Arts Education Resources

Overview

This page features resources and opportunities around arts education in Oregon, to help connect arts educators, schools and districts with the support needed to offer Oregon students a quality, standards-aligned arts education. 

Join the Oregon Arts Group!
The Oregon Arts Group is a digital resource repository and collaboration space in Oregon Open Learning for educators, administrators, and other educational partners to curate, create, and remix open educational resources (OER). Interested in joining and contributing to the Oregon Arts Group, but not sure how it works? Asynchronous learning options about the OER and the Oregon Open Learning Hub include the OER Professional Learning Group on the Hub and the User Guide for Oregon Open Learning.

Statewide Arts Education Programs

The Oregon Department of Education partnered with Arts for Learning Northwest to design the Arts, Care & Connection program, offering free K-5 arts integration lessons and professional learning for teachers. These lessons, designed by teaching artists from across Oregon, create high quality arts and social emotional learning opportunities for elementary students to be integrated during the school day or in any learning setting. This work was done in partnership with ODE’s Care and Connection campaign and aligns to Oregon’s Transformative SEL Framework & Standards.  Learn more about the Arts Care & Connection Program

The Well-Rounded Access Program partnered with Southern Oregon ESD, the Jim Pepper Native Arts Council, and Oregon’s federally recognized Tribes to expand access to arts learning through culturally responsive lessons about contemporary and regional Native artists. This project supports both Native and non-Native students by providing accurate, Tribal-specific arts content aligned with the Oregon Arts Standards and the Nine Essential Understandings from the Tribal History/Shared History (TH/SH) project. Lessons on contemporary native artists and professional development sessions are available on the Speak Sing Native website. Tribal Specific arts lessons from the Burns Paiute Tribe, Coquille Tribe, and Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw can be found in the Oregon Arts Group.

Arts Education Newsletter Archive

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