This mapping review provides a 'snapshot' of the impacts of a
variety of ArtsSmarts projects on teachers, students and
communities in 15 off-reserve Aboriginal communities.
ArtsSmarts projects were undertaken at both the elementary and
secondary school levels and varied considerably in the number of
participants, length of project, number of teachers involved and
art forms explored. These projects taught a number of
important lessons about ArtsSmarts as an intervention centred
around four broad questions: (1) What works for schools?; (2) What
are the indicators of and contributing factors to success?; (3)
What are the components of successful classroom partnerships?; and,
(4) What can be done to transfer or expand success to other
schools?