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State of Alaska > Department of Education & Early Development > Alaska
State Council on the Arts > Artist in School
Arts in Schools
Artists in Schools Grants support matching grants to Schools and School Districts to support high quality residencies with teaching artists. Districts/Schools receiving an AIS grant serve as chief sponsor, designer and coordinator of the program. Professional development for teachers in arts integration is an important part of the program.
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Students of Cordova School, Elizabeth Ware,
teaching artist, 2010.
All grants are administered through one grant program. AIS Grants will fund a maximum of $5,000 for individual schools and $15,000 for district wide applications. No one district may receive more than a total of $15,000. Individual schools must provide a 1/3 cash and/or in-kind of the total grant expenses. Districts must provide a 1:1 match. Housing and perdiem is the responsibility of the school and/or district.
Qualified nonprofit organizations may assist by applying on behalf of a school district but must have a letter from the district stating that the organization is applying on behalf of the district. For single schools, residencies typically are for a two weeks. For districts, residencies are typically for longer periods of time and can be for multiple art forms at multiple schools. All residencies must augment the school district’s arts curriculum and provide professional development for teachers in arts integration. |
Purpose: District Applications
- To augment the district curriculum in visual, performing or literary arts
- To assist teachers learn how to integrate the arts into their regular classrooms
- To provide professional development to local artists to qualify as teaching artists
District applications will:
- Match the grant on a 1:1 basis.
- Have a school board approved arts or cultural curriculum.
- Identify why the residency program is being conducted and what the goals are for the program beyond statistical goals – what should the students have learned during the residency, what should the teachers have learned, what should the administrators have learned.
- Have a good evaluation process of the residency
- Have a method to select the schools to be involved (if not all schools are involved each year). In the application explain how the distribution will be fairly spread over the long term.
- Identify the professional development available to the regular classroom teacher to learn how to integrate the arts. District applicants must be members of the Alaska Arts Education Consortium.
- Identify how the teaching artists will be selected and what workshops are being conducted throughout the year for the professional development of the teaching artists.
- Identify a school coordinator for each school involved in the residency program
- Have a committee made up of teachers, parents and students to help determine the direction of the residency.
Purpose: Individual School Applications
- To augment the schools visual, performing or literary arts curriculum
- To assist teachers learn how to integrate the arts into their regular classroom.
Successful applications will:
- Provide 1/3 of the total cost of the residency.
- Identify the arts/cultural curriculum that the residency is meant to augment. If there is no board approved arts/cultural curriculum applicant must explain the steps being taken to get an approved curriculum.
- Identify why the residency program is being conducted and what the goals are for the residency beyond statistical goals.
- Have a good evaluation process set up to measure the goals of the residency
- Have a committee made up of teachers, parents, students to help coordinate the residency. One person should be named the lead or InSchool Coordinator for the residency.
- Identify the professional development opportunities for the teachers of the school in regards to the residency.
Technical assistance in the form of artist contract templates, procedure guidelines, etc. are available from the AIE staff. If your district/school has not applied under the AIS Grants program in the past you MUST contact the AIE staff at ; 907-269-6682 or toll free in Alaska 1-888-278-7424.
Deadlines for submission are April 15 for the following school year and November 1 for the current school year. Applications and guidelines are available under “AIS Grant Application Forms” on the right side of this screen. They may also be found on line at . Read all information carefully. If you have questions, please call or email the AIE Program staff.
FY11 Artist in Schools Grants
Alaska Arts Southeast, Inc. for the Sitka School District
Aleutians East School District: King Cove School
Anchorage School District: Airport Heights Elementary; Aquarian Charter School; Chugach Optional; College Gate Elementary ; Kasuun Elementary PTA; Mears Middle School, Williwaw School
Bering Strait School District
Chugach Extension School District: Whittier School, Tatitlek School.
Chatham School District: Gustavus School
Fairbanks Arts Association for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
Juneau Arts & Humanities Council for the Juneau School District
Kenai Peninsula School District: Bunnell Street Art Center; Seward PTSA; Sterling Elementary School PTA; Tustumena Elementary, McNeil Canyon Elementary School.
Kodiak Island School District: Peterson Elementary
Lake & Peninsula School District: Chignik Lagoon Village Council, Nondalton School
Lower Kuskokwim School District
Mat Su School District: Cottonwood School,Denali Arts Council for Talkeetna Elementary, Trapper Creek Elementary, Susitna Valley High
Nome School District: Anvil City Science Academy
North Slope Borough School District
Pribilof School District: St. Paul and St. George
New Visions Grants are three-year matching grants to assist School Districts in developing new models of arts integration and residency programs. The three districts who were invited to apply for this model program are:
Kodiak School District
Copper River School District
Bering Straits School District
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