Celebrating 25 Years of Education Through Imagination

At KID smART we’re on a mission to engage children and educators in dynamic, creative, and relevant learning through the arts!

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Students with access to arts education are 5x less likely to drop out of school

Access to arts education has a deep impact on nearly every aspect of a student’s educational experience and professional future. KID smART exists to ensure an arts-rich education is non-negotiable for every child.

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Creative Schools

Our flagship program utilizes arts integration based instruction to supports the growth and achievement of K-8 students—particularly those at risk of academic failure.
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Professional Development

Available both virtually and in-person, our P.D.s are offered in a variety of art forms and support all areas of curriculum
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Arts Literacy

Learn strategies that link literacy and the arts to create engaging classrooms and support student learning and outcomes
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With Feeling Curriculum

With Feeling is a FREE arts integrated Emotional Literacy Curriculum through which students can learn to deal with emotions in ways that increase their personal power and enhance safety, health and happiness for them and those around them.
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Dedicated to providing educational resources, event happenings, and latest updates

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Building Community through Arts-Integration and Creative Dramatics (Sample Lesson)

Arts Integration 101, Creative Schools

ISL Westbank

Building Community through Arts-Integration and Creative Dramatics (Sample Lesson)

Arts Integration 101, Creative Schools

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.

Arts Integration 101, Creative Schools

ISL Westbank

ISL Dixon

Teaching Teachers to Color Outside of Lines: Utilizing Illustration in Arts-Integrated Instruction

ISL Dixon

This year, I led my first Professional Development (AXIS) small learning group series titled “Illumination Through Illustration”. The series focuses on teachers learning different ways to utilize illustration in arts-integrated lessons for their classrooms.

ISL Dixon

Art that Moves: Expression and Problem Solving through Kinetic Sculptures

Creative Schools, Arts Integration 101

Esperanza

Art that Moves: Expression and Problem Solving through Kinetic Sculptures

Creative Schools, Arts Integration 101

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!

Creative Schools, Arts Integration 101

Esperanza

Events & Workshops

Celebrating 25 Shimmering Years of KID smART: Cocktails for KID smART 2024

Events & Workshops

Cocktails for KID smART, got a whole lot more… sparkly!

Events & Workshops

The Systems that Make Us: Integrating Art into Science

Creative Schools, Arts Integration 101

Moton

The Systems that Make Us: Integrating Art into Science

Creative Schools, Arts Integration 101

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!

Creative Schools, Arts Integration 101

Moton

Arts-Integration in Action: Debunking the Myth of “Those Who Can’t Do, Teach.”

There's a colloquialized pessimism that shrouds artists, musicians and performers “who are not working out in the big city”. They say if you can't do it, then teach. Well, I argue that it's those who can, teach- and do so with a high level of skill and passion.