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ArtsSmarts at Caslan School: A Longitudinal Case Study

Yvette Stack
What do we know about school-based interventions to improve outcomes for aboriginal students? This longitudinal case study yields important insights to this question.

Author Yvette Stack documents the impact of the ArtsSmarts program in a small K-9 school in northern Alberta serving children of a Métis community. Struggling with poor student achievement, attendance, behaviour, and parental involvement, the school received a $317,000 ArtsSmarts grant to tackle these persistent challenges by infusing the core curriculum with arts and Métis culture.

The report describes the three-year ArtsSmarts intervention at Caslan and traces its impact on students, staff, participating artists and community. An overview of the research related to arts-based education and aboriginal schooling is connected to the findings. The final chapter discusses important questions of capacity and conditions for success for such sweeping initiatives and concludes with a set of recommendations for policy and practice.

Stack’s insightful commentary illuminates the complexity of school improvement and the internal and external structures necessary to support it. Other schools and districts undertaking similar journeys will find both inspiration and practical advice to help them succeed.

The research was commissioned by SAEE in 2003 with funding through the Canadian Conference of the Arts.

Published December 2006

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