Arts Learning

We hope to achieve our goal of increasing the number of students taking lessons to an additional 10-20 students throughout the summer and fall semester. Currently we have more than 70 students enrolled for our spring semester programming. We average 10 students/day, and we currently offer an average of 8 lessons per week. We anticipate during the summer to have 100 students enrolled, to average 15 students/day, and to teach 20 lessons per week. This increase, if supported by grant funding, will be achieved by marketing no-cost lessons and no-cost improvisation sessions. Outside of quantitative outcomes, we always maintain a goal of student success as defined by them. When they begin programming with us we ask them to identify their goals, and work with them throughout their time with us to achieve them. Student-determined success is always our primary goal. Offering students another avenue toward success, especially offered free-of-charge, will lead to furthering our achievements. We will measure our success through pre-post program surveys, enrollment and participation numbers, student and parent feedback, and progress as identified by students and instructors. Success will include an increase in lesson enrollment, survey results that suggest student-perceived progress and goals met, an attended improv concert for the community, and students continuing on in music at the completion of the intensives. Students will be given pre-program surveys with questions about their confidence in their abilities, their understanding of improvisation, their comfort level with performing improvisation in public, and their general music knowledge levels, to identify their perceived level of experience and preparedness. After their performance they will be surveyed again to determine their perspective on their progress and achievements.