Arts Learning
ACHF Arts Education
Upstream Arts will carry out arts residencies in 20 Minneapolis Public Schools Special Education classrooms during the 2014-2015 school year, serving approximately 300 Minneapolis Public Schools students ages 5-18 with disabilities. Participants will have increased exposure to music, visual arts, theatre, and dance within the school setting; the programs will significantly address the individualized academic goals of 90 to 100% of the students that we serve; at least 75% of participants will show improvement in self-expression, conversation and group participation skills considered fundamental to learning; and participating Special Education teachers and staff will have increased ability to employ arts-based instructional strategies within their classrooms.We will carry out a pre- and post-program evaluation on each student (measuring indications of arts exposure and arts learning as well as self-expression, conversation, and group participation skills derived from Minneapolis Public Schools Special Education assessment tools); and teachers will fill out evaluations on the program’s impact on their students as a whole and on their own instruction. Meetings between classroom teachers and teaching artists, and between Upstream Arts and district level staff, will provide another venue for ongoing assessment.
Approximately 300 Minneapolis Public Schools students with disabilities derived specific benefits from arts activities and arts based teaching methods; 97% of teachers reported that their students gained an increased understanding of the arts, and how to express themselves through the arts, and that the program had a positive impact on their teaching.
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