Connecting Waters Faculty Meeting
28 September 2004
Standards Group 9
VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
Leader: Nancy Record
Secretary: Seija Anderson
Group: Ideas for developing CW resources for VAPA
1. Post lists on our website in two categories:
A. Activities students can do at home
B. Activities students can do outside the home
of available services, curriculum and opportunities of community sponsored programs for each subject: Visual Arts, Music, Drama, and Dance. On the website have a list that breaksdown by subject, the grades appropriate, age groups, availability of vendors and a preferred vendor list.

How to: Have ES groups brainstorm and network what they have experienced.
Have the website lists be available to access and input information on forms similar to the Vendor Relations PO problems form.
2. Have a Humanities Lab at the Learning Centers where students can access computers, literature, activities, and resources for each VAPA learning area. For example, have Alfred's CD of Essential of Music Theory for students to view and practice music reading and writing on the computer.
How to: Purchase course packets for the computer lab and with money left over at the end of the year.
3. A. Have specialists who are knowledgeable about VAPA state requirements write a list of criteria for criticism of a student‚s chosen study of the Arts. Such criteria could be used as choices for written reports in which they describe, analyze, interpret, etc. performances they have observed or participated in.
B. Have the VAPA specialists write a High School course syllabus and possible credits covering the VAPA standards of Artistic Perception, Creative Expression, Historical and Cultural Context and Aesthetic Valueing.
C. Recommendations for the one year HS VAPA state requirement:
Have the VAPA specialists recommend a year program series of classes for High School:
1st Semester- a foundation course including history, performers/artists, theory, etc., and
2nd Semester- a practice course utilizing connections, relationships and applications. Include observations of performances/viewings in both semesters.
4. Offer weekly music classes at the Learning Centers for K-3, 4-6, and 7 - 12.
How to: Ask in a survey what families would like, and then present for the needs.
5. Have parent volunteers become Parent Art Docents, just as in the local public schools.
6. Have a Drama club for CW in which students would have the opportunity to participate in attending theatrical performances in the area.
Curriculum Ideas
1. Arts Attack (vendor)- a video program that leads you through drawing shapes, etc..
2. Pathway Pulishers Art Class - 10 booklets, and lists all the materials needed. This is for an advanced level of ability, and needs other sources as supplements.
3. Glencoe - Foundations and Theories in Arts, Art Talk, and Focus in Art.
4. Calvert has art courses.
5. Oakmeadow - HS art, 2 courses: Integrated Drawing (Drawing on the Right
Side of the Brain), and The Study of Art (History.)
6. University of Nebraska - Lincoln Principles of Art.
7. Laurel Springs - several HS VAPA courses.
8. BYU: Art History and General Art 1 & 2.
9. A Brighter Child - has musical instrument recorders, a music leap frog program.
10. Alameda Children‚s Theatre- 7 shows a year for students to participate/attend.
11. Oakdale - Annette Hutton - owner of Hutton‚s hamlet - theatre, voice, piano.
12. Riverbank has a children‚s workshop theatre year round.
13. Core Curriculum - Digital Camera Photography Course with workbook = 5 credits.
14. Core Curriculum - HS VAPA Electives.