About the Project

Arts integration practices involve thinking about routines and strategies that help expand student voice and offer more avenues of entry to core curriculum for all learners. We aim to bring arts integration practices more fully into our classrooms and into the school at large. By doing so, we hope to increase student engagement, a deeper sense of community throughout our classrooms and school, and greater academic achievement. We will explore and develop lessons and concepts in our own classrooms and then with other teachers. As we build on these practices and explore art skills in connection with grade level standards, we will begin developing projects for each class based on student discussion and feedback. These materials will give students the ability to conduct hands on investigations and create in new ways. Field trips will hep students experience content outside of the classroom structure and connect to learning that is happening in the classroom. At the end of the year students will present their learning to the community in culminating projects at various forums.