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North County High School: Creating Learning Opportunities Through the Arts
The Arts Empowered Minds Initiative (AEMI) is aimed at ensuring equitable access to the arts for Northern Anne Arundel County Public Schools through in-school arts integration, out-of-school arts programming, and professional development for teachers. Now in its second year, the…
Tasty Monster Productions: Tackling Bullying Through Empathy
Promoting empathy and kindness in all schools is a priority across school systems, with particular attention paid to encouraging a positive school climate in the month of October, National Bullying Prevention Month. New YA roster artist Tasty Monster Productions designed an…
Meet the Parents
It was a summer filled with activity, singing, dancing, reading, creating, and sunshine. We witnessed the excitement of mastering new skills and discovering new talents. We felt the calm of classrooms illuminated with only the rays of light peeking in…
Creative Collaborations for School Improvement: A New Leadership Unit Course for Baltimore City
In a course unlike any other, principals discover how partnerships with area arts and cultural resources can help schools prepare students for careers in fields related to the industry.
Summer Arts and Learning Academy: The Name Says it All
Written by Barbara Krebs, Young Audiences volunteer and Sunburst Society member Seedfolks. Bizz Buzz. These are just a couple of the new things I learned about when I visited the Summer Arts and Learning Academy at Thomas Jefferson Elementary/Middle School…
Bloomberg Arts Internship: Designed to Challenge and Inspire
Young Audiences of Maryland and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance are searching for 25 rising Baltimore City public high school seniors for a six-week paid summer internship! In 2012, Bloomberg Philanthropies created the Bloomberg Arts Internship program in New York…
Arts for all
This week, Washington Post reporter Valerie Strauss wrote about why the arts are, more often than not, the first budget cut at public schools serving predominately low-income students–even though much research has supported why the arts are critical to a child’s development. These schools’…