The purpose of this research study is to examine arts integration practices within a Kentucky high school setting. Arts integration provides learners with unique pathways for using arts content to connect over-arching themes across all subject matter in ways that are personal to each individual. By studying arts integration measures within my high school (through classroom observation, teacher interviews and surveys, and analysis of our annual arts integration Program Review results), I have identified areas of need within my school’s beginning attempts to rethink the way that arts content is used in other subject matter areas. To aid my school in this goal of arts integration, I have researched and compiled desirable arts integration resources onto a website for the faculty within my school to use for better planning and implementation of arts integration within their lessons. My research is informed by current definitions of arts integration. On my website resource I have included activity suggestions and standards-based assessment practices for arts integrated lessons for each of the following disciplines in my school: Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Foreign Language, and Practical Living and Career Services. By synthesizing and making accessible information about the interdisciplinary learning benefits of arts study, I provided my faculty with a website resource for purposeful and authentic arts study in learning the content of traditional subject matters.

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