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What We Believe:
Arts Every Day believes that a complete education includes a combination of arts learning, arts experiences and arts integration. It is the role of Arts Every Day to help facilitate connections between the arts and learning for every student every day.
Educational programs integrating Baltimore’s arts and cultural resources will provide urban middle grades students with a more effective way of engaging in the learning process. Arts Every Day believes strongly that arts integration is only possible with the presence of highly skilled certified arts teachers in every school.
Goals:
- Ensuring equitable access to community arts and cultural resources for all Baltimore City Public School System students.
- Facilitating the development of a high-quality arts education and integration program for all Baltimore City Public School System middle grade students.
- Improving arts integrated learning in schools by forming strong collaborations between arts teachers and non-arts teachers in schools as well as developing partnerships between schools and the arts and cultural organizations of the region.
- Providing and/or facilitating professional development strategies around arts integration for community artists, in-school arts specialists, non-arts teachers, arts specialists, 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 creating a sustainable, high-quality arts education program.
Arts Every Day At-A-Glance
Population Served:
Baltimore City Public School System (City Schools) students, teachers and school administrators
Partnering Organizations:
Arts & Cultural Partners
Arts Every Day 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 Arts Every Day successfully advocates and implements initiatives.
Funding Partners
Arts Every Day 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
- The Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds
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
Arts Every Day strives to provide equitable access to the arts for Baltimore's students as well as in-depth arts integration programs that are aligned with state curriculum standards.
Partnership Development through the Website
Arts Every Day recognizes community partners are the driving force behind Baltimore City's arts education and arts integration collaboratives. Our partners play significant roles in activities with the school system such as professional development, teaching the arts in schools, advocacy and fundraising. Arts Every Day intends to create more benefits for its partners through the development of this Web site.
Arts Integration Programs
Arts integration can be described as a way of thinking about learning and teaching, encouraging individuals and groups of people to incorporate community resources and make connections to the school curriculum. The best way to learn about arts integration is to experience arts integration directly.
Arts Every Day Schools:
Six Baltimore City elementary-middle schools have made the decision to undergo strategic planning processes to become arts-integrated schools. Through a facilitated process, the schools will examine their organizational structures and their available resources and restructure their schools in a way that supports both sequential, discipline-based arts instruction as well as arts integration across the curriculum. The schools will be examining all aspects of their infrastructures, including scheduling and staffing, in order to meet their goals. Once they complete their strategic planning and implementation, the schools will open their doors to visitors, including community members and other Baltimore City schools. These visitors will be able to view the schools and gain an understanding of the process. The goal is not to have a model product, but rather a model process. The beauty of this design is that it is based on the needs of each individual school.
The following six schools have elected to participate in the Arts Every Day Schools program:
- Booker T. Washington Middle School #130
- Edgecombe Circle Elementary/Middle School #62
- Hilton Elementary School #21
- Mount Royal Elementary/Middle School #66
- Roland Park Elementary/Middle School #233
- Windsor Hills Elementary/Middle School #87
For more information about our programs, please contact:
Kathy Beachler, Director of Arts & Cultural Resources
kathy[at]artseveryday.org
Tammy Oppel, Director of School Outreach
tammy[at]artseveryday.org
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