Phillips Collection

The Phillips Collection will sustain its "Art Links: Museum-in-Residence" program, a comprehensive museum-school partnership that provides customized learning experiences for teachers and students in the classroom, at the museum, and online. The program will serve 52 teachers and 750 students in preschool through 8th grades at schools located in two underserved DC communities. The program will address low student achievement and lack of professional development opportunities throughout the DC Public School system by introducing contemporary teaching methods to faculty; by providing in-classroom workshops and interactive museum visits; and by overseeing student art projects which are showcased at The Phillips collection. Intended outcomes are to impact teacher capacity regarding arts integration, improve student learning during arts-integrated lessons, and increase access to the collection and its online resources. The Phillips Collection will also work with city officials to identify potential new partner schools that could benefit from the program.