We use the arts to change learning – and change lives.
What is arts integration?
The Kennedy Center defines arts integration as an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process that connects an art form and another subject area, allowing them to meet evolving objectives in both.
Arts integration is designed to be a joyful, active and memorable learning experience. Incorporating the five recognized arts disciplines — visual arts, dance arts, theater arts, music arts and digital media arts — an arts integrated curriculum aligns with common core standard practices and fine arts standards. The arts become an approach to teaching, as well as the vehicle for learning.
Methodology: Our approach
Collaborative Assessment
All our partnerships begin with an initial needs assessment that represents a collaboration between ArtsNOW leadership and school administration.
Customized Planning
Then, we move into administrative planning sessions, developing a proposal to address immediate needs, as well as a multi-year plan to align ArtsNOW with the school-wide mission.
Service & Support
Finally, our partners receive ongoing service and support through consultations, onsite visits and virtual support. Partners are granted full access to online ArtsNOW materials.
Partnerships
Professional
Learning
Pacesetter
Programs
Collaborative Assessment
All our partnerships begin with an initial needs assessment that represents a collaboration between ArtsNOW leadership and school administration.
Customized Planning
Then, we move into administrative planning sessions, developing a proposal to address immediate needs, as well as a multi-year plan to align ArtsNOW with the school-wide mission.
Service & Support
Finally, our partners receive ongoing service and support through consultations, onsite visits and virtual support. Partners are granted full access to online ArtsNOW materials.
Partnerships
Professional
Learning
Pacesetter
Programs
Four levels of focused service and support:
Individual Schools
Regional Hubs
Innovation Centers
ArtsNOW Learning Lab
–4th grade teacher
Services: Creativity through collaboration
Known for our collaborative approach and research-based methods, ArtsNOW offers customized, immersive programs and professional learning for educational organizations of all sizes.
We engage with educational organizations in three ways:
Partnerships
ArtsNOW helps pre-K through 12 educators and administrators identify critical learning gaps and creative solutions to solve them. Then, with the help of our consultants and teaching artists, we develop customized professional learning plans to address those gaps for educators and advance student achievement.
Professional
Learning
We offer a series of seminars, workshops and one-on-one sessions with our teaching artists and consultants, each focused on fine arts and core content standards. All participants leave equipped with strategies and best practices for integrated instructional design and delivery.
Pacesetter
Programs
ArtsNOW has created customized extensions to students’ classroom learning known as Pacesetter Programs. These STEAM camps and extended learning programs provide interactive, integrated instruction to inspire continued academic and personal growth.
ArtsNOW Partner Schools
These are schools that are at varying places in their arts integration journey. Each school is working to ensure that the arts are embedded as part of their culture. Some schools have a specific focus or grade level, while other schools have a school-wide focus. All are working in partnership with ArtsNOW to advance their local school plans.
Case Study: Barrow County
ArtsNOW and Barrow County have worked side-by-side to forge a true partnership in arts integration and integrated learning in grades pre-K -12th. This decade-long initiative has played a key role in transforming not only education in Barrow County, but also transforming the surrounding community. With the establishment the Center for Innovative Teaching (CFIT), ArtsNOW established regional offices, grew its signature residency program through middle and high school and was instrumental in the design and development of both the Barrow County Art and Innovation Magnet (AIM) program and the newly opened Barrow Arts and Science Academy (BASA) for grades 9-12.
Partner Schools by District
Aiken County Public School District | SC
East Aiken Elementary School, Aiken
Oakwood-Windsor Elementary School, Aiken
Anderson County School District 05 | SC
Calhoun Academy of the Arts, Anderson
Centerville Elementary, Anderson
Homeland Park Primary, Anderson
Atlanta Public Schools | GA
Hillside Conant School, Atlanta
Barrow County School System | GA
Arts & Innovation Magnet (AIM), Winder
Auburn Elementary
Austin Road Elementary
County Line Elementary, Winder
Holsenbeck Elementary
Kennedy Elementary
Statham Elementary, Statham
Winder Elementary, Winder
Yargo Elementary, Winder
Beaufort County School District 01 | SC
Beaufort High
Beaufort Middle
Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts
Lady's Island Elementary (LIES)
Lady's Island Middle (LIMS)
Mossy Oaks Elementary
Whale Branch Elementary
Whale Branch Middle
Whale Branch Early College High
Berkeley County | SC
H.E. Bonner Elementary
Charleston County | SC
Angel Oak Elementary
Ashley River Elementary
North Charleston Creative Arts Elementary
Whitesides Elementary
Sanders Clyde Creative Arts Elementary
Clayton County | GA
Kay Pace Elementary
East Clayton Elementary
Cobb County School District | GA
Dowell Elementary
Mableton Elementary
Ford Elementary
Powder Springs Elementary
Colleton County School District | GA
Cottageville Elementary, Cottageville, SC
Forest Hills Elementary, Walterboro, SC
Northside Elementary, Walterboro, SC
Douglas County School System | GA
Youth Villages Inner Harbour, Douglasville
Florence County School District | SC
J.C. Lynch Elementary
Lake City Early Childhood Center School of Arts (LCECCA)
Olanta Creative Arts & Science Magnet School
Fulton County School System | GA
Asa Hilliard Elementary
College Park Elementary
Georgetown County School District | SC
Andrews Elementary
Sampit Elementary
Brown's Ferry Elementary
Greenville County School District | SC
Ellen Woodside Elementary
Mauldin Elementary
Berea Elementary
Stone Academy of the Arts
Gwinnett County Public Schools | GA
Coleman Middle School
Hall County Schools | GA
Lula Elementary, Lula
Kershaw County School District | SC
Midway Elementary School, Cassatt
North Central Elementary School, Kershaw
Marietta City Schools | GA
Marietta Center for Advanced Academics (MCAA), Marietta
Newberry County | SC
Kendall Road Complex (Newberry Adult Learning Center)
Boundary Street Elementary
Gallman Elementary
Little Mountain Elementary
Newberry Elementary
Pomaria-Garmany Elementary
Prosperity-Rikard Elementary
Reuban Elementary
Whitmire Community School
Orangeburg County School District | SC
Marshall Elementary School, Orangeburg
Richland County | SC
Conder Elementary
Logan Elementary
A.C. Moore Elementary
Richmond County | GA
Goshen Elementary
Hephzibah Elementary
Deer Chase Elementary
Savannah-Chatham County
Public Schools | GA
Gadsden Elementary
Garden City Elementary
Garrison Elementary
Heard Elementary
Low Elementary
Shuman Elementary School
Spartanburg County School District 1 | SC
New Prospect Elementary
Holly Springs-Motlow Elementary
Spartanburg County School District 3 | SC
Cannons Elementary
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