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Last May, the Board of Education approved a 5-Year Arts Education Plan for the District as mandated by the State and County. A dedicated committee comprised of parents, community arts folks, teachers, and administrators have been working this year to prioritize our 2007-08 action plan, which includes the following four priorities: · Hiring two elementary visual arts teachers for grades 4 and 5 for one hour instruction per week. · Promote student success in the arts by highlighting their work through a Day of the Arts, March 1st. · Build rigorous, standards-based pathways in the arts through cross-school, cross-grade articulation and collaboration. · Provide a Staff Development Day devoted to integrating arts into the curriculum by seeing what’s possible. [|Visual and Performing Arts Framework]