Donna is a licensed teacher and principal with over 20 years of experience ranging all grade levels. However, it is the middle school art room and its occasionally baffling inhabitants that hold the strongest place in her teacher’s heart. In addition to her classroom and administrative experience, Donna is a strong arts advocate and is active in arts education policy. She has successful experience working in museum education and does independent consulting work for schools and arts organizations specifically in arts integration, the arts and sheltered instruction for emerging bilinguals, arts assessment, targeted professional development for diverse learners, curriculum writing, and program evaluation. She recently was the higher education representative for the ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Art Education Association (CAEA), served as a member of the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) and represented ºÚÁÏÉçÇø as a voting member of the National Association of State Directors of Art Education (NASDAE). She served on the international research review panel for ArtsEdSearch and has recently presented her own research and work at the AEP Annual Gathering, AERA, AATC, NAEA, and CAEA.

Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction. Minor Cognate: Educational Leadership/Aesthetics
University of Denver, Morgridge College of Education, Denver, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Dissertation Research: Visual Arts Assessment in the Age of Educational Accountability

Executive Leadership for Successful Schools Principal Preparation Program
University of Denver, Denver, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø

Master of Arts in Education – Diverse Learner/Special Education
University of Phoenix, Denver, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø

Bachelor of Fine Arts – Visual Art Studies
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Donna’s research interests are in service to advocacy of art education, art educators, and their students. This includes arts education policy, standards, instructional support, and authentic evaluation of teaching practices. Subcategories of this overarching research theme include arts assessment and assessment of ‘non-tested’ subjects, diverse learners and the arts, and transdisciplinary learning particularly where the arts intersect with science and mathematics. She also has an interest in introducing the historical work of British art educator Kurt Rowland to a contemporary audience.

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Goodwin, D. & Urhmacher, B, (2024). Kurt Rowland’s visual education: A quiet force in post‐war art pedagogy. International Journal of Art & Design Education. (43) 2, pp. 289-301.

Goodwin, D. (2022). Behind the art room door: Assessment in the age of educational accountability. NAEA Assessment White Paper (Section 5).

Goodwin, D. (2021). Beyond answers in watertight containers: CLD strategies in art education. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue. Vol. 23.

Goodwin, D., Demetrius, A. & Uhrmacher, B. (2019). Responding and connecting: Visual literacy for today using the mid-20th century ideas of artist and educator Kurt Rowland. Art Education: The Journal of the National Art Education Association. (72) 3, pp. 39-44.

Goodwin, D., Marino, A., Erekson, N., Kittilson, K., Calderon, S., Martin, L., & Forman, K. (Winter, 2019). . Collage: A Magazine for ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s Art Educators. pp. 72-83.

Goodwin, D., Uhrmacher, B. (2017). Engaging English language learners through the arts using the aesthetic overlay of CRISPA in Dell’Angelo, T., Ammentorp, L., & Madden, L. (Eds.). Using photography and other arts-based methods with English Language Learners. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Goodwin, D. (Fall, 2016). . Collage: A Magazine for ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s Art Educators. pp. 16-18.

National and State collaborative publications:

Facilitating: Visual Art ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Academic Standards (2021-2022) .

Authored: (2020).

Co-Authored: Huser, Joyce et al. (2020). . New York: State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education.

Facilitated and reviewed:  (2018).

Facilitated and reviewed:  (2018).

Authored:  (2016) and  (2016).

• 2023 National Art Education Association ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Art Educator
• 2022 ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Art Education Association Art Educator of the Year
• 2021  Francis P. Hunkins distinguished article award from the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum journal Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue