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Apply to be a part of NJPAC’s Arts Integration initiative, a transformative professional development series designed specifically for classroom teachers like you. This multi-year program is crafted to help you integrate the arts and core subjects easily into your existing curriculum, enriching your teaching journey with creativity and innovation.

Reignite your love of teaching and learning through the development of a creative practice!

Why Participate

  • Join a community: Become part of a dedicated group of teachers and artists who are passionate about integrating the arts into non-arts curriculum.
  • Refill your creative well: Build new skills and gain confidence across multiple art forms while reigniting your passion for teaching.
  • Long-term support: Engage in a multi-year process that bolsters your teaching practice with strategies that embrace social and emotional learning, healing-centered practices and teaching through an equity lens.

How to Participate

  • We encourage teachers to apply as part of a team, including an arts specialist if possible (maximum of four teachers).
  • If applying as a team is not feasible, you’re welcome to apply as an individual.

“Studies find that integration of the arts with instruction in other academic subjects increases student learning and achievement and helps teachers more effectively meet the needs of all students.”

(Policy Pathway: Embracing Arts Education to Achieve Title 1 Goals, California Alliance for Arts Education, 2015)

 

Program Highlights and Commitments:

  • Year one: Introduction to Creative Practice, with no cost to the teacher.
  • Professional development: Five sessions, including “Creativity Kick-Off,” and creativity deep dives in theater, visual art and dance.
  • Classroom support: Six hour-long support sessions with an NJPAC Teaching Artist.
  • Additional benefits: Earn Professional Development credits and receive a small stipend to support creativity in your classroom.
  • Time commitment: Approximately 22 hours over the course of the year.

Contact Angela Peletier at apeletier@NJPAC.org

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