Are you interested in furthering your instructional capacity to serve each unique students’ needs, or leveraging the arts in your school for greater impact? If so, join us for the Connected Arts Networks (CAN) Town Hall! CAN is a multi-year grant initiative creating nationwide virtual Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with educators in visual/media arts, music, theatre, and dance. CAN’s purpose is to build a sustainable model of professional learning for arts educators in public schools and public charters to strengthen their pedagogy, instruction, and leadership skills to better serve students. In fall of 2023, we are recruiting up to 600 arts educators (150 educators per art form) to serve as PLC participants! These PLCs will meet virtually each month of the school year from January of 2024 through June of 2026 with a primary focus on professional learning in the areas of equity, diversity and inclusion; social–emotional learning; and teacher leadership through standards-based arts instruction. At this Town Hall, you will hear from current CAN Teacher Leaders in each art form who are part of the inaugural cohort, in addition to learning more about the program, benefits, and how to apply! This program is a partnership between the New York City Department of Education’s Arts Office, the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA), the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), and the National Art Education Association (NAEA).

In honor of the National Art Education Association’s (NAEA) 75th Anniversary, NAEA and Crayola Education partnered to offer the NAEA–Crayola Creativity Ambassadors Program, providing 75 visual arts education professionals with professional learning, resources, and support to cultivate Creative Leadership Teams within their learning communities. Join us for this NAEA Town Hall Conversation as we hear directly from NAEA–Crayola Creativity Ambassadors who continue to lead, inspire, and encourage colleagues to leverage creativity as a foundational practice in teaching and learning.

It’s time! The 2022–2023 school year has begun. Let’s connect with colleagues and experts as they share their ideas and strategies for the year ahead. We’ll discuss classroom practices, inspiration for lesson ideas, budgets and supplies, and navigating school systems and bureaucracies. We’ll top it all off with advocacy and the Arts Are Education campaign.

Triumphs often come about by overcoming challenges, and we usually learn a lot along the way. Join us for this candid and interactive conversation exploring the ups, downs, and in-betweens that have shaped us as visual arts, design, and media arts educators. When you register, feel free to share your questions to help guide the conversation.

Join us as we explore myths, discoveries, and “aha!” moments in visual arts, design, and media arts education that have shaped the perspectives and practices of our panelists. And, our conversation will be driven by questions asked by you! Get ready to share your revelations as an educator and receive new insight in return. 2022 is the year of NAEA’s 75th anniversary! In honor of this milestone, our Town Hall series this year will continue to tackle fresh content that is relevant to visual arts, design, and media arts educators while looking back at NAEA’s history and ahead to our future. Each conversation will reflect on lessons learned and discoveries made through an honest dialogue acknowledging challenges, accomplishments, and growth.

2022 is the year of NAEA’s 75th Anniversary! In honor of this milestone, our Town Hall series this year will continue to tackle fresh content that is relevant to visual arts, design, and media arts educators while looking back at NAEA’s history and ahead to our future. Each conversation will reflect on lessons learned and discoveries made through an honest dialogue acknowledging challenges, accomplishments, and growth. Our conversation will explore past, present, and future approaches to keeping our visual arts, design, and media arts community vibrant and healthy, including social emotional learning (SEL) and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I).

Join experts in conversation as we explore innovations that have arisen out of the necessity of this unique moment in time. We’ll explore on-the-ground creative strategies for instruction; student demos; displays and exhibitions; social emotional learning (SEL); and STEAM for classrooms, studios, and media labs. Also, we’ll take a look at this topic from the practicing artist’s point of view.

NAEA’s new Strategic Vision identifies design as an opportunity for growth across the Association. At this Town Hall, we will explore what design can look like as a future pathway for our learners, from concept to production. We’ll hear from working designers in the field, art educators, and one of our National Art Honor Society students as well!

We learned so much from the challenges and shifts of the last unique school year. How can we build on that to help create the best experience for our learners and ourselves now and in the potentially uncertain months ahead? Join with colleagues as they share strategies and approaches to help us start 2021–22 with a fresh perspective.

Join us for the June NAEA Town Hall Conversation as we collaborate to inspire your inner artist. We know you are likely immersed daily in artmaking with your learners, but can we help you tend to your own practice? Connect with a variety of arts educators who have found ways to honor their own artmaking as well as create unique experiences for their communities through projects and workshops. And, it’s perfect timing, as we prepare for summer and look forward to picking up our own tools and dedicating some quality time to making, creating, and expressing!