Creativity Sparks Success

‘Art is part of culture’: How integrating arts is powering academic and emotional growth in Delaware classrooms

Students at Kuumba Academy use puppets to explore storytelling and self-expression in an effort to boost learning through arts integration.

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Johnny Perez-Gonzalez June 5, 2025

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It’s the final stretch of the school year, but inside a third-grade classroom at Kuumba Academy Charter School, an arts-focused charter school in Wilmington, creativity is just beginning to bloom.

Sheets of colored paper cover desks as students, focused and engaged, cut, shape and imagine characters that will soon come to life. This puppet-making project is

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