Changing Education Through the Arts Schools
Program Name
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Key Features of the CETA Program for Partner Schools
- Ongoing, Multi-Year Commitment
- Multiple Formats of Professional Learning
- Focus on both Classroom Teachers and Arts Specialists
- Arts-Integrated Instruction
- Program Improvement and Sustainability
- Program Impact: Research and Evaluation
About the Program
The CETA program has grown out of decades of successful experience providing professional learning for teachers in arts integration.
Since 1976 and continuing today, the Kennedy Center offers professional learning opportunities to individual teachers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to help them make the arts an integral part of every child’s education.
Given the growing interest in arts integration, the Kennedy Center began to focus some of its efforts on reaching all teachers within a school with intensive professional learning. To accomplish this goal, the Kennedy Center established Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) in 1999.
The program set out to examine how a sustained professional learning program in arts integration based on national, state, and local standards and best practices in professional learning could yield changes across an entire school in the way teachers teach and the way students learn. The program also set out to examine how collaborative professional learning models in arts integration would affect the school culture—moving teachers away from isolation and toward an interactive and supportive community of learners.
Over the years, the CETA program has gradually expanded and, in 2011, serves over 400 teachers in 16 schools in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.
The goals of the CETA program are to:
Establish a network of schools committed to arts integration as an approach to teaching that yields both increased student learning and motivation to learn. Build commitment to and skilled teaching practice for arts integration within entire schools. Develop teachers’ abilities to plan, lead, and assess quality arts integration. Create school cultures that support intensive, sustained teacher learning and collaboration. Share knowledge with other organizations interested in developing similar programs.
Learn more about CETA Evaluation Results
If I were to visit a CETA school, what would I see? This slide show provides a peek inside a typical CETA school.
Inside a CETA School
Inside a CETA School
Quote - CETA Teacher
“Our whole school is integrating the arts, thanks to the CETA program. The culture of our school is completely different because the arts are a regular part of instruction in classrooms on a continual basis. It has changed the way we define our school.”
Visit a CETA School
Send us an email request and the Kennedy Center will be glad to arrange a visit. (Individual CETA schools are unable to schedule these visits.)
Sponsors
Kennedy Center Education
The Vice President of Education is generously endowed by the
Generous support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.
Gifts and grants to educational programs at the Kennedy Center are provided by The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Bank of America; Capital One; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Carnegie Corporation of New York; The Ednah Root Foundation; Harman Family Foundation; William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; the Kimsey Endowment; The Kiplinger Foundation; Laird Norton Family Foundation; Lois and Richard England Family Foundation; Dr. Gary Mather and Ms. Christina Co Mather; The Markow Totevy Foundation; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; The Morningstar Foundation; Myra and Leura Younker Endowment Fund; The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives;
Prince Charitable Trusts; Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A. J. Stolwijk; Rosemary Kennedy Education Fund; The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates; The Victory Foundation; The Volgenau Foundation; Volkswagen Group of America; Jackie Washington; GRoW @ Annenberg and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten and Family; Wells Fargo; and generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas. Additional support is provided by the National Committee for the Performing Arts..
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