WHAT DOES BIAECC PROVIDE TO THE BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT?

The Bainbridge Island Arts Education Community Consortium is an innovative community program that mobilizes involvement of community arts organizations, businesses, professional artists, families, individuals, and government in support of the arts in our schools.

BIAECC supports arts education in the Bainbridge Island public schools by teaching art skills to classroom teachers, training artists in integrating arts in the classroom setting, by bringing local professional teaching artists into classrooms, offering professional performance opportunities, training art docents, and acquiring and creating arts education resource materials for use by teachers, parents and students.

Founded in 1999, the Arts Education Community Consortium now encompasses all schools in the district, impacting more than 4000 children and over 70 teachers. Over 20 community arts organizations and 30 professional teaching artists serve as arts resources for the school district in this program. Ninety parent and community volunteer art docents add hundreds of hours of additional arts lessons each month.

The program is administered by the nonprofit Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council (BIAHC), and is funded by the Washington State Arts Commission, the Bainbridge Island School District, the Parent Teacher Organization, grants, and community donations. The 1998 budget was $8000. The 2010 budget is over $150,000, including over $60,000 in-kind donations of time and expertise from the community.

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:

1) 24-32 hours of professional development for classroom teachers in Integrating the Arts in the K-12 Curriculum yearly.

2) 16-20 hours of professional development for professional teaching artists in Integrating the Arts in the K-12 Curriculum yearly.

3) One-on-one artist-teacher mentorship program Sharing the Art providing over 40 hours of mentoring to classroom teachers in arts education.

4) Over 400 hours of in-classroom collaborative arts study projects in eight media with teaching artists and classroom teachers yearly.

5) Professional performances serving 4000 students yearly in support of world history and culture studies, U.S. history, language arts, science and environmental studies curricula.

6) Outreach-Sharing community arts education resources within the Bainbridge community and with neighboring districts.

7) Additional access to arts education resources state-wide through interchange with other WSAC arts education consortia.

• Provides in-classroom art study projects with professional artists and performances in support of middle school and high school social studies and language arts courses.


• Links high school film/video and journalism studies with Bainbridge Island Television, with camera certification, community service filming, documentary film production, and programming.


• Arts mentor-teen apprentice program for high school credit in the arts.


• International outreach performances in support of world history and cultures and North America studies curricula.


• The Wendy Jackson-Hall Memorial "SHARING THE ART" Classroom Teacher with Artist - Five teachers work one-on-one with an artist of their choice.

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