ARTS EVERY DAY INC
Every Student. Every School. Every Day.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Numerous studies reveal six benefits associated with arts in schools, including better reading and language skills, mathematics skills, thinking skills, social skills, motivation to learn and a positive school environment (Ruppert, 2006). Research also tells us that students in Baltimore City do not have equal access to the arts in school.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Arts Every Day Schools Program
In partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools,
Arts Every Day has created an arts integration schools model (Arts Every Day
Schools Program). This program is based on the work done by Dallas Big Thought
and the Minneapolis Public Schools: Arts for Academic Achievement. The Arts
Every Day Schools Program allows schools to purchase programming listed on the
Arts Every Day website featuring Baltimore’s many arts and cultural
institutions and teaching artists. Purchased programming is tracked in order to
ensure high-quality effective programming and provide feedback to arts and
cultural institutions and teaching artists.
The Arts Every Day Schools
Program has been developed for high-need City Schools that self-select based
upon the interest and involvement of principals and staff interested in
integrating arts into the classroom curriculum. Each school will design a
program that meets the unique characteristics of its student population and the
community. It is important to note that the Arts Every Day Schools Program is
not a replacement for sequential arts instruction, but is rather an extension
of arts learning. Arts Every Day will not go into a school that does not have
arts teacher(s) in one or more art forms. Arts integration cannot happen where
there is not first discipline-based arts instruction.
Any Baltimore City Public School
may apply to become an Arts Every Day School. A school in the Arts Every Day
Schools Program is expected to progress through levels of arts integration.
Arts Every Day Schools examine their organizational structures and available
resources to include scheduling and staffing. Faculty and staff work to
restructure their schools to support both sequential, discipline-based arts
instruction and arts integration across the curriculum. The goal is not to have
a model product, but rather a model process. In addition to funding received for arts-integrated
experiences, Arts Every Day provides Arts Every Day Schools with professional
development opportunities, training, and one-on-one advising of the Arts
Integration Coach in each school by Arts Every Day staff, and membership in a
growing network of schools. The Arts Integration Coach in each school is a
faculty member selected by the principal. The Arts Integration Coach serves two
major roles: 1) as the main contact between Arts Every Day and the school and
2) as the staff resource for arts integration.
It is important to note that if
a school does not meet program requirements, it will be placed on probationary
status. Continued failure to meet requirements will result in the school being
dropped from the Arts Every Day Schools Program in order to allow another City
School to take advantage of the opportunity. However, the school that is no
longer in the program is eligible to re-apply when the administration feels the
staff is ready for the commitment to arts integration. The long-term goal is to
have every City School be an Arts Every Day School, with every City Schools
student experiencing the arts every day.
Partnership Development through the Website
In addition to an
increasing the number of students and educators being reached through the Arts
Every Day Schools Program as described above, another constituency is being
reached through Arts Every Day’s website (www.artseveryday.org). The website brings the power of the arts to educators,
parents and the community-at-large via access to arts and cultural experiences,
tools and programs for the classroom and a forum for sharing successes and
arts-integrated experiences, lessons and residencies.
Impact Fund
Arts Every Day’s Impact Fund supports large scale and/or permanently installed projects that connect individual schools to local artists and their surrounding community. Our Impact Fund awards $15,000 to Baltimore City Public Schools to implement arts projects that will have a long-term impact on their students.
Where we work
Awards
Arts Every Day Website: Official Honoree in Education 2009
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences
"Miss Jean" Worthley Award for Service to Families and Children 2009
Maryland Public Television
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of links and collaborations with external organizations that support student learning and its priority tasks
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Partnership Development through the Website
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Arts Every Day administers a database of arts partners including teaching artists and arts and cultural organizations.
Total number of works exhibited
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This metric captures the number of student artists that participate in one of our exhibits, the 10X10 and Courting Art Baltimore.
Number of teachers trained
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Arts Every Day Schools Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This metric captures the number of Arts Every Day partner schools in the Baltimore City Public School System. Partner schools have access to a holistic support for arts integration.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Arts Every Day remains committed to serving the students, educators, schools, and cultural community of Baltimore City. The following priorities and goals provide a roadmap for broadening the impact of Arts Every Day within Baltimore City.
Priority 1: Expand and deepen our impact within the Baltimore City Public Schools
Priority 2: Expand Arts Every Day's role as the essential link between Baltimore City Schools and the Baltimore City arts and cultural community
Priority 3: Grow Arts Every Day's organizational capacity and financial resources essential for long-term sustainability
Priority 4: Advocate for equitable access to the arts for all Baltimore City students
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Arts Every Day partners with Baltimore City Public Schools to seek to build and sustain a creative learning culture in high-need schools throughout Baltimore City. We work to empower educators as leaders within their school communities. We invest in the youth of Baltimore by creating a bridge between Baltimore City classrooms and the stage, the maker space, the studio, and the museum. We help our City's teachers introduce arts-based learning in the classroom, a proven effective method of engaging students and enabling them to learn, no matter what the subject.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Arts Every Day is on a mission to make arts-rich education a reality for every student in Baltimore City. We define an arts rich education as one that includes 1) ARTS EDUCATION: sequential arts instruction in music, visual art, dance, theater, media arts; 2) ARTS INTEGRATION teaching and learning that engages students in fine and performing arts as primary pathways to learning math, English language arts, science, and social studies; 3) ARTS PARTNERSHIPS: experiences that connect classroom learning to Baltimore's unique arts community of teaching artists and cultural organizations; 4) CELEBRATION OF BALTIMORE'S YOUNG ARTISTS: opportunities for students to serve in leadership, participate in exhibits, performances, festivals, and showcases that celebrate and elevate youth voice. 5) CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING: An approach to teaching that makes meaningful connections between what students learn in school and their cultures, languages, and life experiences.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Arts Every Day serves the entire Baltimore City Public Schools district. Through our Schools Program, we reach 41 Baltimore City Schools and 21,000 students per year. Additionally, through our open grant programs, the Arts Equipment Fund and the Public Art Fund, we can be/are responsive to District needs in real time and serve an additional 3,000 - 6,000 students per year. Since the implementation of the 2018 fine arts strategic plan, there has been a 40% increase in fine arts teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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ARTS EVERY DAY INC
Board of directorsas of 02/16/2023
Harold Watson
Baltimore City Public School Music Teacher, Commodore John Rodgers Elementary and Middle School
Term: 2017 -
Annette Anselmi
Maryland Health & Higher Educational Facilities Authority
C. Sylvia Brown
No Affiliation
Cecil Flamer
Brown Capital Management
Carolyn Freeland
Homewood Community Partners Initiative/Johns Hopkins University
Mark Joseph
Joseph Family Holdings, Inc.
Fred Lazarus
Maryland Institute College of Art
Maggie McIntosh
Maryland House of Representatives
Anne Perkins
No Affiliation
Nancy Fagan
Highlandtown Elementary and Middle #215
Jodi Dunn
No Affiliation
David Gregory
McKennon, Shelton, & Henn LLP
Amanda Kodeck
The Walters Art Museum
Frankie Martin
Maryland Institute College of Art
Liz Nilson
Elizabeth Nuss
Goucher College
Christian Ventimiglia
Brown Advisory LLC
Harold Watson
Commodore John Rodgers Elementary and Middle School
Rosiland Cauthen
Baltimore School for the Arts
Anne South
Maryland Institute College of Art
Shyla Rao
City Neighbors Hamilton
Barlow Savidge
M&T Bank
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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