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Children's brains need to acquire memory associations that link pleasure with learning
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Learning that incorporates the arts, movement or physical enactment offers students opportunities to engage their academic subjects through talents and abilities which they have not previously recognized as being relevant to their scholastic and cognitive potentials
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artistic activities should be authentic and meaningful; they should not be perceived by students as "add-on fluff" to academic subjects.
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apply more effort, collaborate successfully, ask questions, revise work and review foundational knowledge
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experience in symbolic representation of academic learning with the neural activity seen when the brain processes information using the highest forms of cognition, creative problem solving, critical analysis and innovation.