Pocomoke Middle School4-8 Grades

Worcester County

• Team Members

*Monica Forrester, Team Leader*William Cathell

Edna WrightBrenda MarshallGina GamberoniMartha SturgisJennifer Smith

Provide knowledge of the arts immersion approach to staff

Enhance staff members understanding of arts

integration (visual arts, music, dance, theatre, poetry, and puppetry).

Available faculty members participate in

Maryland Artist/Teacher Institute (MATI) and /or

receive AI training

Partnership and meet with Anne Arundel

County Arts Integration Schools

2: to increase student achievement in all curricular areas through an arts immersion approach

Implement arts immersion

lessons throughout the

school day,

Secure Artist in Residence

Poetry , Brown Box Theatre, Fiber Artist,

Cowboy, Dancers

Develop an electronic arts

integration portfolio of

student work.

3: to Provide knowledge of the arts immersion approach to parents and the community

Showcase student work that exemplifies the arts immersion approach throughout the school and in the community.

Share highlights of arts immersion with parents/community

PTA, Fine Arts Festival, Newsletters, School and Community Displays

PTA - May 15, 2014

Arts Night

Fine Arts Displays

Arts Immersion

Displays

Musical – The Wizard

of Oz

Action Plan Summary• Red highlights indicate sub categories of the action plan that

were not achieved. • With the addition of Common Core Training this year, school

professional development time was not available for school wide arts integration training and sharing.

• It is becoming more difficult to find new schools to visit that use arts integration and are in the same demographics. I think I might remove it from the action plan.

• We did not create an arts integration page on the school web site. Next year, we anticipate getting a technology coach and I hope to achieve an arts integration page next year.

•Monica Forrester and William Cathell have each uploaded their documents to Wikispaces.