Table of Contents
Foreword Cyrus E. Driver vii
Introduction: Five Best Questions About Arts Integration: What to Ask Before Your Start David M. Donahue Jennifer Stuart Todd Elkin Arzu Mistry 1
Part I Essential Questions About The Arts and Integration
1 What Is Art? Laurie Polster 19
2 How Does Art Connect to Social Justice? David M. Donahue Jennifer Stuart Todd Elkin Arzu Mistry 31
Part II Art for Every Child
3 Creating Alliances for Arts Learning and Arts Integration Louise Music 45
4 Seeing Is Believing: Making Our Learning Through the Arts Visible Stephanie Violet Juno 57
Part III Art In Every School
5 Leadership for and in the Arts Lynda Tredway Rebecca Wheat 71
6 Arts Integration: One School, One Step at a Time Debra Koppman 79
7 Musical People, a Musical School Sarah Willner 89
Part IV Art Every Day
8 Visual Prompts in Writing Instruction: Working with Middle School English Language Learners Dafney Blanca Dabach 103
9 Creativity as Classroom Management: Using Drama and Hip-Hop Evan Hastings 111
10 Keeping Reading and Writing Personal and Powerful: Bringing Poetry Writing and Bookmaking Together Cathleen Micheaels 122
11 Learning and Teaching Dance in the Elementary Classroom Patty Yancey 138
12 Working with K-12 Students: Teaching Artists' Perspectives Ann Wettrich 148
Afterword Lois Hetland 159
About the Editors and Contributors 167
Index 171