Kid Smart

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Dec 16, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$831,155

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Model schools: in 2012-15, kid smart is engaged in an intensive project to implement all its program components in three participating schools, arise academy, behrman elementary and langston hughes academy, bringing them to model arts integrated status and building their capacity to sustain those gains into the future. The model schools initiative will implement arts integrated instruction across the entire curriculum in each school, in every class at four grade levels in academic years 2012-15. In addition to enhanced teaching artist residencies and increased participation in and frequency of current professional development programming, a corps of teacher/leaders will be trained in each school to sustain the schools arts integration capacity past 2015.

Activity 3

Leadership: kid smart leads the imagination, creativity and innovation (ici) arts education reform initiative of the louisiana division of the arts. Ici provides artist residencies and professional development in eight schools across the state as well as training for artists who are interested in working in classroom settings. Kid smart builds competency in the field-at-large through presentations at national conferences such as the john f. Kennedy center, the mississippi arts commission, the tennessee create conference and alameda county/art is education, and the national guild for community arts educators. In 2013 kid smart partnered with the new orleans kids partnership grow youth and healthy living project. Kid smart partners with local organizations to provide teaching artists for high quality after school arts programming.

Filer

EIN

72-1437355