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Faced with an ongoing teacher shortage, many California arts education advocates have been championing the use of career technical education (CTE) to attract new arts teachers to help fulfill the state’s historic arts mandate. The sticking point has been that the credential has only been applied to secondary classrooms, leaving elementary students out.
The proposal aims to help working artists become arts teachers in elementary schools.
Award-winning writer/performer Alex Edelman performs 90-minute solo show "Just for Us" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Jan. 9-21.
Allison Gamlen has always believed the show must go on. During the depths of the pandemic, when schools were shuttered and many children were suffering from fear and isolation, the
The lessons arts educators hope to impart go far beyond acting, however. Many also hope to help create a nurturing environment for a generation of students living through tumultuous times.