Sun Valley Center for the Arts is proud to announce that it has been awarded a grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to extend the reach of The Center's innovative Classroom Enrichment program throughout the state of Idaho by creating an Online Teacher Resource Center.
The Center's grant application for this project was one of 449 received by IMLS this year, of which 112 grant requests received funding totaling more than $19 million. The Center designed its Classroom Enrichment Project to integrate art into core curriculum lessons (math, science, social sciences and humanities) at the secondary level. The program provides regular classroom teachers with new, powerful tools to increase student engagement, deepen understanding of the curriculum and encourage students' selfa??expression. More than three-quarters of Idaho's school districts are considered rural (defined as having fewer than 20 students per square mile, or a county with fewer than 25,000 people). Students in rural districts often have less access - and sometimes little to no access - to arts education. By documenting the Classroom Enrichment lessons currently being used in Blaine County schools and making them available online, The Center aims to support teachers across rural Idaho who might not otherwise have access to new approaches for learning and teaching core curriculum.We are proud to share that the Sun Valley Center for the Arts earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar, the world's largest source of nonprofit information.
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