CCPS Fine and Performing Arts Update 2018-19
How do the Arts support the CCPS Strategic Plan? Viewing through the Equity Lens: We state: “CCPS believes that it must take a proactive and strategic approach in addressing inequities in resources, services, and opportunities to ensure that all students develop the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding for life after high school.”
How do the Arts support the CCPS Strategic Plan? Viewing through the Equity Lens: The Arts in CCPS provide: • Robust curricular opportunities for students in visual art, theatre, and music at both the elementary and secondary levels. All students have arts opportunities at all levels K-12. • Numerous co-curricular and extracurricular opportunities in the arts that encourage participation of students of diverse backgrounds.
How do the Arts support the CCPS Strategic Plan? Viewing through the Student Outcomes Lens: We state: “[CCPS] is committed to producing graduates who are responsible 21 st century citizens…”
How do the Arts support the CCPS Strategic Plan? Viewing through the Student Outcomes Lens: The arts are where much of the information and skills that students are learning in other classes are synthesized and applied, including: • Reading • Politics • Math • Writing • Sociology • Science • History • Business • Technology • Economics • Psychology • Engineering
How do the Arts support the CCPS Strategic Plan? Viewing through the Student Outcomes Lens: 5 Soft Skills that Recruiters Want Most – from Fast Company, Jan. 2018: 1. Problem Solving 2. Adaptability 3. Time Management 4. Organization 5. Oral Communication The arts naturally provide real world opportunities to work on all 5 of these 21 st century skills, no matter if the course is in visual art, theatre, or music.
How do the Arts support the CCPS Strategic Plan? Viewing through the Student Outcomes Lens: We state: “The district also hopes to provide more opportunities for students whether they are high-ability learners or students that may need more targeted support across all grade levels.”
How do the Arts support the CCPS Strategic Plan? Viewing through the Student Outcomes Lens: The Arts in CCPS provide: • Differentiated opportunities for students at all levels of innate ability and interest. • Advanced coursework and AP coursework at the high school level.
How do the Arts support the CCPS Strategic Plan? Viewing through the Climate and Culture Lens : We state: “[CCPS will] provide a nurturing, respectful, and safe environment for all”.
How do the Arts support the CCPS Strategic Plan? Viewing through the Climate and Culture Lens : The Arts in CCPS provide: • A safe and welcoming environment for all students. We are often the place where students who have difficulty figuring out how they fit into the school environment find a home, and they thrive with us. • Many opportunities to delve into topics that may not be addressed as often in other content areas, such as emotions and interpersonal dynamics. We deal with Social Emotional Learning both explicitly and as an innate part of instruction in our content area.
Myth: Instruction in the Arts is only for the students that wish to pursue a career in an Arts field. The goal of arts education in CCPS is not to have every student in our programs become a professional artist or performer. While we serve these students quite well and have had numerous students move on to great success in an arts field, our goal is to serve all students in CCPS with high quality arts instruction that will give them the skills they will need to be successful in their post K-12 life.
What other reasons do we have for having Arts in our schools? The arts allow our students to have an aesthetic experience, which is one of the things that makes us uniquely human. It’s an important part of the life experience that is often missed in a formalized educational setting, and it’s not something that is captured by a standardized test, or a school ranking in US News and World Report.
Arts for All Every student in grades K-12 has the opportunity to participate in the arts every year
Elementary School 6,699 students in grades K-5 receive 45 minutes of weekly instruction in Visual Art and General Music
Elementary School Currently, 340 students are playing a string instrument and 553 students are playing a band instrument in grades 4 and 5
Elementary School 1,143 students in grades 3, 4, and 5 are participating in chorus
Elementary School A large number of our elementary schools offer students the opportunity to participate in extra curricular theatre opportunities
Middle School Students in grades 6, 7, & 8 have the opportunity to participate in Music or Visual Art each year.
Middle School Current Enrollments: Art – 1958 Chorus – 1294 Band – 885 General Music – 527 Strings - 401
Middle School Many of our middle schools also have extracurricular theatre offerings
High School Visual Art: We have 1002 students enrolled in 11 different high school art courses.
High School Orchestra: 203 students participate in our High School Orchestras.
High School Band: 278 students participate in our concert bands. Each school also fields a competitive marching band and has a jazz band that may be a scheduled class, or may run during the one hour lunch.
High School Chorus: 351students perform in our Choirs.
High School Theatre: 345 students are enrolled in our Theatre classes. Each school puts on major fall and spring productions, in addition to black box productions and one act plays.
Superlatives CCPS continues to be well represented in our Tri-County and All State Music Ensembles. • 107 Students in Middle and High School Tri-County Choruses (CCPS students made up 45% of each ensemble) • 52 Students in All State Choruses
Superlatives Lucia Owens, student from Huntingtown Elementary School, was selected as the Elementary Level winner for the Spring First Lady’s Gallery.
Superlatives The Northern High School Orchestra traveled to Iceland this spring for a cultural exchange opportunity!
Superlatives Three nominees for CCPS Teacher of the Year were from the land of Fine and Performing Arts! Kevin Mosay, Windy Hill Middle School Band Sabrina Sigmon, Northern Middle School Chorus Stephanie Thompson, Beach Elementary School General Music
Superlatives A combined orchestra from Calvert and Patuxent High Schools was selected to perform at the 2018 National Orchestra Festival in Atlanta, GA.
Superlatives Our Youth Art Month Show and Reception at the Calvert Marine Museum on March 4, 2018 included art from a large number of our schools and was well received by the community.
Superlatives Students from the Musical Theatre class at HHS had the opportunity to work with legitimate stars of Broadway and performed at Carnegie Hall this February.
Superlatives All 4 high school marching bands completed successful competitive seasons, and provided students with a myriad of performance experiences and student leadership opportunities
• WHMS orchestra • NHS orchestra Superlatives • CHS band • NHS band • CHS chorus • NHS chorus The following ensembles qualified and participated in • HHS chorus • PHS chorus State Festivals, representing CCPS extremely well
Superlatives Our 4 high school spring musicals continue to set a standard of excellence in Southern Maryland.
Superlatives The Patuxent Harlequins were the winners of the MD State One Act Competition for their production of the first act of Stupid Bird, and are travelling to Lincoln, NE later this month to compete at Nationals.
Superlatives Our middle school general music teachers and music teacher at CCS started using their new curricular resource, Quaver, at the beginning of the year. Elementary general music teachers gained access to the resource at the beginning of April. (click on the black box to the right to view a video about the Quaver resources!)
• Curriculum changes – we are continuing to rewrite curriculum at the elementary Challenges and middle school levels to align with the MD state standards adopted in June 2017. As we look forward to the 2018- 19 School Year, there continue • Changes to the Tri-County model and to be some challenges to navigate in order to maintain related issues faced this year (it snowed on our programs that are already Tri-County weekend for the second year strong, and improve upon those in a row.) that are “under construction”.
• Scheduling within our buildings Challenges • ES – Finding time for Chorus • MS – Concerns with Visual Art scheduling; roadblocks to continuity of programming As we look forward to the 2018- • HS – Collapsed courses and courses not 19 School Year, there continue running to be some challenges to navigate in order to maintain • Equity issues due to sizes of our HS. Not our programs that are already strong, and improve upon those all arts classes are running in all schools that are “under construction”.
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