Designing Standards-Supported Curriculum For Philadelphia Performing Arts Nonprofits

As performing arts education lessens within the school day, the importance of supplemental performing arts education increases. Performing arts organizations that offer educational programming in schools have provided mission-centered curriculum, abundant with opportunity for cross-curricular coursework. Philadelphia's growing performing arts nonprofits hold incredible potential to deliver programming to area schools. In order to streamline a greater integration of performing arts education into classrooms, partnerships between schools and performing arts organizations offering educational outreach elicit greater plenary action, instruction from professional teaching artists, and a focus on the integration of 21st Century Learning. To foster and grow successful arts partnerships that provide supplementary arts education in schools, the incorporation of standards-supported arts curricula is paramount for the success of the programming.