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  • Fremont High School
  • Oakland, CA
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

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This year I will pose two central essential questions to my students: “Why make art in a time of crisis?” and “What role can the creative process play in addressing injustice?” Your donations will ensure that each student has a kit of basic art supplies at home to engage in a sequence of technical and conceptual investigations guided by these questions. Despite the radical changes that 2020 brings to education, there are fundamental consistencies that will carry over from years prior. Like any other year, my task is to make my content relevant and important. This means implementing a responsive arts curriculum that promotes critical thinking, rigorous technical exploration, academic literacy, and language development. The pandemic pushes this effort into uncharted terrain with new constraints, but also lays bare deep structural inequities that are anything but new. I want to highlight 3 realities that have remained consistent since before COVID-19, that I hope will encourage your contribution to this project: Most of my students' families do not have the resources to budget for art supplies at home, or access arts enrichment programs. Cognitive research consistently links engagement in visual and performing arts programming with a host of cognitive skills that are widely accepted as predictors of success in school and in life. Creative disciplines offer vast payoffs in fortifying intellect, social-emotional regulation, and problem solving capacity. Access to quality arts programming remains incredibly disparate, and fades sharply in resource-scarce communities like this, where learners face the burdens of significant achievement gaps. This campaign asks for about $25 worth of supplies for each of my 120 students. In addition to transforming their experience of school this year, these kits will mark a tangible step towards alleviating the inequities entrenched in arts education.

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This year I will pose two central essential questions to my students: “Why make art in a time of crisis?” and “What role can the creative process play in addressing injustice?” Your donations will ensure that each student has a kit of basic art supplies at home to engage in a sequence of technical and conceptual investigations guided by these questions. Despite the radical changes that 2020 brings to education, there are fundamental consistencies that will carry over from years prior. Like any other year, my task is to make my content relevant and important. This means implementing a responsive arts curriculum that promotes critical thinking, rigorous technical exploration, academic literacy, and language development. The pandemic pushes this effort into uncharted terrain with new constraints, but also lays bare deep structural inequities that are anything but new. I want to highlight 3 realities that have remained consistent since before COVID-19, that I hope will encourage your contribution to this project: Most of my students' families do not have the resources to budget for art supplies at home, or access arts enrichment programs. Cognitive research consistently links engagement in visual and performing arts programming with a host of cognitive skills that are widely accepted as predictors of success in school and in life. Creative disciplines offer vast payoffs in fortifying intellect, social-emotional regulation, and problem solving capacity. Access to quality arts programming remains incredibly disparate, and fades sharply in resource-scarce communities like this, where learners face the burdens of significant achievement gaps. This campaign asks for about $25 worth of supplies for each of my 120 students. In addition to transforming their experience of school this year, these kits will mark a tangible step towards alleviating the inequities entrenched in arts education.

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