a choice initiative of the Salt Lake City School District

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a choice initiative of the Salt Lake City School
District
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From Eric Jensen, ARTS WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND,
ASCD, 1998

• The arts should be a major discipline in the
  schoolsone 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 students integrated
  sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and
  motor capacities. Such brain systems are the
  driving forces behind all other learning.

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Defining Artstream...

• Artstream, a SLCSD Choice Initiative, builds on
  established efforts in schools, K-12, that are
  working collaboratively to define, articulate and
  implement a sequential, comprehensive arts
  education program which

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• 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.

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Artstreams 3-Point Approach

• I Art for Arts Sake
• The study of the individual artistic areas,
  including skills, concepts, methods, art history,
  critical analysis and aesthetics.

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II Art at the Service of Other Studies

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

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III Other Studies at the Service of Art Concepts

• Materials, strategies or methodologies from other
  disciplines are used in studying art forms.

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SLCSDs Artstream Schools

• Beacon Heights
• Bonneville
• Dilworth
• Hawthorne
• Highland Park
• Indian Hills
• Jackson

• Nibley Park
• Lincoln
• Parkview
• Wasatch
• Whittier
• Hillside Middle
• Highland High School

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7 Artstream Schools Receive Grants From Art Works
For Kids

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

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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)

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Similarly, students who studied acting and play
  production outscored their nonarts peers on the
  verbal portion of the SAT by an average of 66
  points.

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Furthermore

• The academic benefits of arts education also go
  beyond math and reading. An analysis of 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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 Districts Eight Essentials of a Learning
  Community.

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

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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.

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

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• Develop a culture and climate for learning
  through the fine arts, enhancing students
  opportunities to perform and express themselves
  artistically.
• Participate in evaluation activities to
  demonstrate the positive results of systematic
  teaching of fine arts.

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The curriculum in Artstream schools

• Elementary schools

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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The Arts Academy At Highland

• Is led by a community of artist-educators
• Provides students with challenging experiences in
  a variety of art forms

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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

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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

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The Arts Academy At HighlandCourse Offerings
ForPreparatory 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

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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

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Expected Outcomes For Students In Participating
Artstream Schools
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• Students will receive quality arts education that
  is interconnected with instruction in other core
  subject areas and tied to meeting the schools
  student achievement goals.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• Students at all levels will have opportunities to
  work and learn in a variety of age groups, with
  different teachers as learning groups are created
  to meet student needs.

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• Students will become known to the teachers and
  other students at all levels, increasing the
  likelihood of camaraderie and continuity of
  learning in the arts.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.