AERA is Approaching

So I thought I would pick some of the sessions related to arts integration that looked interesting to me.
Hope to see y'all there.



1. Artful and Creative Processes as Modes for Teaching and Learning

	Unit: SIG-Arts and Learning
	Session Submission type: Paper Session
	Time: Sat, May 1 - 4:05pm - 6:05pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Room 707

2. Arts and Learning: Activism, Transitions, and Integrations

	Unit: SIG-Arts and Learning
	Session Submission type: Roundtable Session
	Time: Mon, May 3 - 10:35am - 12:05pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Room 109, 111, 113

3. Arts as Innovation for Reforming Practice

	Unit: SIG-Arts and Learning
	Session Submission type: Paper Session
	Time: Sun, May 2 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Room 707

4. Arts, Learning, and Community: Developing Practices and Discovering Identities

	Unit: SIG-Arts and Learning
	Session Submission type: Paper Session
	Time: Sat, May 1 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Room 711

5. Creating Across Languages: The Arts Benefit to English-Language Learners and Second-Language Learning

	Unit: SIG-Bilingual Education Research
	Session Submission type: Symposium
	Time: Sat, May 1 - 4:05pm - 5:35pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Room 606
	Descriptors: English Learner, Arts Education, ESL/ENL

6. Critical Literacy and Expression in Early Childhood Education

	Unit: SIG-Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education
	Session Submission type: Roundtable Session
	Time: Tue, May 4 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 2

7. Diverse Pathways to Literacy Development

	Unit: Division G - Social Context of Education
	Sub Unit: Section 1: Local Contexts of Teaching and Learning
	Session Submission type: Roundtable Session
	Time: Sun, May 2 - 10:35am - 12:05pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 2

8. Impact of Arts Integration on Content-Area Learning

	Unit: SIG-Arts and Learning
	Session Submission type: Roundtable Session
	Time: Fri, Apr 30 - 4:05pm - 5:35pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 2

9. Indigenous Visual Ecologies of Knowledge as Repertoires for Learning

	Unit: SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
	Session Submission type: Roundtable Session
	Time: Sat, May 1 - 10:35am - 12:05pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 2
	Descriptors: Indigenous Peoples, Arts Education, Social Context

10. Language, Literacy, and Arts in Teacher Education

	Unit: Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education
	Sub Unit: Section 7
	Session Submission type: Roundtable Session
	Time: Fri, Apr 30 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 2

11. Lines of Flight: Studying Children’s Production of Art and Culture

	Unit: SIG-Arts and Learning
	Session Submission type: Symposium
	Time: Mon, May 3 - 10:35am - 12:05pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Room 705
	Descriptors: Arts Education, Adolescence, Early Childhood

12. Linking Teacher Education to Teacher and Student Performance: Research on National Policies and Assessments Instruments

	Unit: Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education
	Sub Unit: Section 2
	Session Submission type: Roundtable Session
	Time: Fri, Apr 30 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 2

13. Making Art to Make a Difference: Exploring the Educational Significance of Using Art to Impact Social Change

	Unit: SIG-Arts and Learning
	Session Submission type: Symposium
	Time: Mon, May 3 - 4:05pm - 5:35pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Room 704
	Descriptors: Arts Education, Social Change, Communities

14. Mediating the Creative Experience: New Literacies, Methods, and Assessments

	Unit: SIG-Arts and Learning
	Session Submission type: Roundtable Session
	Time: Sat, May 1 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 2

15. New Teacher Induction: Promising and Innovative Practices for Support, Development, and Leadership

	Unit: SIG-Research on Teacher Induction
	Session Submission type: Roundtable Session
	Time: Fri, Apr 30 - 4:05pm - 5:35pm Place: Sheraton, Grand Ballroom Section 2

16. Poster Session: Culture and Learning Environments

	Unit: Division C - Learning and Instruction
	Sub Unit: Section 5: Learning Environments
	Session Submission type: Poster Session
	Time: Mon, May 3 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 3

17. Reflective and Narrative Practices for Aesthetic Development and Learning

	Unit: SIG-Arts and Learning
	Session Submission type: Paper Session
	Time: Sun, May 2 - 10:35am - 12:05pm Place: Colorado Convention Center, Room 707

Race to the Top of what?

Two states won race to the top moneys. I highly suspect that arts education and integration was not a big part of these two states application. Moreover, I suspect that future applications to the "Race to the Top Money" will emulate if not flat out imitate the two accepted applications. This in long standing tradition of educational funding born out of the Bush years and continued unhindered by the current one. Even in application there is no room for creativity.
Secretary Duncan has repeatedly made public statements in support of arts education as an essential part oif a 21st century education. The proof, however, is in the pudding. The two proposals that were approved included very little reference to the arts, and the rubric used does not seem to require it.
In many ways it seems that arts education, once again is not part of the national conversation in the way that matters- resources.