Narratives of Change
Integrated Learning for the Whole Child
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We believe that schools are the heart of our communities, and students’ success is essential to the success and vitality of all of our futures. Placing creativity and inquiry at the center of learning prepares students for the world they will help to create, grow into and lead.
In this set of short films Narratives of Change: Integrated Learning for the Whole Child our ongoing work of whole-school arts-centered integrated learning is document through four different schools ranging from k-12. Each site: Wood Middle School, Maya Lin Elementary both in Alameda Unified School District; Peralta Elementary School in Oakland Unified School District; and Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School, use whole child learning that focus on art-centered integrated learning across all content and learning spaces. Our IDEAL practitioners have worked with and supported whole-school transformation with these sites for the past 10 years in creating ongoing creative hands-on, minds-on learning spaces to support all learners. Please get in touch with us if you would like to work with us, visit these sites or learn more.
These films were created through the generous support of the Stuart Foundation and the Alameda County Office of Education in California.
Additional Articles about whole school models from IDEAL leaders:
Igniting the Imaginations of Students, from Ten Strands, by educator leaders Ana Raquel Thomas and Trena Noval
Hoover Hawks Victory Garden: A School and Community Jewel, from California Environmental Literacy Initiative, by educator leaders Wanda Stewart, Common Vision and founder of Hoover Hawks Victory Garden and Trena Noval
Whole School Change: Peralta Elementary School
“The promise of this work is limitless, because we are cultivating learners with so many learning strategies that they will enter the world as more capable, positive people…”
- Ana Thomas, Educator
Whole School Change: Maya Lin School
“Teachers were looking for a different way of teaching and understanding how knowledge is represented to children…there is a greater wealth here to create deeper meaning for students to both engage with and understand the curriculum and the world around them. ”
-Judy Goodwin, Educational Leader
Creativity is Healing: Wood Middle School
How do we think locally and act globally to heal ourselves, our community and our world? Whole school throughline for change at Wood Middle School in Alameda Unified School district.
STEAM learning for transforming our world
“We had an opportunity to make some changes with our curriculum and our pedagogy - learning in a more integrative and collaborative way instead of learning in silos…”
-Cammie Harris, Educational Leader
Creative Scholarship: Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School
“We want our students to to feel scholarly in their art and artistic in their scholarship so the they don’t see the divide between their life as an artist and their life as a scholar…”
-Miriam Stahl, Lead Teacher