A new book by Linda Nathan is just out and it tackles five myths we tell many of our students in K-12 schools. The book’s title refers to one of these myths, that if you, the students, can just apply … Continued
Introduction Although the stated purpose of any evaluation is to study and confirm an education non-profit’s impact on students, the alignment of objectives with data collection is a process that reveals performance, challenges data collection and suggests changes in collection … Continued
Center for Creative Education Bringing learning to life through the arts! The Center for Creative Education is an educational nonprofit that was created more than 20 years ago to strengthen the presence of the arts in the classrooms of … Continued
Sometimes I feel like I am living in a partitioned country and other times I feel we are as one. But life here in the United States is not as simple as one or the other—it is a constant struggle … Continued
The Arts The arts are a creativity generator. They open up children’s minds and help engage them in producing academic product that is more interesting and more explanatory of the content and skills they are learning. The arts are also … Continued
Arts Integration I spent last week in Florida helping the Center for Creative Education provide its summer workshop for teachers and teaching artists. These teacher partnerships will implement an arts integrated curriculum to more than 800 children next year. The … Continued
Arts Integration Helps Increase Learning Across all Abilities I am taking a series of steps to introduce districts to the implementation of our arts integration model for school reform developed by our lab. This 7-year, two-trial, randomized, 35,000 student, treatment … Continued
Education and the Arts I want to tell you a story about my life in education and the arts. I really can’t put a button on this, so don’t expect an easy ending, a clean through-line, or simple outcomes. I … Continued
The Arts Help Students Learn I have been doing a lot of thinking about the outcomes of our research that shows a strong connection between arts integration and positive educational outcomes. The use of the arts, in this research case … Continued
