Learning Through the Arts
Capitol Hill School values “learning through the arts.” We believe that “learning through the arts” produces learning that is both deep and playful, and shows how the arts unleash thinking, seeing, personal efficacy, and democracy. The arts are profoundly cognitive and engaging. “Learning through the arts” is about knowledge and thinking harnessing the best educational strategies. The strategies of arts integration are educationally powerful because they are grounded in deep connections between the arts and cognition, and between learning, social, and emotional development. At Capitol Hill School, we know that the remarkable qualities of the arts – their power as tools for exploring, understanding, and representing the world and human experience – give them unique power to contribute to learning, education, and development. “Learning through the arts” embraces and values the notions of cross-curricular connections and inquiry-based learning. These face the dichotomies between feeling and cognition, learning and expression, higher order thinking and the basics, art and academics. Thus, the curriculum is designed to find connections between the content of the lessons and the students’ own lives and experiences. > Read More (pdf)
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