How We Work With You

The Learning Arts offers full-service arts and interdisciplinary programs for teachers, administrators, and students K-12. Our approach is one of collaboration and fun…and our programs are designed specifically for you!!!

Introduction and Inquiry

First, we learn about you, your students, and your arts needs in the classroom or district. We can work with cultural arts coordinators, classroom teachers, or school principles to determine the needs and expectations for arts and interdisciplinary programming.

We’ll help you answer fundamental questions:

• What do you hope your students will achieve from our programming?

• How would you like your school or classroom to be utilizing the arts to enhance learning (and how are the arts being utilized now)?

• How can our programming enhance your classroom curriculum, and how can we help you achieve your learning goals, objectives, and state learning standards in arts and literacy?
  

Learning Across the Curriculum

Browse our course catalog to find the right subject matter and programming for you and your students. Are you looking for pure encounters with the arts—American Music Theatre, perhaps, or Bottles, Cans, Just Clap Your Hands: Percussion and the Materials of Sound? Or are you looking for interdisciplinary programs such as The Physics of Music or Shakespeare’s Imagination, to enhance and enliven your curriculum?

If you don’t find exactly what you’re looking for, don’t worry…We’re in love with creativity, and we’ll work with you to custom-design a program to fit your needs—and your imagination! See our list of programs for students.

Funding and Resource Assistance

We’ll develop a classroom format that best fits your time and resources. All of our programming can be custom-designed for single one-day visits, year-long residencies, and everything in between. Our tiered pricing categories are designed to fit a range of budgets and resources.
We’re painfully aware of today’s lack of arts funding in schools. Our Opportunities and Incentives Fund can provide supplementary funding for those schools and classrooms that qualify. Working through your local Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) provides additional funding incentives;* and when applicable, our administrator will work with you to pursue community, private, and federal grants and assistance.

*Schools registered with their local BOCES will receive reimbursements
on a percentage of monies spent on arts-in-education programming.

Collaborative Planning

Our approach to the development and delivery of our programming is in full partnership with our teacher-partners. We collaborate with classroom teachers to develop materials and study guides for students. Our preparatory materials ensure that students get the most out of their Learning Arts experience, and follow-up materials ensure that the Learning Arts continue long after our teaching artists are gone.