C.C.
Pinckney Elementary School Fort Jackson
| Columbia, South Carolina
C. C. Pinckney Elementary School, home of the Pinckney
Patriots, is part of the DDESS (Department of
Defense Elementary and
Secondary Schools) system and serves the military
dependent students who live on Fort Jackson in Columbia,
South Carolina. Pinckney has been a participant in the
Arts In Basic Curriculum Project since 1995. The
Pinckney arts project, entitled “PatriARTS,” has been
specially designed to meet the needs of our transient
military students and our seasoned staff. The focus for
the PatriARTS Project is quality arts experiences
for all students and staff, collaboration between
students, staff and community, and constant artistic
growth for all.
Cheraw Intermediate School |Cheraw, South Carolina
Cheraw
Intermediate School is
located in Chesterfield County and serves 570 students
in grades 3-5. This is our first year as an ABC Site
school, and we are proud to be a member of the ABC
Project. Our motto is Creatively Instructing Students;
therefore, we are providing meaningful and engaging
instruction in, with, and through the arts.
Our
visual art teacher works with the regular classroom
teachers to incorporate social studies, language, math,
and science concepts with the art curriculum. He
organizes quarterly art exhibits in our art gallery, the
CIS Hall of Frame. He also encourages students to
participate in art contests, enrichment activities, and
school projects. The music program also has a symbiotic
relationship with the other disciplines, and it has been
greatly enhanced by the addition of a piano keyboard
lab. All students are learning to play the keyboards.
The music teacher sponsors the school chorus and
organizes an “open mic” session on Fridays during the
students’ lunch. Students are able to demonstrate their
talents by singing, dancing, playing an instrument, or
reciting a dramatic monologue.
New for
this year, CIS added a dance studio. Through ABC
monies, a special projects’ grant, and donations from
our business partners, we were able to remodel two
adjacent classrooms into a dance room and pay the dance
instructor’s salary. All our students are receiving
limited dance instruction. These monies were also
utilized to bring an artist-in-residency program to each
grade level. We continue to work diligently to provide
exposure, instruction, and appreciation for the arts
because we believe the arts are important and vital to
the success of our students.
Chester Park School for the Arts
| Chester, South Carolina
Chester Park Elementary School of the Arts is a
magnet school with a fine arts focus. We offer courses
in art, music, piano keyboard, and drama. We have a 1st
through 5th grade strings program. We offer
extra curricular activities such as Chorus, Band, Drama
and Puppetry, Art, Photography and Scrap- booking,
Gardening, and Step Team. In addition the arts including
creative writing and creative movement are integrated
across the curriculum in all grade levels PK- 5th.
Conder Elementary School |Columbia, South Carolina
East Aiken Elementary School
| 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.
Foster Park Elementary School
| Union, South Carolina
H E Bronner Elementary School | Moncks Corner, South Carolina
Hampton County School District 1
| Hampton, South Carolina
Hanahan
Elementary School
| Hanahan 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
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.”
Howe
Hall AIMS Elementary School |
Goose Creek, South Carolina
Howe Hall Arts Infused Magnet School is proud to
have been an ABC site since 2002 thanks to the hard work
of Principal Bonnie Dill and many motivated citizens of
Berkeley County. Howe Hall offers many classes for
students including: music, art, dance and drama. In
addition, our third through fifth graders have
opportunities to select a class that meets weekly to
explore the following art methods: clay, broadcast
journalism, modern dance, dancing with props, steel
drums, gymnastics, water color, computer lab, strings,
Spanish, chorus, school newspaper, food/nutrition, and
Café’ Chameleon (a bookstore café’). In the past year
AIMS added a certified teacher in their computer lab
where students learn to use Microsoft Office. AIMS also
has the distinction of having Berkeley County’s
district teacher of the year (2004-2005), music teacher
Kathy Clark. Howe Hall is one of two elementary schools
in the district to have certified dance and drama
teachers. All teachers participate in infusing the arts
into their classrooms daily. Weekly, the regular grade
teachers team with fine arts personnel to infuse the
arts in regular grade curriculum. This year, our fifth
and sixth graders are staging one act plays. We will
offer a dinner theatre for the first time this spring.
The AIMS web page is proudly decorated with student art
work, and students are recognized for their many talents
through the AIMS’ newsletters. AIMS has been
recognized for trying to close the achievement gap by
receiving a reward for “exemplary PACT performance” in 2004. One of our best claims to fame is the fact that
we now have to go to a local college auditorium when we
have our all-school performances (annual musical and
holiday show) because we have audiences of more than
1,000 in attendance.
Kershaw County School District
| Camden, South Carolina
The Kershaw County School District has been an
ABC site since the 1996-1997 school year. Because of
our participation with ABC and through its grant
funding, we have seen significant growth of our arts
programs. This growth is reflected in the continuation
and expansion of a pilot arts focus school and the
expansion of the initiative into five new elementary
schools. It is also reflected in our advocacy campaign
and the Youth Arts Gala, which highlights visual
and performing artists in our schools and is showcased
in The Traveling Art Show, an exhibit of selected
visual art works from students from all sites. One of
our biggest successes is School Arts, which
provides arts discipline content as well as exposure to
professional artists through artist residencies.
Equally important are the expansion of our program for
artistically gifted 3rd-6th
graders, Arts Arising and the addition of
our Gifted and Talented Artistic Program, Arts
Scholars, for students in grades 7-10, as well
as Positive Repercussions, African
Drumming residencies, for at-risk middle school
students. A driving force behind our accomplishments is
the implementation of our Arts in Education
Partnership Plan, our district-wide strategic arts
plan.
Knightsville Elementary School | Summerville, 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.
Marrington Middle School
| Goose Creek, 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.
North Vista Elementary School
| Florence, South Carolina
North Vista Elementary became an ABC site
school in 2005. Our grant “Arts are Basic at
North
Vista” has helped to fund many artist residencies and
after school programs such as dance, piano, drums and
chorus. We have been a Distinguished Arts Program Award
recipient. Our first annual Multicultural Festival was
held in 2005, featuring artists, food and games to
support studies of African, Indian and Asian cultures.
Our staff development focuses on training classroom
teachers to integrate arts into their curriculum. Many
classroom teachers have attended Spoleto and five
teachers are working on a degree in arts integration.
Our future goals are to create a Publishing Lab and
drama classes.
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.
Redcliffe Elementary School |
Aiken, South Carolina
Redcliffe Elementary School, located in rural
Aiken County, has been an ABC and Arts Infusion model
site since the inception of both programs.
Redcliffe's mission is to offer a comprehensive and
sequential arts education program that is integrated
with the core curriculum. Our goal is to teach
appreciation, analysis and understanding of the fine
arts, as well as life skills that promote creative
thinkers and problem solvers.
In addition to music and visual art, we have a full
time drama specialist and a fine arts specialist for
kindergarten. The visual and performing arts teachers and
classroom teachers work together frequently to align
curriculum and lessons. There are various performances
throughout the year, such as spring and winter choral
performances, and Celebration of the Arts program. Also,
the Kindergarten classes perform in the spring, winter and
at the Kindergarten graduation. A culminating event for
the fifth grade student's final year at Redcliffe is a
visual and performing arts and content subject-integrated
production near the end of the year.
Ridge
View High School | Columbia, South Carolina
Round Top Elementary School | Blythewood, South Carolina
Round Top Elementary was opened in 2003-04. We are very proud
to be one of only two elementary ABC sites in Richland School District Two. We join all of
our district’s high schools as ABC sites. We are thrilled with this year's addition
of Ms. Nicole Hogan as our full time DANCE teacher. We also work directly with classroom
teachers to integrate the arts. We continue to incorporate dance, creative writing,
visual arts, story telling, drama and music with our residencies. These residencies
enrich current school curriculum. Our administration, the RTE ABC Committee,
students, parents and community are all philosophically/financially dedicated
to Round Top becoming a “World Class” Arts School. We have after
school dance, art, music and drama programs. We look forward to our ever evolving
arts program at RTE. As always, many thanks go out to The ABC Project and
The SC Arts Commission for their support.
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 Department of Juvenile Justice School District
| 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.
Sims Middle School
| Union, South Carolina
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
Elementary 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
Woodland Heights Elementary School
| Spartanburg, South Carolina
