ArtsBridge America Mission Objectives

1. To provide ongoing instruction in the arts for K-12 students in a manner that allows them to explore their own creativity while benefiting from the intrinsic and cross-curricular value of the arts;

2. To provide continuous, capacity building professional support for our nation’s K-12 teachers that affords unique opportunities to integrate the arts into the traditional curricula in ways that address both local classroom needs as well as state and national standards in the arts;

3. To provide school-based service learning opportunities for top university students in the visual and performing arts;

4. To promote and present career pathways in the arts among highly qualified university students; and

5. To conduct and disseminate research on partnerships in the visual and performing arts that informs local educators, policymakers, and the public at large.

Strategies used by ArtsBridge are well aligned with bipartisan educational agendas that value the arts as a fundamental component of the core curriculum in K-12 and that call for no child to be left behind. The education reform principles of ArtsBridge are that our nation’s public schools need arts education as a regular component of a comprehensive curriculum that will lead to student success, and that universities should apply their vast stores of expertise and personnel on behalf of K-12 improvements in teacher support and child learning.

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