CCSESA

Empowering Pedagogy

Use culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy that maximizes learning in and through the visual and performing arts, actively accesses and develops student voice, and provides opportunities for leadership for every group of students.

Overview for Principle 2: Empowering Pedagogy

Planning Tool for Principle 2: Empowering Pedagogy

Around the state of California, students and teachers, schools and communities, are rising to the challenge of creating high-quality arts education, often in very difficult circumstances. Below are some examples of empowering pedgogy applied in schools.

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School/District	Description	Online resource	Contact information
Elmhurst Middle School	This middle school in Oakland supports students in developing self-advocacy skills by collaboratively designing arts-based lessons.	Click Here to View Project	Click Here for Team Contact Page
Grizzly Hill School	A small, rural school in San Juan Ridge demonstrates success in the arts. Grizzly Hill School (K-8) is the only school in California to be featured in the AEP’s report on arts success in at-risk schools, “Third Space: When Learning Matters.”	Click Here To View PDF	Robert Bullwinkel bbullwinkel@fcoe.k12.ca.us
Walnut Elementary Education Center Turlock Unified	Short video highlighting how Walnut Elementary teacher-leaders work together with administrators to engage families and infuse the arts throughout all curriculum.	Click Here To View Video	Mark Holmes MHolmes@turlock.k12.ca.us
Ascend K-8 School Oakland Unified	Ten-minute video showing arts integration strategies that engage all students in learning.	Click Here To View Video	Louise Music lmusic@acoe.org
Chula Vista High School SCPA Sweetwater Unified	Short video in-depth description of an 800-student arts “school within a school” in an inner city setting.	Click Here To View Video	Ron Jessee ronarts@sdcoe.net
San Diego Unified	Short video description of standards-based professional development for teachers delivered by teaching artists.	Click Here To View Video	Ron Jessee ronarts@sdcoe.net

	Thorner Elementary School Thorner Elementary School's curriculum is based upon the California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards, as found in the Visual and Performing Arts Framework, 2004.
	Garfield Elementary School Garfield Elementary School is a rural, one-school district serving a total of 61 students in grades K-6. The school offers standards-based arts instruction in all four arts disciplines.
	Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Instructional Guide The Arts Education Branch of LAUSD has completed a draft of their K-6 Arts Instructional Guides (AIG), and is piloting the guidelines this year in their 310 elementary Arts Program Schools.
	Monson-Sultana In 1994, the new superintendent, Mr. Tom Giampietro, saw that the band program was less than satisfactory for this small school district.
	Capistrano Unified School District - The MITRE Project District middle school visual arts teachers met monthly for three hours after school throughout a year to create a standards-based curriculum for our students that would have clear goals.