Measuring the Effect of Arts Integration on Disadvantaged Students and Their Teachers

• In Event: 32.050 - Best Practices in Teacher Education and Professional Development in the Arts

Abstract

Project RAISE is an Arts Integration model that integrates the arts into Common Core curricula of the treatment group: 11 K-6 elementary schools. The RAISE Model fits most closely to an “elaborated residency” (Ingram, 2003) that “builds capacity” of teachers and students to use arts integration strategies in English and Math. This research reveals that arts integration through job-embedded peer-to-peer professional development is an innovation that provides equity and improvement for all students and raises student achievement scores by 40% on average. The current research in the ninth poorest city in America gives hope that we can transform this knowledge into public policy by using arts integration professional development strategies as engaging practice in order to improve school reform.

Authors

• Robert A. Southworth, The Schoolworks Lab, Inc.

• Martin Frederick Gardiner, Brown University