Arts+for+Everyday

ABSTRACT “ When well planned and implemented, arts integration is one of the most effective ways for a wide range of interests, aptitudes, styles, and experiences to form a community of active learners taking responsibility for and ownership of their own learning” //-Renaissance in the Classroom, pg.xxvi.// In a brief overview, the first article, //Why Arts Integration?”// answers the questions: 1) What is arts integration?, 2) How do you do it?, 3)What are budget and structural priorities for becoming an arts integration school?, 4) What is a realistic timeline? The second article //“Arts Integration Research: Research Supporting the Integration of the Arts in 21st Century Classrooms”// highlights the support for arts integration from 1) Eloquent Evidence: Arts at the Core of Learning, 1995, 2) Champions of Change, 1999, 3) Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Social and Academic Development, 2002, 4) Third Space: When Learning Matters, 2005 //Arts in Education Definitions// An ad hoc committee of the New York statewide Local Capacity Building Coordinators drafted this list and it was agreed upon at the Spring 2005 meeting of the LCB Coordinators [|www.espartsed.org/resources/AIE_Definitions.doc] Article defines: 1) Education Terms, 2) Arts in Education Terms, 3) Artistic Terms, 4) New York State AIE terms, and 5) National/International terms. All a good source for developing common vocabulary for Perpich Arts Integration Project.
 * Why Arts Integration? And “Arts Integration Research: Research Supporting the Integration of the Arts in the 21st Century Classrooms. ** []