Students draw in the other half of self-portrait photographs extrapolating from what's visible. (Courtesy of Ada Leaphart/Integrated Arts Academy at H.O. Wheeler.) Art has long been recognized as an ...

Arts integration refers to pedagogical approaches that connect the arts with learning across subject areas, including but not limited to visual art, music, drama, dance, media arts, and creative ...

Students in the arts-integrated life science class drew animal and plant cells to understand the structures within. Source: Mariale Hardiman/Johns Hopkins University Fifth-grade students who created ...

This professional development program invites secondary teachers in a wide variety of subjects to explore how arts integration can deepen learning and energize classroom instruction and engagement.

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

“Arts are a part of who our students are, who people are,” said Kara May, the director of Art in Motion (AIM), a new school opening on Chicago’s South Side this fall. The arts encourage creative ...

When the arts are an interdisciplinary partner with other subjects, they generate the conditions that researchers say are ideal for learning. Evidence has mounted over the last decade that arts study ...

In its 2018 report The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree, an ad hoc committee of the National Academies ...

A couple of the grade school teachers held their hands overhead, their fingers dancing. Three other teachers squatted, kneeled or sat, waving their arms back and forth slowly. In their slow dance, the ...

A quiet classroom is an unusual, if not alarming, sight for Martinez Elementary School Principal Tara Berry. In some fashion, Martinez's classes are always abuzz with creativity. Students might study ...