Preliminary Findings

We have received exciting news from our evaluators! All of our participating schools indicated that students achieved 1 level of competency after participating with the smART stART program!

Students

• Average gains on measured outcomes were positive in all 18 schools and across residencies provided by all professional teaching artists.


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  Positive average gain of approximately one level of competence.
  

Classroom Teachers

• Reported that smART stART had a:
  


• Significant and very significant impact (89%) on student engagement.


• Significant and very significant impact (89%) in using the Arts to teach language and other content areas (85%) as well as creatively teach the required content standards (96%)


• Significant and very significant impact (87%) in meeting the needs of individual students.
  

Teaching Artists

• Positive trends in lesson delivery (96.1%), classroom management (92%) and student participation (97.7%).