How Partners In Education Pours The Arts Into Teaching

By Ray Bassett

Published April 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM EDT

For educators here in Chattanooga and Hamilton County, it takes a toolkit to cultivate learning through the arts for students in the classroom.

That toolkit is teacher training in arts integration through a Kennedy Center Partners in Education team - or PIE.

Among the organizations on the team: Hamilton County Schools, Chattanooga Theatre Centre, our public media partner WTCI PBS, ArtsBuild - and the Wolf Trap teaching artist program at the Arts-Based Collaborative here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: abc@utc.

Jules Jackson is programs coordinator at ArtsBuild.

Angela Dittmar is director of teaching artist residencies at abc@utc.

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