Artful Learning

Founded on Leonard Bernstein's principles, Artful Learning is a school improvement model that stimulates and deepens academic learning through the Arts.

Artful Learning is adaptable to any learning community or educational system. Its flexibility allows it to be integrated into other school-site initiatives or serve as the central instructional methodology. The arts-based skills and strategies magnify student engagement and demonstrably improve cognition, as well as provide differentiation to meet the needs of all learners. The four main quadrants

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Timeline photos 03/06/2020

Festival Napa Valley Springboard to screen How Did You Learn Today? April 1, 2020 at Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center. Reserve your seat today!

Tending the Perennials: The Art and Spirit of a Personal Religion 10/31/2019

Check out the latest book from Artful Learning Board member and one of the Found Fathers of the model, Eric Book. This companion book to his 1997 Everyday Work of Art will inspire engagement with art and spirituality.
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Tending the Perennials: The Art and Spirit of a Personal Religion In Tending the Perennials, master teacher Eric Booth provides the architecture and understandings you need to create a “personal religion” that brings greater meaning and happiness to your life. He guides readers toward engagement with the perennial truths of art and religion—truths that are g...

Timeline photos 12/05/2018

Students at Dwight Rich School of the Arts learn a new arts-based skill & strategy Zip-Zap-Zoom

11/28/2018

Willow Elementary School in Napa, California is an Artful Learning Legacy and Leadership school that has linked the arts and the artistic process to the daily classroom learning experience on a daily basis.

Learn more from Principal Pam Perkins about how Artful Learning transformed their school into an arts-based learning community!

08/25/2018

Happy 100th birthday, Lenny!

"The best way to 'know' a thing is in the context of another discipline”

Leonard Bernstein
"The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard, 1973

ARTFUL LEARNING® stimulates and deepens academic learning through the arts.

08/05/2018

Retweeted Principal Scott Moses ():

Our teachers immersed in inquiry centers during our summer training to get ready to develop powerful units of study for our students! https://t.co/ghcWFmisk1

08/05/2018

Retweeted Principal Scott Moses ():

Awesome Andres Duarte Artful Learning accomplishments. Thank you teachers for your dedication to excelling in your craft this week! Looking forward to an amazing school year! https://t.co/zlwvLgDZUU

Duarte Unified on Twitter 08/05/2018

Visionary & inspirational leader takes the helm. Welcome & continued skill moving the school 'forward together'!

Duarte Unified on Twitter “ & Community, please welcome , the new of to our Family and ❤️ what you see!”

06/01/2018

Retweeted Nadia Hillman ():

Student filmmakers walking the red carpet to begin their Film Festival. Exciting culmination of projects. https://t.co/oztKKkQnAG

06/01/2018

Retweeted Duarte Unified ():

The big bad wolf 🐺 doesn’t stand a chance in outwitting our clever 🐷 Kinders who are enacting the adorable musical today! It’s a “Huff and Puff” proof performance! https://t.co/BJYQPclVMV

06/01/2018

Retweeted Scheshin Quinn ():

Love how we send off our 5th Graders with a Final Applause and Drum line! https://t.co/xJ25YuTYua

06/01/2018

Retweeted Duarte Community ():

Congratulations on being selected by the readers of the , , and the as the San Gabriel Valley’s Best Charter School of the Year! https://t.co/Z024stA1d2

06/01/2018

Retweeted Scheshin Quinn ():

4th gr students of and 1st gr created beautiful sculptures based on Calder's works. Love the collaboration across grade levels and literature connection to Sandy's Circus. https://t.co/8C9Syr3QTZ

06/01/2018

Retweeted Beth McCoy ():

Perspective weaving #1: an interdependent liquid watercolor weave. #2: a paper plate loom bracelet #3: a hula hoop t-shirt weave complete with artifacts from the year that document experiences when our perspective shifted. We are weavers! https://t.co/siiO4lAkAl

06/01/2018

Retweeted Jackson Middle Sch ():

Celebrate a year of success at JMS. All are welcome! Your self guided tour of JMS and Artful Learning ends with a ice cream sundae in the cafeteria! Students must be accompanied by parents. https://t.co/liHjtaBQkw https://t.co/3WUUjNwFeR

05/25/2018

Retweeted Allan Mucerino ():

This is wonderful ❤️ The first year as an academy has yielded great results https://t.co/vF0XNwppWm

05/22/2018

Retweeted Beth McCoy ():

4th graders studying Perspective weave together their perspective of Celeste, the main character in A Nest for Celeste, an amazing book about a mouse who weaves, by author Henry Cole. Our beautiful piece represents our collective frame of reference. https://t.co/o6nbMoOmSS

05/21/2018

Retweeted Artful Learning ():

Silent Film Fest-screenings of student Original Creations. FIRST of it's kind at any school. https://t.co/qSq9BBISP9

05/21/2018

Retweeted Jobs@DMPS ():

The Des Moines Public Schools offers a comprehensive
hands-on approach to learning and mastering the skills in visual arts. We are currently seeking art teachers at the elementary level. Apply online https://t.co/Zwvr0BBUpF https://t.co/m2iS9UCrYT

05/16/2018

Retweeted Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning ():

Looking for strong talking points to advocate for arts education? Check this op-ed! https://t.co/0ONr3vy2MH

05/16/2018

Retweeted CSArts-SGV ():

What an incredible night! "Unplugged with Susan Egan" raised funds for our 10 arts conservatory programs, while also providing students with an amazing performance opportunity! Thank you to everyone who attended! https://t.co/SigZ8NlpXQ

05/11/2018

Retweeted Duarte Unified ():

Thank u incredible Kim Family & partner 4 fully funding music class for 50 K-4th Graders! Bravo instructors & student performers who opened 4 the Instrumental Music Finale! Dragon’s spirit will forever live on in the ❤️ of ! 🎼 https://t.co/GfcbklJaz8

05/11/2018

Retweeted Joanne Emmons ():

Kindergarten "Round Up" this week. Huge turn out of kids/families for 18-19 SY! Spiderman & friends created torn paper buffaloes to go along with our book, "Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?" It's going to be a fun! https://t.co/vkLUfsBd6j

05/11/2018

Retweeted Denver Art Museum ():

RECENTLY ANNOUNCED: 40 works by artist pair Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen will be on display at the in the fall of 2018. More… https://t.co/bvp6r6ciZ9 https://t.co/tPOiVaDoDL

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