Arts Smart

Arts Smart. Part 7. Arts Lessons Help Students Think

Janice KirkNovember 9th, 2019|Categories: Arts Smart, Blog|Tags: auditory learner, brain development, concrete learning, corpus callosum, criterion referenced tests, holistic thinking, intuitive, kinesthetic/tactile learner, memory, metaphoric thinking, reality, reflection, right brain, sensory perception, spatial thinking, synthesis, thinking skills, truth, visual learner|

Milton the Mouse Listened to John Milton's poetry, Danced to a Beethoven Contra Dance, Loved [...]

Arts Smart Part 6. What Can Parents Do?

Janice KirkOctober 19th, 2019|Categories: Arts Smart, Blog|Tags: Art Budget Wars, Arts Advocacy, child prodigy, keystone, School budget, sensory perception, Suzuki, Visual and Performing Arts, whole child|

Milton the Mouse Who listened to Beethoven and quoted John Milton A very smart mouse! [...]

Arts Smart Part 5. A Fight for the Arts Budget? Not again!

Janice KirkOctober 12th, 2019|Categories: Arts Smart, Blog|Tags: achievement tests, art, art education, Art Smart, Arts Budget, music, music education, school board, school superintendent|

Milton the Mouse came to live with the Stewart family, a musical household. He increased [...]

Arts Smart Pt. 4: Expressive Arts and Mental Health

Janice KirkOctober 5th, 2019|Categories: Arts Smart, Blog|Tags: accomplishment, art, Arts Smart, big picture, clay, concrete learning, contentment, dance, depression, drama, drums, Expressive Arts, expressive outlet, frill, holistic, insight, intuitive thinking, mental health, metaphor, music, perception, Peter Drucker, reflection, right brain, School budget, spatial thinking, success, suicidal thoughts, synthesis|

Milton the Mouse became a very smart mouse in the Stewart household. He even found [...]

Arts Smart Part 3. The Arts Can Start at Home

Janice KirkSeptember 28th, 2019|Categories: Arts Smart, Blog|Tags: academic discipline, band, Bell Telephone Hour, choir, disciplines, Drawing, Evangeline, orchestra, painting, performance discipline, poetry, practice, sensory perception, The Standard Hour|

Milton the Mouse began his Arts Training in the Stewart household He loved Beethoven and [...]

Arts Smart Part 2: What Makes It Work?

Janice KirkSeptember 21st, 2019|Categories: Arts Smart, Blog|Tags: art, artist, Arts Educaton. Art Smart, beauty, brain development, cultural bridges, history, input, Language Arts, literature, meaning, music, musician, output, sensory perception, singer, traditional art forms, writer|

Milton the Mouse learns to love Beethoven and quote John Milton's poetry Milton is a [...]

Want to Make Your Kids Smarter? Give them Art and Music

Janice KirkSeptember 14th, 2019|Categories: Arts Smart|Tags: academic discipline, achievement tests, art, art education, beauty, brain function, discipline, expressive outlet, fun, language, music, music education, performance discipline, poetry|

Milton the Mouse loves Beethoven and quotes John Milton. He is a very smart mouse. [...]