The Schools of Excellence in Arts Education award, given by the Maine Alliance for Arts Education incollaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, recognizes schools that have done an outstanding job of making the arts an essential part of education. Through the nomination of schools for the Schools of Excellence awards, exemplary arts education programs in elementary, middle, and high schools will be identified.
Guidelines for Nomination
To be considered for a School of Excellence award, the school’s arts education program should include two or more of the following characteristics:
· The school should teach all the arts (music, visual arts, dance, and theater) as specific disciplines as well as integrated into other subject areas.
· The program should create and use imaginative learning environments for teaching the arts and recognize that the arts are critical and essential to education.
· The program should provide opportunities for parental involvement in the educational lives of their children through hands-on, creative arts-based activities.
· The program should provide students various opportunities for learning about other cultures through the arts, enabling them to explore differences in ways that are full of adventure and devoid of cultural bias.
· The program should provide community connections that build value and respect for the community by offering students diverse experiences beyond the classroom.
The "Schools of Excellence" awards are designed to honor individual schools exclusively, not school districts.
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