Parent/Guardian Resources

Arts Integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form.  Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both. Our particular model is Leonard Bernstein's Artful Learning.  Building on its tenet that the arts provide a fundamental model for learning, the Artful Learning Model offers a learning system plan supported by teacher training, artful inquiry, and scholarly reflection.  The model is concept-based and interdisciplinary, with teaching and learning centered on the exploration of Concepts and Masterworks, the asking of Significant Questions, rigorous scholarship, active creation and deep reflection.  Using this sequence and incorporating the mandated content standards, teachers design what is referred to as the Artful Learning curricula.  

 

The Artful Learning Classroom is designed to have this sequence: