Policy Consulting
Overview
I served on the Visual Arts committee during the revision of the Visual Arts Learning Standards and presented the revisions with a team of educators the team to the Illinois State Board of Education on February 10th of 2016, which were unanimously approved by the board on June 16, 2016, and are currently used by all public schools in the state of Illinois.
Clients
Illinois State Board of Education
Arts Alliance Illinois
Project Outputs
Illinois State Learning Standards
Presentation for the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)
Client & Community Outcomes
In 2010, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) began a comprehensive review of the state’s learning standards in every subject area. As part of this process, ISBE turned its attention to the arts in 2014. Arts and media are continuously evolving, but Illinois’ arts learning standards had remained unchanged for nearly two decades. The time had come to modernize the standards, which will impact the way the arts are taught in the state of Illinois from Kindergarten through 12th grade.