Visual arts help marginalized youth learn mindfulness and self-compassion
Important learning takes place through experiences of fun and belonging at an arts-based mindfulness program.
PRINCIPAL VOICE: Why I’ve taken a community-based approach to arts education
The arts and turning STEM into STEAM is an innovative way to help students boost their creativity and critical thinking
STEM education is important. But discounting the arts would be a mistake
STEM education is important. But discounting the arts would be a mistake
LEGO Education Increasing Its Interest In STEAM Learning
Since 1990, employment in STEM occupations has grown 79%. However, the Smithsonian Science Education Center found 78% of high school graduates don't meet benchmark readiness for one or more college courses in mathematics, science, reading, or English.
Transforming a School Through Arts Integration
How integrating the arts can help students excel academically and develop social and emotional skills.
Arts, SEL collaboration boosts school climate, assessment options
In the "whole-child" era, experts at a Turnaround Arts event described how the arts can help educators meet school goals and improve student learning.
Arts education benefits students for life
Integrating the arts across the curriculum can boost students' creativity and critical thinking
The Guardian view on creativity in schools: a missing ingredient
Creativity can often be the missing ingredient in a child's education, but it should be embedded throughout the curriculum from the arts to science and math
How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience
Art has often been relegated as an additional activity in schools. But schools that put art at the center of a child's learning experience through arts integration are seeing children thrive.
Arts educators cite needs for more research on academic benefits
The role of the arts in STEM and examining data from "arts-rich" schools were among highlights during day one of the Arts Education Partnership conference.