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Newton
D. Baker Elementary School of Arts
Curriculum
Unit: Communities
Curriculum
Unit: Bridges
Curriculum
Unit: Expression
Newton
D. Baker Elementary School is one of eight schools in the
Cleveland City School District selected to implement its own
program of school reform. It is an urban school serving students
mostly of low socio-economic status. As a part of its school
reform effort, the school staff has implemented a variety
of reform strategies that include collaborative teacher planning,
altered school hours, comprehensive arts curriculum integrated
with other disciplines, and collaborative partnerships with
community resources. Additionally, Baker is advancing the
use of technology in the classroom through funds from the
Ohio's School Net and School Net Plus programs.
The school is the
only Cleveland elementary school to teach academic subjects
through an arts curriculum. This situation offers students
the opportunity to develop artistically and academically.
Most of the school's teachers use comprehensive arts education
inquiry strategies in their daily teaching. While comprehensive
arts education has traditionally focused on the visual arts,
Baker has expanded this notion to include the performing arts.
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Baker teachers focused
their first year efforts as an Arts Partner School on the development
and implementation of curriculum designed around the theme of Asian
Landscapes. During APS professional development activities the Baker
teachers examined a set of key ideas to relate Asian attitudes toward
nature to students' views, values and attitudes about nature. The
teachers worked collaboratively to design and implement integrated
curriculum relating these key ideas that Asian landscapes present
to other subject areas, skills, objectives, proficiencies, and other
grant programs.
Newton D. Baker Demographic
Information:
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Grade
Level
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Total
Number of Students
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Percent
on Free or Reduced Lunch
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Student
Demographics
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Total
Number of Faculty
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Faculty
Demographics
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Urban,
Suburban, or Rural
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K-5
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600
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90%
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72%
African-American,
28% Caucasian/ Other
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27
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33%
African-American,
67% Caucasian/ Other
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Urban
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