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Impact and Value – Transform the environment for learning

The arts can transform the environment for learning by:

• reaching students who have disengaged by providing them with multiple learning modalities – visual, auditory and kinaesthetic/tactile
• providing new and different challenges for students that are already considered successful
• connecting students to themselves and each other to work cooperatively within groups
• providing life-long learning skills of critical, creative and divergent thinking, problem solving, collaboration, reflection and persistence
• building bridges across language and cultural differences
• connecting learning experiences to the real world
• developing feeling and sensibility and a positive self-esteem
• empowering students to continue searching beyond words and numbers for meaning and understanding
• making schools spaces for collaboration and discovery.