Curriculum

Arts learning embodies vocabulary and discipline skill building in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts and also interdisciplinary models of integration. This section illuminates many approaches, perspectives, and practices that support quality arts learning in the classroom.

Arts education in California schools depends on informed leadership at the district and school site level. The tools and guides presented here provide many strategies and approaches to include arts as part of a comprehensive, complete curriculum.

Inspiring Voice – Strategies for Success: Engaging and Motivating Students through Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Arts Education

This document was developed to support the Arts Learning Leadership Series, Inspiring Voice, designed for school, district, and county office educators. The series, cosponsored by the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) Arts Initiative and San Francisco Unified School...

Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Arts Teaching and Learning in Action: Strategies that Increase Student Engagement and Achievement

This handbook focuses on CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY (CLRP) and how CLRP approaches and strategies can be translated in the arts with the intent of expanding educators’ repertoire of powerful, interactive instructional strategies. This resource features a set of...

The Arts in the Elementary Classroom: A Visual and Performing Arts Content and Delivery Guide

This guide is intended for elementary classroom teachers to use in developing their arts lessons and units of study in terms of learner outcomes and achievement using the visual and performing arts content standards.

K-6 Visual and Performing Arts Curriculum Guide

This curriculum guide for elementary classroom teachers includes integrated lessons at each grade level based on the content standards in the Visual and Performing Arts Frameworks for California Public Schools demonstrating how learning in the arts is an integral part of learning across the curriculum.