District Arts Education Leaders

Every PSU is encouraged to have a District Arts Education Leader (DAEL) liaison to the NCDPI Arts Education Team. District leads are invited to to edit the DAEL directory with updated contact information to ensure communication with the field is accurate and up to date. 

Information pertinent to the District Arts Education Leader can be found below.

Important Course Coding Update for 22-23 School Year

View the document version of this memo.

Introduction 

S681 passed in June of 2020 and became Session Law SL2020-78 in July.

In order to accurately track courses which satisfy the arts education graduation requirement, it is imperative to ensure arts education courses are correct, including the middle school local electives codes which were released in Spring 2022.

New Course Codes

Any course that does not deliver the entirety of the Standard Course of Study of the arts education discipline should use a local elective code. Examples could include courses students take for nine weeks in a “wheel” rotation, locally developed history of hip-hop courses, or audio mixing/producing courses coded as music courses which do not utilize the Music SCOS. Options for coding these courses are listed below:

Middle School Courses

  • 51312Y0: 6-8 Dance Local Elective
  • 52972Y0: 6-8 Music Local Elective
  • 53812Y0: 6-8 Theatre Arts Local Elective
  • 54212Y0: 6-8 Visual Arts Local Elective
  • 57002Y0: 6-8 Other Local Arts Elective (Example: Arts Wheel covering multiple arts subjects. Please use the above, discipline-specific, code if possible)

High School Courses

  • 51302X0: 9-12 Dance Local Elective
  • 52962X0: 9-12 Music Local Elective
  • 53802X0: 9-12 Theatre Arts Local Elective
  • 54202X0: 9-12 Visual Arts Local Elective
  • 57002X0: 9-12 Other Local Arts Elective (Example: Arts Wheel covering multiple arts subjects. Please use the above, discipline-specific, code if possible)
  • 57005X0: 9-12 Other Local Arts Elective Honors (For the 24-25 school year, use this code for all honors-level local arts electives)

These codes might be used for courses which teach only appreciation or history of an artform, a specific technological tool for a current artform (i.e. Audacity or ProTools), or a shortened course designed to simply expose students to a portion of the artform. Media Arts courses with a locally developed curriculum should use the “57” codes.

 

DAEL Resources

Tab/Accordion Items

Over many years, the Arts Ed team has crafted the Arts Ed Administrator Guides, or “Look-For” documents, for principals and other administrators that are a K-12 Teacher Evaluation Support Tool for the North Carolina Educator Evaluation System (NCEES) Standards 1-5.

Each Arts Ed Administrator Guide starts with an overview of an arts education program, followed by information about the structure and goals of the Arts Education Essential Standards and Comprehensive Arts Education, and then a compilation of model practices, organized and aligned according to NCEES. The information also includes language familiar to the National Core Arts Standards to best reflect what artistic practices students and teachers are engaging in during the class period.

District Arts Education Leaders (DAELs) meet monthly as a PLC. This group meets in person twice yearly. Please reach out to laura.stauderman@dpi.nc.gov if you would like to join these meetings.

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