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Arts Integration: A Partnership for Learning
Partnering artists with teachers in Maryland schools does a lot more than put another adult in the classroom. Through co-taught arts integration, students deepen their academic learning by engaging with core subjects through music, movement, visual art, poetry, storytelling, and more.
Something Different
The Arts for Learning Principal Fellowship gives leaders the tools and resources to energize educators and build a network that supports students through arts integration.
Together
The unique partnership between teaching artists and academic teachers in the Summer Arts for Learning Academy builds a community of trust, confidence, kindness, and collaboration where students learn more than academics.
How We Do Summer
In our Summer Arts for Learning Academy, Baltimore City Public Schools students spend summer learning from the best teachers and teaching artists in Maryland. During the free five-week program, students explore arts-integrated math and literacy in an environment that allows them to develop socially and emotionally, and expands their creative process while preventing—and in some instances reversing—summer learning loss.
Bloomberg Arts Internship
Since 2017, the Bloomberg Arts Internship has connected rising seniors from Baltimore City Public Schools with paid, real-world experience in the arts and culture sector. Through placements at arts and cultural organizations across Baltimore, interns build professional skills, explore college and career pathways, and contribute to meaningful projects that support their worksites and communities. The program combines hands-on internship experience with professional development, college preparation, writing support, and connection to Baltimore’s vibrant creative community.
First Light
Follow an early childhood teacher as she welcomes artist Khaleshia Thorpe-Price into her classroom. Artist, teacher, and parent testimonials speak to the enormous impact that arts-integrated learning has on Maryland's youngest learners through our Early Childhood programs.
Beautiful Surprises
At the William S. Baer school, arts-integrated learning has a powerful—even unexpected—impact on students and educators. Master teaching artist Sue Trainor imparts tools for creating meaningful and joyful learning for students of all abilities through our Early Childhood programs.
Transformations
Arts-integrated learning helps transform a classroom at William Paca Elementary from one that is struggling with attendance, behavior, motivation, and engagement issues to a classroom filled with students jumping, dancing, creating, dreaming, and living—where children and teachers alike can be viewed as whole people.
A Little Bit of Shiny
An ELA teacher credits her school’s soaring 8th grade test scores to meeting each individual child’s learning style through arts integration. Arts for Learning (formerly Young Audiences of Maryland) roster artists transform every day learning through the arts and inspire students to continue learning and creating even after the class ends.
Breaking In, Breaking Through
What makes kids want to break into a school as opposed to break out of one? The arts. Inspiring positivity and educating through individual art forms, our teaching artists are leading the way in transforming learning and students’ attitudes towards school.