- Learning is about thinking and thinking relies on images
- Educators are awakening to how visual learning is central to communication
- Visual imagining is integral to creative thinking
- Art is hands on and tangible
- The arts provide the opportunity to do qualitative inquiry
- Children who struggle in regular classrooms were often successful using art.
- Visual art connects to every area of the curriculum
- Students can use Bloom's taxonomy to generate their own questions and to respond in any art form
- by nature, the arts are about celebrating, accommodating, and promoting differences, that is, differentiation
- Children feel and behave better in places that please the senses
- Visual literacy is about understand and knowing how to create visual images to express thoughts and feeling