Arts Integration & STEAM

What is Arts Integration?

Arts Integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Through Arts integration, students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both. (Kennedy Center)

What is STEAM?

STEAM uses science, technology engineering, the arts, and math as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. (Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM)

Website Resources 

Arizona Title I Arts

Arts programs can help schools achieve the goals of Title I by facilitating student engagement and learning, strengthening parent involvement, and improving school climate and schoolwide behavior. This site provides resources for school leaders who wish to embrace arts programming among their strategies for achieving Title I goals. It is intended, in prticular, for schools with schoolwide Title I programs, and includes tools for planning, implementing, and evaluating arts-based strategies in alignment with state and federal Title I regulatiaons.

Fundamentals of the Arts Integration & STEAM Approach

Arts Integration and STEAM are approaches to learning. They are not curriculum, nor are these a set of strategies. Instead, these are research-based shifts which embed both the art and the science of teaching and learning. Within these approaches are four cornerstones which are key to building, using and sustaining any arts integration or STEAM effort.

The Molly Blank Fund Teaching Artists Program (TAP) is designed to create teaching artists in the metro Phoenix area that have been trained in the Kennedy Center arts integration method. After training, these teaching artists will develop residency lesson plans that will be implemented in a classroom setting.

TAP Website

The Molly Blank Fund Teaching Artists Program Roster

Articles

STEAM and the Role of the Arts in STEM 

From the Arts Education Blog

January Arts Education Newsletter Thu, Dec 29 2022 Spotlight

Dear Arts Educators,

Welcome to 2023! Congratulations on completing the first semester of this

school year. Thank you for inspiring a love of the arts in Arizona students

every day. Teaching can be challenging in many ways, but we thank you for

persevering and making an impact on a daily basis.

"...if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they

possess, then my monument will be in their work."

-Augusta Savage

 

Thank you for preparing the musicians, artists, dancers, actors and creative

collaborators of tomorrow. You are doing great work and we thank you!

Yours in collaboration,

ADE Arts Education
December Arts Education Newsletter Wed, Nov 23 2022 What's New In The Arts?

Dear Arts Educators,

There are many exciting things happening in the arts during the month of December and we wish all of our arts teachers much luck on upcoming performances and presentations! First, we would like to congratulate the art students of Ms. Lorenia Gutierrez-Casaus in Yuma Union High School District for representing Arizona at the America Celebrates Ornament Display! These ornaments are on display at the President's Park in Washington, DC. We are thankful to them for sharing their talent with the nation! We hope that you have a restful winter break and take some time to make some beautiful art, music, drama or dance solely for yourself. Arts participation is self-care!

Yours in collaboration,

ADE Arts Education