Integrated Arts?

The Integrated Arts is a model designed to offer support, extension, and supplementary experiences in content areas through interdisciplinary arts activities. The Common Core Standards' emphasis on developing depth and rigor in thought and the ability to communicate relevant information with increasing skill provides the necessary impetus for this model. Content will be viewed through many lenses, allowing the entirety of relevant ideas to be processed and applied broadly and with added depth. Work with visual arts, music, drama, literature, writing, technology, and design will be incorporated and collaboration with classroom teachers will be ongoing. As Yeats wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". The Integrated Arts is an opportunity to light a very purposeful, very directed fire.

Friday, September 12, 2014

A little color




The District has seen fit to install last year's sixth grade legacy mural in a prominent location on campus. This lively, colorful, creative piece will be an object of interest for years. A few finishing touches must be added: final grout and sealant, polishing, and a wooden frame to finish it off. When all is said and done, we have a visual testament to our students' abilities as self-directed learners, contributors to their community, complex thinkers, and purposeful collaborators. I'm proud.
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