FINE ARTS PROGRAMMING

Arts-rich schools are schools where student achievement benefits are realized through the integration of high-impact arts strategies. Arts-rich schools demonstrate the capacity to sustain broad and in-depth creative learning experiences, accessible to all.

In arts-rich schools, all children are free to express themselves in an environment that fosters disciplined critical and creative thinking,that explores heritage through multicultural experiences, that stimulates innovation and imagination, and that honors and engages the whole child in a lifelong love learning.

In the creative classroom, teachers are skilled in applying arts education techniques to all content areas. Students are engaged and use the rigorous creative thinking and communication skills they will need to imagine, innovate and realize possibilities in the future.

Additionally, students are offered a sequential fine arts program at each grade level through collaboration with community arts partnerships.

The purpose of the Fine Arts Academy is to:

• Provide all students with the knowledge and skills necessary for cognitive, creative, emotional and social growth through sequential study, practice, and reflection.

• Build many types of literacy while developing intuition, reasoning, imagination, and dexterity into unique forms of expression and communication.

• Explore the influence of the arts in their power to create and reflect cultures.

• Engage students in a process that enables them to develop the self-esteem, self-discipline, self-motivation, and cooperation necessary for success in life.
• Develop student artists who will create, lead, inspire, and contribute to a global community, through active involvement in creating, performing, and producing.

Austin Creative Classroom Fund is a supporter of our campus programs. Many of our programs are sponsored by the Austin Creative Classroom Fund with support from MINDPOP.