All children can and want to learn.
Mike Rose (professor, UCLA):
"All children, no matter what their background, have the capacity to learn - the
teacher’s challenge is to come to understand what must be done to tap that
potential."
All children are curious and creative.
All children have stories and fully deserve
access to telling their stories and participating in learning.
Karen Gallas (teacher):
"When children are continuously offered opportunities to express their stories
about the world through many avenues, they show the power and range of their intellectual
and creative pursuits are unbounded."
All teachers are creative and curious.
Teachers are dream makers.
Good teaching and good learning is defined
by its tendency to push the borders - and, it is challenging.
Risk taking is key to pushing/crossing
borders.
The arts are a primary way of knowing - more
than a way to express and communicate ideas, they are fundamental languages of knowledge.
Bella Lewitsky (dancer):
"Art is a language, a form of communication, a philosophy, a form of truth."
By engaging in arts activities, teachers and
students open the door to creativity, curiousity, risk taking, discovery, and their dreams