| Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute |
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PASSport...A Journey in Arts Infusion
Link to Ruth Eckerd Hall website
PASSport is a program that links Skycrest Elementary to the Marcia P. Hoffman Institute at Ruth Eckerd Hall Performing Arts Center. Among the benefits, artists are sent into the classroom to use the arts to connect to a curriculum focus as a team with the teacher. The students work on creating and devloping their own work all culminating into a presentation of the pieces they created. Through the PASSport program students not only learn but also develop a strong belief in themselves as lifelong learners using their own strengths. Skycrest is now in their 10th year with the PASSport program! |
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| First graders perform their silly Fairy Tales based on retelling and learning the different parts of a story (beginning, middle and end) |
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Students get a full range of art accessibility through the program: artists in the classroom, teaching artists, performances on school site, performances at a professional venue. |
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| Fourth graders perform a play based on Florida History |
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| Art teacher, Miss Sullivan helps students paint backdrops for their presentations |
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| Teaching Artist, Nicole Haumesser, teaches students the "Write Right" song to help them for Florida Writes |
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The PASSport program is very successful as a means of driving highest academic achievement in all subject areas. It is a brain based instructional model which reaches students in all learning modalities.
~Sheila Jaquish, Principal of Skycrest Elementary 1996-2008 |
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| Kindergarten makes sock puppets to go along with their environment presentation |
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Click here to see school grades and scores
Out of Skycrest's lowest 25% of students, 85% of those students made learning gains in Math in the 2008-09 school year.
Based on the 2004-09 school years, an average of 76% of students are on Free and Reduced Lunch
Throughout 2004-09 Skycrest has exceeded the scores needed by the district in writing, which is one of the curriculum focuses of the PASSport program. |
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2007-08 Cohort Fine Arts Enrollment |
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| Florida Art Education Association |
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Click here for the powerpoint
the following statements are based on information gathered by the FAEA and is shown in the powerpoint link above.
*For the general population, the more music and arts classes taken, the higher the student achievement in all measures
*For students on “free and reduced lunch,” an indicator of socioeconomic levels, the more music and arts classes taken, the higher the student achievement in all measures.
*For students divided by ethnicity, the more music and arts classes taken, the higher the student achievement in all measures.
*The more arts classes taken, the less likely a student is to dropout of the cohort group. |
| Learning can be a reason to dance |
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| PASSort and Skycrest in the Newspaper! |
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Click here to read the article
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