Arts Learning
ACHF Arts Education
Project is designed to supplement school curriculum as it addresses issues of identity, history, culture, integrating the core curricular subjects of autobiography, history, geography, and language arts. Students are encouraged to explore these concepts through the creative process and group interaction. Further, the project provides techniques for the expression of students’ personal family stories while building common understanding about one another.Artists and Teachers conduct daily and weekly assessment meetings. Students conduct daily journal reflections. Teachers and staff evaluate the workshops. Community participants will have the opportunity to complete written evaluations. Wrap up verbal sessions and written evaluation will be offered to the project’s core students. Wrap up verbal sessions and written evaluation will be offered to the project’s core teachers and administrators. Families of the core students will have the opportunity to submit written evaluations.
The project reached 685 school students and families, 135 more than originally projected. Students and school teachers reported feeling more confident about themselves and their relations with other students, and the opportunities to express themselves creatively that dance afforded them.
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