Powerful Arts
Overview / Teaching Artists / Mission, Principles / Results Powerful Arts pairs professional visual and performing artists with teachers to collaborate on the design and teaching of arts disciplines as integrated into core curriculum. Teachers learn side-by-side with students how the arts spark interest, broaden critical thinking, transfer across the curriculum, and tap into multiple learning styles and forms of expression.
Promoting project-based learning in a variety of contexts, while providing teachers with the necessary resources to fully realize their efforts, Powerful Arts advances best practices in education, adding a rich dimension to the classroom.
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... the arts can’t be separated from the rest of learning. They create pathways otherwise inaccessible. They also build the connections between math, social studies, and science.
Teacher Cynthia McIsaac, Whitworth School
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