2012-282 EDC -Arts Chapel Hill Carrboro Public School Foundation for Spring 2012 Grassroots Arts Awards $1,240

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Proposed Uses of Grant Funds—description including location,date,artists involved. Include information concerning whether you have undertaken similar activities in the past. Include approximate number of audience per program; geography of audience; mix of race, ethnicity,age,and gender. Discuss how arts program will be integrated into the curriculum. The project will be undertaken at Phoenix Academy and Carrboro Elementary School during the 2012-13 school year and will include the English teacher, Rachael Kares, who has taught similar populations of students in Asheville as well as Chapel Hill. The Sacrificial Poets are led by C.J. Suitt and Will McInerney. For more information,go to: www.sacrificialpoets.com. The Phoenix students include about 35 students in grades 9-12 and the Carrboro Elem. students are in grades 3-5. The Phoenix population demographics include (77 percent)African-American students,(4 percent)Latino students, (8 percent)multi-racial students,(4 percent)American Indian students and(4 percent white students. In summary, 96 percent of the population is"minority."Approximately,47 percent of the students are female. The Carrboro Elementary project leader will be Eileen Regan who has been a reading teacher for 21 years and an accomplished musician for most of her life.The Carrboro Elementary students include Burmese refugees,Latino and African-American students,particularly those who are low income and come from single parent families.Carrboro Elem. has a total minority population of 49 percent but the population served by this grant will be largely minority. A total of 66 percent of the Phoenix students and 35 percent of Carrboro Elem.students qualify for free or reduced price meals. These are the specific objectives for the project: ✓ Incorporate the community-based Sacrificial Poets into the arts at Phoenix Academy. The school last year for the first time integrated the arts through a grant that provided puppetry,music and poetry. The project leader states: "Arts-based learning is an important aspect to any education; it offers students the opportunity to think critically and analytically.Art-based learning also allows students to be innovative and creative in their experiential process. The premise behind this project is to bring community members into Phoenix to, acilitate workshops in arts education." ✓ Engage students in learning methods that are somewhat unconventional in teaching poetry as "performance art."The project is expected to increase student interest and engagement in the subject and will stimulate them to write about their experiences. ✓ Create opportunities for students to become leaders in the arts after the workshop series. Students will share their experiences with their peers, siblings and families and neighbors."A number of students aspire to become performance artists but have not had the opportunity to build upon this interest," ✓ The project will be evaluated using these measures: • Pre-and post-exposure surveys to measure student engagement in the arts. • Students will increase community involvement during and after the series • 100 percent participation of the enrolled students. 2