ࡱ> 796 Xbjbj .,X$088888#%%%%%%$II88^88##8zgQ)t0lll8IIl : ABSTRACT Pasadena Unified School District Artful Connections with Math Professional Development in Visual Arts-Math Integration for Elementary School Educators Local Education Agency (LEA): Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) 351 South Hudson Avenue Pasadena, CA 91109 Point of Contact: Marshall Ayers, Arts Education Coordinator 626-396-3600, ext. 88129 MAyers06@pusd.us Local Non-Profit Arts Organization: Armory Center for the Arts 145 North Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91103 Point of Contact: Lorraine Cleary Dale, Director of Professional Development (626) 792-5101, ext. 133 lcleary@armoryarts.org Evaluation Team: National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies Point of Contact: Dr. Noelle Griffin Assistant Director for Research and Evaluation Phone: 310-825-8605 Email: griffin@cse.ucla.edu Point of Contact: Dr. Pete Goldschmidt Senior Researcher 310-794-4395 Email: goldschmidt@cse.ucla.edu The Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) in partnership with the Armory Center for the Arts, a local non-profit arts organization founded in 1947, proposes to provide a sustained and intensive professional development training in standards-based visual arts integration to 60 multi-subject second and third grade educators (65% of grade level faculty) at 16 Title I elementary schools over a three-year grant period1. The PUSD draws from the cities of Pasadena, Sierra Madre, and Altadena, and serves 19,187 students from largely low-income Hispanic and African American Families. This initiative, Artful Connections with Math, will directly impact the education of more than 1,800 students (600 per year) of which 80.4% are economically disadvantaged. Through 50 hours of intensive professional development training over an eight month period that includes 16 weeks of in-class coaching by experienced Artist Mentors and three group training workshops, each participating teacher will develop an understanding of the National and California Visual Art Content Standards, increase skill levels in art making techniques and processes, and become adept in innovative instructional methods that effectively integrate standards-based visual art and mathematics instruction to improve student achievement. Artful Connections with Math is designed to improve student performance in both the visual arts and in mathematics by supporting teachers professional practice. This is especially important in a district where 40% of economically disadvantaged students in grades 2-5 perform below proficient on the California State Standards (CST) test for mathematics, dipping to an alarming 68% in the 6th and 7th grades. An analysis of the CST data, based on a four year Institute of Education Science study, demonstrates that the fall in performance at the 6th and 7th grades is in large part due to a lack of mastery of pre-algebraic skills in the second and third grades. Training teachers to become adept at innovative and engaging learning strategies in visual art and mathematics will help students improve achievement in both of these core subjects. 1 Source: California Department of Education, California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS) list of 18 elementary schools with 50% or more of students eligible for the federal free and reduced lunch program. In 2011-12, two of these schools are closing. Over the past year, Armory teaching artists and the district math coach have run a test trial of innovative standards-based visual arts lessons targeting key math standards that have resulted in notable improvements among underperforming students, based on pre-test and post-test findings at the second and third grade levels. Artful Connections with Math transforms the program into a professional development model that builds competence among elementary school multi-subject teachers to use the visual arts as a vehicle to provide memorable and engaging experiential learning opportunities that deepen student understanding of how math works. Researchers from the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST, University of California Los Angeles) will lead the independent evaluation of this three-year project. CRESST brings over 40 years experience in educational assessment, research, and evaluation to the project, including work focused specifically on education in the arts and evaluation of arts based programs. The proposed evaluation will integrate both quantitative and qualitative data to investigate the impact of the professional development program. The evaluation will also measure program impact on student learning outcomes in the visual arts and targeted math grade level standards. The project is designed with sustainability in mind. Throughout the professional development period, teachers will contribute to the development of a portfolio of exemplary standards-based visual arts-math integrated lessons, with online video demonstrations, to be used as a curricular resource for the Pasadena Unified School District and the education community. Artful Connections with Math takes professional development strategies developed by the PUSD and the Armory Center for the Arts over the past five years, three of which were formally evaluated by CRESST/UCLA, to a new level for district teachers as these methods are extended to develop instructional expertise in visual arts-math integration. 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