Documenting Our Work


The Association of Alaska School Boards (AASB) has supported our Art is Elementary program since its beginning in 2005, because it supports many of the 40 Developmental Assets endorsed by AASB.


For our final grant evaluations, they encouraged us to share our successes on their website through a creative format.  The streamed videos on the left are the movies we made for their webpage.  We hope they inspire others, just as other programs have inspired us!


You can learn more about the Association of Alaska School Boards and their commitment to youth through community engagement on their webpage:  http://aasb.org/


THANK YOU, Association of Alaska School Boards for all of your support!

Arts in Action

Art is Elementary

Streaming Videos (Click Here for Free Download of Quicktime to view these movies):



Digital Storytelling: An after-school program in partnership with the Juneau Douglas City Museum.


Arts Integration: An overview of our program documenting how art is integrated at a variety of grade levels and subjects.


Music: Classroom recorder instruction (1st-5th grades) & Morning Musicians, an instrumental band program for any 4th or 5th grade student.


Drama:  Tides & the Tempest, a play intertwining Shakespeare with the Tlingit creation story of the killer whale. Performed by 3rd - 5th graders.

Dance: Creative movement and our ballroom dancing program that spread district-wide.


Visual Arts: Artists plan with classroom teachers to ensure that both art and academic standards are addressed during the integrated lessons.



Access Arts: After-school clubs offering drumming, drama, visual arts and creative movement.

 

Twenty students performed at the JDHS Dance Team Show as part of a ballroom dance art residency with Pat Belec.