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School Vision and Design
The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts (the Academy), established
in 1985, as a program of the Capitol Region Education Council
(CREC), is an integrated magnet arts high school that is open
through audition to high school students in the Greater Hartford
area.
Academy students attend their sending
school in the morning and the Academy from 1:00 pm to 4:15
pm, Monday through Thursday. The students spend 13 intensive
hours per week pursuing artistic excellence under the guidance
of practicing arts professionals, mentors, and educators who
are the core faculty at the Academy. Academy students earn
high school credits for their participation. These credits
meet the state's high school graduation requirement in the
areas of physical education, social studies, and the arts.
The arts training program is designed
to prepare gifted and talented students to pursue post-secondary
studies and professional careers in dance, music, theater,
creative writing, visual arts, theater design & production
and film & tv. The curriculum is professionally oriented,
highly structured, and academically rigorous.
A visiting artist program brings outstanding
artists to the Academy for master classes and presentations.
These professional contacts enrich the curriculum as well
as provide a realistic perspective on artistic careers.
Academy goals transcend those of traditional
high schools. The Academy provides educational opportunities
in the arts to students in cooperation with Greater Hartford
area school districts. The Academy, a college preparatory
arts training school, consistently strives to:
- Attract
artistically gifted students from the Greater Hartford community
at large
- Accept
a racially and ethnically diverse student body and to provide
its student population with ample opportunity for growth
and maturation through cooperative work and learning
- Prepare
students for college, university, professional school or
for professional career entry
- Educate
the whole child by fostering their development of perception,
conceptualization, sensitivity, and creativity
- Enhance
the educational opportunities of the student body through
an outreach of performance opportunities within the wider
constituency
- Reduce
racial/socio-economic imbalance and isolation as an interdistrict
participant through its diverse student enrollment, staff,
and in its curriculum, thus raising awareness, appreciation,
and understanding of diversity
- Serve
as an arts educational model for the state and the nation
as a high quality college preparatory arts training program
- Provide
educational choice to parents and students in the Greater
Hartford region
- Improve
the opportunity for academic success through the arts
- Provide
for continuity and upgrading of in-depth course offerings
in each art area
- Provide
for a safe environment for learning
- Develop
a supportive environment that includes parents involvement
through the Advisory Council and the Parents and Friends
Association
- Develop
educational relationships and programs to be available to
a wide community of middle-school age learners, their parents,
artists, and the general public
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