Elevating the Arts to Improve Student Achievement

Elevating the Arts to Improve Student Achievement
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  • February 26, 2019
February 26, 2019  -   Posted To:   Coverage, Featured

RICHMOND (February 20, 2019) — It’s a Friday in December, but Lisa Perkinson’s dance class at Binford Middle School isn’t taking it easy.

The students—some of whom had never had a dance class until they started school here less than three years ago—are practicing solos for upcoming auditions for the Appomattox Regional Governor’s School, an arts magnet serving more than a dozen districts in Virginia.

Read more: https://leaders.edweek.org/profile/christie-jo-adams-fine-arts-instructional-specialist-integrating-arts-instruction/