Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts

SRCSA’s ‘Narwhal’ logo

On May 12, 2017, I began work at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts. Its mission is to provide K-8 students from Santa Rosa, California and beyond with “an innovative, high quality education that focuses on the arts through a challenging, integrated, standards-based academic program.”

From the Kennedy Center (reprinted in the school’s Family Handbook for 2016-2017), “Arts Integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.”

The school’s ultimate goal “is to give students a lifetime appreciation of learning through the lens of the visual and performing arts and to assist in the development of committed, confident individuals who are willing to make positive contributions to the community at large.”

(Quotes are from SRCSA Family Handbook, 2016-2017)