Supportive+Research+for+Arts+Education

[|Learning Through the Arts] Dee Dickinson
 *  This report presents a synthesis of the research on the contribution of arts education to learning. It presents information on Seattle schools and others that have incorporated the arts successfully. The report discusses the relationship between the arts and cognition and the ways each art form promotes unique ways of knowing.

[|Research-Based Justification for the Highline School District Elementary and Secondary School Music Programs]Sandra Locklear
 *  A report updated for 2008 on current research indicating the positive outcomes of an arts education for all children.

[|Stimulating the Brain and Senses Through Art] Dee Dickinson and Linda Bellon-Fisher, et al
 *  An interview with the founder and CEO of New Horizons for Learning by the Washington State Arts Commission.

[|Arts, Neuroscience, and Learning] James E. Zull
 *  Is it possible to discuss art in terms of science? If all human behavior and achievement is the result of physical and chemical events in our brain, then ultimately we should be able to do this.

[|Getting to the Top: Arts Essential Academic Learning Requirements] Doug Herbert
 *  How to make the arts a core subject.

[|Cybrary Man's Arts Educational Web Sites]
 * The internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators & parents. Contains over 20,000 relevant links personally selected by an educator/author with over 30 years of experience.

[|The Art Teacher's Guide to the Internet]
 * Ideas, tools, and resources for teaching art and design in a post-digital age. My favorite blog posts include [|108 Web Tools and Resources], [|Back to School Links] , and [|What online tool do you use most often?]

[|Arts Essential Learnings]
 *  How students can demonstrate their learning in the arts.

[|A Conversation with Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on his 2004-06 Education Commission of the States Chairman's Initiative: //The Arts – A Lifetime of Learning//]
 *  The Education Commission of the States Focuses on Integrating the Arts in Education. A press release of the announcement is followed by an interview with new chairman, Governor Mike Huckabee.

[|Teaching Basics Through the Arts] Mona Brookes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The founder of Monart Drawing Schools discusses the important role drawing can play in elementary education.

[|Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Social and Academic Development] James Catterall
 * The results of numerous studies on the arts in education further cement the importance of the arts.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Boston Public Schools as Arts-Integrated Learning Organizations] Eric Oddleifson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The arts as core curriculum.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Every Child Needs the Arts] Charles Fowler
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> According to Dr Fowler, "if human beings are to survive, we need all the symbolic forms at our command because they permit us not only to preserve and pass along our accumulated wisdom but also to give voice to the invention of new visions."

[|The Necessary Role of the Arts in Education and Society: Finding the Creative Power Within Us to Control Our Lives and Shape Our Destinies]<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Eric Oddleifson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> How the arts can transform society as we know it.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|The Window: Saving Creativity in Teens] Sebastian Lockwood
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> A college teacher and bard urges educators to continue to teach students to develop the processes of creativity as they grow.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Learning Through Creative Play] Leah Mann
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Director Emeritus and Co-Founder of Lelavision shows us how learning and play can reinforce each other.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|A Case for the Arts in Education] Christine Goodheart
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The director for the K-12 Initiatives for Education at the University of Washington makes a case for the importance of the arts in education.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Why Arts Are Important] Dee Dickinson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Fifteen answers to the question "why are arts important?" are listed here.

[|The Arts are Nice, But . . .]<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Stephanie B. Perrin
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> An arts education //is// part of the "real world."

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|A Fifty School Arts Education Demonstration Project] Eric Oddleifson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> How the arts can help failing schools succeed.

[|Building a School Culture of High Standards]<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Ron Berger
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What does a conception of art have to do with high standards? It means seeing art as inextricably a part of all that we produce and share.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Confessions of a Professional Volunteer] Mary Anne Dorward
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> A mother relates the story of her volunteer work at her daughter's elementary school and the transformation she was able to bring about. A story to inspire us all.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|I Made It By Myself] Richard Lewis
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Play is the great discoverer, and its discoveries are the frontiers and landscapes of our imagining mind. While our hands play, the inner realms of our imagination grow. We literally learn to see through playing and imagining, a world not only in front of us, but a deeper world suggested by the dance of our imagining self.

[|Education Through the Arts in Secondary Schools] <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Stephanie B. Perrin
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Intensive arts training, far from being impractical and elitist, can prepare students for life and work by developing in them the general skills and attitudes, the habits of heart and mind they need to prevail in postmodern society no matter what career they chose.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Creative Schools, Connected Communities: Developing Partnerships for Arts Education] Louis Fox and Christine Goodheart
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> How do schools create an effective arts program without proper funding? This article explains the partnership idea and shows us how vital the arts are to education.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Arts-Infused Summer School] Susy Watts
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> A national consultant in arts consultant in arts curriculum demonstrates the effect of integrated instruction on student achievement in literacy and mathematics.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Report on the //Learning Through the Arts// Conference at IslandWood] Lee Ann Woolery
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> A report on a recent, highly successful conference on //Learning Through the Arts, With Emphasis on Math, Language Arts, and Science.//

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Arts Learning and the Creative Economy] Jack Yantis
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Integrated Arts educator recognizes that creativity is essential to the way we live and work today and contemplates how professional development will be reformed to discover new ways to foster creativity while providing a structure in which to produce and manage work.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Community Schools: Arts and Academics After School] Joel Isaksen
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The Community Schools Manager for Seattle's Powerful Schools describes the five guiding principles in the development of their programs.

[|The Story of Arts Corps]<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Lisa Fitzhugh
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The story of a remarkable arts organization and its founder will inspire many on both personal and professional levels.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Filling the Gap in After-School Arts Education: A report on a new organization's progress in the community] Lisa Fitzhugh
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The results of the Arts Corps program, whose mission is to providing quality after-school arts education classes free to youth, particularly in underserved, low- and middle-income neighborhoods, support their vision that art has a transforming effect on youth that will have a ripple effect in the community, building communities that are more compassionate and innovative.

[|Coming Up Taller] Judith Weitz
 * The Coming Up Taller Awards support after school, weekend, and summer arts and humanities programs that use the arts, words, and ideas to provide children with paths to self-discovery, self-expression, and self-confidence.

[|The Value of the Arts to the Community and Education] <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> AnnRené Joseph
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Ms. Joseph shares numerous quotations that reinforce the importance of the arts in education.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|More Arts! It's Essential and the Law!] AnnRené Joseph
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> The Program Supervisor for the Arts at the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Olympia, Washington offers critically important, practical, and timely information regarding the importance of the arts in education.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Education at the Museum of Glass] Susan Warner
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Director of Education for the Museum of Glass describes the value of active, integrated project-based learning in their program.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Seattle Center Academy: Reach For It] Cinda Johnson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The evaluator of a highly successful, unique summer program in the arts describes how special needs students benefit from inclusion in such a program.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|ArtsPlace: It Really Works!] Sharon Nesbitt Davis and Claire Rotolo <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">[|Art Therapy: A Proposal for Inclusion in School Settings] Eve C. Jarboe <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">[|Chaim Potok's //My Name is Asher Lev//, Art History and Images From the World Wide Web]Alan Warhaftig <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|An Interview with Robert E. Horn] <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|The Nature Journal as a Tool for Learning] Karen Matsumoto <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|Knowing the Language of Place Through the Arts] Lee Ann Woolery <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Finding a Relationship To Place Through Natural Fiber Weaving] Melinda West
 * An out of school program in Illinois puts teens to work as apprentices to local artists.
 * Ms. Jarboe explains the basics of art therapy and makes a case for its addition to school counseling programs.
 * Including art history creates a richer, more powerful lesson.
 * Robert E. Horn Horn talks about his research on visual language and the implications for curriculum development and teaching.
 * Drawing their observations in a field journal can be a powerful way for students to get to know their natural community and the geography of their home environment.
 * Arts Coordinator of IslandWood uses art as a way of connecting with the landscape to more deeply understand the ecology and make a stronger connection to place.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Hands-on natural fiber projects derived from the local traditional cultures and native plants of any given area of the world can open a doorway to place, providing new skills for expressing a relationship to the land.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Music and the Mind] Dee Dickinson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Dee Dickinson discusses reports that attest to the connection between music and academic achievement.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Music for Educators: Music, Literacy and Standards] Alan Warhaftig
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> With so much attention focused on reading and math, what will be the role of the arts, including music, in the new order of education? Alan Warhaftig shows us the vital role the arts play in teaching standards.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Music and Learning: Integrating Music in the Classroom] Chris Brewer
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> A musician and master teacher offers successful guidelines and strategies for incorporating music into the learning environment.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Interactive Music Strategies for the Academic Curriculum] Michelle Lazar
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">A gifted musician and teacher describes practical ways to use music as another multi-sensory approach to teaching math, literacy, science, and social studies.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Left Handed Music Making] Ryan Thomson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> This article explores the tradition of violin playing that has the player fingering with the left hand and bowing with the right. It challenges this form as "the right way" for those who are naturally left-handed, and explores a number of related handedness issues.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|"Musicians' Tools" for the Workplace] Peggy Rostron
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The author, founder of the Maestro Effect, director of the Rostron Piano School and symphony pianist, describes how adults who have never had musical training can learn aspects of music and music-making and use it to enhance workplace performance.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|An Excerpt from Learning From Lyrics] Johnathan Chase
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chase makes a case for the educational use of songs by teachers in all subject areas.

[|Making Music With Your Child] Kia Portafekas
 * A music educator shows how to create and use music in all types of everyday situations in and out of the classroom.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Music Activities as a Cognitive Tool for the Enhancement of Analytical Perception, Comparison, and Synthesis for the Blind Learner] Adena Portowitz
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Music can be used to train the mind in abstract thought.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Waldorf Approach Offers Hope in Schools for Juvenile Offenders] Arline Monks
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> An experimental program for juvenile offenders in Yuba County, California utilizes Waldorf methods and curricula in two schools, T.E. Mathews Community School, a school for twelve-to-eighteen year-old offenders who are under a court order to attend, and The Garden Court School in Juvenile Hall, a lock-up facility. Waldorf methods have had a dramatic affect on teachers and students, and principal Ruth Mikkelson is looking to apply the approach in other schools that serve at-risk youth.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Providing Meaningful Learning Through Story and an Inquiry Approach to Science Education] Kathleen Carroll
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The author discusses her book and audiotape //Sing a Song of Science// which teachers can use to reinforce students' concrete experiences with scientific phenomena.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Creative Dramatics in the Classroom] Dee Dickinson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> All teachers can use these strategies for bringing any subject to life through dramatic improvisation.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Drama and Teaching Math] Mark Wahl
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Arts integration is for every discipline. Mark Wahl shows us how drama can enhance the teaching of math.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|The Cappies: Celebrating High School Theater Like Never Before] Bill Strauss and Judy Bowns
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">A new program for showcasing the acheivements of high school theater students and critics.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Festival in the Workplace: Igniting Passion for World Class Excellence] Roosevelt Finlayson and Patrice A. Francis
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Ways in which drama and artistic creation can make work fun.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Limbic Limbo] Leah Mann
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> An accomplished dancer and gymnast describes the importance of helping all students to develop imagination and creative thinking, tapping into their inner artist.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Language of Dance Distance Exchange Program: Drop From Above-- Dance Across the Pond] Jane Dulieu
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The author discusses bringing children of two different cultures together with dance.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Movement is the Key to Learning] Anne Green Gilbert
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> Bringing dance into your classroom will not only increase learning, but will make your classroom a healthier, happier place to learn and teach.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|A Brain Compatible Approach to Studio Dance] Anne Green Gilbert
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Artistic Director of Seattle Creative Dance Center details her studio's approach of integrating current brain research into the teaching of dance concepts and techniques.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Natural Connections: Developing the Personal Intelligences Though Music and Movement] Judy Bonne
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The author, Principal of Grayline Elementary, explains the POWER SKILLS program which the school pilots as part of its School Improvement Plan. Based upon the musical, inter and interpersonal components of the theory of multiple intelligences, the program is in its third year of schoolwide implementation. The results are significant. The interventions are powerful enough to improve learning.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|The Arts Journey in Progress] AnnRené Joseph
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> The Program Supervisor for the Arts at the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction updates her report on Washington State's arts assessment program to assure the inclusion of the arts as an Essential Academic Learning Requirement in the K-12 curriculum.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Related links <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|Arts Resources on the Web] compiled by Jonathan Block <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[| Arts in Education] <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|ArtsEdge] <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|National Arts & Learning Collaborative] <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|**Bibliography**]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|The Power of the Arts: Creative Strategies for Teaching Exceptional Learners] Sally L. Smith
 * [|Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning] Edward B. Fiske
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change] Maxine Greene
 * [|Coming Up Taller] Elizabeth Murfee
 * [|Art Matters] Eileen S. Prince
 * [|Making Music With Your Child] Kia Portafekas and Karen E. Marlow
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century] Robert E. Horn
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health and Creativity with Music] Don Campbell
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|Science Songs and Stories] Kathleen Carroll
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|Creativity: The Flowering Tornado] Ginny Ruffner
 * Links from Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. Be patient, this link takes a minute to open because it is a large database.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The national arts and education network, based at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. This site offers lesson plan ideas.
 * NALC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming US schools by providing students with opportunities to learn in and through the arts in school and in after school programs. NALC works to develop, implement, and evaluate model programs incorporating the arts into urban school districts where the needs are greatest.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">View artworks and find teacher guides and other learning resources here. Large image database.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|The National Gallery of Art]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Digital images, tours and more.

[|Centre for Creative Communities]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The centre, based in the UK, believes that the arts and creativity are central to human development and essential elements in building sustainable communities.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">[|CARTS: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">A clearinghouse of online resources pertaining to folklore, anthropology, traditional arts, oral history, and community-based education. Co-sponsored by the National Task Force on Folk Arts in Education and City Lore, CARTS is designed to serve the needs of K-12 educators, students, and community members interested in developing meaningful linkages between school curricula and local cultural traditions. Teachers will be interested in the folklorist mentoring project. A stipend is available for teachers to develop folklore-related projects in their classrooms.