Model Programs & Partnerships
Arizona: Opening Minds Through the Arts, Tucson. Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated for success in helping students with increased academic growth and school engagement.
South Carolina: ABC – Arts in Basic Curriculum. Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated for success in helping students with increased academic growth and school engagement.
Mississippi: WSI – Mississippi Whole School Initiative. Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated for success in helping students with increased academic growth and school engagement.
Oklahoma: A+ Schools. Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated for success in helping students with increased academic growth and school engagement.
Connecticut: HOT (Higher Order Thinking) Schools. Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated for success in helping students with increased academic growth and school engagement.
Texas/Dallas: Big Thought. Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated for success in helping students with increased academic growth and school engagement. Currently part of a five-year arts education initiative funded through the Ford Foundation.
Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership (AALL), California/Alameda County: Using an online petition and letter writing campaign, generated support for Governor Schwarzenegger’s $105 million arts education block grants for public schools.
The Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning, Maryland: is working to improve performance in high school by focusing on closing the learning gap between elementary and middle school.
The Arts Education Initiative (AEI), California/Berkeley: seeks to develop, from recruitment to service, new teachers and urban school leaders who will infuse the arts throughout K-12 public schools.
Cleveland Integrated Arts Collaborative has initiated project READ (Revitalizing Education through Arts Discipline) to improve reading skills by combining arts and literacy for Pre-K through high school students.
Ask 4 More Arts, Mississippi/Jackson: a school-community-arts partnership that grew out of the Ask 4 More collaborative, is an arts integration and artist-in-residence program found in fifteen elementary schools to date.
Interchange, Missouri/St. Louis is a new, innovative community-wide collaborative in St. Louis that has come together to boost the academic achievement of the city's public school students by offering an expanded arts integrated curriculum.
DC Collaborative, Washington, DC: Formed in 1998, the Collaborative believes that arts education enhances children’s intellectual and social development and should be enjoyed by every student. Last spring, the collaborative launched the Arts Education Initiative, a three-year endeavor that will bring equitable arts experiences, learning, and integration to all students in DC public schools.
Arts Education Partnership national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of the arts in the learning and development of every child and in the improvement of
ASCI art and science collaboration.
ArtsEdge A collaboration between the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Perseus Project. The Perseus Project is a collaborative academic publication compiled by art historians, philologists, and archaeologists for teaching and research. It contains textual and visual materials for the study of ancient Greek civilization
