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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.
For many artists, teaching is a dream gig, a way to enrich lives as well as stimulate higher levels of critical thinking in a generation hard hit by pandemic learning loss.
Access to the arts is an issue of equity, Goldberg says, particularly for the first-generation college students she teaches.
Many colleges are hustling to create new teacher pipelines to feed the growing need for the next generation of arts educators in California schools.