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.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Sixth Grade Legacy Project: Our California











Del Mar Heights School Sixth-Grade Legacy Mural Installed

    Del Mar Heights students are challenged to develop a broad range of twenty-first century skills during their time in elementary school. Collaboration, technical ability, problem-solving, evaluation and revision, and personal and collective responsibility were all qualities exhibited by sixth grade students as they worked together on the annual Del Mar Heights Arts Sixth-Grade Legacy Project. Each year, Del Mar Heights sixth-graders are tasked with taking a large-scale public art piece from concept to completion. The class of 2015 completed a truly wonderful piece in recognition of their time at Del Mar Heights School. This mural, a landscape of their own vision of California, was installed with pride on the Del Mar Heights Campus and will hang in the school as a reminder of the legacy that the class of 2015 leaves behind. It was my honor and great joy to mentor these youths as they created such a striking piece.

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