Principal Stephanie Harris, recently of Short Avenue Elementary School and now assigned to 54th Street Elementary School, presented the following to the LAUSD School Board at the Committee of the Whole on January 19, 2010.
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"Our API continued to grow at a modest rate, as we provided high quality first instruction, used data to drive our instruction and intervention, and used reflective cycles of instruction. Then in 2007, we became an APS School via the Arts Education Branch from whom we gained credentialed dance, theater, and visual arts teachers. These teachers, though only part-time at my school provided outstanding instruction in the various arts with direct correlations to Open Court, often making reading come alive for some of our most struggling students and allowing them to make connections to the curriculum in ways that some had never done before. Student morale was very high, disciplinary issues were almost non-existent. The only thing that was introduced that year was the arts program and nobody wanted to miss dance, art, music, or drama! No new intervention programs, no increase in Title 1 spending, no new textbooks in reading or math, no new core teachers...just art. Yet we were all stunned when our API shot up 44 points that year! Again, nothing was new to our school except for the arts! Could art have had such a significant impact on student achievement? I absolutely think so. "
The Wrap : Covering Hollywood: It's Time to Save Arts Education in L.A.
http://www.thewrap.com/blog-entry/its-time-save-arts-education-la-13326
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