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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
THE ARTS PARTNER STANDARDS OF PRACTICE
In 2017, Ingenuity published the Arts Partner Standards of Practice for use
by the more than 1,100 arts organizations and teaching artists who work
with CPS schools. This work was the product of a two-year effort engaging
more than 350 arts education stakeholders under the Quality Initiative. The
Standards of Practice includes tools and processes to help arts organizations
improve arts program outcomes. The Standards also establish consensus values
about how to define, assess, evaluate, and improve the quality of teaching
artist instruction.
The tools created are designed to help organizations build a common language
and improve the quality of practice in two areas:
PROGRAM QUALILTY
The Program Quality process and its associated toolkit are designed to take
arts organizations through a top-to-bottom quality diagnostic process that
help align best practice thinking to what they are already doing. The Program
Quality process focuses on practical tools and steps that help build a culture
of learning and improvement in community arts partner organizations.
Designed to be revisited and updated regularly, the process and tools help
partners identify their most pressing problems of practice, then develop and
implement strategies for addressing these problems. The Program Quality
process and toolkit can elevate how arts organizations design and deliver
programs in schools.
INSTRUCTIONAL QUALITY
The Instructional Quality process and its associated tools are designed to foster
conversations about instructional performance between program managers
and teaching artists to improve the quality of teaching. These new resources
provide program managers with a framework to gauge teaching artist
effectiveness while also providing teaching artists with a clear understanding
of the skills that high-quality teaching artists should possess, where they stand
compared to those standards, and how they can improve their practice. The
Instructional Quality process and toolkit are designed to elevate how teaching
artists teach.
More information on the specifics of the Arts Partner Standards of Practice is
available on ingenuity-inc.org.
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