Arts for Academic Achievement: Summative Evaluation Report
This study was funded by the Minneapolis Public Schools through a Challenge Grant 
from The Annenberg Foundation.
The arts and afterschool programs: A research synthesis.
Among all the fields of study in our schools, the arts are at the forefront in the celebration of diversity, individuality, and surprise: " the possibilities for growth in and through the arts cease only when we do " (Eisner, The Arts and the Creation of Mind, 2002). The artist endeavors: to see, to know, to shape, to show. It is also true that by following in the footsteps of the artist we are led: to see, to know, to shape, to show, and thus come to recognize, humble or small, the artist in us all (Booth & Hachiya, 2004).
Colleagues as Change Agents: How Department Networks and Opinion Leaders Influence Teaching at a Single Research University
This study investigates colleague–colleague relationships within life sciences departments and how they may promote teaching reform. The authors found that discipline-based education researchers are perceived as promoting changes among colleagues in views about teaching and teaching practices. Other faculty may also be leveraged to support change.