A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Summer of 2001, Vol. 12 No. 2. The newsletter features an article, "Developing Art-Centered Units of Study." August 2001 marks the fifth and final year of Transforming Education through the Arts Challenge (TETAC) and subsequently North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts partnership with it. The newsletter offers abbreviated model of TETAC's guidelines for designing units of study based on works of art.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring of 2001, Vol. 12 No. 1. The newsletter features a unit of study, "Picturing Identity: The Self-Portrait and the Autobiography," which draws the parallels between self-portraits and autobiographies and focuses on meaningful connections between the two creative art forms. The unit is designed for eight grade student but the newsletter recommendations the adaption for other levels as well. The newsletter includes the learning unit and the lessons as well as a list of resource materials.

The North Texas newsletter, a University of North Texas publication for alumni and friends, Fall 2000. New Perspectives. Children discovered the art of learning. The newsletter features articles on North Texas news in education and education interested media, such article, "Molding Minds With Art," UNT programs make learning a work of art by Kelley Reese, focuses on The Getty Center for Education in the Arts and North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, consortia collaborations towards transforming education using discipline-based art methods.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Summer of 2000, Vol. 11 No. 2. The newsletter features an article "The Art of Ecology: Exploring the History, Philosophy, and Artwork of Friedensreich Hundertwasser." This issues of the NTIEVA newsletters focuses on an artists who has been described as "a self-appointed goodwill ambassador to the planet." The artist, Austrian Friedensreich Hundertwasser artwork brings public awareness of environmental problems and provides solutions through art.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring Semester, 2000, Vol. 11 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Telling Stories of Immigration Through Art," American History as the Context for Art. This newsletter concentrates on the great wave of immigration to the United States in the late 19th century through symbolized works of art. The State of Liberty especially is vised as a patriotic symbol.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Summer Semester, 1999, Vol. 10 No. 2. The newsletter features an article, "Integrating Art and Music," Interdisciplinary Connections: Art and Music. The focus on the article is the study of human culture, and how throughout time from culture to culture people have expressed themselves and recorded their lives and history by the ways of arts and music. The article will take a look at the way visual arts and music play an important role in communication between cultures and societies.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring Semester, 1999, Vol. 10 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Integrating Art And Science," stating scientists and artists both require keen sense of observation. Scientific themes are frequently reflected in works of arts and raise more questions than answers, causing people to examine the use of earth's resources and demands.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Fall Semester, 1998, Vol. 9 No. 3. The newsletter features an article, "Integrating Art and Mathematics," stating that artists from different times and cultures have been fascinated by mathematical concepts and have used them to create artwork. This newsletter will explore the significant art and math activities for students to help them understand math in real-life situations.

An article featured in Arts & Activities newsletter, by Pamela Geiger Stephens and Michelle Mattoon. Pamela Geieger Stephens is a teaching fellow and graduate research assistant at the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, University of North Texas, and Michelle Mattoon is a pre-service art specialist at the University of North Texas. Their article, "Thinking like an Artist," is about a puzzle activity for school children to help develop their own original ideas and encourages careful observation of a work of art. Stephens and Mattoon have developed this puzzle activity to allow students to act like an art critic and aesthetician as they describe an image.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Summer Semester, 1998, Vol. 9 No. 2. The newsletter features an article, "Integrating Art and Language Arts," Interdisciplinary Connections between Art and Language Arts. The newsletter states that they are many parallels between art and language art as learning becomes connection and cumulative when the two correlated in a classroom. The newsletter will discuss the visual arts with the language arts as art criticism appears in the written form.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring Semester, 1998, Vol. 9 No. 2. The newsletter features an article, "The Art-Centered School," discussing art and school reform. The newsletter states that it has become clear that comprehensive art education is making a significant difference in Texas schools, as the abilities of students are demonstrate through their thinking, ability to read, write and talk about art and artists.

An article published in the Principal newsletter, in the Arts in Education section. The article titled, "Improving Student Performance through the Arts" was written by Russ Chapman, a principal for the Shady Brook Elementary School in Bedford, Texas. Chapman writes that he began his career in elementary school over twenty-five years ago and he never centered his mind that arts education could become a powerful tool for boosting academic performance. Chapman's' article details the comprehensive art education ideas and how it was introduced and implemented.

An article published in Arts & Activities magazine in the Integrating the curriculum section, titled "Peruvian Moche Jewelry," by Berniece Patterson. Patterson is an art teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Denton Texas. Patterson states that it is important for children to study art and cultures as it impacts the way art is produced and it's importance in history. She introduced her Moche culture of Peru studies to her students, asking them to imagine finding tombs and discovering art treasures and having them analyze Moche's jewelry.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Fall Semester, 1997, Vol. 8 No. 3. The newsletter features an article, "Learning Through Architecture," Why Teach Architecture? The newsletters states that students in the classroom are familiar with architecture even if they are not consciously aware of the structures. The newsletter provides suggested resources and the architecture of art museums to involve students into exploring architecture.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Summer Semester, 1997, Vol. 8 No. 2. The newsletter features an article, "Public Art, Public Controversy," Public Art. This newsletter states that public art is a term that challenges definition, stating that art in public places is a more accurate description. The newsletter discuss the issues and controversies surrounding public art, the first is that public art is rarely democratic and instead represents power of government. The second, public art often becomes the focus for complaints that have nothing to do with its value and the third, a call for public art to move away from the elitist, modernist aesthetic.

Hispanic Outlook magazine, featuring an article on the Getty Trust. The Getty Center has seven realms under their belt, museums, five institutions and a grant program, their mission is to reach out to groups, typically groups that are underrepresented in the art world. The Getty shows that students who take art courses consistently score higher in both math and verbal parts of the SATs, as such the Getty Education Institute for the Arts has teamed with the Annenberg Foundation and the National Arts Education Consortium to select and fund thirty-six Arts Partner Schools.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Spring Semester, 1997, Vol. 8 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Art Production," defining art production. The purpose of this newsletter is to discuss art production in the simplest terms, often referring to making of art objects and it includes artistic efforts that rang from children's fingerprinting to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.

An article published in Arts & Activities magazine in the Pixel Palette section, titled "Viewing History Through A Computer Window," by Berniece Patterson. Patterson is an art teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Denton Texas. Patterson writes in her article that in a technological society she wants her students to be competent in creating original artworks on the computer, and in her classroom she has twenty-eight Macintosh computers with the software ClarisWorks installed. Patterson believes that it is important for students to learn about artists, their styles and what has influenced them throughout history and with the combined technology it makes it more possible.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Winter 1996, Vol. 7 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Aesthetics: Questioning The Nature of Art," higher level of thinking through aesthetics. The newsletter states that students become involved in aesthetic inquiry when something puzzles them about works of art. The newsletter will go over the topics and questions of what defines aesthetics and how to determine such in works of art.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Fall Semester, 1996, Vol. 7 No. 3. The newsletter features an article, "Art History: Not Just Art In The Dark," Defining Art History. This newsletters examines art history as being one of the four foundational disciplines of discipline-based art education, along with art production, art criticism and aesthetics. Art history provides the historical context in which all artistic achievement is considered.

A page from the "In House" newsletter, published by the University of North Texas. This page details information of upcoming guest lecturers and achievements by professors and educators. Dr. William McCarter, regents professor of visual arts is giving his lecture "Integration of Visual Arts Into the Public School Curriculum," May 2.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Summer 1996, Vol. 7 No. 2. The newsletter features an article, "Japanese Art And Culture: Sun & Star 1996," a festival where teachers, students and parents in Texas will have firsthand experience in art and culture of the Japanese by attending the Sun & Star 1996. The festival, worth $10 million, will include exhibitions of art, transnational dance and theater performances and educational programs.

A newsletter of Horace, vol. 12, No. 5 published by The Coalition of Essentials Schools at Brown University. The newsletter is featuring an article on the arts and arts education in regards to school curriculum reformation. Educators understand that the arts provide schools with a powerful alternative model of teaching and learning and they fear that aesthetics, criticism, creation and art history will be "watered down." Teachers use art and arts education to assess students' perceptions, productions and their reflection of artistic learning.

A North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts newsletter for the Winter 1995, Vol. 6 No. 1. The newsletter features an article, "Marcus Foundation Awards Collaborative Grants for Art Education in Texas," awarding the grant to the University of North Texas and the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The rest of the newsletters focuses on the relationship that quality art education has with the curriculum content and learning outcomes and discussing works of that that follows into the discipline-based art education.