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The objective of this grant program is to create a Title 1 Arts-Integration Pilot Program, in which the grantees will investigate and apply various research-based arts-integration techniques that serve as intervention strategies leading to increased student achievement and school improvement. The goal of the pilot is to generate a wide variety of evidence-based pedagogic strategies, supported by school-level student data that substantiates the efficacy of arts-integration as a lever to increased student achievement and school improvement. 
 
Through this program, the NJDOE will provide schools the opportunity to establish programs that employ promising practices and program components using arts-integration as a student achievement (targeted assistance Title I programs and schoolwide Title I programs) and school improvement strategy (schoolwide programs only). This is a one-time allotment of funds.
 
The NJDOE expects to achieve the following statewide outcomes in which the applicants will contribute to the:

• Engagement of the participating pilot schools in action research methodologies that inform student achievement and school improvement efforts;
• Development and implementation of effective model programs of instruction, utilizing arts-integration as an intervention strategy for increased student achievement and school improvement;
• Increases in new and existing partnerships among non-profit organizations, arts service providers, higher education, and public arts institutions and individuals (e.g., independent researchers, teaching artists, classroom teachers, certified arts content specialists etc.) for the express purpose of informing teaching and learning and improving school culture;
• Expansion of the body of scientifically-based research practices that demonstrate various ways in which robust, thoughtfully planned and executed arts-integrated paradigms strengthen core academic programs in schools;
• Documentation and substantiation of the successes of a variety of circumstances under which arts-integration strategies can be attributable to improvements in:
  • Student Learning and Mastery;
  • School Culture and Climate;
  • Student Engagement; and/or
  • Family and Community Engagement;
• Creation of a mechanism for non-pilot schools across the state to benefit from lessons learned by the participating pilot schools about the efficacy of arts-integration as a pedagogic strategy for increased student achievement and school improvement; and
• Driving instructional and climate change using key, school-level student data to inform teachers' pedagogic content knowledge; and indicate successes and deltas (areas in need of improvement) of school pedagogy.

 
The arts-integration program activities must be evidence-based and must strengthen the core academic program of the school.