In the Arts Education Project (AEP), specially trained visiting teachers provide visual and performing arts lessons while elementary full grade-level teams are released for a three-hour block of collaborative time or PLCs. Students in AEP schools are given rotating arts instruction in three of the four arts disciplines: dance, music, theatre or visual art. Sequential, standards-based arts lessons have been written by VAPA resource teachers, who also train the visiting arts teachers on those lessons. Typically AEP provides eight lessons, approximately one per month, for every classroom. A sixteen-lesson program is also available.
AEP ran as a pilot project operating in six schools in 2016-2017; the program increased to 14 schools in 2017-2018, 24 schools in 2018-2019, and 30 schools in 2019-2020. The program was postponed during online learning in 2020-2021, but returned for the 2021-2022 school year. Since then AEP has provided class coverage and arts lessons for schools providing teachers professional learning through the Literacy Acceleration Plan. For more information about AEP in the current school year, including lessons, cycle schedules, and visiting teacher bios, please visit our AEP website.
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2022-2023 Schools With AEP AT SOME OR ALL GRADE LEVELS
Adams
Audubon
Baker
Balboa
Bethune
Boone
Burbank
Cabrillo
Carson
Carver
Central
Chavez
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Cherokee Point
Chesterton
Clay
Cubberley
Dingeman
Doyle
Emerson
Encanto
Euclid
Fay
Field
Fletcher
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Franklin
Fulton
Hage
Hamilton
Horton
Ibarra
Johnson
Jones
Joyner
Juarez
Kimbrough
Lafayette
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Linda Vista
Marshall
Miramar Ranch
Mountain View
Muir
Nipaquay
Nye
Ocean Beach
Pacific Beach
Pacific View Leadership
Penn
Perkins
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Porter
Rodriguez
Rosa Parks
Ross
Sandburg
Torrey Pines
Valencia Park
Vista Grande
Washington
Webster
Wegeforth
Zamorano
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Below: kindergarten theatre class Below: 4th grade dance class

Below: kindergarten visual art class

Contact
Tim Benson, VAPA Program Manager
[email protected]
858-256-2702
Administrative Offices
Revere Center
6735 Gifford Way
San Diego CA 92111
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Curricular Materials & Instruments
Instructional Media Center
2441 Cardinal Lane
San Diego CA 92123
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