…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 on 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 or methodologies from other disciplines are used in studying art forms.
SLCSD’s Artstream Schools: Beacon Heights Nibley Park Bonneville Lincoln Dilworth Parkview Hawthorne Wasatch Highland Park Whittier Indian Hills Hillside Middle Jackson 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 outscored their nonarts peers on the verbal portion of the SAT by an average of 66 points.”
“The academic Furthermore… 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.”
“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 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.
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.
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 of 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 opportunities 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 other 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 6 th and 8 th 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.
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