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Community building through art: 22K217
This collection of materials provides a rationale for the priority that PS 217 gives to arts programing as part of its school design. The arts at PS 217 created a platform for building community, developing language and forstering creative and critical thinking. The collection also includes materials that can be used to help educators envision their own opportunities to use arts education to strengthen community and deepen learning.
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This two-page article, published in Psychology Today, summarizes research from Michigan State University which finds that people owning businesses or holding patents receive up to eight times more exposure to the arts as children than the general public. This finding can be used by educators to help explain the importance of arts education for chil...
This set of cards accompanies the article 10 Lessons the Arts Teach by Elliot Eisner. The 10 lesson cards can be used by educators as part of an activity to imagine the places where they are currently achieving the benefits named in this article and where they could strengthen some of these benefits.
This article, written by Elliot Eisner for the National Art Education Association offers compelling insight into what benefits art education offers to human development beyond just making better artists. This can be used by educators to provoke discussions and to support thinking about how to leverage arts experiences to the benefit of students ove...
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