PAEA- The Pennsylvania Art Education Association

The Pennsylvania Art Education Association is the state level organization of the National Art Education Association.

I have held and currently hold multiple positions on the PAEA board.

Past Position:
2015 PAEA Conference Co-Chair

Current (2017-2018) Positions:
Region 7 Co-Representative
2018 Youth Art Month Exhibit Chair
2018 PAEA Conference Co-Chair
Art Education Technology Interest Group Chair

NAEA National Convention in New York City, March 2016

Media Arts are being explored by art teachers across the country because of the evolution of the cameras used in photography classes as well as the computers and Adobe software used by schools for photo editing, newspaper, and yearbook layouts.  Media Arts were a major focus at the National Art Education Association Conference in New York City in March 2016.  I attended this conference to gain additional insight as to what was happening Media Arts Education. I found invigorating sessions focused on including photography, film, gaming, animation, virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D modeling, and 3D printing.

It was also interesting to see a presentation by Cory Wilkerson of NCCAS and Andrew Tehran of Newark Public Schools in Newark, NJ, and Debi Rapson on The Model Cornerstone Assessments for the National Media Arts Standards for which I was a pilot teacher and my student's High School work was benchmarked and displayed at: http://nationalartsstandards.org/mca/media-arts

NAEA's Support of the National Media Arts Standards

NAEA has supported the national core arts standards, and embraces the National Visual Arts Standards along with National Media Arts Standards.  Further evidence of NAEA's position on the standards is available at: https://www.arteducators.org/learn-tools/national-visual-arts-standards

NAEA Webinar 11/1/17- Unpacking the Media Arts Standards Through the Lens of Student Work

I joined with Cory Wilkerson and Andrew Tehran in presenting a national Webinar, presented on behalf of NAEA.  We discussed the benefit of the Model Cornerstone Assessments for the Media Arts Standards. We showed student work and answered questions from the virtual audience. 

Here is the description from the Webinar:

"Don’t miss this interactive exploration of the new National Media Arts Standards! Join the National Coalition of Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) Project Manager, Cory Wilkerson, as she offers an introduction to the Standards; and art educators Robb Bomboy and Andrew Teheran as they bring the Standards to life by guiding you through scoring of student work collected during the 2016 national pilot of the Standards. Learn how the Standards are used in classrooms, and envision what media arts instruction could look like in your school!"

Art Education Technology PAEAArtEdTech

In an effort to identify teachers working in the media arts, provide professional development, and introduce the National Media Arts Standards, I chair an interest group called Art Ed Tech.  PAEA's interest groups must align with NAEA's interest groups.  There is not currently a "Media Arts Interest Goup" at the National level, but ArtEdTech aligns most closely.  I revived the group within PAEA and we held our first informal meeting at the State conference in Pittsburgh in October of 2018.  We have established a facebook group, PAEAArtEdTech

PAEA State Conference Presentations - Pittsburgh- October 2017

I presented two sessions on how to incorporate the Media Arts Standards into the Film classroom and into a 3D digital design and animation with Cory Wilkerson. Cory introduced the standards, then I unpacked how they can be applied in the highschool classroom.  The sessions were well recieved and you can see those presentations here:

Media Arts: Teaching Filmmaking in the Art Classroom

Getting Started with 3D Modeling, Scanning, Printing, and Animation in the Classroom

SEADAE- The State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education

SEADAE                        

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The State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE), serving arts education across the nation through our members and curriculum directors at state departments of education whose job responsibilities include the arts (dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts).  

SEADAE’s home website provides a public portal for bulletin board news, member contact info, state websites, and a blog. Our SEADAE wikispace holds public resources for arts assessment, conferences and more.

Professional Development Course Author:

In the Fall of 2017, SEADAE contracted me as a Subject Matter Expert in Media Arts.  They are looking for ways to provide professional development for teachers using the national media arts standards in the classroom.  I was asked to develop two courses for educators. Completion is worth college credit.  I put about 90 hours of work into writing these courses.  I'm proud of the work I'm doing, and I'm excited to work with State Agency Directors from Kansas (Joyce Huser) and New Hampshire (Marcia McCaffery, as well as Project Manager Cory Wilkerson as we form a team to finalize the courses in the editing phase.  



ARTS 124: Media Arts: Filmmaking
ARTS 125: Media Arts: Teaching Digital 3D Design & Animation`

The National Media Arts Standards and Integration into Curriculum

I have made it a goal to implement the media arts standards in our curriculum at Cumberland Valley. As such, I have identified and written Priority Standards into the curriculum of our digital modeling program.  Here are the CV priority standards from my lesson plans: 

Artistic Processes	Anchor Standards	Essential Questions
Creating	MA:Cr3	What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality?
Creating	MA:Cr3	How do media artists improve/ refine their work?
Producing	MA:Pr5	What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved?
Producing	MA:Pr5	How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions?
Producing	MA:Pr5	How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Producing	MA:Pr6	How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Producing	MA:Pr6	How can presenting or sharing media artworks in a public format help a media artist learn and grow?
Responding	MA:Re9	How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks?
Responding	MA:Re9	When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Connecting	MA:Cn10	How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks?
Connecting	MA:Cn10	How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Connecting	MA:Cn11	How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values?
Connecting	MA:Cn11	How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist’s understanding and work?

I've been color coding my lesson plans to develop a way to visually track coverage of the artistic processes. I've also included the priority standards in my lesson plans.

NCCAS- The National Coalition of Core Arts Standards

National Coalition for Core Arts Standards

NCCAS Model Cornerstone Assessment Pilot Group

In the Fall of 2015, the art department chair, Paul Nagle was attending the EPLC Leadership conference where he met Cory Wilkerson. Cory was searching on behalf of NCCAS for teachers working with the media arts for a pilot group established to administer the Model Cornerstone Assessments for the National Media Arts Standards.  I applied and was accepted.  Throughout the 15-16 school year, I worked with my students to try out the MCA's.  This was an interesting process, I enjoyed working with the other eight teachers around the nation, and I learned a great deal from them.  My students learned additional methods of production, organization, and evaluation.

The Model Cornerstone Assessments are outlined on the National Core Arts Standards website, along with my students' examples posted in the High School Proficient and High School Advanced categories. Any work listed with the prefix "MA-RB" belongs to my students.

NCCAS Media Arts Committee

We formed this Ad hoc committee for the purpose establishing a professional organization for teachers in the media arts. We meet monthly online, and are planning a professional development event at PATTAN in coordination with David O. Deitz at PDE.  That event is scheduled for April 23, 2018.

NCCAS Overview and History

The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) is the name for the group of organizations that committed to developing the 2014 National Core Arts Standards. Standards describe what students know and are able to do when provided with a quality arts education program. In 2011, coalition members agreed to work together to re-conceptualize the prior (and first) set of national arts standards, the 1994 National Arts Education Standards.


The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards committed to:

• developing a next generation of voluntary arts education standards built on the foundation created by the 1994 document,
• supporting the 21st-century needs of students and teachers,
• helping to ensure that all students are college and career ready, and
• affirming the place of arts education in a balanced core curriculum. 

Between 2011 and 2014 these nationally recognized arts organizations came together for the purpose of creating a conceptual framework for standards development, organizing writing teams, and designing an interactive website for a totally re-imagined set of voluntary standards for arts education. The College Board, another NCCAS member, provided significant research support for the project. This collaborative endeavor of research and standards writing resulted in once again affirming that the arts are core or central to a well-rounded education.

• American Alliance for Theatre and Education
• Americans for the Arts
• Educational Theatre Association
• National Art Education Association
• National Association for Music Education
• National Dance Education Organization
• NCCAS Media Arts Committee
• State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education
• Young Audiences Arts for Learning

From 2011 to 2014, the five standards-writing teams and NCCAS leadership worked in person and virtually to create the new arts standards. The June 2014 launch of the national arts standards website marked the end of this three-year journey that had been a historic partnership between 9 organizations, 70 writers, and over 6000 educators, administrators, researchers, parents, students, and community members who reviewed the work along the way.A key objective for NCCAS was to make the creation of the new arts standards an inclusive process. To meet this objective, PK-12 teachers and teacher preparation faculty members from institutes of higher education were included as members of discipline specific standards writing teams. By utilizing an online survey tool, a broad range of arts educators and decision-makers from across the United States and abroad were able to provide feedback during the writing process. This inclusive and transparent process was used to assure that this would be a set of national standards written by arts educators for arts educators. Consequently, the 2014 arts standards are grounded in arts education best practices and supported by a comprehensive set of research studies provided by the College Board.