Objectives

  • Maintaining and expanding active partnerships of the highest quality
  • Creating an important study in collaborative efforts for the advancement of arts education, which may serve as a model for the local as well as the national community

  • Influencing student attitudes toward the study of the fine arts

  • Increasing and enhancing arts education programming to an ethnically and culturally diverse population where a majority of students qualify for free or reduced cost meals

  • Following the same schools and students for several years

  • Providing services for the schools, including in-school music and theatre programs, concerts and performance opportunities (music festivals, student showcases, master classes, clinics, etc.), field experiences in visual arts, and professional development

  • Supporting professional development for teachers

  • Supporting local, state and national arts standards

  • Focusing on children