Demonstrator+2

//An aligned and rigorous curriculum provides access to a common academic core for all students defined by state and national standards.//
 * Demonstrator 2. Aligned and Rigorous Curriculum**

a) Teachers responsible for teaching the arts regularly collaborate to insure that curriculum is aligned vertically and horizontally.

b) The curriculum goes beyond basic linguistic literacy in the arts to include communication through the arts as a dinstinctive literacy in itself.

c) Regular cross-curricular collaboration among teachers to support integration of the arts across disciplines is evident in the school culture.

d) The curriculum addresses interrelationships among the four arts with other content disciplines (e.g., math, science, social studies, ELA,e tc)

e) There is a rich sequential and articulated curriculum that addresses exemplary work, artists, cultural traditions, and historical periods for each arts discipline. Instruction is provided accordingly.

f) The school arts curriculum committee initiates collaboration with other schools and educators to ensure implementation, monitoring, evaluation and revision (as needed) of the aligned arts curriculum to ensure that school staff members are cognizant of the most up-to-date curricular trends.