Find out what Perpich has discovered about sustaining arts integration teaching and learning once project funding ends.

2. Promising Practices
Capable Team Leadership and Formation
Accommodating Schedules and Geography
Strategic Purchasing/Minimizing Costs
Incorporation AI into School- or District-Wide
Initiatives

3. Arts Integration Champions
Teachers who already have a passion for the arts,
resulting in a high level of buy-in.
Arts Integration champions are not always are arts
educators, or even those designated as team leader.

4. Sustainable Organizational
Configurations
Small, stable teams
Repeated units that are
refined year-to-year
Large teams with a stable
core
Work centered around one
overarching “Big Idea”
Several individual units
designed in smaller sub-
teams

5. Accommodating Schedules
and Geography
Teams thrive when they are able to encounter their
unit partners throughout the day.
Proximate classroom locations
Overlapping or Common Planning
Alternate planning periods for co-teaching
Common lunch period
Joint membership on other committees

6. Strategic Purchasing & Planning
to Minimize Costs
Purchasing non-consumable materials
Ex. Math manipulatives used to create 3D shapes
Class sets of books
Digital cameras
Planning units that involve minimal operational costs

7. Incorporation into Larger
Initiatives
Arts added to overall school priorities (Ex. STEAM)
Perpich Arts Integration Project work seen as good
curriculum development that is integral to school
improvement plan
Arts Integration team leads Professional
Development workshops for entire school

8. Closing Thoughts

9. Questions?