Overview
Arts Impact operates six professional development models, training preschool through middle school teachers to incorporate art into their students' basic education through an intense two-year program that emphasizes hands-on learning through one-on-one artist/teacher mentorships. While each model has a specific focus, common goals and key features address the critical needs of teachers, students, and schools.
Goals
- Empower classroom teachers to become competent, confident leaders of standards-based arts lessons
- Infuse the arts into the core classroom curriculum
- Improve student learning across the curriculum
Key Features
- Standards-based Instruction in the Arts
- Concept-based Approach to Curriculum and Assessments
- Performance-based Assessments
- In-depth Training to Assure and Sustain Change in Teaching Practice
- Artist Mentors (Teaching Artists) Model, Annotate their Instruction, Assess and Mentor
- Arts Foundations
- Arts-infused Learning shared by the Arts and the other Core Classroom Disciplines
- Object-based Education and Community Cultural Partnerships: Cultural Study Trips
- Alignment with Current Educational Research
- Evaluation
- Administrative Leadership and Organizational Support
- Graduate Credit and Clock Hours
- Common Lesson Plan Format
- Mix of Funding Sources
- Key Features (PDF, 1.6MB)
In complement to Program Key Features:
- Learning Communities
- Whole School Training
- Research-based Program Design
- Principal Training
- Shared Resources
Arts Impact's training programs include Core; Teacher Training: Arts as Literacy; Math Artistic Pathways; and Arts Impact Dissemination and Expansion. Pilot programs include Early Learning and Replication. Each program is grounded in the original Core model, based in research, and data-driven to guide improvement and demonstrate impact.