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Within this page on the PAEA web page there are several categories that breaks down their resources from: Museums and Collections; Art History and Research; Art Education; Websites for State Departments of Education; and more.

The Resources that PAEA has laid out also allows for various areas for educators to research and find multitudes of information.



Standards
[|Standards] The Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities describe what students should know and be able to do at the end of grades 3, 5, 8 and 12 in the visual and performing arts and the understanding about humanities context within the arts. The arts include dance, music, theatre and visual arts. The arts and the humanities are interconnected through the inclusion of history, criticism and aesthetics. In addition, the humanities include literature and language, philosophy, social studies and world languages.

Grants
[|Grants] There are several grants available for educators to apply for.

Founded for the purpose of recognizing the exceptional qualities possessed by the nation's teachers, the National Teachers Hall of Fame has inducted 55 teachers from 25 states since the inaugural induction in 1992. Five teachers are selected for induction annually. Candidates may be current or retired teachers who have at least 20 years of full-time classroom teaching in pre-K through high school. Both public and private schoolteachers will be considered. http://www.nthf.org
 * National Teachers Hall of Fame**

The Arts@Work grants encourage public secondary school arts specialists to collaborate with technology savvy educators and the business community to develop examples of technology-integrated arts curricula that meet high standards for student achievement. This program is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. @http://www.nfie.org/programs/artsatwork.htm
 * "The NEA Foundation's Arts@Work Grant Program"**

A National Endowment for the Arts** online resource of Federal funding available for arts initiatives through national, state and local funding programs. Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities
 * General Grant Sources


 Youth Art Month is an annual observance each March to emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art programs. Youth Art Month provides a forum for acknowledging skills that are fostered through experience in the visual arts that are not possilbe in other subjects offered in the curriculum. 

[] The following link will lead you to where there are a series of forms for submission, including Instructions for submission, the theme for the year, templates (if any exist), previous years work that was submitted.

**Professional Concerns**
To start the Professional Concerns is always the help of an FYI. The PAEA has given a mini FYI brochure to start off with. [| http://www.paea.org/content/view/231/256/] From there it is broken down into several categories: [|Resources] [|Research] [|Professional Development] (still under construction) [|Arts in Special Ed.]

**Divisions**
This section of the PAEA gives a break down of the several areas of study and professional development, each of which come with their own resources. Along with the resources, each page also includes awards, and upcoming events in each of these areas to keep educators and students aware of the opportunities in the arts in Pennsylvania. [|Elementary] [|Middle] [|Secondary] [|Higher Ed.] [|Museum Ed.] [|Administration] [|Non-Public Ed.] [|Retired] [|Student]

**Special Programs**
To end up the resources with in the PAEA is special programs. The special programs each have their own resources as well, awards, applications, nomination opportunities, as well as archives. [|Special Programs] [|Yearly Award Recipients] [|Nomination Form] [|Awards Archives]