pARTners will continue to expand and support arts education programming at Jackson Hole Middle School. All the grades at JH Middle School have pARTners projects integrated into their curriculum. However, last year pARTners focused on increasing creative projects at the 6th grade because their art elective was eliminated. This year pARTners will continue those efforts to better support the development of our adolescents through the arts. Research continually shows that students do better when exposed to the arts.