Arts for Academic Achievement: Long-Term Artists’ Perspectives

This report summarizes the perspectives of a sample of artists who have been involved in Arts for Academic Achievement for multiple years. In two focus groups the artists discussed:

• how the AAA projects they have been involved with have changed over time,
• what they’ve learned about collaborating with teachers and integrating the arts,
• the benefits of AAA that they had observed for students and teachers,
• how they’ve been affected by their involvement in AAA,
• the strengths of AAA, and
• challenges in collaborating with teachers and integrating the arts, or, in other words, areas that could be improved.