The Irvington Public School District recognizes that Arts Education, including dance, music, theatre, and visual arts, is an integral part of a comprehensive curriculum and are essential for learning in the 21st century. An arts education enables students to develop an appreciation of the arts as well as their disquisitional and creative thinking skills. It is also recognized the arts build bridges and aid pupils broaden their perspectives and sympathise their world and the diverse cultural influences that surroundings them To this end, it is the policy of Irvington Public School District to ensure that all students have regular, sequential arts education throughout their Pre K-12 education.

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map1253 Clinton Avenue
Irvington
New Jersey 07111

Program Overview

Vision

Cultivating the art within every educatee every twenty-four hour period so they can perform, produce, and appreciate the richness of our visual civilisation.

Mission

The Performing and Visual Arts Department seeks to build and enhance 21st Century Skills and to encourage students, teachers and parents to view themselves equally life-long-learners who are inspired past the arts and human action as creative participants in our school communities.

Plan Goals

To improve pupil accomplishment and development in and through the arts.
To provide standards-based art curriculum to ensure high quality arts programs throughout the district.
To provide professional learning opportunities to develop highly qualified arts educators.
To provide opportunities for students to interact with professional person artists during instructional experiences and performances.
To provide opportunities for teachers to collaborate with professional artists in developing a meaningful arts curriculum that is integrated into core curriculum and teaching.
To collaborate effectively with district staff, families, arts organizations, community and higher education to increase access to quality arts learning.
To create internal systems and abet for policies that back up equitable arts programs.

Art Pedagogy Facts

The facts are that arts educational activity…

  1. makes a tremendous impact on the developmental growth of every child and has been proven to help level the "learning field" beyond socio-economical boundaries (Involvement in the Arts and Success in Secondary School, James S. Catterall, The UCLA Imagination Project, Graduate School of Didactics & Information Studies, UCLA, Americans for the Arts Monograph, January 1998)
  2. has a measurable touch on on at-risk youth in deterring delinquent beliefs and truancy problems while also increasing overall academic operation among those youth engaged in afterschool and summer arts programs targeted toward delinquency prevention

(YouthARTS Development Project, 1996, U.S. Department of Justice, National Endowment for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts)

Businesses sympathise that arts education…

  1. builds a school climate of high expectation, discipline, and bookish rigor that attracts businesses relocating to your customs
    strengthens student trouble-solving and critical thinking skills, adding to overall academic achievement and school success
    helps students develop a sense of craftsmanship, quality task performance, and goal-setting—skills needed to succeed in the classroom and beyond
  2. can aid troubled youth, providing an alternative to destructive behavior and another manner for students to approach learning
    provides another opportunity for parental, customs, and business concern involvement with schools, including arts and humanities organizations
  3. helps all students develop more appreciation and understanding of the globe around them
  4. helps students develop a positive work ethic and pride in a job well done

(Business Circumvolve for Arts Education in Oklahoma, "Arts at the Core of Learning 1999 Initiative")

Did You Know?

Young people who participate in the arts for at to the lowest degree three hours on iii days each week through at least one full year are:

  • four times more likely to be recognized for bookish achievement
  • 3 times more probable to be elected to class office within their schools
  • 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair
  • iii times more likely to win an award for school attendance
  • four times more than likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem
  • Young artists, as compared with their peers, are probable to: attend music, art, and dance classes well-nigh three times as frequently
  • Participate in youth groups nearly four times equally frequently
  • Read for pleasance nearly twice as often
  • Perform customs service more than than four times as ofttimes

("Living the Arts through Language + Learning: A Report on Community-based Youth Organizations," Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching, Americans for the Arts Monograph, Nov 1998)