CREATIVE SCHOOLS

 Joyful Learning.
Empowered Teachers.

KID smART Creative Schools foster an educational landscape of equitable instruction, empowered teachers, and joyful engagement in learning. Boost student learning, energize your educators and increase school morale through our arts-integrated programming.

Want to learn more? Book a free 15-minute call with our Executive Director, Elise

How Creative Schools Work

Collaborative Residency

Bring arts-integrated learning into your classroom with a professional by your side

Create learning experiences that foster deep and joyful learning for all learners with the guidance of our Professional Teaching Artists. Our Professional Teaching Artists will co-plan and co-teach 20 hours a week. You’ll learn to take risks with your teaching methodologies while still meeting existing curriculum standards and improving overall academic success.  

  • • Artist & Teacher collaboratively plan and teach integrated lessons 

    • Teacher is expert in curriculum/Artist is expert in arts pairing

    • Artist is in school full year 10 or 20 hours/wk

Arts Experience In Schools (AXIS)

Discover best practices

Deepen your arts integration knowledge through participation in monthly workshops. Build a portfolio of resources to increase your students' academic growth, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking skills while gaining confidence as an artist.

  • • PD topics exploring SEL, STEAM, literacy, and specialized learning communities; led by local and nationally-recognized presenters such as Ashe Cultural Arts Center and the Kennedy Center

    • Earn CEU hours

    • Stipend for participation and supply/ implementation budget

Personalized Development Opportunities

Transform the learning environment

KID smART offers an additional 12 hours of instruction that can be used for professional development, one-on-one coaching, or family workshops

  • • Up to 12 hours of additional P.D. for Creative School Faculty

    • Artful Families workshops to engage families in art activities to encourage healthy mental and social development

    • Customized coaching opportunities for classroom teachers

When you have teachers that are learning new ways to meet the needs of all students, and students who are having fun while learning, you have higher achievement and higher understanding which ultimately leads to school success.

Teacher, Hynes Charter

Creative School Levels

Choose from two levels to meet your schools needs

Arts Integration
Intensive

Total Value: $59,500

  • Full-Year Collaborative Artist Residency for up to seven classrooms per semester
    $37,500 value

  • AXIS Monthly Arts Integration Professional Development for upto 10 teachers
    $9,500 value

  • 12 hours of in-school professional development, coaching, or two Family Art Nights
    $6,000 value

  • Each AXIS teacher receives a $500 stipend and a $150 implementation budget*
    $6,500 value *based on attendance

Arts Integration Fundamentals

Total Value: $43,000

  • Full-Year Collaborative Artist Residency for up to four classrooms per semester
    $25,300 value

  • AXIS Monthly Arts Integration Professional Development for upto 10 teachers
    $9,500 value

  • 6 hours of in-school professional development, coaching, or two Family Art Nights
    $3,000 value

  • Each AXIS teacher receives a $500 stipend and a $150 implementation budget*
    $6,500 value *based on attendance

 KID smART Creative Schools serve over 3,500 students and 1,000 educators each year

  • Edward Hynes Charter School Lakeview

  • Edward Hynes Charter School UNO

  • Esperanza Charter School

  • International School of Louisiana Dixon

  • International School Of Louisiana Westbank

    International School Of Louisiana Westbank

  • International School Of Louisiana Uptown

    International School Of Louisiana Uptown

  • ReNEW Laurel

    ReNew Laurel

  • ReNEW Therapeutic Program

    ReNEW Therapeutic Program

  • Robert Russa Moton

    Robert Russa Moton Charter School

  • Living School

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Arts Integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both. Learn more by clicking here.

  • While the total value of our Creative School program is $50,500, KID smART commits to fundraising 70% of the total cost. Meaning your school investment is only $15,000! Your school will receive a full-year artist residency, 9 AXIS sessions, an implementation budget, and 12 additional hours of in-school services.

  • No prior art experience is required.

  • KID smART classroom teachers and teaching artists are partners. They alternate roles as lead teacher, behavioral manager, documentarian, etc. They both use arts and curriculum language during instruction, taking advantage of spontaneous opportunities to reinforce learning.

    Your co-teacher provides 20 hours of in-classroom support each week. Together you’ll plan and teach arts integrated lessons that meet existing curriculum standards.

Meet our Teaching Artists

Get Inspired

Step inside a Creative School classroom

The Joy Journal
Building Community through Arts-Integration and Creative Dramatics (Sample Lesson)
ISL Westbank
Building Community through Arts-Integration and Creative Dramatics (Sample Lesson)
ISL Westbank

Building community within a learning environment is an invaluable experience that will engage, surprise, and inspire students. Utilizing drama/theatre strategies (pantomime and improvisation) strengthen your classroom community and is an excellent catalyst for demonstrating collaboration, effective communication, and joyful learning. The basic structure of this lesson consists of a warm up, main activity, and closing reflection.

ISL Westbank
Art that Moves: Expression and Problem Solving through Kinetic Sculptures
Esperanza
Art that Moves: Expression and Problem Solving through Kinetic Sculptures
Esperanza

The process of creating our Kinetic Sculptures showed what can happen when you get art moving: artistic expression and problem solving at its finest!

Esperanza
The Systems that Make Us: Integrating Art into Science
Moton
The Systems that Make Us: Integrating Art into Science
Moton

Science lessons were presented to the students over the course of two months, during which we implemented varying methods of Arts-Integration into Mrs. Auzout’s lesson plan. Through teaching highly complex bodies work at a first-grade level. They were then able to recall the previous body parts that help the brain function and called upon the various creative and social emotional skills they learned along the way through Arts-Integration!

Moton
Prioritizing the Purpose: Creating Engaging and Enriching Arts-Integration Lessons
Living School
Prioritizing the Purpose: Creating Engaging and Enriching Arts-Integration Lessons
Living School

I have found that when there is intention embedded in the way I design my activities, and I am open to accepting that intention does not equal impact, it opens the door for authentic, powerful and completely unpredictable student expression. When I perceive that an activity isn’t working for a student the way I expected, I have found that asking myself, “what is the purpose of this activity?” is a great way to re-calibrate.

Living School
Question Everything: Arts-Integration in Social Studies and Theater
ISL Uptown
Question Everything: Arts-Integration in Social Studies and Theater
ISL Uptown

5th grade is learning about the Middle Ages. At first thought, you might think, “What fun! Knights, and castles, and dragons, Oh, my!”, but what’s really happening is as unexpected as it is welcome. What’s happening in these 5th Graders doesn’t usually occur until college. These 10 year-olds are questioning. Everything. 

ISL Uptown
Breathing Life into Art: Arts-Integration Across Different Subjects (History, English, Physics)
Living School
Breathing Life into Art: Arts-Integration Across Different Subjects (History, English, Physics)
Living School

In these classes, I collaboratively implemented Arts-Integration into African American History, Physics, and English. Through this process, I learned so much. As a self-proclaimed “forever student”, Arts-Integration was a wonderful educational refresh for me!

Living School