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Exploring the Arts Arts In Education Model Development and Dissemination Program The First Three Years 2001-2003 Exploring the Arts Arts In Education Model Development and Dissemination Program The First Three Years 2001-2003 Prepared by Branch Associates, Inc. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania This report was produced under U.S. Department of Education Contract No. ED-04-CO-0074/005, with Branch Associates, Inc. Diane Austin served as the contracting officer’s representative. The content of this report does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial products or organizations imply endorsements by the U.S. gov- ernment. Mention and description of the program models included in this compendium do not imply endorsement by the U. S. Department of Education. This publication also contains URLs for information created and maintained by private organizations. This information is provided for the reader’s convenience. The U.S. Department of Education is not responsible for controlling or guaranteeing the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of the outside information. Further, the inclusion of information or URL does not reflect the importance of the organization, nor is it intended to endorse any views expressed, or products or services offered. Photograph Credits The photographs in this compendium were submitted by individual grantees. Photographs that appear on the page of an individual project profile were submitted by that grantee. Other photographs on the front and back cover, as well as on the Foreword page, were submitted by the following grantees: Artful Citizenship — The Wolfsonian, Inc. (2002 grantee) Artful Thinking — Traverse City Area Public Schools (2003 grantee) Artists and Teachers Together — Greenburgh Central 7 School District (2003 grantee) Arts Allies in Basic Learning and Excellence (Arts ABLE) — The Saint Paul Public Schools (2003 grantee) Big Thought, A Learning Partnership — Dallas ArtsPartners (2003 grantee) Grove/Tanglewood Model Arts Project — School District of Greenville County (2003 grantee) Keeping the Arts in Mind — Aldine Independent School District (2001 grantee) Learning Without Borders — East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (2003 grantee) Let’s FACE It! — Fresno Unified School District (2003 grantee) Project Poetry Live! — Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc. (2003 grantee) Project RAISE — Lake Elsinore Unified School District (2001 grantee) Teaching In and Through the Arts: Performing Arts Workshop’s Artists-in-School Model for Arts in Education — Performing Arts Workshop, Inc. (2003 grantee) Teaching Literacy Through Art — Guggenheim Museum (2003 grantee) Thinking Through Art — Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2003 grantee) Ysleta Arts in Education: An Integration of Arts, Pre-Literacy Skills, Language Arts and Reading in the Classroom for Every Child, Every Day — Ysleta Independent School District (2003 grantee) Exploring the Arts Contents Foreword 1 Introduction 2 2001 Grantees 8 Artful Teaching and Learning | Minneapolis Public Schools 10 Integrated Instructional Model | School Administrative Unit #2 12 Investigating the Arts and Literacy Connection | The ArtsConnection, Inc. 14 Keeping the Arts in Mind | Aldine Independent School District 16 Opening Minds Through the Arts | Tucson Unified School District 18 Project ARTISTIC | City of Charleston 20 Project Art Smart | Warren County School District 22 Project RAISE | Lake Elsinore Unified School District 24 Rockford Arts Revival | Rockford Public Schools 26 SPECTRA+ | Fitton Center for Creative Arts 28 Whole Schools Initiative | Mississippi Arts Commission 2002 Grantees 32 Appalachian Arts in Education Partnership | Appalachian State University 34 Artful Citizenship | Wolfsonian, Inc. 36 Arts Impact | Puget Sound Educational Service District 38 Classroom Arts Project | Berwick Area School District 40 Different Ways of Knowing | The Galef Institute 42 Education Arts Technology | Commonwealth Public Broadcasting (MHz Networks) 44 Read & Rock | A Cultural Exchange 2003 Grantees 48 Artful Thinking | Traverse City Area Public Schools 50 Artists and Teachers Together | Greenburgh Central 7 School District 52 Art, Books and Creativity: Arts Learning in the Classroom | National Museum of Women in the Arts 54 Art-Based Learning Leads to Literacy and Arts Skills Development Project | New York City Department of Education 56 The A.R.T. Project: Art and Reading Together, Creating Meaningful Literacy Links | Sacramento County Office of Education 58 ArtReach | Mt. Diablo Unified School District 60 Arts Allies in Basic Learning and Excellence | The Saint Paul Public Schools 62 ARTS FIRST Windward Research Project | Hawaii Alliance for Arts Education 64 Arts Impacting Achievement | Beacon Street Gallery 66 Arts in the Classroom Professional Development Program | Santa Clara County Office of Education Exploring the Arts Contents 68 ArtsSmart to the Maximum Project | Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council, Inc. 70 Big Thought, A Learning Partnership | Dallas ArtsPartners 72 Cultivating Arts in a Rural Setting—A Home-Grown Approach | Jefferson County School Board 74 Developing Early Literacies Through the Arts Delta Project | Chicago Public Schools 76 Grove/Tanglewood Model Arts Project | School District of Greenville County 78 Intelligent Basketry, Effective Learning | Long Beach Unified School District 80 Just Think | Alliance for a Media Literate America 82 Learning Without Borders | East Bay Center for the Performing Arts 84 Let’s FACE It! | Fresno Unified School District 86 Music for the Very Young: Music, Movement and Literacy | Trenton Public Schools 88 POETRY Express Project | Region One 90 Progressive Education in Art and Academics for KIDS | Englewood School District 92 Project Art Smart II | Warren County School District 94 Project Poetry Live! | Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc. 96 Redefining Texts: Expanding Learning Through the Arts | Niagara Falls City School District 98 School Residency Initiative | Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc. 100 SmART Schools Model Development and Dissemination Program | Education Development Center 102 STAR! (Storytelling, Arts and Technology Resource) Program | Streetside Stories 104 Storybridge—Storytelling by Senior Citizens to Improve Literacy | Stagebridge 106 SUAVE: A Model Approach to Teaching English Language Learners Through the Arts | California Center for the Arts 108 Teaching In and Through the Arts: Performing Arts Workshop’s Artists-in-Schools Model for Arts in Education | Performing Arts Workshop, Inc. 110 Teaching Literacy Through Art | Guggenheim Museum 112 Thinking Through Art | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 114 Transitions Through Arts and Literacy Learning (TALL) | Central Falls School District 116 Ysleta Arts in Education: An Integration of Arts, Pre-Literacy Skills, Language Arts and Reading in the Classroom for Every Child, Every Day | Ysleta Independent School District Summary of Lessons Learned 118 Appendix A | 2001 Grantees Evaluation Plan Summaries 121 Appendix B | 2002 Grantees Evaluation Plan Summaries 124 Appendix C | 2003 Grantees Evaluation Plan Summaries 126 Appendix D | Grantee Contact List 133 1 Exploring the Arts Foreword he Arts in skills in creating, performing cant chooses to engage in Education Model and responding to the arts. development, documenta- Development and Each entry describes a tion, assessment or dis- T Demonstration program’s general approach, semination work varies. (AEMDD) program was project goals and objec- However, all funded projects established by Congress to tives, the population served, are intended to increase further develop models that highlights of activities, and the amount of information effectively strengthen and a summary of student and on effective models for arts integrate arts in elemen- faculty outcomes. All of this education that is nationally tary and middle schools’ information is summarized in available and that integrate core academic curricula. a concise format. the arts with standards- This compendium provides AEMDD grants are based education programs. descriptions of projects that designed to enable local I hope educators nation- were funded from 2001 to education agencies and wide find these examples 2003, and their efforts to organizations with arts as inspiring as I do, and are use high-quality arts in aca- expertise to further develop encouraged to use high-qual- demic instruction, including and create materials for the ity arts in the course of other their approach to strengthen replication or adaptation academic instruction to the place of arts as a core of current comprehensive strengthen the place of arts academic subject in school approaches for integrat- as a core academic subject curricula; strengthen arts ing a range of arts disci- in regular school curricula. instruction; and improve plines into elementary and Morgan S. Brown students’ academic perfor- middle school curricula. The Assistant Deputy Secretary for mance, together with their extent to which an appli- Innovation and Improvement U.S. Department of Education 2 Introduction Purpose This compendium contains summaries of programs that were awarded three-year fund- ing grants in 2001 to 2003 through the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Innovation and Improvement. The document aims to disseminate information on the various program methods and evaluation