|
Home > Programs > Baltimore
What We Believe:
Educational programs integrating Baltimore's art and cultural resources will provide urban middle grades students with a more effective way of engaging in the learning process.
Goals:
- Ensuring equitable access to community arts and cultural resources for all of the Baltimore City Public Schools System's middle grade students
- Developing a high quality arts education and integration program for all of the Baltimore City Public Schools System's middle grade students
- Improving arts integrated learning in schools by forming strong collaborations with parents and families, arts and cultural partners in the community
- Providing and/or facilitating professional development strategies for arts integration for community artists, in-school arts specialists, non-art teachers, principals and central administrators;
- Encouraging advocacy by forming strong collaborations with parents and other key community and in-school groups that create the policy context for arts integration, thereby making a sustainable quality arts education program.
Arts Every Day At-A-Glance
Population Served:
Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) students, teachers and school administrators
Partnering Organizations:
Arts & Cultural Partners
Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning has engaged arts and cultural organizations in developing its missions and planning our programs. Such arts and cultural partners have become key stakeholders in how Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning successfully advocates and implements initiatives.
- Baltimore Clayworks
- Baltimore Shakespeare Festival
- Black Cherry Puppet Theater
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
- Creative Alliance at the Patterson
- Everyman Theatre
- Jewish Museum of Maryland
- The Walters Art Museum
- Wide Angle Youth Media
- Young Audiences/Arts for Learning MD
Funding Partners
Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning is deeply grateful to the organizations listed below for their current financial support.
- Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer Foundation
- Baltimore City Public School System
- Baltimore Community Foundation
- The City of Baltimore
- The Ford Foundation
Higher Education Partners
Systemic change in any school system is not possible without the support and involvement of the higher education community.
- Johns Hopkins University, School of Professional Studies Education
- Maryland Institute College of Art
- Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
- Towson University, Arts Integration Institute
- The University of Maryland, College Park
- The University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Our Programs
Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning strives to provide equitable access to the arts for Baltimore's students as well in-depth arts integration programs that are aligned with the state curriculum standards. Currently, Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning is working on the following two programs:
Arts Integration Demonstration Schools:
Four Baltimore City Elementary-Middle Schools have made the decision to undergo a strategic planning process in order to become arts-integrated schools. Through a facilitated process, the schools will examine their organizational structure and their available resources and design a school that supports sequential discipline-based arts instruction and arts integration across the curriculum. The schools will be examining all aspects of their buildings, including scheduling and staffing, in order to meet their goals. Once they complete their strategic planning and implementation, they will open their doors to visitors. These visitors will be able to view the schools, as well as gain an understanding of the process. It is the process itself that may be replicated in other schools. The end model will be based on the implicit needs of each individual school.
The following four schools have elected to participate in the Arts Integration Demonstration Schools program:
- Barclay Elementary/Middle School #54
- Calverton Elementary/Middle School #75
- Mt. Royal Elementary/Middle School #66
- Roland Park Elementary/Middle School #233
Artist-Teacher Partnership 2007-2008:
The Artist-Teacher Partnership is a program where classroom teachers and teaching artists are paired together to co-plan and co-teach 10-day arts integrated units of study. Each team establishes quality objective standards to reach in the art form and the subject matter. These standards must be based on the Voluntary State Curriculum established by the Maryland State Department of Education. One benefit of this program is higher student engagement and an alternative way for students to learn and understand core subject lessons by incorporating elements of dance, music, theatre and/or visual arts. In addition, teachers and teaching artists receive 20 hours in professional development in arts integration and team teaching.
For more information about our programs, please contact:
Joan Weber, Executive Director
joan[at]artseveryday.org
Kathy Beachler, Arts & Cultural Programs Manager
kathy[at]artseveryday.org
Join our e-blast, be informed!
- If you wish to be informed about upcoming programs and events, join our e-blast mailing list. Please email your full contact information (name, organization and email address) to info@artseveryday.org.
|
