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Joan Ashcraft

Contact:

phone: 520-225-4900
fax: 520-225-4863
joan.ashcraft@tusd.k12.az.us

Dr. Joan Ashcraft is Director of Fine Arts for the Tucson Unified School district. She has collaboratively designed arts education projects, programs, and curriculum including the Governor’s award-winning Tucson Arts Connections (TAC). Dr. Ashcraft has built partnerships to design and implement sequential arts instruction for teachers and students through the Fine Arts Summer Institute, pre-concert teacher in-services, school time multicultural matinees, artists’ school residencies, ARTSmobile visits, the Fine Arts Youth Academy, and internships for teachers and University students.

Dr. Ashcraft co-designed Opening Minds through the Arts recognized nationally for its significant arts education research and awarded the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Federal Grant. Under her direction, TUSD and its collaborative partners received a 21^st Century Community Learning Centers grant to implement after school, weekend and summer programs infusing arts and literacy into the core curriculum.

Dr. Ashcraft has led curriculum design teams for all arts disciplines including the Arizona Standards in Arts. She serves on the Advisory Board for Partners in Education at the John F. Kennedy Center, and is a member of the Arts Education Partnership, Music Educators National Conference, American Choral Director Association and the Alliance for Arts Education. Dr. Ashcraft is committed to developing collaborative partnerships to assure the presence of arts programs in Arizona schools and to develop future audiences for non-profit organizations.

Areas of Expertise:

Arts Education
Curriculum Development
Dance
Music
Theatre
Visual Arts/Media Arts