When teaching artists Kitty O’Connor and Mia Rotondo sat down to reflect on and share about their collaborative practice, they quickly realized that there were SO many stories of joyful collaboration woven throughout their semesters at school residencies, professional development, and planning with SO many other colleagues and community organizations- that just one story wouldn’t do! So please enjoy this ongoing reflection series on Collaboration and Arts Integration.

Students in Ms. Boyce’s class are tasked with completing the LEAP CONNECT, an alternative state test.  Testing presents many challenges for ALL students.  We wanted to create access points and reduce barriers for our students by bringing in arts-integration to overhaul the usual test-prep lessons.