Abstract
This project is an alternative culminating experience for a Master of Arts in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with an elective Emphasis on Arts in Education. It follows Pathway I: Artist as Researcher. This project addresses the importance of individual creativity and reviews why a balanced curriculum includes the arts. Founding educational theorists as well as observers of current and future trends will be noted in support of the necessity for school curriculums to continue the arts as a tool for personal development of all students, personal creativity being a main ingredient. This project has been developed with the intent to illuminate the universal and abundant nature of personal creativity.