The arts communicate.

Guided by this principle, Arts Integration helps students learn and demonstrate learning in creative ways.

Our model promotes collaboration between teachers of visual & performing arts and teachers of other content areas.

We follow The Kennedy Center’s definition of Arts Integration, which supports Universal Design for Learning and promotes the arts as a way we grapple with and express ideas.

The Kennedy Center’s Definition of Arts Integration:

Arts Integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.

Read more about The Kennedy Center’s definition, and explore the alignment between Arts Integration & Universal Design for Learning.

Resources:

Check out our online training module introducing Tableau, a popular theatre-based strategy that allows students to show what they know in stage pictures.

Connect with a colleague and brainstorm ideas on our Collaborative Planning Guide; then develop your own arts-integrated lessons on our Unit Planning Template.