Defining Terms I

Artful: In general, a product, process, or performance that displays artistry. In this context, "artful" also suggests the need to place high-quality arts education and arts integrated learning at the center of the conversation about improving schools and preparing students for the future.

Innovation: The implementation of creative ideas that create significant value. The use of creative ideas to add new value to an existing idea, product, process, environment, or system. Widely recognized as critical to U.S. leadership in 21st century science, technology, and business. The education community is beginning to recognize the need to prepare students for the realities of competing in an economy driven by innovation.

Arts: Music, dance, theater, and the visual arts.

High-Quality Arts Education: In-depth opportunities for students to respond, perform, and create in the arts with originality and rigor.

Arts-Integrated Learning: instruction that incorporates content, processes and/or techniques from one or more arts and at least one other discipline. Approaches vary, but one major mark of quality is a design that leads to significant learning in each discipline.

Imagination: ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin imaginatio(n-), from the verb imaginari ‘picture to oneself,’ from imago, imagin- ‘image. The part of the mind that sees possibilities and generates original ideas.

Creativity: A way of being in which we draw from the imagination, the intellect, and the world around us to bring something new into being.