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Arts Integration Drives Standards Based Instruction

Learn how a partnership between teachers and artists engage students in learning content standards with the goal of closing the achievement gap.

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Why Arts Education is Crucial


Having supported the development of an arts integrated program at Salvador Elementary, I am intrigued with the benefits of instruction with a creative twist.  Art based skills and strategies lend itself to 21st Century integration, project based learning, student engagement, diversity, innovation, technology, etc.  As there is a focus on arts integration, there are often opportunities for collaboration, critical thinking and communication but it seems more challenging to provide opportunities for enhancing creativity.  The arts can help support the development of creativity in the classroom.  As Daniel Pink states in his book, A Whole New Mind, “Gone is the age of “left-brain” dominance.  The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind . . . creative and emphatic ‘right-brain’ thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t.” 

Education is ripe for change.  As a Magnet Lead Teacher for the past two years, I have instilled change in Napa Valley, as I have moved teachers into a new era in education while maintaining accountability.  Given my background and experience, I have the desire to continue innovating new programs.  Working in a school with a high level of poverty and minority isolation, I have supported the training and implementation of curriculum to meet the needs of this cultural group. 

I am passionate about the area of innovation and creating increased opportunities for the students enhance their level of creativity.

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