Sustainable arts integration in teacher preparation: A reflection on community collaboration practices

The paper presents a reflection on sustaining arts integration in teacher preparation. The reflection examined a small teacher education program and its collaboration practices to sustain arts integration in teacher preparation. The setting of the teacher education unit and the community is in north GA in the United States. At the end of the reflection, a new perspective emerges to sustain arts integration through sustainability community collaboration and open education. The reflection highlights a collaboration strategy that connects arts and sustainability education practices for arts integration innovation and professional development for preservice and inservice teachers.