See how students apply their literacy skills to explore science problems outside classroom walls.

Science Literacy: Sparking Curiosity and Solving Real-World Problems

Arts integration is more than an afterthought. You can use the arts to both meet your arts standards and deepen academic learning.

Using the Arts to Synthesize Student Understanding

The perfect problem connects content, student interest, and an authentic context.

Solving Real-World Issues Through Problem-Based Learning

At Hood River Middle School, local experts make student learning come to life.

Community Partners: Making Student Learning Relevant 

At Hood River Middle School, place-based learning makes student learning relevant and engaging by turning their local geography, culture, history, and economy into classroom lessons.

Place-Based Learning: Connecting Kids to Their Community 

Hood River Middle School collaborates on projects across subjects to make learning relevant, connected, and engaging.

Collaborative Planning: Integrating Curriculum Across Subjects 

Through the Piggy-Bank Friday program, K-5 students at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy have saved over $30,000 in one year.

Piggy-Bank Friday: Life Skills Through Financial Literacy

From fairy gardens to garden towers, Walter Bracken STEAM Academy transformed its school grounds into a student-centered, garden-learning wonderland.

Garden-Based Learning: Engaging Students in Their Environment

Educators at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy engage students by letting them choose outside-the-box enrichment classes, like toy making, drones, and candy chemistry.

Interest-Based Electives: Engaging Students With STEAM Explorations

At Charles R. Drew, they use design thinking for teaching engineering concepts to elementary students.

Elementary Engineering: From Simple Machines to Life Skills

See how Ralston Elementary teachers combine two subjects in one lesson, giving their students a deeper understanding of the content and its applied interconnectivity.

Departmentalization and Integration: Deeper Learning for Elementary Students

By taking down the walls of their school and bringing learning into the community around them, Crellin makes education meaningful and magical for their students.

Place-Based Learning: Using Your Location as a Classroom

Inviting community members into the classroom to share their expertise can help bring lessons and learning to life for students.

Learning Partners: Co-Teaching With Community Experts

Symonds Elementary uses schoolwide projects like bookmaking to combine academics and art in ways that excite and engage students, and make learning feel more personalized and fun.

Bookmaking Across Subjects: Making Learning Last Longer 

At Albemarle County Public Schools, maker education fosters student autonomy, ignites student interest, and empowers students to embrace their own learning.

Maker Education: Reaching All Learners 

Students at Casey Middle learn more (and feel good about it) in a combined language arts/fitness class that boosts their cognition with aerobic and anaerobic activities.

Fit Lit: How Movement Impacts Learning 

For any project within a vocational major, High Tech High encourages teachers and students to include relevant content from other subject areas to enhance real-world connections.

Integrated Learning: One Project, Several Disciplines

High Tech High School's four academies provide students with a range of vocational majors, connecting them with real-world contexts and teaching 21st-century skills.

Integrating Academic and Vocational Learning at High Tech High

Engage history students with the challenge of creating and producing their own radio program to share their knowledge and ideas with a wide audience.

Integrated Learning: Broadcasting and Social Studies

By connecting the theme of sustainability across multiple disciplines, the teachers at Montpelier High School have built a robust, integrated teaching approach that engages students and creates community.

Integrated Studies: Sustainability and Cross-Curricular Connections

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