The Arts and Humanities website is designed to offer resources to teachers in the fields of art, theatre, dance, music, and world languages. The website posts current information regarding the annual statewide elementary professional training in arts integration, ArtsPowered Schools, including a link to the institute's website. The website includes information covering new projects, such as the Visual Art Gallery, where art teachers may post their students' art works online in an electronic art exhibit. The newest addition to the website is the graphic organizer, Arts and Humanities: A Crosswalk Across the Curriculum, which highlights several current methods of using the arts as a tool to promote academic success in the Common Core subjects. The arts provide both vibrant content area with significant 21st century skills and also a means to promote progress in all academic areas of study. The Crosswalk offers a graphic snapshot of how the arts connect to a well-rounded education for all Idaho students.
Visual Art Virtual Gallery
Educators and students take a look at this great opportunity!
Be the first Idaho student to replace the graphic above with your original artwork.
Be one of many students to have your artwork displayed on the Idaho State Department of Education website.
Here are the simple steps to this dream of every artist—to be exhibited in a public space!
- Teachers K-12 submit your best ever art lesson, accompanied with digital photos of the best student exemplars of the lesson to pjwenner@sde.idaho.gov
- Follow the SDE adopted lesson plan template
- Lesson plans selected with accompanying student work will earn the educator $100.00 per lesson plan
- Student work selected from the teacher’s plan will be displayed on the SDE digital gallery
- Students will receive certificates of recognition and digital exhibition
- Best of show will be exhibited at the SDE
- State Superintendent pick will be printed and displayed at the Department of Education
To inquire, log into the following website: http://www.artsonia.com/
There you will find the method for submitting artword and filling out parent permission forms
 Guidelines for Humanities Course Graduation Requirement - NEW |
Articles on Arts, Creativity, and 21st Century Skills
| Stone NAEA 2008 |
| Creativity In Classroom - Music |
 Music Skills In The 21st Century |
| National Arts Education Public Awareness Campaign |
Humanities Requirements NCLB and Idaho Code
| Arts As Core NCLB |
Download Commissioned Music for Idaho Music Educatorsble
| Sign-in to download commissioned works by the State Department of Education |
Links to State and National Arts Organizations
- National Endowment for the Arts NEA
- Idaho Commission on the Arts Education
- Artists in Residence-Idaho Commission on the Arts
- Idaho Art Education Association IAEA
- National Art Education Association-NAEA
- Music Educators National Conference
- National Association for Music Education NAfME
- Idaho Music Educators Association - IMEA
- Idaho Orff-Schulwerk Association
- American Choral Directors Association of Idaho ACDA
- ACDA of Idaho
- American Alliance for Theatre and Education
- National Dance Education Organization
- National Dance Association