Specifications include, but are not limited to: Design and implement a program in Dance, Music, Theatre/Film, and/or Visual Arts/Media Arts to be delivered during the school day with focused arts education activities including residencies, workshops, master classes, performances, exhibitions to deepen and extend arts learning for students in the District. Programs will need to adhere to a standards-based arts curriculum supported by the AEB’s Arts Instructional Guides and the CA Visual and Performing Arts Standards. Programs need to take into account and be relevant to students’ life experience and culture and promote students’ access to 21st century skills: creativity, problem solving, critical thinking and collaboration. Contractors are encouraged to articulate how their programs would support collaboration among classroom teachers, arts specialists and community arts partners.
