Preparing Educators for Arts Integration: Placing Creativity at the  Center of Learning was released in February and debuted at the  NAEA Convention in NYC.  Joyce Huser, Arts Associate at the Kansas Department of Education, and  Scot Hockman, retired Arts Associate at the SC Department of Education  wrote Chapter Nine of the book, Championing the Way to Effective Arts  Integration. In this chapter are  nearly two pages (pp 118-119) describing the work of South Carolina's  own Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project. It also tells how the arts  changed the school's ecology at Hand Middle School in Richland County  School District One. Hand was Time Magazine's Middle Level School of
the Year as announced in the May 21, 2001 issue.  As described by its publisher Teacher College Press, this resource  examines professional development approaches from across the United  States to help schools and allied arts groups integrate the arts into  an already crowded K-12 curriculum. The authors document the purposes  and structures of a broad spectrum of current efforts and programs.  Several of these programs have been in place for decades, thus  demonstrating their sustainability and effectiveness. Emphasizing the
value of collaboration among teachers, artists, educational leaders,  and community partners, the book draws on the broad range of  experiences of the authors, who came together as a working group of  the Arts Education Partnership. Readers will find strong, empirically  tested models of arts integration to inform curriculum development and
teacher professional learning.

The book is available through Teachers College Press at Columbia
University  https://www.tcpress.com/preparing-educators-for-arts-integration-9780807758489 .
Martha Barry McKenna and Gene Diaz lead the effort as editors of the book.