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Minnesota Academic Standards in the Arts K-12 REVISED
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The Minnesota Academic Standards in the Arts focus on student achievement in five arts areas: visual arts, media arts, dance, music, and theatre.

Educators often integrate other content areas with the arts to reach and engage children and young adults who learn through multiple learning styles and demonstrate their learning through performance and other artistic forms.

The arts standards were revised in by a citizen-committee comprised of K-12 teachers, parents, postsecondary faculty, business representatives and others.  Expertise among the members spanned the arts areas of dance, media arts, music, theater and visual arts. The revised standards proposed by the committee are currently proceeding through the administrative rulemaking process. If adopted into rule, the revised state standards would be implemented by the 2010-11 school year for those districts that use state standards.

Saint Paul Public Schools is using the New Revised Minnesota State Academic Standards (3/4/09) which are based on National Arts Standards. The District is currently writing curriculum and assessments in alignment with the revised standards.

For more information about the rulemaking process visit: http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/Legislation/Rulemaking/index.html.

For information about K-12 Arts Standards in Minnesota visit:
http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/Academic_Excellence/Academic_Standards/Arts/index.html

Minnesota Arts Standards 2003
The Minnesota Academic Standards in the Arts (PDF) focus on student achievement in six distinct arts areas: dance, literary arts, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts. Students in arts education often integrate other subject areas with the arts to creatively express themselves and demonstrate their learning through projects or performance.

National Standards
The National Standards in Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Art
The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be able to do in the arts. The standards were developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations, through a grant administered by The National Association for Music Education (MENC).

McREL
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (MCREL) Compendium of K-12 Standards
McREL's online Compendium is a synthesis of standards documents from professional subject-area organizations and selected state standards. Standards and benchmarks are presented in 14 content areas. New with the 4th edition are pre-kindergarten benchmarks and specific knowledge and skill statements developed from an analysis of content-area benchmarks.