Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences

Bailey's is honored to be a part of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) program and is the only elementary CETA school to have a fulltime Arts Integration Resource Teacher. The CETA program provides professional development that builds teachers’ knowledge and skills in integrating the arts across the curriculum to help students learn more fluently and with greater motivation. Teachers choose their professional development from a variety of options: in-depth courses about arts integration, demonstration teaching by artists in the classroom, individual coaching sessions by professional teaching artists, action research and monthly collaborative study group meetings.

Bailey’s has 30 teachers enrolled in in-depth courses this year, 13 of which have an arts coach, 5 have demonstration teaching and 4 are conducting action research.

During any given day at Bailey’s you will see evidence of the natural connections between subject areas and art forms through arts integrated instruction as students:

ACT out scenes from history and literature to deepen comprehension and empathy.
DANCE to express understandings of cycles and patterns in science and math
WRITE poetry about their interpretations and feelings about works of art
DRAW realistic contour drawings based on observations of natural objects in science
COMPOSE music from various periods in history, or based on artwork or poetry
ANALYZE visual art to think critically as artists, writers and historians
TELL stories learned through storytelling techniques
CREATE, IMAGINE, CONNECT, INQUIRE, PROBLEM SOLVE and THRIVE!

For more information about CETA visit:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/ceta/home.html
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