Where Teaching is An Art Form…
And Learning is a Work of Art!
Arts Integration Services
What we do
Focus 5, Inc. provides high-quality, professional learning opportunities and program consulting focused on aligning arts integration, best instructional practices, and current thinking in the field of arts and education. We collaborate and consult with teachers, teaching artists, schools, school districts, arts organizations, arts commissions, arts councils, and museums around the country.
We are in classrooms on a daily basis to keep our work refined, relevant, and effective in the ever-growing and evolving field of arts integration and education.
Who We Are
Focus 5 has been in business for 20 years! In that time our consulting staff has led and taught thousands of in-person and virtual classes, workshops, and webinars accounting for thousands of hours of professional instruction.
Simply put: We are EXPERTS in Arts Integration!
Our professional staff includes National Board Certified teachers, professional artists, teaching artists, arts integration specialists, technology specialists, and a reading specialist.
We seek to be a national leader in the field of arts integration and educational consulting with a team of personable experts dedicated to high-quality education for all young people.
Lasting impressions
Teaching through the arts can have a profound and lasting impression on students’ love of learning, rate of intellectual growth, compassion towards others, and their ability to become confident young adults.
arts integration services
We are different
Focus 5 delivers fully integrated, packaged arts integration services for schools, districts, arts organizations, and learning communities! We customize packages for single year or multi-year professional learning programs.
We utilize our entire staff of National Board Certified teachers, professional artists, teaching artists, arts integration and technology specialists to deliver a packaged program that is PERFECT for your needs!
Professional Development Plans for Schools/Districts
Focus 5 specializes in meeting the varying needs of each school, district and learning community. We work closely with clients to combine Instructional and Implementation Formats to create a single professional development event or a multi-year professional learning plan. With a team of highly-skilled consultants, multiple art forms, and various curriculum connections, we are a leader in the field of arts integration.
Professional Development for Teachers
Focus 5 provides the most extensive in-person and online training for educators available anywhere. We offer a variety of arts integration workshops and courses that allow you to learn and explore this powerful approach to teaching.
Professional Development for Teaching Artists
Focus 5 provides professional development training for teaching artists that focuses on various aspects of teaching from lesson design to classroom management. These in-depth experiences are catered to meet the needs of the local communities teaching artists are working in.
Student Residencies
Our highly participatory arts-integrated residencies for K-8 students can be taught virtually (broadcast live into classrooms) or in-person to develop/deepen students’ comprehension, creativity and self-confidence.
Sync Series
Focus 5 provides the most extensive online training for educators available anywhere! Our platform delivers a variety of arts integration courses that allow you to learn and explore this powerful teaching method.
Arts Integration Conferences
Focus 5 provides arts integration training for educators at two-day conferences in different cities each year. Join some of the nation’s most passionate educators as we immerse ourselves in creative pedagogy that explores the seamless connections between arts and academics.
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We are incredibly excited at Focus 5 about the chance to work with you and help you integrate arts into your curriculum.
It's powerful, it's accessible, and its effect on students is profound!