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ABOUT THE PROJECT
Four Santa Cruz County Schools, in partnership with community agencies and organizations, received funding from the Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, to participate in the Cultural Partnerships Grant Program for At-Risk Children and Youth Programs, in response to CFDA No. 84.351B.
The project, LA VIDA EN ARTES! (Life in Art!), addresses the overall priorities established for the competition by providing for: (1) increased access to and participation in high-quality, standards based arts education program for middle and high school students over the thirty-six month period; (2) all arts education programs are directly connected to the Arts Standards for grades K-12 enumerated in the Arts Standards adopted by the state Board of Education on April 28, 1997; (3) arts education programs that provide for improved student academic performance through participation; and (4) increased range of arts program activities in accordance with Arizona Standards for music, visual arts, theatre, and dance that integrate arts education (creating art, art in context, and art as inquiry) across the curriculum suggesting integration links for each discipline and its related standard. That competence provides a firm foundation for connecting arts-related concepts and facts across the art forms, and from them to the sciences and humanities.
Three goals of the project are as follows: (1) to establish and maintain policies that foster equal access to high quality arts education program for at-risk children and youth in target schools; (2) to offer arts educational programs that will increase the educational attainment of at-risk children and youth in connection with Arizona Arts Standards; and (3) the arts education program will provide arts-supported education skills that increase at-risk students’ marketable skills. A key factor in this approach to learning is the need for students to acquire enough prior knowledge and experience in one discipline to make applications in another. Implementation means identifying concepts shared among two or more content areas and including performance objectives for each discipline in the instructional model. Integration links which appear in Arizona’s Arts Standards follow the performance objectives (POs) within the standards. The links identify other disciplines and the concepts they share with the arts.
Service components include arts education modules of: artist-in-resident workshops; summer arts academy; public arts program; graphic arts academy; and music academy to integrate cultural, historical and curriculum-based studies with Arizona Standards measurements.
For further information contact Elaine Mariolle, La Vida en Artes!