Resources for Teaching Artists

NJ State Council on the Arts

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

NJ Arts Education

Arts Education Partnership

NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards Visual and Performing Arts

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver

The Kennedy Center Arts Edge

Art Education Links

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our touch, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience which reveals the human spirit
- ee cummings

Americans for the Arts

National Dance Education Organization

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

Art Links on the World Wide Web

The National Registry of Dance Education

Arts News

Art Educator Drop In Center

Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Educational Resources

National Endowment for the Humanities

The Congress on Research in Dance

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
- Paul Klee

Sir Ken Robinson

National Association for the Education of Young Children

National Institute for Early Education Research

The Teachers College Record

Art gives serious outer shape to serious inner yearning, and if these yearnings are informed by less rich objects they go to sleep, they die or eventually express themselves in the harmful symptoms of search that fill the pages of the daily paper.
- Eric Booth