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Arts Enhancement
3-year goal | K-8 | GOAL: $92,400
33%
SPARK! aims to provide equitable access to excellent arts experiences for EVERY student in MCPS. One way that SPARK! provides access is through yearly Arts Enhancement experiences. Each grade level attends a professional arts performance or gallery each year during Kindergarten through 8th grade, and we hope to extend these experiences to high school students. Some of these events are sponsored to continue indefinitely, but others are in need of financial support to continue.
How your donation can help:
- Put a class of students on a bus to experience an arts event: $75
- Send a complete grade level to a performance or gallery: $3,000
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K-5 Integration Extensions
3-year goal | K-5 | GOAL: $185,000
71%
Every K-5 classroom in MCPS has access to learning through the arts through an integrated arts residency. SPARK! Teaching artists collaborate with classroom teachers to create custom lessons combining art forms and other subject areas. Students are engaged in learning through Visual Arts, Theatre, Dance, Music, Poetry, and Media Arts to develop skills and understandings in Math, Science, English Language Arts, Physical Education and Health. Currently, MCPS supports arts integrated programming for approximately 5 arts residency sessions per classroom per year. Contribute to elementary arts integration to expand residency lengths to 6-10 sessions and add arts residencies in PE classrooms, libraries, and counselling programs.
How your donation can help:
- Add one hour of additional arts instruction for one classroom: $50
- Contribute an additional session to an existing residency: $150
- Add a full residency to a grade level for one school: $600
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Middle School Arts Integration
3-year goal | 6-8 | GOAL: $120,000
50%
SPARK! provides innovative arts residencies for middle school students, connecting classroom learning to various art forms. Swing dancing in PE class, hearing and writing origin stories in Social Studies, creating and performing Theatre in Spanish, African music in World History, and writing and directing original films in Science are some of the learning experiences Middle School students experience with SPARK! Sponsor a classroom or a grade level!
How your donation can help:
- One integrated arts session in one middle school classroom: $50
- One integrated arts session for a whole grade level: $350
- Provide a full 6-session Integrated Arts Residency at one middle school: $1,900
- Provide a full 6-session Arts Integrated Residency for one grade level at all three middle schools: $5,700
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High School Integrated Arts Projects
3-year goal | 9-12 | GOAL: $120,000
4%
Kids don’t stop learning through creation and innovation when they enter high school! High school students are engaged and challenged by arts integrated learning, and the arts provide outlets for self-expression, avenues for understanding various perspectives, and development of 21st Century Skills. SPARK! is among a few Any Given Child sites pioneering programming at the high school level. Several successful programs have already been implemented in MCPS high schools. Help us to fully realize our goal of providing equitable access to arts education for ALL students by contributing to our high school programming.
How your donation can help:
- One Art for Art’s Sake Friday at Seeley Swan High School: $270
- One teacher/artist partnership for 6 classroom sessions: $350
- One teacher/artist partnership for 12 classroom sessions: $600
- Sponsor a full grade-level arts integrated interdisciplinary unit for a year: $3,000