Advancing Arts Education through an Expanded School Day

Advancing Arts Education through an Expanded School Day

Lessons from Five Schools

2 National Center on Time & Learning Advancing Arts Education

As children play music, as they paint or draw or design, as they dance or act or sing, many develop new passions, come to express themselves in original ways, and discover innovative pathways to success.

National Center on Time & Learning

The National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) is dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well-rounded education. Through research, public policy, and technical assistance, NCTL supports national, state, and local initiatives that add significantly more school time to help children meet the demands of the 21st century and prepare for success in college and career.

THE WALLACE FOUNDATION

The Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy that seeks to improve education and enrichment for disadvantaged children. The foundation funds projects to test innovative ideas for solving important social problems, conducts research to find out what works and what doesn't and to fill key knowledge gaps--and then communicates the results to help others.

IN appreciation

We are very grateful to the administrators, teachers, community partners, and students in the five profiled schools for welcoming us into their buildings, generously sharing their valuable time, and demonstrating their commitment to improving arts education for all.





Advancing Arts Education through an Expanded

School Day: Lessons from Five Schools

Contents

4 The Frame: A Study of Arts Education

5 Why Arts in Schools? 9 Arts Education Today 10 A National Study 12 Key Findings

14 Portraits of Five Schools

14 Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School (BART)

22 Clarence Edwards Middle School 32 Metropolitan Arts and Technology

Charter High School (Metro) 42 Cole Arts and Sciences Academy (CASA) 50 Roger Williams Middle School

58Lasting Impressions:

Valuing Time for the Arts

Prelude

in schools across the country, educators recognize the power of the arts to change young lives. They know that students' sustained engagement with enriching, high-quality experiences in the arts promotes essential skills and perspectives--like the capacity to solve problems, express ideas, harness and hone creativity, and persevere toward a job well done. And yet today, educators at many schools that operate with conventional schedules are forced to choose between offering their students valuable opportunities to pursue the arts and focusing on other rigorous core classes that also are necessary for success in the 21st century. This study, which highlights an exciting new approach, is produced by the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL), an organization dedicated to expanding

learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well-rounded education, with support from The Wallace Foundation, a national philanthropy seeking to improve education and enrichment for disadvantaged children. In these pages, we present portraits of five schools that are advancing arts education through an expanded school day as they create vibrant and inclusive models of truly enriching education for all students.

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