In the article titled "Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core" the author thinks that art is an important part of school and discusses ways to gradually implement art into the Common Core State Standards. He starts by agreeing that it is a difficult task to complete, integrating arts with Common Core, but it can be done. He thinks that art is going to be a big deal in children's future and it is vital for them to learn hand in hand with the standards. He goes on to talk about how to integrate art with the standards and says that it is naturally appealing to students so it would be a successful subject if taught right. The problem, he states, is that teachers are to afraid of getting deep in their own creative minds and stepping out of boundaries to make this happen. In order to implement art in a proper way the teacher would have to make sure it is on the students level and would coincide with the world around them. Basically, teachers would not teach on a painting from the 1800's that has no relevance to the students whatsoever. He ends his article by giving different examples of ways you can implement this with students doing mirroring exercises, looking at paintings and music techniques.

This article was very helpful to me after I read over it a couple of times. At first, it was hard to grasp what the author was trying to get across but I think I understand now. I liked how he did recognize that some teachers are not as creative as others and cannot just think of ways to incorporate art and the standards. I would not have thought of any of those exercises to do with kids that incorporate the standards. I also think this article was a good one for me to read just because it helped me to realize that stepping out of the box is not always a bad thing, even when you do have strict guidelines to follow. Children still need their imagination and taking art away and just teaching standards would hurt that tremendously. The title of this article threw me off a little considering I thought that it would be discussing actual art in schools. All in all though, after realizing what it was about, I really thought it was helpful and hit on points that I would not have thought of before.