National Arts in Education Week // September 14-18th
National Arts in Education Week is a national celebration recognizing the transformative power of the arts in education. Passed by Congress in 2010 through House Resolution 275, the celebration is designated to bring attention to this cause for elected officials and educational decision makers across the country and to support equitable access to the arts for all students.
National Arts in Education Week takes place annually during the week beginning with the second Sunday of September. This year it falls on September 13 – 19, 2020
OSOTA scholars are engaged in some facet of arts education all year round. We are a school that celebrates the arts.
Culinary Arts: From root to table, our scholars experience the full flavor of learning to cook in our hands-on Culinary Arts classes. Scholars may apply math, science, history, geography, and nutrition. High School Scholars are given opportunity to work at our in-house cafe, Story Time cafe and learn on the job skills like pulling espresso shots and point of sale customer service.
Visual Arts: We offer a vibrant Visual Arts program that teaches problem solving and how to make good judgments about quantitative relationships.
Performing Arts: From improvisation classes to introduction to piano and dance, our scholars love dramatizing, presenting, and exploring their passions through the Performing Arts.
Communicative Arts: Finding one’s voice requires courage. Our Communicative Arts curriculum is designed to draw out that voice through expressions of speech, journalism, creative writing, poetry, television production, Spanish and Chinese.
Through our four pillars of the arts, scholars freely experiment like painters with a palette and scientists with a theory. The arts are experienced first as enrichment classes and then middle school electives where scholars discover and explore our four pillars. By high school, scholars are choosing their elective track based upon interest, academic guidance, and mentor support. At One School of the Arts, both families and faculty share in the educational story that scholars invent and create throughout their years as an OSOTA scholar.