The Storytellers Inc., Artist Collective
1524 Holmes
Kansas City, MO 64108
www.storytellersinc.org

GlobalAXIS

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GlobalAXIS also offers an education service for professional development training. Through workshops, and seminars facilitators are given an opportunity to evaluate and develop effective delivery methods that incorporate artistically integrated curriculum. Topics of professional development services include cultural competence, integrating art into academics, enhanced classroom communication, and introduction to the GlobalAXIS curriculum.

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History

Through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, ArtsTech (formerly Pan-Educational Institute) and the Storytellers Inc. created a model of instruction that integrates the arts into academics, helping students better understand and retain academic information. Two years were spent observing classrooms, talking with parents and students, and brainstorming with teachers. This past year, the lesson plans were piloted in the Kansas City Kansas and Kansas City Missouri Public School Districts.

AXIS follows two main principles: students must find the information relevant to their lives and lessons must provide opportunities for students to interact with the information through multiple learning styles.

AXIS Curriculum
The 5-unit package uses art processes, multimedia, and a hip hop theme to help students better grasp American History, Language Arts, and Media Literacy. The curriculum is designed to be used one day a week along with daily journaling for one semester. Optional activities are included to help the teacher expand the length of the curriculum. AXIS has been piloted successfully in the public school system including ESL and Special Education programs, after school programs, and family court residential facilities.

Students Improve Through Art
Although middle school students participate in a minimum requirement basic art class, band or choir, until now no comprehensive effort has been made to integrate arts education into the core curriculum classes of mathematics, science, English language arts and social studies.  According to early findings of researchers provided by the U.S. Department of Justice, participation in the arts increases youths’ ability to express anger appropriately, improves their attitudes toward school, self-esteem and self-efficacy, and increases their ability to communicate effectively with adults and their peers.  The arts also increase youths’ ability to work on tasks from start to finish, which is vital for both academic and vocational success.

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