Replication Pilot Model

U.S. Department of Education
Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant: 2006-2010

The Replication program is a partnership between Arts Impact, Allied Arts of Whatcom County, Wenatchee Arts Education Consortium, and Educational Service District 105 in Yakima, funded by the Washington State Arts Commission and the U.S. Department of Education. The Replication program brings the Core model to schools, teachers, and Artist Mentors outside of the Puget Sound region.

The goal for replication is test the ability to implement Arts Impact's key features outside of the Puget Sound region.

Project Design

  • During the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years, Arts Impact trained teams of three Artist Mentors and one administrator from three regions outside Puget Sound (Bellingham, Wenatchee and Yakima, Washington) and one administrator from a region within the Puget Sound Educational Service District (Riverview).
  • Bellingham, Wenatchee and Yakima had no prior training with Arts Impact.
  • In Riverview, over twenty elementary school teachers had already completed training in the Core model. Replication extended the training to the rest of the district.

Bellingham

  • Whole school model: 23 teachers and the principal at Roosevelt Elementary
  • Adaptation to Core model:
    • Three day Summer Institute, with additional workshops held in the fall to cover additional content from the traditional Core five-day Institute

Wenatchee

  • 11 teachers at Lincoln Elementary
  • Adaptations to Core model:
    • Three day Summer Institute
    • Focus on two disciplines: theater and visual arts
  • Because Lincoln Elementary has a full time visual arts teacher, the first year goal was to train teachers in the foundational arts concepts and skills students have learned so that they are equipped to effectively teach arts-infused concepts in math and literacy.
  • The second year focuses on developing arts-infused lessons.

Yakima

  • Approximately 35 teachers throughout the ESD 105 region
  • Adaptations to Core model:
    • Focus on visual arts
    • Revised mentorship structure, lesson plan template, and student assessment strategies and data collection

Riverview

  • 18 teachers throughout the Riverview district, grades K-8
  • Adaptations to Core model:
    • Three day Summer Institute with additional workshops during the year
    • Year 1 focus: visual arts
    • Year 2 focus: dance and theater
    • Revised mentorship structure: one model teaching session, one co-teaching session with evaluation, one 2-hour lesson writing session
  • Additional supplies provided for the teachers:
    • Year 1: visual arts supplies and posters of the Elements and Principals of Art and Design
    • Year 2: dance music CDs

Project Goal

  • Develop teams of local Artist Mentors and administrators in regions outside of Puget Sound to implement the key features of the Arts Impact model in local communities using local resources

Project Components

  • 13 trainees
  • Two year course: 78 total hours of professional development include:
    • Observation and participation at Summer Institutes (Core Years 1 and 2): 39 hours
    • Seminars with Arts Impact Artist Mentors and the Arts Curriculum & Assessment Advisor: 21 hours
    • On-site training with Arts Impact Director and the Arts Curriculum & Assessment Advisor: 12 hours
    • On-site modeling of lesson writing component of mentorship: 6 hours
    • Ongoing technical support for Artist Mentors and administrators

    Curriculum

    Core Scope and Sequence PDF (116KB)

    • Year 1 focus: Arts foundations in dance, theater and visual arts
    • Year 2 focus: Dance, theater and visual arts infusion into math, science and literacy

    Assessment and Evaluation

    • Performance-based assessment of teacher learning
    • Autonomy Rubric for Teachers: measurement of growth in teacher practice
    • Performance-based assessments of student learning in the arts and in arts-infused content
    • Program evaluation: teacher levels of engagement; pre and post teacher surveys; teacher focus groups
    • Survey of replication administrators and Artist Mentors
    • Key Features implementation checklist

    Resources

    • Two curriculum notebooks (one per year): Arts Foundations Lessons and Arts-Infused Lessons
    • Digital images of artworks as object-based references of concepts in each visual arts lesson, available in notebooks and on disc
    • Teacher-written lesson plans on disc
    • Web-based lesson plan database
    • Key Features (PDF, 1.6MB)
    • Administrators Handbook, including communication, assessment, survey, and evaluation instrument templates
    • Training Manual

    Reports

    Replication Report will be completed in Spring 2011.