Arts Ed NJ Celebrates Arts Month in Our Schools

All Post Times EditorialMarch 18, 2023

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Arts Ed NJ Celebrates Arts Month in Our Schools

originally published: 03/18/2023

(BURLINGTON, NJ) – Arts Ed NJ is a diverse group of statewide partners who believe in and advocate for a comprehensive education that includes dance, media, music, theater and visual arts – all to benefit and have an impact on the creative leaders of tomorrow! The month of March is widely known as “Arts in Our Schools Month”, an annual celebration originally proclaimed by the United States Department of Education that highlights student achievement in dance, music, drama and visual arts nationwide.

In support of this, Arts Ed NJ, is actively “Marching Together” with its partners to lend support to activities showcasing the achievements and supporting the voices of young artists, including Theater Month in Our Schools, the Music in Our Schools Month, Youth Art Month (Visual Arts) and Dance in Our Schools Month which includes the NJ High School Dance Fest. While the arts have been hit particularly hard during the COVID-19 pandemic, this month’s celebration demonstrates the sheer resilience of the arts community, marking the first time in three years that some New Jersey schools have held in-person events. .

As a statewide community, they are committed to increasing the participation and impact of arts education for every student, in every school, every day in New Jersey. Arts Ed NJ’s collective impact movement #ArtsEdNow aims to increase participation in arts education in all New Jersey schools. The movement helps build skills and provides tailored advocacy toolkits and practice opportunities – all while sharing knowledge, experience and peer support. The online Action Hub, Action Lab workshops, and other resources bring it all together in one central place so students, parents, and other stakeholders can leverage and empower local champions.

Arts Ed NJ celebrated International #SELDay on Friday, March 10 with the release of the Arts Ed NJ Center for Arts Education and Social-Emotional Learning publication Heart of the Arts Collection One: Artistic SEL Foundations. This inaugural collection brings together expert SEL practitioners and diverse perspectives to define artistic SEL in precise and accessible language, provides practical examples of high-impact practices, and illuminates models for effective implementation. Collectively, the Heart of the Arts collection represents a resource for conceiving, clarifying and broadly advocating how Artistic SEL can deepen and enrich arts education and education more broadly.

“We know that arts education has the power to transform lives,” said Arts Ed NJ Executive Director Wendy Liscow. “We see it every day in classrooms, schools, districts and communities. Let’s all walk together so that every young person has the opportunity to participate in all artistic disciplines at school. Through a strong arts education that incorporates culturally appropriate, healing-centered, and SEL-informed practices, our next generation of young people will build an innovative and creative future for our state.

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Follow the live stream of the thousands of people rallying around the hashtags #ArtsEdNow and #MarchTogether on social media @ArtsEdNJ and explore the hundreds of exciting ways people are celebrating Arts Month at our schools.

For more information on Arts Month activities in our schools, click here.

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