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The Many Faces of South Shore Fine Arts Academy
November 19, 2011 – January 22, 2012
The Many Faces of South Shore Fine Arts Academy celebrates the students from this South Side Chicago school. Second, third, and fourth grade students learned about famous artists as inspiration for their own self-portraits. They studied works by Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and Vincent van Gogh. All students focused on making their self-portraits proportionate and creating facial features unique to them.
Images (from left): Self-portrait: Raven and Self-portrait: Ezra
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| NBC news tells the story of Reading In Motion's "incredible" work in one South Side school |
Reading In Motion was featured on the NBC-5 News in Chicago in a story about our partnership with the South Shore Fine Arts Academy. The piece focused on our innovative use of music and drama to engage young students and get them reading at and above grade level, and included interviews with RIM Teaching Coach Little Tom Jackson and a kindergarten teacher he has worked with at the school.
Heather Polek, working with the Reading In Motion curriculum and with Little as a coach and guide, got her entire class up to grade-level benchmarks in reading last year. And this year she has some of her kindergarteners reading at the 2nd and 3rd grade level. As the NBC-5 anchor said in introducing the piece: "Incredible."
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| South Shore Fine Arts Academy was awarded a $20,000 grant from the Field Foundation of Illinois to support its Reading in Motion partnership! South Shore Fine Arts Academy students enjoy learning to read through music and drama because their teachers are trained and coached by Reading in Motion experts. Reading in Motion integrates music and drama into reading to make it fun and engaging for students. Research shows that Reading in Motion strategies result in high levels of achievement for students.
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| South Shore Fine Arts Academy was granted a large donation of new books by the Rock for Reading organization! Nearly 2,000 new books for our library, classroom libraries, and student store arrived thanks to non-profit organization, Rock for Reading. Students will enjoy the Dr. Seuss and Eric Carle classics as well as a wide assortment of non-fiction books. Thanks Rock for Reading!
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Chicago Public Schools approved South Shore Fine Arts Academy's location at 1415 E. 70th St. at its March 25th Board Meeting.
SSFAA will share a building with Enrico Fermi Elementary School beginning in September of 2009.
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Chicago Journal reports:
Cloning South Loop School
Putting best educational practices ‘in a box’
By MICAH MAIDENBERG
Editor
A new elementary school based on the "South Loop way" has the go-ahead to open next fall following an affirmative vote by the Board of Education at its October meeting.
South Shore Fine Arts Academy, as the school will be called, will model its curriculum and administration on South Loop School, 1212 S. Plymouth, and build on the school's existing partnerships.
The idea, said current South Loop principal Tara Shelton, is "taking best practices and putting them in a box."
Follow the link for full article: http://chicagojournal.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=60&ArticleID=6271
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