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The GLADNET Association refers to the Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network. The Network brings together research centres, universities, enterprises, government departments, trade unions, and organizations of and for persons with disabilities. Their common goal is to advance competitive employment and training opportunities for persons with disabilities. The GLADNET website provides a public medium where stakeholders can gather to share ideas and information on a global scale in order to arrive at joint approaches to common problems.

More than 20 000 entries and definitions in English, French and Spanish in the area of rehabilitation and social integration.

The International Labour Organization is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. It was founded in 1919 and is the only surviving major creation of the Treaty of Versailles which brought the League of Nations into being and it became the first specialized agency of the UN in 1946.

IUCISD serves as a clearinghouse for information on international social development. The Consortium fosters collaboration among personnel of organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank, UNESCO, and UNICEF as well as among professional associations in the human services and institutions of higher learning. IUCISD is a well-established and widely recognized international catalyst for sharing ideas among many nations and across many cultures.

UNESCO functions as a laboratory of ideas and a standard-setter to forge universal agreements on emerging ethical issues. The Organization also serves as a clearinghouse – for the dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge – while helping Member States to build their human and institutional capacities in diverse fields. In short, UNESCO promotes international co-operation among its 190* Member States and six Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication.

The World Bank Group’s mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to empower poor people to take advantage of these opportunities.

The SPA is a professional association open for membership to academics and practitioners working in social policy, and to others with an interest in UK and international social policy.

Americans for the Arts is the nation’s leading arts information clearinghouse, with a 40-year record of objective arts industry research. As the preeminent arts advocacy organization, it is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.

A private, nonprofit coalition of education, arts, business, philanthropic, and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in school, life, and work. Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning is a report that compiles new evidence of enhanced learning and achievement when students are involved in a variety of arts experiences. This report is an excellent companion piece to Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons From School Districts That Value Arts Education. Taken together, these reports provide arts education supporters with both evidence of why the arts are critical to teaching and learning and how to build strong district-wide arts education. Both studies were developed by the Arts Education Partnership with the support of the GE Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities .

A collaboration between the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts (with support from the U.S. Department of Education), ArtsEdge provides links to a wealth of arts education information. The main purpose of ArtsEdge is to support the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through creative and appropriate uses of technology.

A clearinghouse of online resources pertaining to folklore, anthropology, traditional arts, oral history, and community-based education. Co-sponsored by the National Task Force on Folk Arts in Education and City Lore, CARTS is designed to serve the needs of K-12 educators, students, and community members interested in developing meaningful linkages between school curricula and local cultural traditions. Teachers will be interested in the folklorist mentoring project. A stipend is available for teachers to develop folklore-related projects in their classrooms.

CAPE is composed of 11 neighborhood-based partnerships involving 30 Chicago Public Schools, 52 professional arts organizations, and 27 community organizations. The partnerships are committed to jointly planning arts-integrated curriculum and to developing innovative approaches to teaching, learning, and school improvement through the arts. The neighborhoods are located throughout the city, the student populations are culturally diverse, and the arts organizations range from small, grassroots organizations involved in specific communities to large nationally recognized institutions.

Different Ways of Knowing (DwoK) was created by the Galef Institute, which was founded in 1989. Part philosophy, part model curriculum, part professional development, DwoK is a validated approach to systemic reform for grades K through 8 that takes no shortcuts and provides much needed technical assistance to schools and classrooms over the long haul. DwoK is a comprehensive school reform initiative that helps teachers facilitate standards-driven student-centered learning in their classrooms. It offers a three-years course of study for teachers blended with powerful curriculum tools for kindergarten through 8th grade.

Launched in 1996, the Empire State Partnership (ESP) unites the New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) strategic plan to raise standards for all students with the New York State Council on the Arts’ (NYSCA) long-standing goal of integrating and reinstating the arts into the State’s classrooms on a permanent basis. The New York State Alliance for Arts Education (NYSAAE), the Center for Arts Education (CAE), and the New York Foundation for the Arts are partners in the delivery of the ESP Professional Development Program. The ESP’s mission is to identify, develop, and support best practices in local cultural/educational collaborations, focused on achievement of the New York State Learning Standards.

Project Zero’s mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.

Education Improvement & School Reform Through the Arts

The Initiative seeks to re-institutionalize the arts as a part of the core curriculum and to bring together a newly energized coalition around school reform through the arts. Grants are awarded to individual schools or a network of schools that have formed partnerships with not-for-profit arts organizations, community-based organizations, and/or colleges and universities to work towards school reform by institutionalizing and instructional curriculum in and through the arts.

The Center for Arts Education is an independent, not-for-profit organization committed to restoring and sustaining arts education as an essential part of every child’s education in the New York City public schools. CAE identifies, funds, and supports exemplary partnerships and programs that demonstrate how the arts contribute to learning and student achievement. They are dedicated to influencing educational and fiscal policies that will ultimately result in the restoration of arts education in New York City’s public schools.

Performing arts centers and presenting organizations across the county willing to partner with local schools and school systems may be eligible to participate in a professional development program of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The Centers in Schools Institute is currently accepting applications under its Partners in Education program from organizations interested in learning how to conduct teacher workshops that will help bring the performing arts into elementary and secondary schools. Complete guidelines and application materials are available online.

The Institute’s approach to aesthetic education involves teachers and their students in a process of carefully planned observation and analysis of works of art linked to participation in activities designed to illuminate the relationship between artistic choice and aesthetic response. Toward this end, a working partnership has been formed between school and the Institute, and between artists and teachers working in classrooms.

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Published by IDEAS in a project financed by National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Published by International Disability Research Centre on Social & Economic Innovation.

Published by the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.