Arts Integration Solutions

Arts Integration Solutions provides professional development to educators and program development to schools that seek to use the arts to improve student achievement. AiS focuses on the classroom practice of arts integration, using the arts in the service of teaching academics - math, science, reading, writing, social studies - and vital 21st century skills. Rather than providing a prescribed curriculum, AiS helps schools develop their own arts integration plans and guides educators in creating lessons that integrate the arts in order to achieve academic goals. AiS seeks to elevate educators' skills and comfort in using the arts as an academic tool to increase student engagement and retention in order to produce a direct impact on student achievement. Partner schools accomplish sustainable results through AiS best practices for leaders, teachers and students alike, resulting in specific student achievement measures on through whole-school transformation. AiS implementation has been shown to break down additional barriers faced in the classroom, including: language (ELL), poverty, disability, social and cultural issues.