Jenny Montgomery, art teacher for the Dayton Regional STEM School, has had five years of teaching art and humanities in a small, rural Kentucky district. She served two years as a community schools coordinator in Covington, KY; two years as service-learning coordinator in Covington, KY; and four years as director of development for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio. “I am a visual artist and enjoy working with the figure,” Montgomery says. “I joined the staff of the Dayton Regional STEM School (DRSS) this past fall, after serving on a committee to help integrate arts in the curriculum in its first year (2009-10) and assisting with a collaborative project between the DRSS and The Westcott House.” The DRSS wanted a way to integrate arts throughout the curriculum; the school takes a project-based learning approach and is highly collaborative in nature – both internally among teachers and disciplines, and externally with area business and organizational partners. The school values creativity and counts it as one of five important qualities that guide curriculum development and assessment. Participating students are in 8th, 9th and 10th grades and are voluntarily joining this project outside of their regular school work.