Presentation by Erica Halverson

How the Arts Can Save Education: Transforming Teaching, Learning, and instruction, with Dr. Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison. Presented in partnership with Wisconsin Partners in Arts Education
The age of accountability in education is losing its momentum. Education is in a time of profound change. Artists, educators, and advocates can play a major role in transforming education in a post-COVID world. The book describes how the arts can save education by providing new models for learning that embrace the social, cultural, and historical assets that kids bring to the classroom. In this Creative Wisconsin Month session, Dr. Halverson shares how an arts-based approach to teaching focuses on risk-taking as the most important aspect of a successful classroom, offering a framework that leverages how arts practitioners do their work to design learning experiences for all subject areas, reframing learning as acts of metacognitive representation, identity development, and collaboration-and lots and lots of joy.