2017-462-E Arts - New Hope Elem. School - 2017-18 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:B3B563FD-6D63-4031-A74C-538395FA5A15 Spring 2017 Grassroots Program Grant Orange County Arts Commission Application Narrative Description of School Arts Program The following four Title 1 schools, all within the Orange County Schools' district, are participating in The Arts Center's Artist in Residence program in the 2017-2018 school year: New Ho.e Elementar is a Title 1, preK-5, school located just north of Chapel Hill with approximately 610 students and the largest ESL population in the district. Central Elementary is a Title 1, preK-5, school near downtown Hillsborough with approximately 275 students and is a designated Engineering Excellence school. ,Efland-Cheeks Global Elementar, is a Title 1, preK-5, school located in Efland with approximately 416 students. Global studies are integrated throughout the curriculum and provide students opportunities to connect with people and cultures from across the globe through a project-based learning environment. Grady Brown Elementary is a newly identified Title 1, preK-5, school located in Hillsborough with approximately 506 students, and a growing number of ESL students. All four schools have Art and Music special area classes, which students visit once per week to learn concepts covered in the Arts Education Essential Standards. Any additional in-school art programs or experiences are funded by individual school PTAs through their Cultural Arts budgets. Programs funded through PTA Cultural Arts usually include whole school performances and/or grade level residencies; however, funding residencies is challenging for these schools whose PTA Cultural Arts budgets are often less than $2,000 for the entire year. Summary of Proposed Project In the 2017-2018 school year, approximately 1,800 kindergarten through fifth grade students at New Hope Elementary, Central Elementary, Efland-Cheeks Global Elementary and Grady Brown Elementary will participate in curriculum-integrated art residencies with professional teaching artists. This program, implemented in partnership with The ArtsCenter, strives to give children opportunities to learn curriculum through non-traditional teaching methods, thus catering to varied learning styles and creating exciting, engaging learning opportunities. Many components of the program also bring parents/families into the experience as well, thus creating an even deeper impact that far exceeds learning in the classroom. All grade levels in each participating school - 24 total - will have professional teaching artists come into their classrooms for five sessions, during which time the artists will teach specific curriculum concepts through chosen art forms. In conjunction with these residencies, students will also go to The ArtsCenter to see a show that correlates to the work they are doing in their classrooms. The shows, residency art forms and curriculum foci will all be chosen by classroom teachers with guidance from The ArtsCenter's Arts in Education Coordinator, who will manage the program. This will be the seventh year the Artist in Residence program will be implemented with all Title 1 elementary schools in the district, and the tenth year since initial implementation with the first Title 1 school when the program began. Project Goals The Artist in Residence program is an Arts in Education program that integrates the arts into the grade level curriculum. The following are goals of the program: