The Status of Arts Education in Ohio's Public ... - Ohio Arts Council

Impact Goal
The education community will use
the survey data and this report to
advance measureable
improvements in arts education
outcomes. Those outcomes will
complement and contribute to the
reforms and initiatives currently
transforming Ohio’s system of
public schools.
Impact Opportunities
Courtesy: Kate Gorman and Patty Mitchell, Arts
Learning Residency
• Increase the number of arts educators that plan curriculum and align their courses of
study with the newly adopted arts learning standards.
• Explore how Ohio’s No Child Left Behind waiver, which increases flexibility in how
schools close achievement gaps, can help schools counteract any previous narrowing
of the curriculum that may have affected arts education.
• Identify concrete strategies schools can use to address Ohio’s Race to the Top goals
through a strong positioning of arts education in their academic programs.
• Use the state’s educational data collection system to track and document
longitudinal trends in arts education and show the relationships between arts
education outcomes and the factors that affect arts education program quality.
• Improve the capacity of arts educators in successfully completing the student growth
measures component of the Ohio teacher evaluation system.
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