Vision, Mission and Goals

Vision
Creative Schools, Creative Students, Creative Communities
The Institute envisions individuals, schools and communities across the nation providing meaningful and successful learning experiences for students of all ages and situations, in which the creative arts are a core part of the content and the process for teaching all academic subjects.

When this approach to learning is regularly, frequently, and widely applied, students of all abilities are able to succeed in school and in life.

Mission
The Institute acts as convener, facilitator, and catalyst for exploring and demonstrating the power of the use of the arts as an essential teaching tool for all K-12 subject areas and students.

Artists, educators, parents, community and business leaders, policymakers, and leading thinkers are brought together with local and national resources, experts, and models to learn about the research and potential impacts, explore the possibilities for their community, and make steps toward their practical application.

Goals

• To create environments and formats that bring together educators, artists, parents, community and business leaders, interested parties and decision makers, especially those who do not usually come together, to explore the critical questions of using the arts to teach core subjects.
• To help schools and communities develop sustainable local opportunities for all students to learn through an interconnected arts and academic environment.
• To ask essential questions about the arts and education, involve all aspects of the community in the discussion of these questions, and bring the questions and responses to the public at large.
• To build a broad public base of awareness, understanding, knowledge and support for the importance of arts integrated education for all.
• To inspire, encourage and help support creative endeavors in arts-integrated education.