Teachers participating in arts integration programs say that arts integration puts them back in touch with what originally excited them about teaching. They want classrooms full of engaged, curious, and responsive students. They want to do what is best for student learning. They want to be excited about going into the classroom every day.

arts integration engaging and motivating for students, teachers find that it also energizes them and their teaching.

The arts offer powerful tools for understanding human experiences, both past and present.

Each student learns in an environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults.

n differentiated instruction, Tomlinson describes a “pervasive expectation of growth”27 and a persistent, gentle push for students to tackle the next level of knowledge and skill, supported with appropriate scaffolds.28 In arts integration, teachers expect students to meet evolving objectives in both the art form and the other subject area. This push to reach the next level of knowledge and skills is pervasive.

arts integration helps students access content, process their learning, create products, and work in a productive and supportive learning environment in ways that take into account individual readiness, interest, and learning profile.

we help our students understand that creative work does not just happen. Rather it is a purposeful, examined, and navigated process.

provide students with feedback they can use to improve the quality of their work, and help students see and feel in control of their journey to success.”

The arts provide a multitude of ways to represent information, multiple ways for students to construct and demonstrate their developing understandings, and multiple ways to capture interest and engage students in learning.

Arts integration engages students in the creative process which offers a universal pathway to learning. Students 1) imagine, examine, and perceive; 2) explore, experiment, and develop craft; 3) create; 4) reflect, assess, and revise, and 5) share their products with others.

a new learning environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century

Creativity is a hallmark of arts integration.