How can we support the BTS Program at Mountain View?
The Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program (BTS) is a teaching partnership between highly qualified arts specialists and elementary classroom teachers in only 56 Utah schools. Mountain View is one of these schools with music as our selected "art." The music specialist teaches the skills of music and the classroom teacher selects areas of student learning that need reinforcement. They work together in a side-by-side teaching model and integrate the curriculum to improve student learning in selected core areas.This model brings the arts back into the classroom, and reinforces classroom core as the art form is integrated with language arts, math, science, and social studies. Arts integration provides students with a deeper level of understanding in grade-level core content, and it also brings joyful learning back into the lives of students and teachers. Due to budget shortfalls, the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program is in danger of disappearing after the 2009-2010 school year unless the Utah Legislature acts to renew funding. To spread the word about the benefits of this program—both to local communities and to the Utah Legislature—Friends of Art Works for Kids needs the help of parents, teachers, and other community leaders.
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