LAUSD and the Arts

The Los Angeles Unified School District recognizes that education in the arts make a unique and vital contribution to a child*s cognitive development. Therefore the District is committed to providing all students with opportunities to attain a substantive education in the visual and performing arts at all grade levels, an education that will prepare them to create, collaborate, problem solve, perform, and appreciate works of art.

On July 22, 1999, the Los Angeles Unified School District*s Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution to commence a 10-year effort to establish arts for all students, at all grade levels, in all schools, in all four art forms. To accomplish this goal, LAUSD*s Arts Education Branch began Arts Program Schools (APS) at the elementary level. In the first eight years of the program the number of schools participating has grown from 54 to 392 and it is projected that by 2010 all elementary schools in the District will have the opportunity to participate in the APS project.

In the 2007 - 2008 school year the Arts Education Branch launched a new project at the middle school level to meet the needs of middle and high school arts teachers. The Arts Bridging Teacher Project assigns various visual and performing arts teachers to feeder schools in order to build enrollment and experience in individual art forms .

In addition to the four arts content areas mentioned above, Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Art, the Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts Education Branch (AEB) seeks to establish and support Media Arts as a fifth standards-based Arts Content discipline. Media Arts are an art form comprising of a range of creative and expressive uses of media and communications technologies, including, but not limited to , digital imaging, graphic and web design, video/film production, television, digital music, video gaming, mobile devices and interactive media.

Work has begun on the next 10-year District Arts Education Plan. The second 10-year plan must extend the critical and necessary components of a well-rounded, dynamic and rich arts education and will focus on a K - 12 continuous and articulated curriculum. The Los Angeles Unified School District recognize that the Arts programs benefit students from the entire spectrum of educational programs and demographics, including special education, at-risk, GATE, and English Learners. LAUSD further understands that the Arts, (all five) increase student engagement, empower students' creative voices, and promote active participation in an increasingly networked world.

Friday, April 17, 2009

DANCE, DANCE, DANCE Symposium



Nate Holden Performing Arts Center
4718 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016


SATURDAY, MAY 2nd, 2009 8:00am—3:00pm


FOR RESERVATIONS, please call WGS at 323-734-1165
Continental Breakfast
Panel Discussions
Preservation of Dance
New Technology
The Business of Dance
Raising Capital in a Recession
Master Class Workshop
DSLA MEMBERSHIP SIGN-UPS!


*Schedule subject to change


RESERVE YOUR SEAT TODAY!!
DANCE SOUTH LA
Presents 2nd Annual
DANCE SYMPOSIUM
"Preservation of Dance in South Los Angeles"


Panel discussions on Preservation of Dance, New Technology, The Business of Dance, Raising Capital in a Recession. The conference represents notable persons, institutions, dancers, educators and philanthropic groups designed for the purpose of identifying existing resources and needs of the dance community. The coalition of dance service organizations, individuals, local municipal offices and the business community will work to identify traditional, non-traditional and non-dance industry partnerships that emphasize the economic survival of dance as an industry.


The invited participants include: Arts Presenters, Professional and non-professional dance organizations, Media representatives, local theaters, Local Representative of IABD, The Department of Cultural Affairs, Arts Funding Institutions, individual foundations, The LA County Commission on the Arts, The Los Angeles Urban League, LA Unified School District, LA Community College District, and leaders from the dance field based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Inland Empire, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego County.


Co-sponsored by the William Grant Still Arts Center & the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
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