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Brown, Mallory Garnett, Kate Anderson, Jean-Phillipe Laurenceau Study #3 (published in 2016 in Child Development)Ĭan Arts Get Under the Skin? Arts Classes and Cortisol Levels for Economically Disadvantage Preschool ChildrenĮleanor D. Third, across the school year, children at Kaleidoscope showed greater growth in teacher-rated levels of positive and negative emotion regulation.

#Kaleidoscope music full

Second, children at Kaleidoscope showed greater observed positive emotions than peers attending a comparison preschool that did not include full integration of the arts. Kaleidoscope students experience 60% more interest, happiness, and pride in music, dance, and visual arts classes, as compared to traditional early learning classes. Study #2 (published in 2013 in Early Childhood Research Quarterly)Īrts enrichment and preschool emotions for low-income children at risk At the end of one year of attendance, Kaleidoscope students showed advances three times higher in “receptive vocabulary,” a key predictor of school success, than those at the comparison preschool. Kaleidoscope students were also compared to those attending a nearby alternative on a measure of receptive vocabulary that has been found to predict school success. Students who attended the preschool for two years demonstrated higher achievement than those who attended for one year, suggesting that maturation alone did not account for achievement gains.

Kaleidoscope students practiced school readiness skills through early learning, music, creative movement, and visual arts classes. Study #1 (published in 2009 in Early Childhood Research Quarterly)Īrts enrichment and school readiness for children at riskĮleanor D. Brown, Professor of Psychology, and students at West Chester University.