Looking for fun, creative ways to engage early learners? Our trained teaching artists demonstrate joyful, active learning through music, movement, storytelling, and puppetry. Teaching artists collaborate with classroom teachers to immerse students in their learning through an art form.
Students embody learning when lessons include kinesthetic learning strategies, such as tableau and movement. By choreographing movement sequences to music, students will enjoy engaging classroom content and demonstrating understanding. Activate Learning can be adapted to various subjects, including science, English language arts, and social studies.
When students synthesize text through music, they gain literary comprehension while building confidence that anyone can be a composer. Professional musicians guide students to explore how sounds convey meaning and songs tell stories. The experience culminates with performances of original music inspired by a classroom text.
Pictures come to life as students read illustrations, deciphering narratives conveyed through composition, images, and colors. By the conclusion of this five-day residency, each student will create a picture dictionary storyboard to inspire recall and retell of a classroom text.
Professional poetry and spoken word artists engage students in writing that supports positive self-image and builds a strong classroom community. Students will connect with poetry by identifying literary devices in pop music lyrics and uplifting words of contemporary writers.
95% of teachers report SmART Integration helped them re-engage with the subject matter they teach.
93% of teachers felt confident in integrating strategies into their classroom after participating in the program.