Instructional+Toolkit

**ARTS EDUCATION ESSENTIAL STANDARDS CROSSWALKS...** The links below provide initial crosswalk documents for Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts that compare the current //Standard Course of Study// to the newly adopted//Essential Standards for Arts Education//. These documents are not intended to answer all questions about the nuance of the new standards versus the old but instead are intended to help schools and teachers get a head start on internalizing and planning to teach the new standards, which are scheduled to be implemented in the 2012-13 school year.


 * Dance**


 * Music**


 * Theatre Arts**


 * Visual Arts**

=ARTS EDUCATION UNPACKING STANDARDS... = Below you will find unpacking standards documents to support teachers in their understanding of the common core and essential standards. The unpacking documents demonstrate at a granular level the knowledge and skills students are expected to master at a particular grade.


 * Dance**


 * Music**


 * Theatre Arts**


 * Visual Arts**