Browsing by Subject "artists in schools"

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    Artist, Teacher, and School Change Through Arts for Academic Achievement: Artists Reflect on Long-Term Partnering as a Means of Achieving Change
    (Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2002-01) Werner, Linnette
    The purpose of the four-year Arts for Academic Achievement project is to transform teaching and learning through partnerships between schools and artists and arts organizations. The theory of action underlying the initiative is that when teachers and artists collaboratively develop instruction that integrates arts and nonarts disciplines, instruction in nonarts disciplines becomes more effective and student achievement increases. This report is one in a series of reports based on research conducted for the Arts for Academic Achievement project by the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota. The purpose of this report is to describe artist perceptions of artist, teacher, and school changes that occurred as a result of long-term artist-teacher partnerships. Data were collected from individual and group interviews with twenty-three artists who had participated in the program for three or four years.
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    Arts for Academic Achievement: Long-Term Artists' Perspectives
    (Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2007-09) Ingram, Debra
    This report summarizes the perspectives of a sample of artists who have been involved in Arts for Academic Achievement for multiple years. In two focus groups the artists discussed: how the AAA projects they have been involved with have changed over time, what they’ve learned about collaborating with teachers and integrating the arts, the benefits of AAA that they had observed for students and teachers, how they’ve been affected by their involvement in AAA, the strengths of AAA, and challenges in collaborating with teachers and integrating the arts, or, in other words, areas that could be improved.
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    The Problem of Reform in Urban High Schools: A Tale of Two Teams
    (Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2001-09) Freeman, Carol; Seashore, Karen
    This research was conducted as part of an Annenberg Foundation funded program. The purpose of the Annenberg Challenge is to trans form teaching and learning through partnerships between schools and artists and arts organizations. The theory of action underlying the initiative is that when teachers and artists collaboratively develop instruction that integrates arts and non-arts disciplines, instruction in non-arts disciplines becomes more effective and student achievement increases. The two teams involved in this analysis were assigned to work with general program ninth graders who had not enrolled in either of two magnet programs at the high school. Their students were at-risk of low achievement, poor attendance, and behavioral problems. The goals of the two teams arts initiative were to (1) help students feel more connected to their team and to school through participating in activities as a community, (2) increase students’ exposure to various arts forms, and (3) infuse arts activities into their classes to improve students’ engagement and understanding.