Primary / Elementary School

Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet

What does it mean to carry out "good work"? This is just one of the probing questions posed in this new edition. The authors have added a new afterword, Good Work in 2002, in which they reflect on their work in the light of recent events and report on their continuing studies of strategies that allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power. ISBN: 978-0465026081

ARTS SURVIVE: A Study of Sustainability in Arts Education Partnerships

This report shares findings and provides perspectives for partnerships to consider as they seek to build their capacity to survive and to thrive over time. It contains questions for partnerships to consider in building these capacities. Including sketches of the twenty-one arts education partnerships selected for this study, bibliographic resources, a research context for the study, and reflections from many Arts Survive! Advisory Group Members and Senior Consultants, the report provides tools for promoting the long-term sustainability of arts education partnerships between schools and arts organizations, artists, and/or cultural institutions. Whether you are an artist working in the schools, a teacher, an arts administrator, a parent, a school administrator, a school board member, or a funder, we hope these tools will be useful as you consider how best to sustain the life of your arts education partnership. 

Reviewing Education and the Arts Project (REAP) Executive Summary

The executive summary of research conducted to link academic success and art education. 

Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners

In this richly-illustrated book, the culmination of a two-year research collaboration between teachers and pedagogues from Reggio Emilia and researchers from Project Zero illuminates ways in which documentation can foster both individual and group learning, creating a relationship between them. They identify methods and processes that will enable educators to reflect not only on the learning processes of children but also on those of adults. 

The Evidence Process: A Collaborative Approach to Understanding and Improving Teaching...

The Evidence Process: A Collaborative Approach to Understanding and Improving Teaching and Learning, 2001. A handbook for administrators, staff developers, and teachers interested in, or already involved in, looking at student work collaboratively with colleagues. It describes and provides resources for an inquiry process developed by Project Zero working with public elementary and middle schools in Massachusetts.