Empowering children and those who serve them through the arts.
Art Integration Education delivers a comprehensive interdisciplinary Fine Art program to help elementary grade students thrive emotionally and academically. Our focus on elementary grade curriculum promotes foundational building blocks in the arts, and its symbiotic benefit to STEM disciplines. A quality interdisciplinary arts curriculum connects diverse themes during an instrumental period in a young scholars life, and develops fundamental skills that transfer to academics and foster health benefits.
Mission
We employ the arts as a positive intervention in education to address multiple learning styles and foster a love of learning that fuels creativity and innovation.
Vision
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary Fine Art lessons to elementary grade children that result in improved overall well-being and greater academic success by empowering students with the tools and knowledge necessary to excel in STEM disciplines.
About Our Program
Art Integration Education’s curriculum is based on a vetted award-winning legacy program our Founder established while working as a Lead Teach the Teacher and Fine Arts Program Director with the Castro Valley Unified School District. Trials on the new and improved version were conducted with the Castro Valley Library in Castro Valley, CA., and again during Summer Art Camp with great success. Our curriculum meets California state standards, includes classical and contemporary mainstream artists, incorporates measurement outcomes, and accommodates multiple learning preferences. In addition, we provide leadership opportunities for fourth and fifth grade students with desktop publishing, journalism, editorials, interviewing, and photo journalism immersive curriculum.
Virginia V. Lambert
Founder & Creative Director
BA in Psychology, focus on Developmental Psychology
Philanthropy, advocacy, and Arts Educator.
Multidisciplinary Artist (paint, drawing, textile, graphic arts, needlework);
Exhibited with Adobe Art Gallery, National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Cognitive Laboratory Research program associated with CSUEB, and Art Integration Education Art Curriculum.
Professional experience in Program and Project Management, graphic arts, desktop publishing, electrical and mechanical drafting.
My passion for empowering children with skills that inform subjective and psychological well-being, as well as improved performance in STEAM related academic disciplines is at the core of what I do.
Madison Lambert
Advisor
Program Manager/Content Contributor
MPH, Master of Public Health, Department of Population and Family Health with a certificate in Health and Human Rights, BA in Biology, concentration in chemistry and neuroscience
As a previous program participant, has seen the impact this program can have in both her own life and that of her peers. With over 10 years of experience in educating young people in music and the sciences, she has a deep appreciation for how early emphasis on and fostering of creativity supports young peoples’ academic and personal development. She brings with her a background in program planning, implementation, and evaluation in non-profit programs designed to invest in and support young people.
Sherry Johnson
Advisor
Content Contributor
Retired Elementary Classroom Teacher & Science Mentor
Mrs. Sherry Johnson comes to Art Integration Education with a background integrated thematic instruction. She previously coordinated the Castro Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) Watershed Festival in collaboration with Alameda County Clean Water Program and Castro Valley Sanitary District. Additionally, she worked as a CVUSD elementary Science Mentor, Palomares Creek Education Coordinator, and was involved in the CVUSD Gifted and Talented Program.
Jeff Lambert
Advisor
All around Tech Guru & Business Consulting
BS in Business, New Venture Small Business Management
Artist, software/data engineer, business owner, entrepreneur, Search & Rescue (FST II), EMR
Megan Mayer
Advisor
Content Contributor
UCLA: BA, Economics; Doctor of Law-JD
Retired attorney, Founder of Carmel Cotillions, LLC, Chair of Network for Impact, and author of Gratitude Bump: Four Steps to Joy and Success. Megan’s work with students, professionals, and business providing training in methods that promote leadership, effective communication, improved productivity, collaboration, and the importance of talent retention, to name a few.
Announcement coming soon!
Advisor
Non-profit expertise
BA in Economics & CFRM Philanthropy
Details to come!