Food for Thought...

The goal of STEM (the educational coalition of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) is to prepare us to compete in the global marketplace...

Early in 2013, a caucus was formed to change STEM to STEAM by the addition of the Arts... 

Finland created Aalto University in 2010 by merging three schools (Art, Engineering, and Business)...

Singapore's School of the Arts has integrated Arts and Academics ("Connected Curriculum") recognizing this as a step in global competitiveness.  Students learn about physics through sculpture, math through music...

South Korea has changed STEM to STEAM...
Sir Ken Robinson has said that the future of education must include the Arts (creativity) for us to be productive citizens of the 21st century...

Maria L.