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CHARTER MISSION

New School for the Arts (NSA) is Arizona's premier Charter school by providing students who have an interest and talent in the arts with a superior integrated academic and arts program.

Goals:

1. To provide students with training, knowledge and experience to pursue a career and continuing higher education in the performing or visual arts. (Assessment form: tracking students post-graduates; develop general articulation agreements with arts colleges and 4 year universities; maintaining co-operation and evaluation with internship placements in arts organizations, etc.)

2. To enable students to make cognitive connections in academic subjects and the arts by providing an interdisciplinary curriculum with an arts focus aligned with the Arizona Academic Standards in mathematics, sciences, social studies, and language arts. (Assessment form: performance-based writing assessments on interdisciplinary topics; journal keeping; performance on essential skills norm-referenced testing; etc.)

3. To provide instruction by practicing, professional artists in the performing and visual arts, who will serve as educator, facilitator and mentor in the student's development as an artist