, like setting an entire week's worth of homework at once or encouraging your kids to tackle future assignments long before they're due. Don't forget that Educational Materials Center also has some great books on teaching within the Common Core State Standards.
There is still space available for the March 7, 2013 (SambaDa! ) and May 2, 2013 (Chad Michael Hall Dance) UApresents Student Matinees. To reserve, e-mail carole.marlowe@tusd1.org or call 225-4911.
In the Curriculum Connection of 2/12/2013 we told you about the new Middle East materials available through Educational Materials Center and Fine Arts / OMA. The Middle East Decorative Arts Lesson Plan has been slightly revised. In the list of countries on page 2, Yemen was omitted. In addition, the inclusion of Morocco has been questioned. Geographically, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt are all in North Aftrica and some authorities don't consider them part of the Middle East. Other authorities include the North African countries as well as some Asian countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There is still space available for the March 7, 2013 (SambaDa! ) and May 2, 2013 (Chad Michael Hall Dance) UApresents Student Matinees. To reserve, e-mail carole.marlowe@tusd1.org or call 225-4911.
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