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an out let

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"It connects people more deeply to the world and open them up to new ways of seeing. ...forges social bonds and community cohesion."  Edutopia - Why Arts Education is Crucial, and Who's Doing Best.

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McGraw-Fortney-Johnson-Pierre-Bez-White-Hinkhouse-Allende-Conti

Why do we do it?

• Because of our own personal experiences in art classes

• We do it to keep students in school

• We do it because we want students to independently think

• To create safe spaces

• To allow an open environment

• To create outlets through communication

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Visual Arts is an non verbal universal language that crosses all cultural boundaries and exists in all counties around the world. "...it's an academic area addressing core content requirements and Art Standards. It acts as the building blocks towards the use of the Arts as a teaching tool; one which will increase engagement and enjoyment."  AZ College & Career Readiness Standards.The arts enhance the process of learning.  The systems they nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities impact the driving forces all other learning (Jenson, 2001).

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Visual art promotes creative thinking and the issue of problem solving is relevant and critical to all elements of a child's educational experience.

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It opens up the creative mind- exercising the right side of the brain- when students are focusing on the left side majority of the school day.

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brings cultures together and introduces others

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A WilkinsVisual Art is an non verbal universal language that crosses all cultural boundaries and exists in all counties around the world. 

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A WilkinsVisual Art is an non verbal universal language that crosses all cultural boundaries and exists in all counties around the world. 

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Allows and encourages people to be more like themselves rather than like other people.

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The world is becoming more and more visual, the students are surrounded by it and visual arts can help them connect and play a bigger part in it.

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To recognize that their are diverse ways to look or understand art.

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refines
motor skills, inspires creative problem solving and lots more

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universal Language- connects people more deeply into the world and open them to new ways of seeing- creates the foundation to forge sicial bonds and community cohesion

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Julie Contadino            Visual Arts is the unspoken universal language of creativity and expression with interdisciplinary  purpose and vision that connects people despite age, cultures, experiences, and beyond. In a world evolving in advanced technology with more imminent images...we are provided with unlimited perspectives to creativity problem solve, and connect in small communities, globally, and anywhere in between

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Julie Contadino            Visual Arts is the unspoken universal language of creativity and expression with interdisciplinary  purpose and vision that connects people despite age, cultures, experiences, and beyond. In a world evolving in advanced technology with more imminent images...we are provided with unlimited perspectives to creativity problem solve, and connect in small communities, globally, and anywhere in between

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To develop meaningful creative experiences and explorations.

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To develop appreciation of different cultures.

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Building whole brain students. Academics focus heavily on left brain thinking. Art develops the rest of the brain.

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To promote problem solving skills

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Early exposure to the arts gives students the confidence to continue trying new subject areas in middle and high school.

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Arts frames how we live, how we relate to objects, people, our environment, we are surrounded by the arts through clothes, buildings, visually. We educate critical assessment and evaluation to better support our students in being aware, informed consumers.

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Art...developing and extending a creative thought process the allows students creative integration

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To promote student creative choices.

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Global Connection across all disciplines

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It's an interactive way for students to connect with other academics. Very cross-curricular

It''s a universal language

Students with troubled behaviors have an outlet in art and it creates communication

Global connections

It helps with speaking and communicating thoughts and using proper words

Students learn how to disagree appropriately

Students learn how to disagree appropriately

Students have to independently problem solve

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the arts enhance the students retention across the curriculum
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To promote skills that foster evaluation and critical thinking. Everything that is higher on Bloom's taxonomy.

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Art helps develop the skills that are needed across all subjects while also fostering higher level thinking such as evaluation, judgment, analyzing, critical thinking, and connecting concepts
In addition to cognitive development we also foster growth with physical development in the form of fine motor skills.

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To enrich lives

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Visual Arts promote creative thinking and the thought processes involved in making art are used in all of the core classroom subjects. The idea of being a problem solver comes up in the visual arts and again is transferable to all subject matter.

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Art gives students an additional view and different perspective on other subjects and topics. Art can enhance the learning of other things and help students understand in a different way they might not gather as easily

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Art is the place that allows exploring of ideas with open ended outcomes.  It is the process of exploring materials, ideas and concepts that is most important.

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integrate skills along with open minded thought and creative processes