• Why Arts Integration?

    Arts integration is a teaching technique that enhances student engagement, promotes a dynamic class environment, and increases the chances of academic success. Studies have shown that performing arts-based activities help students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration skills. Arts teachers also acknowledge that analyzing and understanding art and its production builds various social and emotional learning competencies. 

    The arts integration techniques align with NEISD's Instructional Framework, The New Art & Science of Teaching. They are designed to help students learn and process information effectively. Learners who have meaningful, engaging, and positive experiences are more motivated to learn, reflect, and collaborate with others. 

    When students learn through arts integration, they are actively involved in building and demonstrating their understanding of the art form and the curriculum. This teaching technique creates a conducive learning environment where students can simultaneously learn and enjoy the learning process.

    Our Goals Are To:

    • Provide professional learning opportunities for all grade level teachers (EC-12) to bring awareness of the impact of Arts Integration in the classrooms.
    • Deepen the learning cohort’s knowledge to implement Arts Integration practices within the curriculum.
    • Offering support to dedicated campuses needs to increase student achievement and ensure student-centered instruction.
    • Support the construction and demonstration of learning using different modalities that reflect evidence of learning.
    • Create safe and productive learning environments that enhance and develop all students' attention, communication, reflection, and collaboration skills.

  • Texas 2016: NEISD & Tobin Center/Kennedy Center Partnership

    In partnership with The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, NEISD was selected as one of only 10 arts institutions nationwide to participate in the Kennedy Center Partners in Education Program in Washington, D.C. for 2016. The program is designed to partner arts organizations with school districts to provide arts-based professional development training for teachers. Together with Kennedy Center artists and national education leaders, NEISD and The Tobin Center create detailed plans for Arts Integrated professional development training for NEISD teachers each academic year. Over 95 partnerships across 46 states are already participating in the program, entering its third decade of service. The Tobin Center is a proud partner with NEISD for transformational learning as TEXAS 2016!

    NEISD Dedicated Campuses

    Dedicated campuses have committed to transformative teaching and learning mindsets campus-wide. All students are consistently challenged to think of themselves as creatives, to practice both critical and creative thinking simultaneously, and to actively engage in the creative process as they construct and demonstrate knowledge through an art form.

  • Arts Integration Ambassadors

    In 2017, NEISD established small cohorts consisting of teachers throughout the district. The Ambassadors are a cohort of elementary to high school members with the understanding, drive, and experience to integrate the arts within the content. The goal of the cohort is to revitalize our program to dig deeper, activate the learner, and give all students opportunities to showcase their learning creatively. These teachers actively participate in their learning and can offer support and professional learning opportunities to support student learning. 

    This year, we onboarded a new cohort of EC HS teachers. The Arts Integration Partnership continues to grow, building partnerships within our department of instructional leaders to support teacher learning opportunities and increase student participation.
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  • Arts Integration is an innovative and dynamic teaching approach that connects an art form with a core subject area and leads to parallel learning in both. Through a partnership with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education Program, The Tobin Center provides classroom teachers training in art integration. With these techniques, the arts have become a regular part of the classroom experience and leverage learning in science, language arts, mathematics, and social studies.

    Proudly Partnered

    In partnership with The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, NEISD was selected as one of only 10 arts institutions nationwide to participate in the Kennedy Center Partners in Education Program in Washington D.C. for 2016. The program is designed to partner arts organizations with school districts to provide arts-based professional development training for teachers. Together with Kennedy Center artists and national education leaders, NEISD and The Tobin Center create detailed plans for Arts Integrated professional development training for NEISD teachers each academic year. Over 95 partnerships across 46 states are already participating in the program, which is entering its third decade of service. The Tobin Center is a proud partner with NEISD for transformational learning as TEXAS 2016!

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