A.C. Moore Elementary School
| Columbia, South Carolina
Andrew Jackson Middle School |Kershaw,
South Carolina
Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School
| Charleston, South Carolina
Ashley River
Creative Arts is a magnet school for children living in
the West Ashley area of Charleston. Admission is
by lottery only. Our500+ students are immersed in
the arts throughout their day. They attend classes
in visual arts, music, drama, Spanish, computer, and
physical education. They also are offered an
opportunity to learn Suzuki violin and ballet during the
school day. In addition, classroom teachers use
the arts daily to teach and reinforce skills in all
subject areas. Our school has been recognized by
the SC Arts Commission with the Elizabeth O'Neill Verner
Award. We are a Palmetto's Finest School, a
National Blue Ribbon School and John F. Kennedy Center
School of Distinction. Ashley River has been an
ABC school since 1986. This grant sponsored by the
SC Arts Commission and our PTA provides a residency for
every grade level each year and funds our ballet
program.
Beaufort Middle School |
Beaufort, South Carolina
Berkeley County School District
| Moncks Corner, South Carolina
Bonner Elementary School |
Moncks Corner, South Carolina
Boulder Bluff Elementary School
|
Goose Creek, South Carolina
Boulder Bluff Elementary
School has been an ABC site since 1998. Our arts
achievements and highlights during this seven year
period include: The creation of the Joanna Page
Student Art Gallery showcasing current student artwork;
a permanent collection of student artwork throughout the
building; student performances in music and dance;
recipient of Distinguished Arts Program grants from the
SC State Department of Education for music and dance and
the South Carolina Arts Education Association’s
Elementary Art Teacher of the Year, 2000 and Outstanding
Elementary Principal of the Year, 2002. Our ABC
program continues to flourish, involving more faculty in
infusion activities and more creative opportunities for
students and their families.
Brockman Elementary School |
Columbia, South Carolina
Brockman Elementary School is a public Montessori School
in Columbia, SC, serving 315 students ages 3 to grade 5
in multi-age classes. Our Arts Initiatives foster
the growth of the “whole child” through arts education
in all five arts areas: visual art, music, creative
writing-literature, theatre and dance. Our goal is
to improve student achievement through meaningful
arts-infused, standards-based curriculum across all
disciplines. We offer weekly general music and
visual arts for all ages and an optional Strings
programs for grades 2-5 during the school day.
Residency programs bring dance, theatre and creative
writing specialists in to work with all of our students
during the year. Additionally, we provide an
After-School Arts Enrichment program that allows our
students to work with professional artists weekly in
Dance, Drama, Art, Music (Orff Instruments, Recorders
and Drums) and Guitar. The arts programming at
Brockman is wonderfully supported by our parents, PTA,
Fine Arts Booster Club, Richland One School District and
the ABC Grant program.
Brunson Elementary School
|
Brunson, South Carolina
Brunson Elementary
School is an ABC School located in Brunson, SC. It is
one of seven schools in Hampton School District One. The
enrollment of Brunson Elementary includes 175 students
from Pre K to 6th grade. Brunson Elementary has been
recognized as "One of the Top Thirty School in South
Carolina" by the Education Oversight Committee. In
addition, it has been named a Red Carpet School by the
State Department of Education. An After School Arts
Academy began implementation in September of this school
year offering dance (Monday), theatre (Tuesday), steel
drums (Wednesday), and visual art club (Thursday). This
school year Brunson Elementary welcomed a new principal,
Mr. Buren Martin. Mr. Martin is certainly not new to
education or the fine arts. He is a theatre educator and
the co-owner of The Baillie Players (touring theatrical
company of Brunson, SC).
C. C.
Pinckney Elementary School |
Columbia, South Carolina
Calhoun
Academy of the Arts
| Anderson, South Carolina
Chester Park School for the Arts
| Chester, South
Carolina
Children's
Attention Home Charter School
| Rock Hill, South Carolina
Conder
Elementary Arts Integrated Magnet School
|
Columbia, South Carolina
East Aiken Elementary School of the Arts
| Aiken, South Carolina
Our vision for East Aiken Elementary is to provide a
comprehensive and sequential arts education program for
every child. Our mission is to accommodate
differences, reveal a passion for learning, teach
appreciation, and stimulate creativity. We have
been an ABC Advancement site since 2006 and the
recipient of the Distinguished Arts Program Grant since
2004. In addition to our full time visual art,
music, and half-time drama programs we also offer
classes in digital photography, hand bells, creative
writing, gardening, service learning, puppetry, and
chorus during the regular school day. Our
Character Education Program showcases the artistic
talents of our students with a performance every month.
The ABC project has not only given financial support to
our arts programs but has been the foundation that led
us through strategic planning in order to create a
unified vision for arts education.
Fairfield County School District | Winnsboro,
South Carolina
Hampton County School District 1
| Hampton, South Carolina
Hand Middle School
| Columbia, South Carolina
Hand Middle School is very proud to be a part of
the ABC Project. It is located in the heart of
Richland County School District One. Hand is an
inner-city school serving approximately 950 students.
Hand is proud of the fact that while 80% of our students
are enrolled in fine arts classes, 100% of our students
receive daily arts training through arts integration
lessons school wide. Hand was recently honored as
a
2004
Creative Ticket National School of Distinction Award
Winner by the
Kennedy Center. Hand was also
featured in
Third Space: When Learning Matters, a
comparative study of schools that excel in arts
integration that was published in November, 2005.
Additionally, Hand was featured as one of ten schools
chosen to appear in a national documentary on arts
integration by Lavine
Heath Springs Elementary School | Heath Springs,
South Carolina
Hilton Head School for the Creative Arts | Hilton
Head, South Carolina
Hilton Head School for the Creative Arts, located
on Hilton Head Island, uses an Arts-Infused approach to
teach students in grades 1-5. The school has a
diverse student population of over 600 students and is a
Title One school of choice. Hilton Head School for
the Creative Arts is committed to developing and
implementing a standards-based curricula through
collaborative planning and professional development.
The arts offerings for students are: dance, music,
theater, and visual arts. Community support and pride
are very evident The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
has “adopted” the school this year which will enable the
students to enjoy field trips, performances, free
tickets for families in need, gallery walks, and guest
speakers. Staff development will be provided
throughout the year. Support is also offered by
the Hilton Head Orchestra and the Island School Council
for the Arts. The “Artist in Residence” program is
a key piece of the curriculum .We believe that “arts
education complements learning in other disciplines and
establishes a foundation for success in school and
lifelong learning.”
Holly
Springs-Motlow Elementary School
|Campobello, South Carolina
Howe
Hall AIMS
|
Goose Creek, South Carolina
Lady's Island Elementary School
|
Beaufort, South Carolina
Lake City Elementary School |
Lake City, South Carolina
Logan Elementary School
|
Columbia, South Carolina
Logan Elementary, a Richland County District #1
pre-K through 5th grade school with Montessori programs
at the kindergarten and 1st-3rd grade level, is located
in downtown Columbia. Our 285 students
attend weekly or bi-weekly classes in visual arts,
music, drama, dance, physical education, creative
writing and Spanish. 4th and 5th graders are
offered the opportunity to learn a string instrument and
3rd through 5th graders are offered a piano keyboard
class. Our five performing ensembles are steel drum
band, advanced dance
and three choruses. These groups rehearse before school
and perform regularly throughout the year. In addition,
classroom teachers use the arts daily to teach and
reinforce skills in all subject areas. Logan has been
an ABC school since 1997 and the recipient of an Arts
Curricula/Distinguished Arts Program grant since 1996
which provides funding for a part-time drama/ dance
teacher as well as a teacher for the steel drum band.
Our goal is to improve student achievement through an
arts infused curriculum. Residency programs bring
professional artists to work with students. The
arts program at Logan is wonderfully supported by the
ABC project, the SC Arts Commission, Richland County
School District #1, parents and staff of Logan.
Our arts facilities include a music room equipped with a
Yamaha MIE2 lab, Orff instruments as well as computers
equipped music technology software including
Band-in-a-Box. Another room is dedicated to
the steel drum band. Also, we have an art
room with kiln and ample computer technology
and supplies. We have a dance/drama room
and a large multipurpose room for physical education.
The P.T.O is working towards equipping our performance
stage with audio equipment to meet the needs of our
young performers.
McDonald
Green Elementary School
| Lancaster, South Carolina
Northside Elementary School of the
Arts | Rock
Hill, South Carolina
Our ABC (Arts in Basic
Curriculum) Grant is funding many activities for our
school, including Artists in Residence and
Extracurricular Activities for the students. Our
school, in its fourth year as an ABC school, is also
identified as a Distinguished Arts Program Award winner.
Check often to see how we are implementing this grant.
Palmetto Center for the Arts |
Richland Northeast High School
| Columbia, South Carolina
Pine Street Elementary School
| Spartanburg, South Carolina
The Artsploration program
at Pine Street Elementary School has been in existence
since 1989. Conceived and developed by Mary Koutroulias,
music specialist, and Anne Predmore, visual arts
specialist, this program is one with a fine reputation.
Dance, music, and visual arts are taught weekly to all
grade levels by certified arts specialists. Students in
first grade receive a long-term drama residency and
every grade level works with professional artists during
the yearly artists-in-residence week. Each March the
students enjoy an Arts Celebration , which
is a week-long extravaganza filled with performances and
arts events featuring local talent The week also
includes a student performance, called Evening with
the Arts, for parents and community and an exhibit
of student artwork.
Ridge
View High School |
Columbia, South Carolina
Round Top Elementary School | Blythewood, South Carolina
Saluda River Academy for the Arts
| West Columbia, South Carolina
Saluda River Academy for the Arts is a public
elementary school in Lexington 2,
West Columbia, S.C., serving
locally zoned students. Saluda River also serves as a partial
magnet for district students exhibiting a strong arts
interest. Our school has a comprehensive arts
focused program that is imbedded into the curriculum.
The program consists of four areas of concentration:
Arts
Standards-based classes in Art, Drama, & Music, (after
school classes in dance)
An annual
Artist-in-Residence program that provides four guest
artists (art, dance, drama, & music) enabling each
student in grades 1 – 5 spends a week with one of the
guest artists
Many after school arts
classes offered for nominal fees plus chorus, an art
club, and a drama/puppet troupe
School-wide arts
integration classes scheduled on a regular basis for
grades 1 – 5. The classes are team taught by arts
and classroom teachers. The classes utilize the
arts to teach traditional subjects’ standards while
providing additional practice in the arts standards.
Saluda River has won
outstanding awards including the Distinguished Arts
Program and the National Title One School Award. We have
also been awarded numerous grants for our unique
program. The school continues to be considered an
exemplary model for arts integration.
Satchel Ford Elementary School
| Columbia, South Carolina
SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
| Greenville, South Carolina
SC School for the Deaf and the Blind
| Spartanburg, South Carolina
The mission of the South
Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind (SCSDB) is to
ensure that individuals we serve realize maximum success
through high quality educational programs, outreach
services and partnerships. SCSDB is a specialized
instructional and resource center. It provides
services statewide for individuals who are deaf, blind
or sensory multidisabled (children and adults), their
families and the professionals who work with them.
SCSDB offers programs for preschool, elementary, middle
school, high school, sensory multidisabled, vocational
and postsecondary educational students, as well as a
variety of outreach and support services. SCSDB is an
ABC site, a Palmetto Gold School and a Red Carpet
School. The 2004-2005 year opened with SCSDB's first
Fine Arts Program. Students campus-wide are now
receiving classes in visual art, music, theatre and
dance.
South Florence High School
| Florence, South Carolina
The mission of
the South Florence High School Fine Arts program is to
offer a comprehensive, quality arts education program
that develops creative expression, active participation
and lifelong learning through the arts. In order to
fulfill our mission the arts faculty has worked
aggressively for the past three years to implement S.C.
Visual and Performing Arts Curriculum Standards.
With the help of arts consultants, our Community Arts
Partnership (CAPA) and additional faculty teamwork, we
have developed a five-year comprehensive Fine Arts
Strategic Plan. Our CAPA stakeholders include business
and community leaders, administrators, teachers,
parents, students and a school board member. The
strategic plan addresses the development and expansion
of the art education programs in creative writing,
music, visual arts, dance, and drama. The plan reflects
the content of the V.P.A.C.S. and The Arts in Basic
Curriculum Project. The curriculum, instruction,
assessment, scheduling, teacher preparation,
instructional materials, facilities, and resources are
addressed. With this plan
South Florence High School family
has a clear understanding of the steps that must be
taken for the advancement of arts education and the
accomplishment of our mission.
Southside Middle School |
Florence, South Carolina
Stone Academy of Communication Arts
| Greenville, South Carolina
Located in the heart of
Greenville's Earle Street Historic District, Stone Academy for the Communication Arts
has been a leader in the city's downtown cultural
renaissance. Stone is a magnet, or "select" school where
students experience an arts-integrated curriculum in a
completely updated, historic school building within
walking distance of the Greenville Children's Museum,
Little Theatre, Museum of Art, Peace Center for the Performing Arts,
and Upstate History Museum. Related Arts
offerings include Dance, Drama, Music, and Visual Arts
for all students, and a dynamic after school institute
(ENCORE) dedicated to arts enrichment. Stone Academy has been an ABC site since
the program's inception, and remains a leader,
innovator, and mentor for other elementary arts magnet
schools and teachers across the state and nation.
Thornwell
School for the Arts
| Hartsville, South Carolina
Wando High School
| Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Wando High
School is a school of approximately 3,000 students
located in Mt. Pleasant. Wando is a part of
the High Schools That Work initiative, and participation
has changed the way we approach curriculum and student
learning. The Fine Arts department is now a part
of the School of Arts and Humanities, and every student
may select a major concentration of studies.
A new
school building opened in 2004 with state-of-the-art
Fine Arts facilities. A 900 seat auditorium, a
Fine Arts computer lab, and a dance studio are all
facilities that our faculty and students now enjoy.
The ABC grant has allowed us to purchase software and
hardware for our computer lab, bring in
Artists-In-Residence to work with our students, and to
provide equipment for our dance studio.
Williamsburg County School
District | Kingstree, South Carolina
Windsor Hill Arts Infused Elementary
| North Charleston, South Carolina
Woodland Heights Elementary School |
Spartanburg, South Carolina
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