Arts Integration

Dance, drama, visual arts, and music offer engaging entry points for creating classroom expectations and community norms.

Incorporating the arts into STEM education helps foster students’ creativity, cognitive development, and content knowledge.

By identifying and documenting important places and spaces at school, students become stewards of their learning environment.

Teachers can incorporate music in their classrooms in a variety of ways to enhance the cognitive processes that are essential to learning.

Integrating the arts throughout the elementary school curriculum gives students the tools they need to express themselves.

From full-fledged lesson plans and virtual field trips to expansive digital archives and opportunities for professional learning, museums have so much to offer beyond the in-person experience.

Combining simple exercises with math instruction can help ensure that elementary school students remember these lessons.

Structuring a school around the arts can help students excel academically and develop social and emotional skills.

To reap the benefits of music on learning, kids need consistent and abundant musical practice, according to the latest cognitive research.

Visual note-taking allows information to be processed by the brain in three different ways.

Young students can apply language skills to learn to 'read art,' including their own work.

Increased self-confidence and self-understanding, enhanced communication skills, and improved cognition are among the many reasons for teaching the arts.

Does doodling boost learning? Do attendance awards work? Do boys and girls process math the same way? Here’s a look at the big questions that researchers tackled this year.