1. Visual and Performing Arts Irvine Unified School District
Friday, September 22, 2017

2. What’s happening in the Arts

3. Arts Education in IUSD

4. Irvine Arts education partners
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6. Business in the 21st century…
The ability to work as part of the team
The ability to manage and pick teams well
The ability to effectively communicate
The ability to adapt to changing situations
The ability to read people effectively
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor

7. Young people who participate in the arts three days each week for a full year or more are:
4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement
3 times more likely to be elected to class office
4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair
3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance
4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem
Source: Dr. Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University for the Carnegie Foundation

9. Elementary Art 4 – 6 will receive 6 lessons from an art educator
from a teaching artist who
partners with Segerstrom
Center for the Arts
Family Art Nights at Schools
PD for classroom teachers

10. Primary Grade Music
40 minute lesson every other week

11. Elementary Upper Grade Music
Grade 4 – Beginning Strings and Voice
Grade 5 - Intermediate Strings, Winds, and Voice
Grade 6 - Advanced Strings, Advanced Winds, and Voice
Funding from a grant from The Irvine Company. Additional support from IPSF.

12. Middle School
All schools offer Music, Theatre, and Visual Art and Digital Media Art.
Some schools offer different levels.

13. High Schools
Offer courses in all five disciplines, including Music, Visual Art, Digital Media Art, Dance, and Theatre.

14. The Assistance League of Irvine
Young Masters Art Show
Sponsored by
The Assistance League of Irvine

15. Honors Concert April 28, 2018
Segerstrom Concert Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California