Play acting sparks in Make Believe Play help young students learn skills  for real world learning.

Teaching artist and classroom teachers come together to provide interactive approaches to early learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics through performance art.   Visit article ED.gov to learn more about the Wolf Trap Arts Initiative

 Georgia Wolf Trap
Alliance Theater at the Woodruff Center for the Arts
Contact: Michele Mummert
Phone: 404.733.4650
http://www.alliancetheatre.org/education.aspx?id=62

Our schools offer dual enrollment to continue our hands on approach to learning.  In Georgia and California you can now receive college units and high school credit for taking the classes you love. You can get credit for following your passion.  Check it out.  Finally, way to synthesize science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics through real time, project based learning.  

There is not question for most people about the benefits of arts in education.  Yet for some reason the public schools system finds more reasons to cut arts programs and initiatives.  Focusing on teaching for the test strategies are not as effective as igniting creative thought and exploration, which is one benefit of the arts. This blog is open for comments that support or refute the need for arts in education.