TeachArtsOhio

April 13, 2023 | Agency Forest Park High School Outreach Customizable Artist Residencies for PK-12 Students in Ohio’s Schools The TeachArtsOhio (TAO) program brings schools together with teaching artists to share engaging, personal, high-quality arts learning experiences. Residencies can vary from short introductory exposures lasting as few as 10 days to in-depth immersive experiences spanning a full school year. Creative and experienced teaching artists, through TAO grant awards, offer learners the opportunity to participate in a unique creative process, bridge cultural differences, develop fresh ways of learning through the arts, and realize lasting benefits from collaboration with professional artists who are experienced in working with school-age children and youth. TAO is a school’s opportunity to work with a professional teaching artist to supplement arts instruction. Through a collaborative effort between teachers, artists, and administrators, the program supports in-depth, sustained arts instruction and does not reduce a school’s commitment to engage professional arts educators to teach the arts. GRANT AWARDS Grants are awarded to schools to cover teaching artist fees. The total professional fee for teaching artists in the TeachArtsOhio program is $350 per residency day. A residency day must mirror a full school day, including arrival and departure times for teachers. TeachArtsOhio grantees generally receive their full request. ELIGIBILITY Eligible organizations are Ohio’s public, private, charter, or parochial schools (pre-kindergarten through grade 12). Organizations whose primary focus is to provide childcare are ineligible to apply. Every application must include estimated in-kind administrator and teacher time in the budget. HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS TeachArtsOhio provides one-year grants. A school may apply for no more than one grant per year. Similar applications (e.g., from separate schools within a district with the same artist) should emphasize the distinct characteristics between each residency and how unique populations of students are served. All artist fees (i.e., 100 percent) are paid using OAC funds, alleviating financial burdens from school and district budgets. Schools are required to provide all program-related materials and supplies. While no cash match is required, in-kind contributions from the school include program-related materials and supplies, teacher and administrator participation and time, and other project-specific items described in the application. Grantees may work with the Ohio Arts Council to select an Ohio teaching artist from the Ohio Teaching Artist Roster or from other sources in consultation with OAC staff. Pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 3319.391, criminal records checks are required for non-licensed employees and contractors (e.g., teaching artists) of a school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school upon their initial hire. Artists, teachers, and administrators collaboratively plan an in-depth arts learning residency that engages participants of varying ages, cultures, experiences, and ability levels within a mutually supportive and creative learning environment. Artists also share their own artistic work with students, teachers, administrators, school board members, parent organizations, and the larger community. Every TeachArtsOhio grantee is required to work with their teaching artist to design and hold at least one professional development workshop(s) involving staff in one or more participatory arts experiences to deepen their understanding of the creative process and artists’ discipline(s) (typically creative writing, dance, design, drama/theatre, media arts, music, visual arts, or traditional arts) during the residency. Applicants may apply for residencies in one of three categories, with the number of planned residency days customizable in accordance with school needs (e.g., an applicant might choose to schedule residency activities with different grade levels on different days, or customize a structure that gives large groups of students an opportunity to engage in the art form in an impactful way): Grading Period: a residency of approximately 10-40 days over six to nine weeks A grading period residency provides time to fully explore the essential aspects of an art form(s) and includes sufficient time to complete an in-depth culminating project such as a performance, program, or exhibition presented to the school and community to demonstrate arts learning. Full Semester: a residency of approximately 30-60 days over 18 weeks A full semester residency allows a teaching artist to have a deep and lasting impact on a group of learners. A residency of this length also provides the opportunity for multifaceted staff professional development geared at skill development, pedagogy, and long-term practice. A full semester residency culminates with one or more in-depth concluding projects such as a performance, program, or exhibition presented to the school and community to demonstrate arts and other academic subject(s) learning. Academic Year: a residency of approximately 50-120 days over 36 weeks A residency lasting a full academic year provides the most in-depth experience possible, giving learners an entire year to learn, grow, and mature in their understanding of an art form(s). An applicant might choose sophisticated arts projects that include a variety of grade levels, opportunities for performances or exhibitions for the school and community, and arts integrated experiences spanning the curriculum. A residency of this duration creates a long-term learning environment where the teacher, administrator, and teaching artist serve as an educational team to positively impact teaching and learning in and through the arts in a way that will provide long-lasting benefits for all involved. An academic year residency culminates with one or more in-depth concluding projects such as a performance, program, or exhibition pr