Logan
Elementary School |
Columbia, South Carolina
Logan Elementary, a Richland County District #1
pre-K through 5th grade school with Montessori programs
at the kindergarten and 1st-3rd grade level, is located
in downtown Columbia. Our 185 students attend weekly
or bi-weekly classes in visual arts, music, drama,
dance, physical education, creative writing and
Spanish. 4th and 5th graders are offered the
opportunity to learn a string instrument and 3rd through
5th graders are offered a piano keyboard class. Our
five performing ensembles are steel drum band,
advanced dance and three choruses. These groups rehearse
before school and perform regularly throughout the
year. In addition, classroom teachers use the arts daily
to teach and reinforce skills in all subject
areas. Logan has been an ABC school since 1997 and the
recipient of an Arts Curricula/Distinguished Arts
Program grant since 1996 which provides funding for a
part-time drama/ dance teacher as well as a teacher for
the steel drum band. Our goal is to improve student
achievement through an arts infused curriculum.
Residency programs bring professional artists to work
with students. The arts program at Logan is wonderfully
supported by the ABC project, the SC Arts Commission,
Richland County School District #1, parents and staff of
Logan. Our arts facilities include a music room
equipped with a Yamaha MIE2 lab, Orff instruments as
well as computers equipped music technology
software including Band-in-a-Box. Another room is
dedicated to the steel drum band. Also, we have an art
room with kiln and ample computer technology
and supplies. We have a dance/drama room and a large
multipurpose room for physical education. The P.T.O is
working towards equipping our performance stage with
audio equipment to meet the needs of our young
performers.
Marrington Middle School
| Goose Creek, South Carolina
Northside
Elementary School of the Arts | Rock
Hill, South Carolina
Our ABC (Arts in Basic
Curriculum) Grant is funding many activities for our
school, including Artists in Residence and
Extracurricular Activities for the students. Our
school, in its fourth year as an ABC school, is also
identified as a Distinguished Arts Program Award winner.
Check often to see how we are implementing this grant.
North Vista Elementary School
| Florence, South Carolina
North Vista Elementary became an ABC site
school in 2005. Our grant “Arts are Basic at
North
Vista” has helped to fund many artist residencies and
after school programs such as dance, piano, drums and
chorus. We have been a Distinguished Arts Program Award
recipient. Our first annual Multicultural Festival was
held in 2005, featuring artists, food and games to
support studies of African, Indian and Asian cultures.
Our staff development focuses on training classroom
teachers to integrate arts into their curriculum. Many
classroom teachers have attended Spoleto and five
teachers are working on a degree in arts integration.
Our future goals are to create a Publishing Lab and
drama classes.
Palmetto
Center for the Arts | Richland Northeast High School
| Columbia, South Carolina
Pine
Street Elementary School
| Spartanburg, South Carolina
The Artsploration program at Pine Street Elementary
School has been in existence since 1989. Conceived and
developed by Mary Koutroulias, music specialist, and
Anne Predmore, visual arts specialist, this program is
one with a fine reputation. Dance, music, and visual
arts are taught weekly to all grade levels by certified
arts specialists. Students in first grade receive a
long-term drama residency and every grade level works
with professional artists during the yearly
artists-in-residence week. Each March the students
enjoy an Arts Celebration , which is a week-long
extravaganza filled with performances and arts events
featuring local talent The week also includes a student
performance, called Evening with the Arts, for
parents and community and an exhibit of student artwork.
Redcliffe Elementary School |
Aiken, South Carolina
Redcliffe Elementary School, located in rural
Aiken County, has been an ABC and Arts Infusion model
site since the inception of both programs.
Redcliffe's mission is to offer a comprehensive and
sequential arts education program that is integrated
with the core curriculum. Our goal is to teach
appreciation, analysis and understanding of the fine
arts, as well as life skills that promote creative
thinkers and problem solvers.
In addition to music and visual art, we have a full
time drama specialist and a fine arts specialist for
kindergarten. The visual and performing arts teachers and
classroom teachers work together frequently to align
curriculum and lessons. There are various performances
throughout the year, such as spring and winter choral
performances, and Celebration of the Arts program. Also,
the Kindergarten classes perform in the spring, winter and
at the Kindergarten graduation. A culminating event for
the fifth grade student's final year at Redcliffe is a
visual and performing arts and content subject-integrated
production near the end of the year.
Ridge
View High School | Columbia, South Carolina
Round Top Elementary School | Blythewood, South Carolina
Round Top Elementary is a first year ABC site
and in our 4th year as a brand new school.
We are the only elementary ABC site in
Richland School District Two. We join all of our
district’s high schools as ABC sites. RTE completed
Strategic Arts Planning last year and are implementing
new arts’ goals. We will incorporate more dance,
creative writing, visual arts, story telling, drama and
music this year with our residencies. The planned
residencies will enrich current school curriculum. Our
administration, ABC Committee, students, parents and
community are philosophically/financially dedicated to
Round Top becoming a “World Class” Arts School. We
already have after school dance, art and Spanish
programs. Our school has two hallways filled with framed
student work. These areas are deemed “Aviator Art
Galleries”. Many murals around the school reflect the
consistency of our art and aviation themes. Creative
writing is an important area of our arts program. Our
super chorus performs many times throughout the year. We
look forward to our ever evolving arts’ program at RTE.
Thank you to The ABC Project and The SC Arts Commission.
Saluda River Academy for the Arts
| West Columbia, South Carolina
Saluda River Academy for the Arts is a public
elementary school in Lexington 2,
West Columbia, S.C., serving
locally zoned students. Saluda River also serves as a partial
magnet for district students exhibiting a strong arts
interest. Our school has a comprehensive arts focused
program that is imbedded into the curriculum. The
program consists of four areas of concentration:
Arts
Standards-based classes in Art, Drama, & Music, (after
school classes in dance)
An annual
Artist-in-Residence program that provides four guest
artists (art, dance, drama, & music) enabling each student
in grades 1 – 5 spends a week with one of the guest
artists
Many after
school arts classes offered for nominal fees plus chorus,
an art club, and a drama/puppet troupe
School-wide
arts integration classes scheduled on a regular basis for
grades 1 – 5. The classes are team taught by arts and
classroom teachers. The classes utilize the arts to teach
traditional subjects’ standards while providing additional
practice in the arts standards.
Saluda
River has won outstanding awards including the
Distinguished Arts Program and the National Title One
School Award. We have also been awarded numerous grants
for our unique program. The school continues to be
considered an exemplary model for arts integration.
Satchel
Ford Elementary School | Columbia, South Carolina
SC Department of Juvenile Justice School District
| Columbia, South Carolina
SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
| Greenville, South Carolina
SC School for the Deaf and the Blind
| Spartanburg, South Carolina
The mission of the South
Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind (SCSDB) is to
ensure that individuals we serve realize maximum success
through high quality educational programs, outreach
services and partnerships. SCSDB is a specialized
instructional and resource center. It provides services
statewide for individuals who are deaf, blind or sensory
multidisabled (children and adults), their families and
the professionals who work with them. SCSDB offers
programs for preschool, elementary, middle school, high
school, sensory multidisabled, vocational and
postsecondary educational students, as well as a variety
of outreach and support services. SCSDB is an ABC site,
a Palmetto Gold School and a Red Carpet School. The
2004-2005 year opened with SCSDB's first Fine Arts
Program. Students campus-wide are now receiving classes
in visual art, music, theatre and dance.
South Florence High School
| Florence, South Carolina
The mission of
the South Florence High School Fine Arts program is to
offer a comprehensive, quality arts education program
that develops creative expression, active participation
and lifelong learning through the arts. In order to
fulfill our mission the arts faculty has worked
aggressively for the past three years to implement S.C.
Visual and Performing Arts Curriculum Standards. With
the help of arts consultants, our Community Arts
Partnership (CAPA) and additional faculty teamwork, we
have developed a five-year comprehensive Fine Arts
Strategic Plan. Our CAPA stakeholders include business
and community leaders, administrators, teachers,
parents, students and a school board member. The
strategic plan addresses the development and expansion
of the art education programs in creative writing,
music, visual arts, dance, and drama. The plan reflects
the content of the V.P.A.C.S. and The Arts in Basic
Curriculum Project. The curriculum, instruction,
assessment, scheduling, teacher preparation,
instructional materials, facilities, and resources are
addressed. With this plan
South Florence High School family
has a clear understanding of the steps that must be
taken for the advancement of arts education and the
accomplishment of our mission.
Southside Middle School | Florence, South Carolina
Spring Valley High School
| Columbia, South Carolina
The mission of the Spring
Valley Arts Academy is to provide opportunities for
Quality Visual and Performing Arts Education at
appropriate levels for all Spring Valley Students. The
"Spring Valley Arts Academy" includes comprehensive
and sequential programs of study in dance, music (vocal
and instrumental), theater, visual arts and creative
writing. It is based on the new revised South Carolina
Curriculum Standards for the Visual and Performing Arts
and the SC Language Arts Standards.
Stone Academy of Communication Arts
| Greenville, South Carolina
Located in the heart of
Greenville's Earle Street Historic District, Stone Academy for the Communication Arts
has been a leader in the city's downtown cultural
renaissance. Stone is a magnet, or "select" school where
students experience an arts-integrated curriculum in a
completely updated, historic school building within
walking distance of the Greenville Children's Museum,
Little Theatre, Museum of Art, Peace Center for the Performing Arts,
and Upstate History Museum. Related Arts
offerings include Dance, Drama, Music, and Visual Arts
for all students, and a dynamic after school institute
(ENCORE) dedicated to arts enrichment. Stone Academy has been an ABC site since
the program's inception, and remains a leader,
innovator, and mentor for other elementary arts magnet
schools and teachers across the state and nation.
Thornwell
Elementary School for the Arts
| Hartsville, South Carolina
Wando High School
| Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Wando High
School is a school of approximately 3,000 students
located in Mt. Pleasant. Wando is a part of the
High Schools That Work initiative, and participation has
changed the way we approach curriculum and student
learning. The Fine Arts department is now a part of the
School of Arts and Humanities, and every student may
select a major concentration of studies.
A new
school building opened in 2004 with state-of-the-art Fine
Arts facilities. A 900 seat auditorium, a Fine Arts
computer lab, and a dance studio are all facilities that
our faculty and students now enjoy. The ABC grant has
allowed us to purchase software and hardware for our
computer lab, bring in Artists-In-Residence to work with
our students, and to provide equipment for our dance
studio.
Williamsburg County School District | Kingstree, South Carolina
Woodland Heights Elementary School
| Spartanburg, South Carolina