Purpose
Our purpose is to design and deploy the guaranteed and viable curriculum in grades Kindergarten to Twelve, constructed using the 2023 Wyoming Fine and Performing Arts Content and Performance Standards as its foundation, to ensure quality data-driven assessment and instruction with student learning as the primary focus.
Rationale
Making art is making connections: between the present and the past; between cultures and peoples; and between the self and the world. Throughout history, the arts have been both a driver of and a reflection of, the ideas and traditions of a society. Today’s technology allows for these connections to be made, and for students to explore and create more than ever before. These connections serve not only to allow students to explore and create, but also to develop their brains in ways that increase self-awareness, creativity, and critical thinking, as well as improve skills in literacy and numeracy. Students engaged in the arts develop critical habits of mind, which serve them through their work in other disciplines and life. The arts, like no other subject, offer students opportunities to develop and apply creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving connected to motor skills across disciplines. These skills are the foundation of the WYCPS.
Performance Dates