Arts Impact operates six professional development models, enabling preschool through middle school teachers to incorporate the arts into their students’ basic education through an intense two-year program that emphasizes hands-on learning through one-on-one artist/teacher mentorships. Each model has a specific focus, common goals and key features address the critical needs of teachers, students, and schools.
Read how arts infused learning is closing the opportunity gap.
Goals
- Empower classroom teachers to become competent, confident leaders of standards-based arts lessons
- Close the opportunity gap
- Infuse the arts into the core classroom curriculum
- Improve student learning across the curriculum
- Increase equity and access to quality arts instruction
Key Features
- Arts-infused learning: shared concepts between the arts and other disciplines
- Sustained and job-embedded professional learning
- Classroom coaching provided by Artist Mentors
- Standards–based arts-infused curricula aligned with National Core Arts Standards, Common Core State Standards, and Next Generation Science Standards
- Concept-based approach to curriculum and assessments
- Performance-based assessments
- Culturally relevant teaching practice
- Arts foundations
- Student cultural study trips: professional exemplars of the arts
- Alignment with current educational research
- Program evaluation
- Administrative leadership and organizational support
- Common lesson plan format
- Mix of funding sources
- Key Features (PDF, 1.6MB)
In complement to Program Key Features:
- Learning communities
- Whole school programs
- Principal professional learning
- Shared cultural resources
- Graduate credit and clock hours
Arts Impact’s programs include: Arts Foundations & Arts Infusion; Arts & Math Infusion; Arts & Reading Infusion; Arts & Writing Infusion; Early Learning; Middle School; Arts EnviroChallenger/EcoArts; and Arts FUNdamentals.
Arts Impact’s research projects include: STEM: Arts-infused Learning (SAIL); Arts Impact Dissemination and Expansion (AIDE); Teacher Training: Arts as Literacy Plus (TTAL+); Teacher Training: Arts as Literacy (TTAL); Math through Artistic Pathways (MAP); Arts Impact/Arts Leadership (AI/AL); and Training Teachers to Teach the Arts. Each program is based on research and is data-driven to guide improvement and demonstrate impact.
