Our Model

ART is EDUCATION PROGRAMMING

In School Programs

  • Pre-K Programs

    • Artist Residencies
    • Performances
    • Team planning and curriculum development
  • Long Term Arts-Integrated Residency

    • 20 classroom visits from an arts organization
    • May include fieldtrip or performance
    • Team planning and curriculum development
  • 3rd Grade Arts for Learning Literacy Curriculum

    • Includes specialized teacher PD
    • Workshops with a teaching artist
    • Teacher-led curriculum
    • Team planning and curriculum development
  • Short Term Arts-Integrated Residency

    • 10 classroom visits from an arts organization
    • May include fieldtrip or performance
    • Team planning and curriculum development
  • Art is Education Sampler

    • 5-7 classroom visits from an arts organization
    • Fieldtrips/Performances
    • Team planning and curriculum development

Out of School Programs

  • Parents as Arts Partners

    • Arts programming for families and students
    • Increases parents’ awareness of the importance of the arts in their child’s education
    • Supports parents as advocates on behalf of arts education
    • Connect s families to schools through arts programming
  • Site-specific teacher professional development

    • After-school workshops to explore arts learning, arts integration theory, and practice
  • Partnership Workshops

    • After school planning and professional development for teaching teams to plan and develop curriculum

Initiative-wide Programs

  • Best Practices (Fall, Winter, Spring)

    • Meetings of the Art is Education network of schools and arts organziations to explore themes in arts-integration curriculum and methods
  • Art is Education Week

    • Week -long celebration of Art is Education
    • CMSD administrators and community members visit school to observe programs
    • Bulletin Board Contest
    • Celebration for Arts Education-Event to kick off Art is Education Week at City Hall featuring student performances
  • Rock Your World

    • Celebration of district arts programming featuring student performances
  • Summer Partnership Retreat

    • Summer seminar for Art is Education network of school and arts organziations

Distinctive Program Features

  • • Whole-school engagement with arts-integrated curriculum
  • • Team curriculum development and co-teaching
  • • Professional Development
  • • Collaboration with parents
  • • Advocacy on behalf of arts education