Dr. Katie Sweeney:

It is in the area of arts education where it is supported, developed and enhanced. It builds confidence and passion and is an advocating entity. It values the arts and establishment of the structure and is based on quality. There are a number of elements to the Arts in Education Portal, including the digital map and the research repository. The big things are projects and partnerships. People submit items. The teachers, artists and students who are engaged in them work together. They might need coaching, mentoring or perhaps a bursary award to be able to develop their documentation, the photography or a video of what they are doing and the portal provides them. The projects and partnerships always have an artist, a teacher and students involved. They are the general criteria. There are videos on projects and partnerships that are exemplars of best practice of the the highest quality. One can watch, listen and read about them. There are also guest bloggers.