Arts Exploration Club
Students face overwhelming stressors such as family pressures, academic challenges, and daily barrage of external concerns. This Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) project focuses on …
Arts, Media, and Culture
Awaken Your Inner Photographer
The goal of the Awaken Your Inner Photographer project is to awaken my 7th and 8th grade middle school student’s inner photographer by offering them the opportunity to learn all as…
Making Dreams Come Alive on Stage
Rumi, the 13th century Persian poet once wrote “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river running through you, a joy.” Performing arts is the vehicle with which we allow …
Mosaic Murals
In recent years, our rural community has experienced wildfires, flooding and homelessness. A mosaic mural designed and created by ceramic students will not only beautify our mundan…
Student Artists Exhibition at the Autumn Lights Festival
Every year in October, the Gardens at Lake Merritt in Oakland host an art exhibition called The Autumn Lights Festival. This festival hosts about a hundred local artists who create…
Dramatic Play Project Proposal
Social-Emotional development is crucial in a Transitional Kindergarten (TK) classroom. The students in TK are 4 to 5 years of age and usually come to school with little or no presc…
Student Newspaper The Monarch Times, Hear ME Roar!
Journalism was created by a group of passionate students who believed that information is an essential component to a thriving community. Many political scientists say the media is…
El Salón (“the living room”)
El Salón (“the living room”) provides a chance for students and their families to come together in our newly modernized art classroom for monthly celebrations of the visual arts. S…
Bringing the Theater to a Performing Arts Desert
This project will provide opportunities for students to see live professional performing arts as a foundation for the high school theater and choir programs. It will also support t…
“Through Our Eyes” Community Event
Eighth grade students will create and host a community tour from an asset-based perspective that highlights events, places, and people of historical and cultural significance. Stud…
