For art teachers by art teachers.
The only on-demand PD platform designed for K–12 art teachers. School districts across the country utilize PRO to give their visual arts team training, hands-on tutorials, and resources.
About PRO
PRO offers subject-specific professional development, which is 10 times more effective than general PD.
Discover hands-on tutorials, essential resources, and strategies to immediately implement in the classroom. With PRO, teachers are able to:
PRO FOr Districts
Dive deep into your passions, or focus on learning new skills. Each Pack features proven strategies and real-world tactics to get the most from your students.
Administrators will have a ready-to-use tool for teacher support. Teachers can learn individually or collaboratively as a PLC and will have access to thousands of art-room-ready resources, including assessments, rubrics, anchor charts, and infographics.
Accrue PD hours for each Pack you complete, and automatically track learning as it happens.
PRO Packs
Get relevant training, hands-on tutorials, and essential resources with every PRO Pack, and enjoy a continually expanding library of new content.
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LATEST RELEASE
Teachers and districts that use Clever, the single sign-on platform, can now find The Art of Education University in the Clever library, making it faster and easier to access all that AOEU has to offer. Login to your AOEU account using your Clever login.
Take the next step on the visual literacy path with this expert-led PRO Pack offering practical strategies to enrich your curriculum by blending reading and writing with visual analysis. Use the guide to get all of the relevant resources in one click (including transcripts of videos) and learn ways to enhance your student’s ability to interpret images and artworks.
Focus on the foundational concept of visual literacy to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in images. This PRO Pack includes a guide to provide you with all related resources to find innovative approaches to visual literacy to enhance students’ analytical skills and empower them to create compelling artworks infused with unique ideas and visual narratives.
Teaching students true grit in the art room requires dedication and an open mind. Our latest PRO Pack delves into experimentation, practice and persistence and the profound impact they have on fostering curiosity and resilience in learners. Transform your teaching approach, and inspire your students to embrace curiosity, resilience, and creativity.
FLEX AND PRO
FLEX Curriculum is the perfect complement to PRO Learning, providing access to a rich library of lessons, videos, resources, and assessments you can immediately put to use in your art room.
Together, FLEX and PRO empower you to experience professional development that directly connects to the curriculum you teach
MEMBERSHIP
All members have access to self-service onboarding, training, and support materials plus regular software and content updates. Enterprise district licenses provide additional benefits to support implementation at scale helping your entire team get the most from FLEX and PRO.
| FLEX + PRO Benefits | Individual Subscription | Enterprise District License |
|---|---|---|
| Live Tech Support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Help Center | ✓ | ✓ |
| Implementation Materials | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asynchronous Training | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic Software Updates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic Resource Updates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Administrator License | ✓ | |
| Transferable Teacher Licenses | ✓ | |
| Customer Success Manager | ✓ | |
| AOEU Guided Implementation | ✓ | |
| Technical Onboarding | ✓ | |
| Advocacy Tools and Support | ✓ | |
| Technical Onboarding | ✓ | |
| Live Initial Product Training | ✓ | |
| Advanced Product Training Options | ✓ | |
| District Class Builder | ✓ | |
| District Analytics Dashboard–Coming in 2024! | ✓ | |
Benefits
When teachers engage in relevant professional development, their students directly benefit from improvements in classroom management, revitalized procedures, and exploration of new mediums.
With all the equipment, materials, and procedures, there’s no classroom quite like an art room. PRO Packs cover a range of topics, from instructional strategies to organization, media to assessment, and beyond. Teachers can explore their own artistic interests individually or build a sense of community with fellow art educators in their district as they gain insights specific to the art room.
Incorporating PRO Learning district-wide is a win-win for admins and teachers. PRO is easy to implement, teachers will feel supported by engaging PD, and there’s an assurance that the content is built for art educators by art educators. PRO can be used to train new teachers or develop new skills across the district, such as creating a ceramics program.
Funding
There’s curriculum funding available for your team. We can help you advocate for it.
Your district already has funding set aside for PD—make sure it’s invested in your team.
Here are three primary funding pathways—local, ESSER, and ESSA—you should consider when looking to secure monies for visual arts solutions like FLEX + PRO.
Approaching your administration can be intimidating, so if you’re unsure of how to ask for FLEX + PRO in your district, we are here to help. Check out these tips to help you navigate the conversation.
ARTS STANDARDS
Learn more about state requirements and how PRO can help you earn professional development hours.
Testimonials
PRO Packs have been incredibly helpful in helping teachers feel supported. Veteran teachers and new teachers are able to pick and pull what they want or use all of it. Sometimes, I’m unable to have a 20–30 minute discussion with them. I can direct them to this resource.
Love it all! It is so hard to find good art resources and you provide such a great variety. The PRO Learning videos are so helpful with so many examples and explanations! It has been a lifesaver for me as a first-year high school art teacher … Thank you!
“The big difference with the FLEX Curriculum is the quality of the lessons. Our district is very studio based. It’s all about projects and hands-on learning. It’s doing, creating, making—it’s a very artistic mindset type of learning. These FLEX lessons really lend themselves to what we’re trying to do, and we feel that it really helps our new art teachers.”
