Arts Integration

Arts Integration

What does arts integration mean?

While providing students with robust grade-level, standards-based instruction, Buckman's classroom teachers, arts specialists, and support staff all work to nurture the whole child—intellectual, emotional, social, and physical—using a variety of best-practice teaching strategies. Buckman teachers integrate the arts with the PPS adopted curricular tools to create a unique and rigorous academic experience.

In addition, students embark on in-depth explorations of groundbreaking artists, musicians, and art movements throughout history, including Picasso, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Asian art, and many others, deepening their understanding of world events, cultural movements, and historical perspective. 

Performance is an integral part of the Buckman program. Students receive progressive training in dance, music, and theater performance, through a program developed by Buckman staff. Students who have attended Buckman throughout elementary school leave the school with a solid background of performance skills, which they find invaluable in their future academic and work careers.