The authors share arts-integrating practices across the K-8 curriculum and describe how the arts offer an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn.

What is art? / Laurie Polster -- How does art connect to social justice? / David M. Donohue [and others] -- Creating alliances for arts learning and arts integration / Louise Music -- Seeing is believing : making our learning through the arts visible / Stephanie Violet Juno -- Leadership for and in the arts / Lynda Tredway and Rebecca Wheat -- Arts integration : one school, one step at a time / Debra Koppman -- Musical people, a musical school / Sarah Willner -- Visual prompts in writing instruction : working with middle school English language learners / Dafney Blanca Dabach -- Creativity as classroom management : using drama and hip-hop / Evan Hastings -- Keeping reading and writing personal and powerful : bringing poetry writing and bookmaking together / Cathleen Micheaels -- Learning and teaching dance in the elementary classroom / Patty Yancey -- Working with K-12 students : teaching artists' perspectives / Ann Wettrich.