2013-531 Arts - Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School for Fall 2013- Art Grant Agreement $1,500

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Project Evaluation Report Student Enrichment Grants Please return upon the project's completion.. As stated in your grant award, a brief evaluation report is required at the conclusion of your project. Feedback on the Student Enrichment Grants (SEGs) enables the Foundation to improve the process for future cycles and provides important information about ideas that work and need to be shared and those that face implementation challenges. Thank you for your assistance. Project Name: Phoenix Academy High School Arts Program: Spoken Word Project Project Director: Rachael Kares Designated Supervisor and School: John Williams, principal Amount of Project Funding: $1400 Number of Participants: 25-30 Objectives of project: The purpose of this project is to continue an Arts Program at Phoenix Academy. Students at PAHS have access to arts-based learning through the Arts Program which is funded by the Student Enrichment Grant. 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 PAHS to facilitate workshops in arts education. The objective of the 2012-2013 Arts Program was to work in conjunction with the Sacrificial Poets, a non-profit spoken word poetry youth program. Please summarize the results of this project. Please refer to your application to report back on the evaluation piece as you described it in applying for the grant (attach pages as needed The results of the 2012-2013 PAHS Arts Program were a success. Students enrolled in ELA courses worked with workshop facilitators each semester. We held one to two week long intensives in which students worked with an artist in residence from the Sacrificial Poets. Students actively participated in accountable talk practices, developed speaking and listening skills, and continued to polish their writing and performance abilities. Common Core standards were addressed throughout the workshop series as the facilitators worked with me to address learning benchmarks. Additionally, the workshop facilitators collaborated with me to integrate my current curriculum into their workshops. I also worked with workshop facilitators to create modified assignments for students that benefit from differentiated instruction. Students also had the opportunity to work directly in the community. Many PAHS students have participated in poetry events at the Chapel Hill Teen Center, Flyleaf Books, the Carrboro Arts Center, and UNC. Many of our students have enrolled in Poetry Club, which is a branch of the PAHS Arts Program. The PAHS Art Program cultivated a sense of community in the classroom and extended beyond our building.