Pathways Mural | Summit High School & Jackson Hole High School
What is pARTners?
Inspiring a creative passion for ARTS through education.
The pARTners program is a formal school and community partnership, established in 1995. pARTners’ approach is teacher-directed and explicitly aligned to school district goals, priorities, and standards. pARTners maintains ongoing communications & planning between the arts and school communities.
Mission
pARTners ignites creative thinking and self-expression in students by integrating the ARTS into Teton County K-12 curriculum.
Vision
Inspiring a creative passion for the ARTS through education.
Goals
Provide access to quality arts education for ALL students.
pARTners funds, designs, and implements a wide variety of creative and academic arts-education programs by introducing community artists into Teton County classrooms.
Secure resources to expand and sustain arts education.
Consistent funding allows pARTners to increase the variety of projects offered and to ensure our arts curriculum remains relevant and aligned with educational standards and demands.
Raise awareness of the value of arts education.
Through consistent communication about our innovative arts programming, pARTners creates understanding and appreciation of our active role in nurturing well-rounded, successful children.
Integrated Arts Projects
Integrated Arts Projects are recurring programs that occur across whole grade levels (K-12) in TCSD#1, impacting approximately 1,850 students! These projects share a common mission: the integration of arts education across all academic disciplines, enhancing student creativity and innovation.
Educator Project Grants
Educator Project Grants provide educators with funding to design and implement arts-based learning projects that fulfill curriculum goals in collaboration with pARTners-approved artists. All artist planning and teaching time, as well as project materials, are funded by pARTners. Through the Educator Project Grants program, pARTners served 510 students this year.
Students versed in the arts become contributing arts and culture audiences as adults.
Engaged audiences are essential to the future of creative industries in the United States. A recent RAND Corporation study, commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, determined: “Unless the young develop an interest in the arts and learn to respond to the ‘language’ of different artistic disciplines, they are not likely to become members of the adult arts audience. It is our view that without this investment, audiences for the arts will continue to diminish despite heavy investment in supply and access” (RAND Corporation, Cultivating Demand for the Arts: Arts Learning, Arts Engagement, and State Arts Policy, 2008).
pARTners In the News
“I pride myself in giving students the ability to build their confidence,” said Aronowitz, who has been an art teacher in the public school district for 10 years.
“I make everything doable no matter how they feel about themselves coming into class. They will leave here with confidence.”
