Arts Learning
Frank Theatre, a Twin Cities based professional theater, will partner with South Ridge, an elementary/middle school in northern Minnesota. The residency will build students' writing and reading skills, performing ability, and confidence through the use of theater games and writing exercises.
ACHF Arts Education
Students will increase their theatre education as they hear stories and write their own stories, poems, and scenes, and perform their work and respond to the work of their classmates. Outcomes will be evident in student participation in the final event. Students' writing skills will be assessed by trained raters based on a scoring rubric developed by the evaluator and project staff. We will include questions on the student and teacher surveys about writing skills/acting skills. 2: The residency will provide additional learning and arts activities that currently do not exist, for students and community members at no cost. We will track numbers of students and community members participating throughout the year. We will survey students and community about their current and past participation in the arts.
Prior to this program including the theatre games with writing activities and performance in the general classroom/art studio curriculum was not done. Teachers reflected on students growing as individuals - being able to speak in front of their peers and in the public with more confidence. Some of those students cant memorize their multiplication facts to save their life, but they had their lines and blocking memorized and shined on stage. Its important for kids to know there is more than one way to be smart and this has made a positive difference. (Teacher). Evaluators found students benefitted in their writing in every way - parts of speech, thinking outside the box in creative solution-making ways, speaking in front of their peers, writing in sequential order, learning to accept and work with their peers, putting words and actions into a story, importance in enunciating words, confidence in themselves and trust in their peers. 2: The program is being brought right into the school at no cost to them. We were able to serve 3,4 and 7th grades with additional work with some 3-4th graders in the afterschoolSTEAM. Participation was expected by all students during the school day and was provided as extra-curricular after school. Transportation was provided afterschool through Independent School District 2142's American Indian Student Services. Geographic barriers exist due to the rural setting. No theaters exist within easy driving distances.
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