National Arts Education Arts Integration Programs
The following are schools, districts, and partnerships that have been
evaluated for success in helping students with increased academic growth
and school engagement. The list is not meant to be inclusive
nor exclusive, but focuses on a few programs with enough history to
be both quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated:
- Arizona: Opening Minds Through the Arts, Tucson
- South Carolina: ABC – Arts in Basic Curriculum
- Mississippi: WSI – Mississippi Whole School Initiative
- Connecticut: HOT (Higher Order Thinking) Schools
- Texas/Dallas: Big Thought
Other National Examples of Promising Arts Education Programs:
The following sites, with the addition of Big Thought, are currently
part of a five-year arts education initiative funded through the Ford
Foundation:
- California/Alameda County: Using an online petition and letter writing campaign, the Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership (AALL) generated support for Governor Schwarzenegger’s $105 million arts education block grants for public schools.
- Maryland: The Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning is working to improve performance in high school by focusing on closing the learning gap between elementary and middle school.
- California/Berkeley:The Arts Education Initiative (AEI) seeks to develop, from recruitment to service, new teachers and urban
school leaders who will infuse the arts throughout K-12 public schools.
- Ohio/Cleveland: The new Cleveland Integrated Arts Collaborative has initiated project READ (Revitalizing Education through Arts Discipline) to improve reading skills by combining arts and literacy for Pre-K through high school students.
- Missouri/St. Louis: Interchange is a new, innovative community-wide collaborative in St. Louis that has come together to boost the academic achievement of the city's public school students by offering an expanded arts integrated curriculum.
- Washington, DC: Formed in 1998, the DC Collaborative believes that arts education enhances children’s intellectual and social development and should be enjoyed by every student. Last spring, the collaborative launched the Arts Education Initiative, a three-year endeavor that will bring equitable arts experiences, learning, and integration to all students in DC public schools.
