GARDEN GROVE : Visual Arts Program Earns School Award
Newhope Elementary School has received a national award for its visual arts program, one of only three California schools to receive such recognition, district officials said on Monday.
The school was one of 56 nationwide to receive the Program Standards Award from the National Assn. of Arts and Education, said spokesman Alan Trudell. Of those, only two other recipients were elementary schools.
“We’re really excited about it. Thrilled is a better word,” Principal Jim Franklin said. “We feel that with all the hard work we’ve been doing, it’s nice to be recognized by such a group.”
Instead of being treated as a separate field of study, the visual art program is integrated into the whole curriculum, Franklin said. For example, “we do art integrated with writing, and we write about our art,” he said.
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