Glendale Unified School District (MS Word)



PR/Award # U351D140060

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Project Abstract

Glendale Unified School District,

223 N. Jackson Street, Glendale CA, 91206

Primary Contact: Dr. Kelly King,

kking@, 818-241-3111 ext. 457

Number of Schools Served: 2; Number of Students: 2,150

Glendale CREATES (Common Core aligned, Relevant and Enriching Arts integrated instruction using Technology to Ensure that every student Succeeds) Project proposes to develop and disseminate brain-based integrated visual and performing arts and Common Core integrated inquiry units that will raise student achievement in academic subjects and the arts.

A collaboration between Mark Keppel Visual and Performing Arts Magnet Elementary School (1,050 students – 42% Title I), Toll Middle School (1,150 Students - 63% Title I), the Music Center of Los Angeles, and RISE Educational Services will address the absolute priority by focusing on the following goals: Goal #1: Increase teacher use of the arts within the core curriculum; Goal #2: Write, implement, and disseminate Common Core and arts integrated inquiry units; Goal #3: Develop tools for measuring arts proficiency and for determining the effectiveness of Glendale CREATES inquiry units.

At the end of the four years, this project seeks to achieve the following outcomes: 1)Increase student proficiency in grades K-8 in English-language arts and mathematics as measured by state and district measurements; 2) Increase student proficiency in grades K-8 in the visual and performing arts as measured by standards aligned assessments; 3) Increase student and teacher proficiency in utilizing technological tools effectively with the arts and core subject areas (Competitive Preference Priority #2).

Glendale CREATES will achieve these goals by creating and implementing a practical, effective, and replicable model of arts integration, increasing the rigor of content instruction through the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and increasing teacher effectiveness and student learning in technology/media skills.

Glendale CREATES will disseminate the units to teachers across the nation by providing packaged Arts and Common Core integrated inquiry units of study, becoming arts laboratory schools, publishing articles in education and arts publications, and presenting at arts conferences.

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