Districts receive 2026–2027 fine arts curriculum funding on July 1, 2025 — now is the time to plan. Use these tools — state alignments, checklists, and talking points — to advocate for FLEX before visual arts funding decisions are finalized.
Because Florida’s visual arts adoption focuses on traditional, grade-banded textbooks, The Art of Education made a strategic decision not to participate in the official state-level process. FLEX offers a dynamic, digital K–12 solution—and districts can still use state curriculum funds to adopt it; we’re here to support you every step of the way.
FLEX’s newest district-only feature offers pre-built K-12 visual arts units—ready to customize for your students.
New Teacher & Program Support
k-12 curriculum coverage
Full-Year, Pre-Built Plans
Comprehensive Lesson Plans
Ready-to-Teach and Flexible
Vertical Alignment
Biographies to help students connect with a diverse set of historical, contemporary, and living artists.
Yayoi Kusama
Zaha Hadid
Kara Walker
Jacob Lawrence
Hokusai
Barbara Hepworth
Engaging step-by-step lessons complete with key objectives, teaching strategies, material lists, and more.
LINES AND SHAPES OF UNITY
PINCHED PATTERNS IN NATURE
VISUAL STORYTELLING
WE GO TOGETHER
POP ART SELFIES
ARTIST STATEMENT STOP-MOTION
DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
Premium student-facing worksheets, reference materials, anchor charts, lists, planning sheets, and more.
the 5 w’s of pop art
what is a metaphor?
colored pencil techniques
grid drawing practice
basic drawing vocabulary
Ad-free animated videos capture student attention and scaffold learning around critical art concepts.
What Is Abstract Expressionism?
Seascape Drawing
What Are Fiber Arts?
Targeted and open-ended assessments, including formative, summative, reflections, critiques, and more.
visual journal reflection
my art career
learning goals self assessment
experimentation, practice and persistence
artist statement
Success Stories
FLEX is already driving success in Florida districts, supporting both local initiatives and the Florida Seal of Fine Arts.
FLEX & Florida
FLEX meets Florida’s standards while offering more than a traditional textbook — with ongoing content updates, customization, and a vast resource library. To support your adoption process, you can access all required state alignment documents and compliance forms below.
FLEX & Florida
Use these key steps to make a strong case for FLEX with available state funds.
Funding
Big changes are here for Florida instructional materials funding—understanding them now will help your district plan ahead.
For details on leveraging these funds effectively, check out our guide.
Complete the form to get personalized support with funding, adoption, and implementation.
Testimonials
With FLEX, the lesson format and materials have made it super easy to refresh our curriculum, which keeps art teachers engaged. If art teachers are bored, students are bored.
“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.”
