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…a choice initiative of the Salt Lake City School District

From Eric Jensen, ARTS WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND, ASCD, 1998

“The arts should be a major discipline in the schools—one worth making everybody study and learn. Not only can the arts be a powerful solution for helping educators reach a wide range of learners, they also enhance the process of learning by developing a student’s integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities. Such brain systems are the driving forces behind all other learning.”

Defining Artstream...

Artstream, a SLCSD Choice Initiative, builds

• n established efforts in

schools, K-12, that are working collaboratively to define, articulate and implement a sequential, comprehensive arts education program which:

Interconnects quality academic and arts instruction to deepen student understanding of core concepts Honors individual needs and talents of all students through a strong, articulated, arts curriculum with broad offerings, and Helps students develop personal potential in all aspects of life: intellectually, physically, emotionally and socially.

Artstream’s 3-Point Approach:

I Art for Art’s Sake

The study of the individual artistic areas, including skills, concepts, methods, art history, critical analysis and aesthetics.

II Art at the Service of Other Studies

Art concepts, materials, strategies and processes used to illuminate and reinforce work in all disciplines.

III Other Studies at the Service of Art Concepts

Materials, strategies

• r methodologies

from other disciplines are used in studying art forms.

SLCSD’s Artstream Schools:

Beacon Heights Bonneville Dilworth Hawthorne Highland Park Indian Hills Jackson Nibley Park Lincoln Parkview Wasatch Whittier Hillside Middle Highland High School

7 Artstream Schools Receive Grants From Art Works For Kids:

Beacon Heights Highland Park Jackson Nibley Park Lincoln Parkview Wasatch http://www.artworksforkids.org/

Educational Research Compels Us To Develop Arts Education In Our Schools

From Education Week, January 26, 2005: “Putting Arts Education Front and Center,” by Rod Paige, Former Secretary of Education , and Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas and Chair of the Education Commission of the States (2004-2006)

“Research has shown that those who study the arts improve their achievement in other subjects, including mathematics, reading, and writing.”

“In math, for example, studies point to a direct connection between music and spatial reasoning and spatial temporal skills, which are important to understanding and using mathematical concepts.”

“For high school students, course taking data collected by the College Board indicate that students of the arts annually outperform their nonarts peers on the

• SAT. In 2004, for

example, students who studied music scored 40 points higher on the math portion of the test than students reporting no arts coursework.”

“Similarly, students who studied acting and play production

• utscored their

nonarts peers on the verbal portion of the SAT by an average of 66 points.”

Furthermore…

“The academic benefits of arts education also go beyond math and

• reading. An analysis
• f U.S. Department of

Education data on 25,000 middle and high school students found that students who were highly involved in the arts performed better on a variety of academic measures than other students.”

“They earned better grades, did better on exams, performed more community service, and watched fewer hours of television.”

“And a growing amount of evidence shows that the arts can be particularly beneficial to students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and can even keep some potential dropouts in school.”

The arts are considered a core academic subject under the No Child Left Behind law. Artstream addresses this law as well as the Salt Lake School District’s Eight Essentials of a Learning Community.

Additional schools from throughout the district are invited to participate and to become involved in this choice initiative.

Artstream schools:

Make arts education a part of their school improvement plans to foster student achievement and involve arts specialists and teachers in meeting these goals.

Meet together to plan, develop curriculum and K- 12 activities, as well as to

• ffer and attend

professional development. Network with community arts organizations, universities and government agencies. Become model sites for art education and collaboration. Enhance the skills of teachers and artists through professional development, mentoring and side-by-side teaching.

Develop a culture and climate for learning through the fine arts, enhancing students’

• pportunities to

perform and express themselves artistically. Participate in evaluation activities to demonstrate the positive results of systematic teaching

• f fine arts.

The curriculum in Artstream schools:

Elementary schools…

Begin by continuing and enhancing established arts education programs which include music education for grades 4-6.

Add a comprehensive music education program for grades K-4 providing music instruction twice per week for 30 minutes in those grades.

Fully develop at least one other fine art form to be offered to all students in the school, K-6.

As time in the schedule and funds permit, the schools will add instruction in the remaining fine art forms.

All the schools use the Utah State Fine Arts Core Curriculum as a framework to guide instruction and assessment.

Arts education at the middle level:

Dance I and II Art I and II Glee Show Choir Guitar Drama 1 and 2 Orchestra I and II Band I and II

The Arts Academy At Highland:

Is led by a community

• f artist-educators

Provides students with challenging experiences in a variety of art forms

Students from diverse cultures will:

Share their passion for the arts with one another. Create artwork as it relates to aesthetics, criticism and other academic disciplines

The arts academy will enrich the high school experience of :

Students who plan to pursue the arts beyond graduation Students who are enrolled in regular arts classes The student-body at large

The Arts Academy At Highland Course Offerings For Preparatory Division classes:

Applied Art Art Foundations Ceramics I and II Dance I and II Visual Communication and Design Visual Communication and Advertising Concert Band Symphony Orchestra Percussion Ensemble Freshman Choir Chorale Class Piano Theatre Foundations I and II

Major and Studio Division Classes:

Dance Company Theatre Foundations 3 and 4 Playwriting Wind Ensemble Chamber Orchestra Jazz Band Madrigal Choir 3-D Art Advanced Art AP Studio Art Industrial Design Advanced Placement Art History Advanced Placement Music Theory

Expected Outcomes For Students In Participating Artstream Schools:

Students will receive quality arts education that is interconnected with instruction in other core subject areas and tied to meeting the school’s student achievement goals.

Students may choose to attend one of 14 Artstream schools, with established arts education programs. This enables students to have access to the Artstream program throughout the school district.

Students will be able to demonstrate the arts skills with K-12 arts portfolios developed by the Utah State Office of Education Fine Arts Department or another means collaboratively developed by Artstream participants.

Students with a variety of individual needs and talents, participating in arts education classes in Artstream schools, when compared with students in non-arts education classes will have:

Higher achievement in core subjects for regular and at risk students Lower dropout rates Higher emotional intelligence Greater representation in arts education classes as they progress through school.

Students will have the opportunity to participate in K-12 arts activities, such as the Honors Orchestra, which will enable them to interact with teachers and students from all levels.

Students at all levels will have

• pportunities to

work and learn in a variety of age groups, with different teachers as learning groups are created to meet student needs.

Students will become known to the teachers and

• ther students at all levels, increasing the

likelihood of camaraderie and continuity of learning in the arts.

Students opting to stay in Salt Lake District and pursue additional courses in arts education following the 6th and 8th grades in Artstream schools will increase in number each year.

Students, their families, and school employees will learn about the Artstream plan for a comprehensive, K-12 arts education, online, through professional development, K- 12 activities for students and families, school newsletters, school community councils, faculty meetings, parent councils, brochures, posters, mailings and surveys.

“To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime: critical analysis skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity and to solve problems, perseverance and a drive for excellence. Moreover, the creative skills children develop through the arts carry them toward new ideas, new experiences, and new challenges, not to mention personal

• satisfaction. This is the intrinsic value of the

arts, and it cannot be overestimated.”

Rod Paige, Former Secretary of Education Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas and Chair of the Education Commission of the States.

Many thanks for help with this powerpoint:

To the student artists and photographers at Highland Park, Nibley Park, Hillside Middle and Highland High School. To these Artstream schools for their help: Beacon Heights, Dilworth, Highland Park, Indian Hills, and Nibley Park Elementaries; Hillside Middle and Highland High. To Terry Watkins, THEDESIGN, for the Artstream logo.

For further information contact: Gene Klatt gene.klatt@slc.k12.ut.us

…A choice initiative of the Salt Lake City School District