Jerry Rosenstein Arts Project (JRAP)
JRAP seeks to provide San Francisco city youth and their teachers access to performing arts instruction including hands-on experience to increase their creativity, resilience, and agency.
In 2019-20, JRAP partnered with the following middle schools to provide high quality arts integration residency programming at no cost to schools:
- Aptos Middle School
- Francisco Middle School
- Marina Middle School
Who It's For
Middle Schools; Grades 6–8
Program Length
Up to 20 class visits
Project Goal
- Promote educational equity and social justice
- Improve performing arts learning opportunities for middle school students
- Support classroom teacher development of arts knowledge and ability to implement
- Enhance existing or create new performing arts collaborations in SFUSD middle schools
- Suggested Lengthys
Unit Program: A teaching artist will collaborate with a classroom teacher 1 day a week for approximately 5 weeks in order to infuse arts integration into one unit of study.
Standard Program: A teaching artist will collaborate with a classroom teacher 1 day a week for approximately 10 weeks in order to infuse arts integration into one-three units of study.
Full Program: A teaching artist will collaborate with a classroom teacher 1 day a week for approximately 20 weeks (most of the school year) in order to infuse arts integration into the entire school year.
More About Arts Integration
Arts integration is an APPROACH to TRAINING in which students construct and demonstrate UNDERSTANDINGthrough an ART FORM. Students engage in a CRETIVE PROCESS which CONNECTS an art form and another subject are and meets EVOLVING OBJECTIVES in both.
Have questions? Call (415) 551-6296 or email DEC@sfopera.com
JRAP Partners
Afrian American Shakespeare Company
San Francisco Unified School District
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Community Programs
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