Arts Integration

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Arts In Education In Action: Active Learning Raises Levels of Achievement

Dec 2, 2015 | asmith@ya.org

                                         Sheena Jeffers, Arts Integration Director, Young Audiences Arts for Learning Virginia   Who doesn’t know the story “The Three Little Pigs”? Houses built of straw, sticks, and bricks. A big bad wolf huffs and puffs. Only the brick house stands. The wolf is defeated. In a traditional classroom, this might have been a reading lesson. Kids sitting…

Students Shine In New Ways with Arts Integration

Nov 30, 2015 | marcus@ya.org

  When you integrate arts into educa­tion, the students will surprise you.” That’s what Aitina Fareed Cooke found in her experience as a teaching artist in two very different places. Waterfront Elementary School, where Aitina worked with third and fourth graders, is in Buffalo, the second-largest city in the state of New York. The Harold O. Brumsted Elementary School, where she worked with first…

Teams From Districts Around the Country Meet in Houston to Discover A4L

Jul 28, 2015 | jarred@ya.org

The Arts for Learning Initiative is a year-long program designed to bring teachers, artists and administrators together to gain an understanding of the pedagogy and arts integration methods that serve as the foundation for the Arts for Learning (A4L) curriculum while also learning strategies for implementing these practices in new and innovative ways in their own classrooms. The Arts for…

21st Century Skills for a Globalized World

Mar 13, 2015 | jarred@ya.org

  Today’s global economy is more markedly different from that of any other in history to date. With the advent of innovations such as high speed internet, video chat, and social media, and the stressed importance of the customer experience, businesses have had to adapt their business strategies in order to compete in a more thorough and effective way. In order to support that change at an…

Young Audiences of Louisiana to host Arts-Integrated Instruction for Jefferson Parish Schools!

Jan 28, 2015 | jarred@ya.org

More than 50 teachers at five Jefferson Parish Schools will participate in Arts-Integrated training sessions hosted by Young Audiences of Louisiana. The professional development is being made possible by a $347,000 federal grant received by the Jefferson Parish School District. The training program starts with a four day session this week, January 26-29 at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and will…