Recommittment+Application

Recommittment Application SCC Alliance Project Re-Commitment Statement for Second Year Eligibility

· This Re-Commitment Statement will be used to evaluate continuation of the Alliance Project at your school for the upcoming school year. · Please send your responses to questions 6-12 to the contact teacher at your school. The contact person should assemble these responses and answer questions 1-5 as well and then send it to Charlotte by email before April 20th. · Answers can be brief, but should be thorough since they represent you, your team and your school.

1. Does your school wish to participate in the 2010-2011 Alliance Project beginning in August 2010 and ending in May 2011?

Adams City Middle School, Adams County SD#14 would like to participate in the Alliance project for 2010-2011.

2. Who will be on your interdisciplinary team? Should be 6-8 members. Name Discipline Signature or Initials Josephine Stone Librarian Pat Oscarson Girls P.E Kendall Bridges Choir/Strings April Stevens Art Jim Haynes 6th grade Science Sarah Illingworth 6th grade Lang Arts Rita Rosenberger 6th grade Math Megan Byrd 6th grade Humanities Katie Jones I.B. Coordinator Kristen Groth Alsup Elementary Contact  3. Who will serve as your Contact Teacher for the upcoming year? Name: Signature: Josephine Stone, Librarian

4. What elementary or high school will be your Partner school for the next year? Alsup Elementary  5. List the Partner contact and obtain his/her signature as well as the Partner School Principal below Kristen Groth

6. Briefly describe what value the Alliance Project has had in the following areas: a. **Student growth and engagement:** Every event has been touched students in a variety of ways. Currently the "Rites of Passage" exhibit has allowed students to share their personal cultural experiences with others. The Cherry Creek Art exhibit promoted awarness of the arts and our school was selected to have buyers at the festival next summer. The dancers, orchestra, and writing events provided students the opportunity to learn from teachers with some expertice and different insights. Every event has been worthwhile. b. **With your own curriculum**: Each member-teacher has been able to find activities or exhibits that correlate with the curriculum. Every event booked connected with a required standard. c. In the **professional development of teachers**: Professional development of teachers is probably the weakest area of the program due to time constraints and availability of SSC members. It would be wonderful to be able to take advantage of the experts in these fields to provide more professional development for teachers. d. **Growth in developing and working as a teaching team**: It has been a great experience to work as a team outside of our cluster and to include the library and specials teachers and corriculum connections. e. **Awareness of the SCFD and the individual members of the SCC**: We would like to think that we w ill have partners through this grant that we can feel comfortable with working with beyond the timeframe of the grant. Many events we would like to continue in the future.

7. What are the strengths of your program, team, and or/procedures? (What do you think you are doing well in regards to the Alliance Project?) It is impressive how the team jumped right in and started from the beginning of the year scheduling fabulious activites for the students. The team has worked really cooperatively and has helped each other with scheduling students through the exhibits and accompanying others on field trips. The team has been really cooperative about meetings and deadlines. Most of the students in the school have been able to view large exhibits and often students from the elelmentary have joined us. Many parents have also been impressed with exhibits they have been invited to.

8. What are some of the weakness of your program, team and/or procedures? (What do you think you need to improve in regards to the Alliance Project? Next year the team should be even more ambitious about scheduling since activites worked so well and were so beneficial this year. It would be appropriate for the team to do more publiicity surrounding the activites. There should probably be one designated publicity person to be responsible for messages to the building, the public, and to the district. We should develop a gift bag for our guest speakers; school cup, bookmark, school pencil, etc.

9. Based on your experiences of 2009-2010 year so far, what changes will you make in the upcoming year? What are some goals you hope to achieve? Through our experience of this year the team would like to be able to schedule activites early in the year to be able to develop more classroom activites that integrate the events provided by the grant. We have discovered the benefit of having in house activities as opposed to field trips. The addition of enrichment activites that support the curriculum are a great advantage for keeping the students' interest.

10. How can the Alliance Project be improved? We have shared photos with Charlotte so that in the future perhaps a new participating school might be able to visualize what to expect in the way of exhibits. It is sometimes difficult to understand the best way to schedule hundreds of students through an exhibit when one does not know what to expect.

11. Are there other major changes (staffing, hours, program focus, etc) that you would like to share with us for 2010-2011?

12. Please write a short evaluation statement about the Alliance Project Director, Charlotte D’Armond Talbert – this will be part of her annual evaluation. (If you prefer you can send this separately to Tara Brickell tarabrickell@cherryarts.org) Charlotte is an absolute dream. There could be no better person to guide the program. She is exuberant and enthusiastic about the program itself. She stays on top of everything and everyone involved being certain that all runs smoothly. She is a great shoulder to cry on when there are problems. She knows the program so well and is able to suggest possible events that make connections with the students and the curriculum. Mostly she is a fantastic ambassador for the alliance. Charlotte is instrumental in making the program work.

Signature of the Middle School Principal: Signature of Middle School Contact Teacher:

Signature of the Partner School Principal: Signature of Partner Contact Teacher: