This document discusses the benefits of arts education for students. It argues that arts education helps develop students' self-esteem, enhances their capacity to learn and achieve, fosters critical and creative thinking skills, and provides individual lifelong benefits. The document also explores how arts education is compatible with multiple intelligences and literacies and can integrate different academic disciplines.

1. A Case for Arts Education Should we be educating children without involving them in those activities that may define their time and place in history?

2. Arts Education and Christian Education Religious arts are evidenced by architecture, paintings, drawings, sculptures, liturgical music, costumes, symbolic artifacts, floor/wall coverings, landscaping, illustrated manuscripts, sacred literature, and dance.

3. Arts Education as a Steward of Culture Culture is like an iceberg—about one-seventh visible. The visible part is sometimes best discernable through the lens of the literary, performing, and visual arts.

4. Arts Education as a Channel to Self-Esteem Self-concept of at-risk students participating in an arts program increases. The arts program included music, movement, dramatics, and art.

5. Arts Education’s Impact on the Capacity to Learn and the Ability to Achieve College Board identified the arts as one of the six basic academic subjects. SAT scores increased for students with arts coursework.

6. Art Education’s Compatibility to Multiple Intelligences & Multiple Literacies Who— Student (individual) What— Bloom (taxonomy) Where— Gardner (the intelligences) How— Costa (the characteristics)

8. Arts Education & Aesthetics Places of learning are not just physical: they are cultural, spiritual, social, and esthetic. Schooling should provide a continuity of experiences that encourages flexible thinkers to make connections.

9. Fostering Critical & Creative Thinking & Writing Skills The arts are shown to enhance higher-level thinking, enhance communications & writing skills, prove reading by remedial readers, improve attendance, and increase achievement in language & math.

10. Multidisciplinary Integration and Effect Chemistry & Art Piano Keyboard Training with Math Software Reading Improvement Through Art

11. Academic Arts Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Framework Pennsylvania Process Adoption Discipline Based Art Education

12. Literary, Performing, & Visual Arts Supplemental Curricula Resources 2 arts teachers per public school .087 art teacher per private Catholic school 0.52 art teacher per private non-Catholic school

15. Individual Lifelong Benefits from Arts Education Treating stroke patients Music Makes Me Healthy New Horizons International Music Association