The Online Evidence of Teacher and Student Learning (ETSL) Database is an on-line space and a tool for collaborating on

• planning an arts-integrated unit,
• documenting what happens in the classroom,
• assessing student learning,
• reflecting on your own learning as educators.

You May Now Access Units in the ETSL Database! Please note our Terms of Use.

An ETSL Unit is a portfolio of documents, resources, journal entries. Users can attach documents, photos, audio clips, and video. Users can continue to enter information into the ETSL Unit throughout the project and then refine their "portfolio" as the work progresses.

An ETSL Unit generally:

• documents the story of an arts-integrated unit of study in one classroom,
• has a teaching artist and a classroom teacher as its editors and creators.

The goal of the ETSL Unit is to show evidence of teacher and student learning through data collection, assessment and peer-to-peer documentation and evaluation. The first year of piloting, 2007-2008 follows many years of hard work by the field of funded partnerships to improve their work. This year, 2008-2009 we have switched to a fully digital module hosted on the ESP Website.

• Click here to see what the ETSL Unit looks like before any information has been added.
  Once you have completed an ETSL Registration Form, you will be sent information to access your own ETSL Unit where you will be able to answer the prompts and edit the information listed in each section.
• Click here to see a sample ETSL Unit that has completed by an ESP School-wide partnership.
  The above link is an ETSL Unit completed in the 2007-2008 school year by PS 213, Queens and Studio in a School in dissemination with PS 309, Brooklyn.

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ETSL is for anyone engaged an Arts-in-Education partnership in New York State.

Currently, registration is open for any cultural organization and school partnership. Space limitations may require us, in the future, to restrict how many units a partnership may request or how many partnerships may register for ETSL.

You may also download the PowerPoint version of the ETSL Unit, using the links below:

• ETSL Template- PowerPoint Version
  Author: NYSCA
• ETSL Template- PowerPoint Version for Printing
  Author: NYSCA
  Note: Use this 5-page version of the ETSL to save paper when printing and sharing hard copies of the blank template
• Online Document Sharing
  If you are unable to email your PowerPoint Version ETSL Unit, you can use the free following websites to send and recieve large files.
  • Box.net
• DIGI[cation] e-Portfolios
• sendspace

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If you would like to create an Online ETSL Unit, please submit the registration form below. Each registration form is for one ETSL Unit. If you would like to create multiple ETSL Units, you will need to submit a form for each unit you would like created.

• ETSL Registration Form

Once you've submitted your ETSL Registration Form, log-in information will be sent to the participants outlined in the registration form. You will also receive a copy of the User's Guide. The User Guide includes screen shots and easy to follow how-tos that will guide you through using the Online ETSL Database. Click here to download it.

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If you'd like to receive support while working on your ETSL Unit, feel free to reach out to your local RLLN to find partnerships in your area that are engaged in the ETSL process. You can find contact information for your RLLN Coordinator here.

You can apply for additional funding through the ETSL TAP Grant administered by Partners for Arts Education. ETSL TAP supports consultant time with NYSCA’s ETSL trainers so that your partnership can develop the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively use the ETSL template to plan, assess, and document arts-integrated units of study. Click here to learn more.

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• Assess what you care about
  This is a helpful tool to use when looking at student work.
• Steps to Start
  This document helps you consider key ideas before you start working on an ETSL Unit such as audience, inquiry and when/how you will work on the ETSL Unit.
• New York City DOE Consent Form to Photograph, Film or Videotape a Student
• Search the ETSL Database