— Gerald Hayward, Former Director of Policy Analysis for California Education
The Alameda County Office of Education, the Alameda County Arts Commission, and the Arts In Education Initiative at UC Berkeley provide countywide leadership to the Alameda County Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership.
Since 1998, the Alameda County Office of Education’s Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership has forged long-term partnerships with funding leaders at the national, state and regional level:
• US Department of Education
• California Department of Education
• California County Superintendents Educational Services Association
• Ford Foundation
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Walter and Elise Haas Fund
• East Bay Community Foundation
• San Francisco Foundation
• Inside Bay Area.com
The Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership works closely with key national and regional leaders in the field of arts education and arts learning advocacy:
• Project Zero, Harvard’s Graduate School of Education
• CAPE, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
• Douglas Gould and Company
• California Alliance for Arts Education
• California Arts Council
• Alameda County Art Commission
• Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts
• Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools
• Arts in Education Initiative, Sited at UC Berkeley
The Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership partners with the 18 school districts in Alameda County to bring arts learning to every child, in every school, every day:
• Alameda
• Albany
• Berkeley
• Castro Valley
• Dublin
• Emery
• Fremont
• Hayward
• Livermore
• Mountain House
• New Haven
• Newark
• Oakland
• Piedmont
• Pleasanton
• San Leandro
• San Lorenzo
• Sunol Glen
Alliance partner organizations bring the arts – music, dance, drama, literary, media and visual art – to students in our schools. Learn more about the 100 local arts and community organizations that support deep learning in classrooms across the learning.
Since 1999, the Oakland Tribune has been the exclusive media sponsor of Art IS Education, a project of the Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership.