In Arts
Reaching students of diverse learning skills and abilities is one of the most urgent issues facing public school classrooms today. Teachers must have multiple access points for students of all learning types. Hall Farm Center’s In Arts initiative helps teachers meet the needs of the inclusive classroom setting by utilizing the arts to create a rigorous, content-driven curriculum that engages all students. The program guides educators in the development of lessons that incorporate the arts, thus improving instruction by fostering creativity, analytical thinking, and stronger writing skills. Not only is In Arts crucial to the enhancement of the educational experience, but it is also a sustainable program that schools are able to implement beyond Hall Farm’s direct involvement.
For more information contact Philip Schoolman at pschoolman@hallfarm.org.
Exposures
A creative collaboration between the In-Sight Photography Project and Hall Farm Center, Exposures is a cultural exchange program that utilizes the arts as a common language among youth from varying ethnic, economic, and geographic backgrounds. Since 2003, student artists from Vermont and New York City have traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to partake in the cultural experience of the community, while sharing artistic and personal skills with Lakota Sioux youth. In the year 2005, the traveling group was expanded to include students from the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona.
For more information contact Scott Browning at scott@hallfarm.org