AOEU Supports the Georgia Fine Arts Diploma Seal

The Art of Education University is proud to support Georgia’s mission to celebrate art education. The Georgia Fine Arts Diploma Seal empowers students by recognizing their dedication and passion for the arts. AOEU provides insights and strategies to help educators align their programs with Seal criteria, building confidence for both teachers and students.

Significance of the Georgia Fine Arts Diploma Seal

The Georgia Fine Arts Diploma Seal celebrates student achievement while reinforcing the value of arts education for students, teachers, administrators, and community partners.

AOEU is here to help Georgia educators make connections and support student, teacher, and program success.

Art Students
  • Art Students
  • Art Teachers
  • District Art Departments
  • Community Partners & Arts Associations

Earning the Fine Arts Diploma Seal offers recognition for college applications, scholarships, and graduation honors. Success comes from a strong art program that fosters:

  • Recognition for college applications, scholarships, and graduation honors
  • Development of diverse art-specific skills, personal voice, and academic success skills
  • Positive community impact
  • College- and career-readiness with well-rounded academic skills

Teachers whose students achieve the Fine Arts Diploma Seal may experience benefits such as:

  • Increased student interest and program recruitment
  • Opportunities to refine curriculum and boost success skills
  • Alignment with evaluation tools as performance evidence

Fine Arts Diploma Seal achievements lead to these trends for district administrators:

  • Greater support for art programs
  • Stronger alignment with district strategic plans
  • Improved teacher retention and recruitment
  • Potential for increased art program funding
  • Reduced loss of art program units

As the Fine Arts Diploma Seal gains recognition, art community partners and associations may see:

  • More partnerships with school districts
  • Growth in citizen advocacy and membership
  • More contributions, donations, and sponsorships
  • Stronger political advocacy

Plan Your Year of Success

Help your students earn the prestigious Georgia Fine Arts Diploma Seal by meeting key criteria in fine arts disciplines. Explore the essential skills and steps needed for success.

Download The Seal Criteria and Success Skills

Ensure your curriculum targets essential success skills, helping students build confidence and prepare for the Georgia Fine Arts Diploma Seal. Download the tool to support student success and program growth.

Download The Curriculum Planning Guide

How FLEX + PRO Align With Georgia’s Goals

FLEX and PRO offer curriculum and professional development resources that align with the Georgia Fine Arts Diploma Seal success skills. Whether enhancing or refining your program, FLEX and PRO can ensure teaching and learning success.

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How Can FLEX Encompass Essential Success Skills?

 FLEX offers a diverse library of Seal-aligned materials, including media-focused curriculums, assessments, and technique-building resources. Explore how FLEX can support your curriculum planning and help align with the Georgia Fine Arts Diploma Seal expectations.

A Sampling of Ways FLEX can Support

Media Experimentation & Skill Building
  • Manipulate media through experimentation: Rethinking Media Lesson Plan
  • Explore multiple techniques to solve creative problems: Sketchbook Scramble Lesson Plan
  • Hypothesize how media choice conveys ideas: Testing a Material Hypothesis Lesson Plan
  • Enhance creative risk-taking practices: Experimentation, Practice, and Persistence Rubric Assessment
Personal Voice & Reflective Practices
  • Explore personal themes and messaging in work: What’s the Message? Assessment
  • Build a personal and meaningful portfolio: Curatorial Rationale Writing Guide Writing Support
  • Practice visual literacy within personal works and critiques: What is Visual Literacy Anchor Chart
  • Research and investigate to plan: Artistic Investigation Worksheet
Innovation & Creative Problem-Solving
  • Practice Growth Mindset: Growth Self-Assessment & Action Plan Reflection
  • Embrace curiosity as a learning strategy: A Recipe for Stop Motion Lesson Plan
  • Discuss Creative Careers: Photojournalist (6-12) Career Profile
  • Connect creative challenges with growth opportunities: Planning My Artistic Growth Lesson Plan
Advocacy & Community Connections
  • Discuss/create Public Art: Public Art Process Anchor Chart
  • Discuss Art/Art History and Cultural impact: Artist Bios/AP Art History List
  • Celebrate Artist Diversity: Dianna Settles: Georgia Artist Artist Bio
  • Practice arts advocacy strategies: Personally Relevant Art Advocacy Reference
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How Can PRO Support Implementation of Essential Success Skills?

FLEX covers “what to teach,” while PRO focuses on “how to teach,” offering 600+ hours of PD on media skills, instructional strategies, and more. PRO can target an area of professional growth or meet the curiosity of your lifelong learning mindset. 

Explore the PRO Pack catalog for resources that align with the Georgia Fine Arts Diploma Seal success skills.

Media Experimentation & Skill Building
  • Micro Labs in the Secondary Art Room
  • Creating with Unexpected Materials
  • Advanced Approaches to Still Life
  • Mixed Media Basics
  • Intermediate Acrylic Techniques
  • Digital Drawing Basics
  • Innovative Ceramics Methods
Personal Voice & Reflective Practices
  • Advancing Students’ Visual Literacy Skills
  • Advanced 2D Portfolio Driven Courses
  • Ideation and Sustained Investigation
  • Helping Students Create a Body of Work
  • Crafting Meaningful Artist Statements
  • Methods for Analyzing Art
Innovation & Creative Problem-Solving
  • Promoting Experimentation, Practice, and Persistence in the Art Room
  • Planning for Choice at the High School Level
  • Readying Students for College and Careers
  • Teaching for Creativity
  • Growth Mindset in the Art Room
  • Infusing Design Thinking
Advocacy & Community Connections
  • Service Learning in Secondary Art
  • Partnering With Your Local Art Community
  • Growing Your Art Program
  • Contemporary Art in the Secondary Classroom
  • Art History in the Secondary Art Room
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Testimonials

Teachers Flex

Jamey Williams

Art Teacher Aldine Independent TX

FLEX has become an indispensable tool in my daily teaching routine. Whether I need simple handouts or comprehensive lesson plans, FLEX has it all. Its extensive library supports and enriches every medium I teach, offering a plethora of resources from vocabulary aids to engaging warm-up activities. Utilizing their complete lesson plans has certainly lightened my workload.

Erika Chapman

VAPA Arts Coordinator Manteca CA

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.

Julie Levesque

Visual Arts Coordinator Pinellas County School District FL

“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.”

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