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The research confirms what we know to be true. The arts impact all learning.

Neuroscience has also provided an emerging branch of research related to studying the arts. For instance, "Learning Arts and the Brain: The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition" reinforced the positive impact arts learning has on a young person's ability to retain information.

Neither the arts nor the sciences have a monopoly on teaching creativity, collaboration, or problem-solving skills.

The design process proved to be as important as the finished product.

Schools must provide opportunities for students to learn across disciplines. No longer can we teach in silos.

each teacher shared what they had learned, what they had created, and their actionable next steps.

The more you empower learners, the more they will be invested in the work.

society evolves and schools work to meet the needs of learners

purposeful

How to teach quality commenting Kathleen teaches commenting skills through: Modelling and composing comments together with students on the interactive whiteboard. Teaching students about the “letter” format and editing process during writing lessons. Giving examples of a poor/high quality comments and having students vote whether the comment should be accepted or rejected. Example of a Sorting blog comments activity devised for our students here. Having students read and comment on a post on our blog as part of a literacy rotation on the computer each week. Taking students to the ICT room once a week to work on composing a quality comment with a partner. Emailing parents and encouraging them to write comments on the blog with their child.

Activities for developing student commenting skills

own or facilitate a collaborative discussion with students to create together (you could include this video as part of the process). Develop a quality comment evaluation guide.  Refer to Linda Yollis’s Learning how to comment. Write a blog post about commenting and what you define as a quality comment. Have your students practise leaving a “quality” comment on the post.

Create a commenting guideline poster (see poster example below) – develop your

“quality” comment on the post.

Create a commenting guideline for your blog.  Here’s an example.

attention due to their high levels of youth engagement that contribute to substantial learning, enhanced critical thinking

such as heightened confidence and sense of agency

Decades of research findings link adolescent engagement, efficacy, and responsibility with opportunities for immersion and mastery, connection in a community of practice, embracing youth voice, and cultivating youth leadership with adolescent engagement, and non-school settings have emerged as crucial developmental and learning environments for youth

Throughout the United States, teen participants in CYD programs assert that the programs saved their lives, putting them on positive trajectories and away from gangs, drug use, crime, and ennui.

The creative process at the center of CYD programs contributes to profound personal growth for youth participants

And as they experience the creative process over an extended period, they learn that they can use it to express their own identities, understand and change the world around them, and connect to the greater human experience.”

community of practice of youth artists and their artist mentors, the paid, professional artists who comprise the full-time faculty. SAY Sí boasts a 100% rate of graduation and pursuit of higher education in a community with a 45% dropout rat

hese programs had a central belief in the ability of young people to achieve and grow artistically and personally through creative expression and skill building in the arts.

impact of arts-based youth programs in reducing risk factors and building protective factors in a study conducted in three American cities

She also catalogued characteristics of effective CYD programs, such as supporting risk within a safe space (

Teens develop intrinsic motivation as they immerse themselves and develop competence in a topic, connect with others who share this interest, and work with educators positioned as senior collaborators—

local autonomy

Love of Learning

growth

relationships

personalized learning