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Increase awareness about art/music/cultural history in social studies

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Increase awareness about art/music/cultural history in social studies

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Teaching through the arts is highly effective for strengthening early childhood development.

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Using social media (loca, state, & national)

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Using social media (loca, state, & national)

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Dancing & drawing are great ways for students to focuus on their mental health & build mindfulness skills

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Dancing & drawing are great ways for students to focuus on their mental health & build mindfulness skills

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Art and creativity is an important part of the school day! This can help students explore different areas of interest, help them relax during the day, provide them with different skill sets, and provides them a way to express theme selves and explore personal identity.

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Music & art are universal - they're a great way to reach a wide variety of students

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Music & art are universal - they're a great way to reach a wide variety of students

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Culturally sensitive and culturally responsive creation of art in the classroom 

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Culturally sensitive and culturally responsive creation of art in the classroom 

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Local - Briinging in a music therapist to speak &/or work with students

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Local - Briinging in a music therapist to speak &/or work with students

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State - Lobby our legislators to maintain & increase arts funding

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State - Lobby our legislators to maintain & increase arts funding

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Creativity is a core part of the human experience!!! (it also ties to graphic design, architecture, fashion, mental health awareness)

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Local -Self-Expression art shows/gallery walk/student expo

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Local -Self-Expression art shows/gallery walk/student expo

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Allowing students to create art that reflects themselves and their own journey. Honoring their values and experiences they express through art and realizing that every student creates differently.
Some ways to do this would be to create open ended assignments allowing students to do personal exploration within an open ended project. Allow students time to collaborate and share with their peers and others in the community

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Students are proactive/engaged in their learning

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Students are proactive/engaged in their learning

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When students are making progress toward a goal they are learning along the way.

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National - Personality Types & Different Learning styles educator trainings/learning modules

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National - Personality Types & Different Learning styles educator trainings/learning modules

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https://justimaginejustice.org/student-expression

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Great artwork elicits emotions of all kinds. Artistic expression is about representing the truth behind the artist's vision. We hope this contest allows student-artists to express themselves with few restrictions, but there are some boundaries we will enforce. Advocating for justice requires us to acknowledge issues relating to violence and the law. We expect that artwork submitted for this contest may include representations of these issues because issues of violence and the law are often a central theme of racial and social justice. However, no submission will be considered if it - in the opinion of our judges - or encourages violence or law breaking, period. No artwork will be considered if- in the opinion of our judges- representations expressed in the artwork are intended to disparage or denigrate an individual or group or a particular culture, value system or faith system. We will not consider artwork that includes- in the opinion of our judges- vulgar or profane themes. We will report to the authorities the submission of any materials of a threatening nature or which is suspected of violating the law. We will make every attempt to judge submissions anonymously.

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Student Expression Campaign - Just Imagine Justice

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Great artwork elicits emotions of all kinds. Artistic expression is about representing the truth behind the artist's vision. We hope this contest allows student-artists to express themselves with few restrictions, but there are some boundaries we will enforce. Advocating for justice requires us to acknowledge issues relating to violence and the law.

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Kansas - Just Imagine Justice Scholarship (visual arts, music, photo/video application)

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Kansas - Just Imagine Justice Scholarship (visual arts, music, photo/video application)

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Ex. Anti-Bullying Posters (Drawings, poetry, gallery walk) - local & state

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Ex. Anti-Bullying Posters (Drawings, poetry, gallery walk) - local & state

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National Level - Parade About Cepebration Awareness

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National Level - Parade About Cepebration Awareness

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Overview

ARTFUL LEARNING® stimulates and deepens academic learning through the arts..

Artful Learning is a transformational learning model that empowers educators to use the arts and the artistic process to awaken and sustain the love of learning for all students. Based on over twenty years of intensive collaboration and refinement, field research and implementation with leading educators, researchers and practitioners of the model, the Artful Learning Sequence and Model is a framework that educators can use to revitalize their curriculum and their teaching practice.

Grounded in the artistic process, this extensive, research-proven professional development program gives educators the tools to apply the Artful Learning methodology over a three-year implementation process, ultimately building a sustainable, thriving learning community.

Initiated by American music icon Leonard Bernstein and realized by thousands of people around the nation, Artful Learning is changing the landscape of teaching and learning. Bernstein's vision was to use music and the other visual and performing arts as a means of instilling a lifelong love of learning in students. Artful Learning embeds the arts within the learning process through a carefully researched, concept-based, interdisciplinary model that has proven to increase comprehension in students as well as improve academic achievement.

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Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor, pianist, educator, and humanitarian.

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https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/racial-social-justice/art-activism

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Art has the power to highlight injustice while also uplifting hope for our future. Share these inspiring works with your community and colleagues, and use them within your own activism.

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Art has the power to evoke emotion and deepen the impact of the movement. Explore art from NEA to use in your activism.

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Arts Education Makes a Difference in Missouri Schools.pdf

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Arts Integration Resources- The Kennedy Center

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Arts Integration Resources- The Kennedy Center

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https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-evidence-of-the-benefits-of-arts-education/

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New evidence of the benefits of arts education | Brookings

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New findings provide strong evidence that arts educational experiences can produce significant positive impacts on academic and social development for students.

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Yasso 2005_Whose culture has capital A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth.pdf

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https://blog.americansforthearts.org/categories/blog-category/arts-education

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Thank you to the many people who have been blog contributors to, and readers of ArtsBlog over the years. ArtsBlog has long been a space where we uplifted stories from the field that demonstrated how the arts strengthen our communities socially, educationally, and economically; where trends and issues and controversies were called out; and advocacy tools were provided to help you make the case for more arts funding and favorable arts policies.

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Reaching out to your union representatives/fellow members about collaborating (as a non-arts teacher, talking to the arts department to create an equitable/diverse curriculum; as an arts educator, working to align your topics of focus with core curriculum teachers)

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Reaching out to your union representatives/fellow members about collaborating (as a non-arts teacher, talking to the arts department to create an equitable/diverse curriculum; as an arts educator, working to align your topics of focus with core curriculum teachers)

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If you pre-order The Creativity Project from independent bookseller Bookbug, your copy will be signed by contributors Laurie Keller, Travis Jonker, John Schu, and Colby Sharp.

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How can we encourage arts and non-arts teachers to collaborate?

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How can we encourage arts and non-arts teachers to collaborate?

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What are things that arts majors would like gen ed/non-arts teachers to know/understand/do?

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What are things that arts majors would like gen ed/non-arts teachers to know/understand/do?

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Art classes were always my favorite 😊

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How can we incorporate different types of arts/fine arts into our respective curricula?

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How can we incorporate different types of arts/fine arts into our respective curricula?

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*Teaching with PedsAcademy at Nemours Children's Hospital- our summer camp program involved many engaging artful learning opportunities. Since we had no set curriculum, we were able to have freedom which meant lots of learning opportunities through art (Ex: we made place value paper dragons to practice ordering numbers from least to greatest)
*Internship in a public magnet school centered around the arts- Lots of opportunities for students to engage in artful learning practices. Students in K-3 engage in all arts specials and students in 4-5 get to choose 2 arts areas to specialize in for the year. Each month has a different artful learning theme that gets integrated in each subject area and ends with an art project. We also would use small art projects in bedded in the units.

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Students can be gifted in unique subjects, & having the arts allows students to find what they are successful in

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Students can be gifted in unique subjects, & having the arts allows students to find what they are successful in

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Different ways of thinking communicated through non-traditional ways

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Different ways of thinking communicated through non-traditional ways

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Art allows students to reach the same goals through different means

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Art allows students to reach the same goals through different means

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Art Ed major - working with title 1 kids (wide variety of student experiences)

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Art Ed major - working with title 1 kids (wide variety of student experiences)

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Weekly specials - wide variety of arts shown, but not in depth

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Weekly specials - wide variety of arts shown, but not in depth

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Very limited inside of the classroom during my time in school. We occasionally had art during PE, and the gifted program I was a part of focused on the arts for a few years. In middle and high we had a band and chorus program with a teacher who was kind of unqualified for the job, and a drama program that was high school only and ultimately ended because the teacher wasn't designated to just that area so it got very My mom was a music ed. major before realizing a lack of opportunities, and made sure I was exposed to different arts.

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It wasn't very valued

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Musical theatre obsession-Eri :P

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Talk to the whole group - and listen to others who are speaking (mic rule)

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Talk to the whole group - and listen to others who are speaking (mic rule)

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Visual and Performing Arts Education Program

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Arts Education Resources

VAPAE understands the necessity of promoting the field of arts education through research and critical theory and will assign such readings to supplement our undergraduate's educational experience. Below is a resource of articles that have been utilized in VAPAE syllabi. VAPAE does not claim ownership over these articles, and uses them for educational purposes only.

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Arts Education Resources - Visual and Performing Arts Education Program

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VAPAE understands the necessity of promoting the field of arts education through research and critical theory and will assign such readings to supplement our undergraduate's educational experience. Below is a resource of articles that have been utilized in VAPAE syllabi. VAPAE does not claim ownership over these articles, and uses them for educational purposes only.

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The arts are not to be underestimated. While budget cuts and the emphasis on high-stakes testing have meant sacrifices to classes like music, visual arts, dance, and drama for many schools, that doesn't mean these subjects should be forgotten. Various free online tools and resources, like the seven below, are available to help schools integrate the arts into other subjects.

An offshoot of the Kennedy Center, ArtsEdge is a free digital resource to help students learn "in, through and about the arts." Educators can browse a plethora of lesson plans that help integrate art into more standard subjects like Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies. For example, the K-4 " Adjective Monster" lesson helps students make connections between language arts and visual arts, teaching new descriptive adjectives before having students make paper mache "monsters" embodying their new vocabulary. Older grades may enjoy the " Dalí & Desnos" lesson, which pushes creative writing skills through lessons on surrealism. In addition to lesson plans and filters to help teachers find the best plans, the site offers " How To" guides for integrating art into the classroom.

Created by New York's Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Learning offers students and teachers tips, resources, and activities for engaging with modern art. The site can be browsed by "theme" or "artist" and features several tools for each category. For example, under theme one can explore the Dada movement, a period from 1916 to 1924 that grew out of the brutality and disillusionment of World War I. MoMA Learn offers a premade PowerPoint, class notes, and activities. For example, the Dada section suggests students research Dada cities - Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, Paris, and New York - and then write a 500-word essay on why a chosen city became a hub of Dada activities. As you might imagine, this impeccably organized site is a great resource for social studies teachers who want to add more of the arts and culture into lessons.

From the folks behind Khan Academy, Smarthistory is a multimedia open educational resource focused on art history. The site covers a variety of artistic periods, styles, themes, and artists via videos and essays. Want to infuse some art into your history classes? This is a great resource and WAY cheaper than an art history textbook. Don't know where to begin? The site has a few links to get you started, beginning with "The Basics" - a slew of introductory, almost Wikipedia-like pages. Start with " A Beginner's Guide to the History of Western Culture," " Art As Concept," or the glossary before delving into the more specific lessons.

​From PBS, teachers can show clips of artists featured within a show. Just like the Art 21 provides in-depth video interviews with some of today's most world-renowned artists. While users can browse by artist, the video option also allows a deeper look into certain art themes. For example, the episode entitled " Change" looks specifically at artists who "act as agents of change" and create works in response to a world in flux. While each episode is one hour -​ a bit longer than a class may have time for -​ recommendation that, once a week, educators use the last 20 minutes of a day to share an NPR Tiny Desk Concert and expose students to new forms of music, perhaps it would be fun to mix it up and share an Art21 video instead.

Created by the Getty Artists Program, Open Studio aims to make contemporary art accessible for K-12 classrooms. The site features 11 artists and their ideas on art projects for classrooms. Teachers can filter options, like activity level or medium, to find projects that will resonate with their classroom. For example, a project called " Arranging Your Narrative," created by artist Kara Walker, presents two ideas for how students can display their personal stories, including text messaging their "life story" to a friend. Another lesson by artist James Kerry Marshall called " PLAN and ELEVATION" pushes students to consider their perception of scale. All of the activities come with a downloadable PDF, complete with the artist's bio.

Created by the Google Cultural Institute, the hundreds of museums, cultural institutions, and archives from around the globe. The end result is an online trove of some of the world's greatest artist gems. Users can search the database by collection, artist, or artwork, as well as browse user galleries. Want students to know what a table from the 1620s looked like? Instead of explaining the intricate wood work, why not show them? The Centraal Museum Utrecht has a beautiful Google Art Project is the result of partnerships with draw leaf table, and now Google allows you to zoom in and really examine it. Basically, this is like Google Images, but with art and artifacts.

A project initiated by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, Picturing America aims to be a resource for teachers hoping to bring U.S. History to life. The site uses paintings and masterpieces from various eras to help tell the nation's story. In addition to access to monumental images, the site provides lesson plans that match the iconic images. For example, there is a lesson entitled " Benjamin Franklin's Many Hats," which goes along with a famous statue of the innovator. As educators share the image of the statue, they are encouraged to also utilize the guiding questions, learning objectives, preparation instructions, and very specific lesson activities that come with any discussion of the colonial leader.

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These 7 digital resources help integrate arts education into other subjects

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The arts are not to be underestimated. While budget cuts and the emphasis on high-stakes testing have meant sacrifices to classes like music, visual arts, dance, and drama for many schools, that doesn't mean these subjects should be forgotten. Various free online tools and resources, like the seven below, are available to help schools integrate the arts into other subjects.

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Arts Education Resources | Kennedy Center

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Edutopia is a free source of information, inspiration, and practical strategies for learning and teaching in preK-12 education. We are published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.

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| Creative Dance Teaching Ideas and Resources

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Connecting dance with other learning areas is a time saving way of creating diverse and dynamic learning experiences that link a multifaceted curriculum. It is a way of clarifying student's ideas about how they see their place in a complex world. Dance encourages active participation by the students and accommodates many different learning styles.

Integrated lessons usually cross over two or more subject areas but have a single focused learning objective. Creating integrated lessons can save you time but it does take planning.

Reaching out to other teachers who may have different skills in other learning areas can support your lesson planning and save time. Sharing is caring.

An integrated approach can be either multidisciplinary in that the focus is on each of the disciplines. It can also be interdisciplinary where the lesson is organised around common learning across subject areas.

Have a clear learning goal and aims of the lesson. Stating these goals at the beginning of the lesson makes it clear what the students are trying to achieve.

The different subject areas should complement each other, and the connection should be clear to the students. Seeing how skills, information and understandings line up across the subjects and year level is a great place to start.

Benefits of Integrated Learning

Each child in your classroom may be interested in completely different subjects. By combining several learning areas your students can explore things that may not, at first, be attractive.

The individual can shine in their own way. It results in positive emotions in your students and helps children to be optimistic about their abilities.

Creates a wider view of education

Connecting a range of subjects and using different learning approaches, enriches the lives of children as they explore and question. It encourages a view of a continuum of learning and, like the education system of the ancient Greeks, discourages a hierarchy of subjects.

Reflects the ethos of the community

The multidisciplinary nature of integrated learning reflects the composition of the community that surrounds children. Dance, as a part of integrated lesson planning, shows pathways for using dance for future employment opportunities as a part of those communities.

Builds important skills

Using Dance in integrated lessons enhances other learning areas through developing skills for the 21 st century and beyond. Creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are paramount in the dance classroom and in the integrated learning model.

Integrating Dance with other Art forms or with key learning areas, brings deep and complex learning as students are asked to think across ideas looking for similarities and contrasts.

The art of dance uses movement to create meaning about the human experience. It is for more than exercise or entertainment.

Jane Bonbright, executive director of National Dance Education Organisation.

To implement dance as an ongoing part of how we deliver learning, requires a strong commitment by classroom teachers. Once you can see the amazing results of how the Arts enriches your students and engages them, you'll be hooked on integrating dance as a part of normal classroom pedagogy.

How do we combine dance with another learning area?

It is important when planning an integrated lesson that you decide which of the subject areas will be the main focus. Ensure that you are addressing the learning objectives of the focus subject and that you include relevant information from the other learning area.

Avoid trying to cover too many skills.

Science lends itself to creating movement as it is often about different stages of a process. Getting small groups to devise dance that represents different stages of a process, that incorporates an interpretation of Bloom's Taxonomy, can really enrich learning.

To create a dance about The Water Cycle, the dance could be separated into six groups: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, runoff and infiltration.

Each group needs to research what happens in their part of the water cycle (Knowledge) and then explain to the class what they have found (Comprehension).

They then need to devise a series of movements that illustrate what they have learned (Application) and compare it to the other parts of the water cycle as performed by each group, using the Elements of Dance and the Science observations (Analyse).

As a group they then create a dance that joins the different parts together using transitions between movements (Synthesis). Then decide if the dance clearly represents the water cycle or if it needs other elements like lighting, props, music, or costumes to better illustrate the process (Evaluate).

For more ideas about creating a dance class using The Water Cycle see these Free Dance Lesson Plans.

Lesson ideas for integrating dance

Some things lend themselves to integrating with dance like exploring the Human Body. For each lesson you could focus on different parts of the body.

The warmup should include a wide range of movements that use that focus body part. Keep in mind the different ways joints can move and show illustrations of these movements.

You could even add to complexity by using it as a beginning activity for a unit on Simple machines. Then you are connecting two aspects of science and dance.

You could explore Matter, investigating chemical and physical change, using Contrast as a choreographic devise in dance to illustrate.

Photosynthesis also has elements that are fantastic for look at Dynamics in Dance. Water, sunlight, carbon dioxide, chlorophyll, chloroplasts and the actions of absorbing and release in response to each other is engaging and creative.

Final thoughts

Integrating dance and science makes the children think scientifically about the process and in the abstract as they make movement about the phenomenon.

The reason we use dance...is because researchers found that dance helps you with your problem solving skills and also increases their (children) confidence.

Rocio Cuevas, Stem from Dance, "New York Teens are Learning Coding and Science through Dance", in Forbes, Feb 15, 2020

A disconnected curriculum results in children seeing learning as bits of information. A more holistic approach supports finding connections through questioning, understanding, and making sense of their lived experience. Life is connected, not compartmentalized or fragmented.

Integrating lessons captivates the imagination of children, motivating them and leading them to become lifelong learners. This results in them making their own natural connections and having a deeper understanding of content from many perspectives.

The dance projects and Dance Units on Dance Teaching Ideas are integrated with other learning areas appropriate for the Australian Curriculum.

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Integrating dance in your Primary classroom will foster skills of creativity, adaptability and collaboration. Connect with dance to integrate your curriculum.

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