ACOE’s Teacher Action Research Institute (TARI) began as an attempt at a research project to demonstrate what we knew to be true, but had little data to support it. We began with our work with Lois Hetland and Harvard’s Project Zero and expanded using the approach of the national teachers project to launch action research as a model to gather the necessary data.
Over the past several years, there has been an amazing three year collaboration among ACOE subject matter experts in Art, History and English language arts to build a professional community of engaged teacher. We look forward to expanding our work with our science and STEM programs in middle school science to weave culturally responsive, arts integrated teacher action research into the science professional development.
Today, we are able to build upon this past work to implement a research-based professional development model for equity-focused, whole-school arts integration and performance-based student and teacher assessments; and to increase public understanding of and support for arts learning in public schools.
The main goals for this site are to motivate our community to advocate for systemic change, share concrete examples of positive change at district level through arts integration, and connect our school-based work with broader regional, state and national movements.
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