Networks & Strategic Leadership
We’ve spent the last few decades honing evidence-based processes, crafting replicable models and building national networks that work to empower educators, maximize resources and realize meaningful change.
Kennedy Center Education Networks, Conferences, & Research
How do we best engage and uplift learners through the arts? How do we ensure that our efforts are delivering impact? Through close collaboration and innovation—informed by science and guided by evidence-based best practices.
Arts Education Conferences & Events
Best practices, innovative case studies, poignant storytelling, idea-sharing from the field—these reside at the heart of our Conferences and Events. We bring together experts, educators, artists and impassioned innovators for interactive collaboration.
Arts Education Research & Resources
Our dedicated Research and Evaluation team assesses and measures the results of our arts education efforts to identify the most effective ways to engage all learners—and to share these results with the field.
Kennedy Center Education
Generous support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.
Gifts and grants to educational programs at the Kennedy Center are provided by A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation; Annenberg Foundation; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Bank of America; Bender Foundation, Inc.; Carter and Melissa Cafritz Trust; Carnegie Corporation of New York; DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; Estée Lauder; Flocabulary; Harman Family Foundation; The Hearst Foundations; the Herb Alpert Foundation; the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation; William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; the Kimsey Endowment; The King-White Family Foundation and Dr. J. Douglas White; Laird Norton Family Foundation; Lois and Richard England Family Foundation; Dr. Gary Mather and Ms. Christina Co Mather; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; The Morningstar Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation;
Music Theatre International; Myra and Leura Younker Endowment Fund; the National Endowment for the Arts; Newman’s Own Foundation; Nordstrom; Park Foundation, Inc.; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Prince Charitable Trusts; Soundtrap; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; Rosemary Kennedy Education Fund; The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates; The Victory Foundation; The Volgenau Foundation; and Volkswagen Group of America. Additional support is provided by the National Committee for the Performing Arts.
The content of these programs may have been developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education but does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education. You should not assume endorsement by the federal government.