Advantages to a Conceptual Framework

1. Uniting 20 responses - develops essential common language and understandings - articulates a broad mission with clarity - builds collaboration - creates a unified perspective across disciplines - expresses common values/beliefs about Arts Education - captures best thinking across the disciplines - defines the parameters for student learning - defines a coherent balanced vision of purposeful learning in arts education - distills and expresses knowledge gleaned from best practice, experience and history 2. Organizing 25 responses - provides a logical organization guiding both standards writers and standards users - prioritizes content, promotes purposeful learning - creates a meta level of language within which detailed standards can fall - demonstrates hierarchal and other forms of relationships - aligns artistic processes with NAE , !", #nternational $esearch, National trends - provides a way to divide and con%uer standards - allows lenses for knowing and doing - encompasses big ideas and enduring understandings . Communicating 20 responses - organizes concepts, processes and skills to guide development of the standards - provides a logical organization guiding users - provides consistency of vision and transparency of goals - logical organization and clear vision guides standards writing - provides uniformity leading to ease of use at a state and local levels - makes arts learning comprehensible to broader education community - informs assessments and guides instruction - makes connections to imagination/creativity/innovation - provides a structure for teacher training/teacher evaluation - communicates rigor in arts education - provides a tool for alignment with other conceptual frameworks

C!allenges in Creating a Conceptual Framework

1. "eac!ing a Uni#ied $ision 10 responses % must encompass all art forms, - different art forms have different languages& what if all can't align - a common framework might disadvantage some art forms - establishing a unified vision can be difficult& sometimes consensus can be messy 2. Organizing and &etermining 'rain (ize ) responses % if the framework is too detailed it leads to calcification/narrows vision - challenging to determine scope and se%uence - could be viewed by general public as (wishy-washy) - may de-emphasize important aspects of the art making process - may be too broad or too vague to be useful . Ot!er Considerations 1* responses - need to avoid forcing an agenda - need to consider state policies that might conflict with adopting a common framework - may be seen as restrictive - prioritizing within the educational landscape - resource scarcity *people, money, time+ - who will do the work, - designing assessment for all demographics - how will this be measured, - need to remember that benchmarks are measured, frameworks guide standards and benchmarks - all four art forms need to stay true to the core of each arts discipline, yet also realize !"st century learning, college and career readiness and cross cultural natural connections - have a responsibility to help students use their minds well - need to determine what we hang on to, what we throw out - digital medias must be included, either as their own discipline or embedded across the fields - need to remember cross cultural connections