Creative Meaning through Literature

Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School welcomed noted author Claudia Cornett to its campus for the public launching of her just-released book, “Creative Meaning through Literature and the Arts.”
The book is already used widely by many universities and in other countries in academic settings, but this launch, and the reception that followed, celebrated its release for sale in an e-book format for wider distribution.
Cornett had been allowed into ARCA classrooms in the past, to make observations that she said were vital in her writing the book. It has since gone on to be used at events like the Spoleto Creative Teaching Institute.
Cornett told the assembled that arts integration “works because the arts have natural appeal — they engage students cognitively and emotionally. Students become more motivated to do hard, high-level thinking when they are challenged to transform learning into a dramatic scene, a song, a piece of art or a dance.”
She continued: “ARCA teachers welcomed me into their classrooms for observations. Their creative teaching ideas make the book come alive.”
Hopefully, one little arts-based school in a very artsy town is about to become a little more famous.