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Are you looking to connect with peers, share lessons learned and participate in meaningful, solutions-focused conversations? If so, the Arts Education Partnership invites you to complete this interest form to learn more and get connected with the network.

AEP’s Systems Leader Network has successfully completed its first year of convenings and is exploring interest for the year ahead. If your work centers on collective impact, systems change and cross-sector collaboration, this network may be a valuable space for you.

Arts education is perfectly positioned to help students builds the durable skills necessary to succeed in today’s workforce. This report examines how schools can prepare students for life and work in an increasingly uncertain future.

Report from the Arts Education Partnership: 

Arts Education, Durable Skills and Workforce Success

Inside, you’ll learn how arts education can cultivate durable skills. Included are tangible examples of durable skills development within arts education and how they connect to the National Arts Standards’ anchor standards to provide educators with a concrete framework to point to. The report also lays out six policy considerations to help strengthen support for arts education at the state level:

1. Develop portrait of a graduate frameworks.
2. Adopt competency-based and personalized learning.
3. Implement career-connected and applied learning.
4. Establish apprenticeship programs aligned with workforce needs.
5. Enable flexibility in student pathways to meet state requirements.
6. Build policy infrastructure to support arts learning.

Aligning arts education with durable skills education is an authentic solution to meet the everchanging needs of the future of work—a necessary, urgent and actionable priority. School, community, postsecondary and industry leaders can work collaboratively to build a coherent set of strategies centered around student interest and input to best meet the needs of young people and employers.