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Board holds arts-integration work session, highlights 10-year program, upcoming conference and teacher recognition
Summary
At a board work session, district leaders and Spark Arts presented the district’s 10-year arts-integration initiative, teacher leadership and plans for a free, district-hosted arts-integration conference and an awards night for teacher leaders.
Missoula County Public Schools trustees spent a work-session meeting exploring the district’s arts-integration initiative, hearing presentations from assistant superintendent Vinny Jamana, Spark Arts director Sienna Claiborne, academic and community services director Barbara Frank and arts-integration coach Karen Bartels.
Presenters described arts integration as a district strategic priority and reviewed a roughly decade-long timeline of activities: local launches in 2013, expansion of elementary and middle-school arts experiences, district and community partnerships under the Kennedy Center’s Any Given Child framework, teacher-leader professional development, and growth of an arts-integration lesson repository and residency directory. Spark Arts became a…
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