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Goshen High offers New York State arts pathway for diploma designation
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The district’s unified arts department described the Individual Arts Assessment Pathway (IAAP), a three-year sequence that can give students an arts designation on their diploma and serve as a 4+1 graduation option.
GOSHEN, N.Y. — Kim Longo, unified arts department head and band director at Goshen High School, described a New York State Individual Arts Assessment Pathway (IAAP) that the district plans to offer as a diploma designation and as an option for the state's "4+1" graduation pathway.
Longo said students choose either music or art and complete a three-unit sequence in that area. Music students pick a concentration such as band, orchestra or chorus, write a statement of goals, prepare solos and compose; art students choose a focus such as drawing and painting, digital art and media, or sculpture and complete prerequisite and advanced coursework.
Both pathways culminate in a long-term portfolio assessed with rubrics to show growth over time. Longo said the portfolio work prepares students for postsecondary arts education and professional experience.
District staff and board members thanked the arts department for building the pathway and said the designation will give students a clearer pathway to college or arts careers. No specific funding action for the IAAP was proposed at the Sept. 15 meeting.
