Bradley Moss, a theatre and film teacher at Maple Mountain High School recently traveled to New York City to meet with other educators from around the country who are creating new national voluntary PreK-12 arts education standards. The teams in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts met in the offices of the College Board, along with the leadership of the National Core Arts Standards (NCCAS), the collaborating nine national arts and education organizations that are guiding the project.
During the meeting, Bradley and his more than seventy colleagues, worked in discipline-specific groups and focused on writing performance standards that articulated what students should be able to know and do in the arts area at different grade levels. In the coming months, team members are expected to continue refining their work, including the shaping of cornerstone assessments to measure achievement in the performance standards.
The 2013 National Core Arts Standards, a parallel to the widely endorsed Common Core Standards in Math and English, will be ready for public review this summer and a piloting phase that will include testing a relational data base and a user friendly website that will eventually house the standards.
Bradley will meet again with his fellow educators when NCCAS reconvenes the teams in early fall to review the public comments on the drafts and the feedback from the pilot.
The new standards are expected to be completed in web form and ready for state adoption in 2014.
To view more details and all public documents related to the arts standards visit http://nccas.wikispaces.com/
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