The purpose of integrating art into the school curricula is to help students to make connections in their learning experiences and to engage them within their special learning styles. Teachers can assist students in making these connections within subjects and across subject lines, and to connect new learning to what they already know. This article, taking the form of an informal running narrative, will explore the role of the arts in education and how one elementary school in St.Catharines,

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... ario, Glenridge Public School, used the writings and artwork of the Canadian art icon Emily Carr, as stimulus for cross-curricular links and for building community among various members in the education sector.