Section 1

Developed by CCSESA Region 2

and The Music Center
 Norms

• ENJOY and make the most of this time

• Be CURIOUS and CREATIVE

• Feel COMFORTABLE to ask questions

• Be a TENACIOUS learner

• Be Present -Please place technology in BUSINESS mode

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 Getting to Know You….
1. Form a Circle.
2. Think of an adjective that
alliterates with the first letter of
your name.
3. Say the adjective, then say Your
First Name. – e.g. Nutty Nancy -
while pantomiming a
representative gesture.
4. Everyone gets a chance to do this.
5. Go around the circle once more,
this time with everyone repeating
the name, alliteration, and
pantomime of each participant.
 Module Components

Section 1: Leadership Module: Why Arts Integration?

Section 2: Teacher Module: VAPA and Literacy Standards

Section 3: Teacher Module: Artsource® Overview

Section 4: Teacher Module: Digging into an Artsource® Lesson

Section 5: Teacher Module: Classroom Connections, Extensions & Resources

 Objectives

• Understand the concept and instructional practice of Arts

Integration through the lens of core content areas

• Become familiar with, or review the Visual Arts Frameworks and

Common Core Content ELA Standards

• Explore how the Artsource® units can be resources for arts

integration for K-8 school-wide instruction

• Analyze one Artsource® lesson in depth for use in your classroom

• Using a specific Artsource® unit, make grade-level, standards-

aligned connections and extensions for use in your classroom.

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 Section 1: Why Arts Integration?

Leadership
Outcome: Understand the concept and instructional
practice of Arts Integration through the lens of core
content areas.
Why Arts
for All?
Why Arts for All?
Arts education provides an efficient and effective
way to infuse creativity in our schools and to solve
many of the problems our schools are facing.
Over 25 years of research show the arts
significantly improve student outcomes particularly
among at-risk students.
“Arts integration is efficient,
addressing a number of outcomes at
the same time. Most important, the
greatest gains in schools with arts
integration are often seen school-
wide and also with the most hard-
to-reach and economically
disadvantaged students.” —The
President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities,
Reinvesting in Arts Education, 2011
Arts Education & Student Achievement

“More than 65
distinct positive
relationships
between the arts
and academic and
social outcomes are
documented.” — National
Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Critical
Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student
Achievement, 2006
We Know it, We Measured It
Research shows improvements in:
• Achievement in ELA & Math an
other core curriculum
• Attendance rates
• Motivation & engagement
• Odds of graduating from college
• Learning skills & habits of mind
• 21st Century skills of creativity,
critical thinking, communication
and collaboration…the 4 C’s.
—The President’s Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities, Reinvesting in Arts Education, 2011
Why Arts for All?
Boosts Achievement for At Risk Students
The Arts develop transferable skills and habits of mind for success in
all curriculum and careers…
Why Arts Ed?
It’s the Law….
CA Education Code
Requires Arts Education
at every grade level,
in all four art disciplines:
• Visual Art
• Music
• Theatre
• Dance

To develop students’ aesthetic

appreciation and the skills of
creative expression…
(Ed Code: 51210 grades 1-6 I Ed Code: 51220
grades 7-12)
It’s an issue of Equity & Access too…

There is a “growing disparity between

those who are able to take advantage
of the benefits of arts education, and
those who are not.”
—The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities,
Reinvesting in Arts Education, 2011
 No Money
&
No Time
During the 2008 State and
School Budget Crisis and the
era of NCLB….
many schools cut back on
creative project-based
learning – as well as arts
education – resulting in an
imbalance in education of the
whole child.
Why the arts now?
Arts Ed, CCSS, NGSS, & LCAP
Connections…All support
• High Needs Students
• Depth of Knowledge
• Close reading of texts (including all
forms of art and media as text.)
• Close observation
• Evidence-based Inferences
• Habits of Mind (skills and processes)
that are used across all subjects and for
learning & life.
• Broad Integrated Curriculum
• Creativity as part of school culture and
family / community engagement

Plus Parental Choice – Many more

online and charter school options!
 Necessary
but not
Sufficient for the
21st Century
“…the “left brain” capabilities that powered the Information Age – are necessary but no
longer sufficient. And the capabilities we once disdained or thought frivolous –
the “right brain” qualities of inventiveness, creativity, empathy, joyfulness and meaning –
increasingly will determine who flourishes and who flounders.” (Daniel Pink – A Whole
New Mind: pg. 3)
The Right Brain Initiative

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 A recent IBM poll of 1,500
CEO’s indicate
creativity
is the #1 leadership
competency
of the future.
Shellenbarger, 2010

A 2012 federal Arts Ed

study shows that
creativity has been
decreasing in our students
“To succeed today and in the future,
America’s children will need to be over the past 20 years,
inventive, resourceful, and imaginative.
The best way to foster that creativity is
with K-6 experiencing the
through arts education.” biggest decline.
—U.S. Secretary of Education Arne
Duncan
The creative Arts
provide direct
pathways to careers…
• 1 in 10 jobs in CA involve
Arts, Media, and
Entertainment (AME).
• 1.4 million AME jobs in
CA.
• 8.1% of CA’s Annual
Gross State Product
(Otis Report – 2014)

Where do you spend a good portion

or your free time & money?
 • A “Maker” is the umbrella term for
independent 21st Century
inventors, artisans, DIYs, designers,
technological innovators, tinkerers,
STEM /STEAMers.
• It’s a global creativity movement
fueled by people numbed by
generic, mass-produced, made-in–
China merchandise.
• Approximately 135 million U.S.
adults are self-proclaimed
Space Station 3-D Printer Builds
Ratchet Wrench - Fall 2014 “makers”…over 1/3rd of the
population.
How do the Arts Support Learning?

Arts Enhancement
Art is an added element to enhance Arts Integration
Core instruction without any actual Arts Instruction & Core Instruction
instruction in the art form. • Learning through the arts
• Art as Text

children & learning

@ the core

Arts Education
VAPA Instruction
Learning About the Arts
Discipline-based dance, music,
theater, & visual arts
curriculum
 Arts Integration
LESSON 5: Learning
Balanced Project-Based
Dance
In the and Science
Content Balanced
Area(s) and the Arts

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What is Arts Integration?
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.
Kennedy Center Definition
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• Creative challenges, like the
arts offer, practiced over time,
foster neurological brain
developments that result in
higher level thinkers who are
creative problem solvers.
(Bronson & Merryman, 2010).

• Relevant tasks that activate

students’ positive emotions
support learning, creativity,
and memory. (Carter, 1998)
 Reflection

• What art form are you most comfortable using to

discuss or collaborate with your teachers?

• What content area would you select to integrate

with this art form?