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Integrating Drawing with Mathematics: It Works!

March 23, 2026

As a first-grade teacher, I know that one of the most difficult mathematical skills for young students to master is that of solving word problems. Often, they have difficulty understanding what the story is all about. Should they add or subtract? How can they solve it?

Laura Giles

What My Students (and I) Learned from a BYU Arts Bridge Scholar

March 24, 2025
What can a group of first grade students and an experienced classroom teacher learn from a university arts student? As it turns out – a lot! My class recently had the privilege of hosting a BYU dance student for a semester. Everything about this experience was positive. It was a time of learning, fun, and connecting. There were too many benefits to write about here, but these are a few of them.
Laura Giles

Arts Bridge Scholar: Jessica Jensen at Brookhaven Elementary

December 18, 2020
Arts Bridge Scholar Jessica Jensen Walker describes her experience integrating dance in a 6th grade classroom and how she learned the importance of building relationships and learning each student's name.
Jessica Jensen Walker

Arts Bridge Scholar: Mattie Davis at Brookhaven Elementary

December 15, 2020
Mattie Davis, an Arts Bridge Scholar and dance education major, describes her growth as a teacher while teaching the brain dance and states of matter in upper-grade classrooms.
Mattie Davis

Arts Bridge Scholar: Deanna Nielson at Brookhaven Elementary

December 15, 2020
Deanna Nielsen, an Arts Bridge Scholar and art education major, describes her experience in a 5th-grade classroom teaching about ecosystems, food chains, and conservation through art as well as space and gravity.
Deanna Nielsen

Arts Bridge Scholar: Emmalynn Pace at Brookhaven Elementary

December 15, 2020
Arts Bridge Scholar Emmalynn Pace spends a semester at Brookhaven Elementary where she discovers the importance of teaching the life cycle through dance and allowing for spontaneous instructional moments.
Emmalynn Pace

BYU Arts Bridge Program Connects Students and Teachers Through Arts Integration

January 30, 2019
Learn about the BYU Arts Bridge Program which serves both BYU students from various artistic disciplines—including music, drama, visual art, and dance—and public school classroom teachers, allowing both to work together to develop their artistic and teaching skills through arts instruction and arts integration in local public schools.
Sarah Earl

BYU Arts Bridge

November 3, 2017

Arts Bridge

This semester, the Arts Bridge Program at BYU has 25 university students—or arts scholars—providing arts education in elementary classrooms.

Heather Francis

10 Lessons Learned From Arts Bridge

February 3, 2015

Arts Bridge Lessons

Sunny Leavitt, one of the Arts Bridge Scholars for Visual Arts, shares her experiences on what she has learned from working with Mrs. Shellie Olson's first grade class.

BYU ARTS Partnership

Arts Bridge 2014-15 Kickoff

November 6, 2014

Arts Bridge

An additional 700 students are now receiving instruction in the arts! Arts Bridge is a program that aims to provide more arts instruction to children in schools by pairing grade-school teachers with BYU students involved in the arts.

BYU ARTS Partnership

 

 
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